brian o'connell

OLEAN — Incredibly, come June 6, it will have been 888 days since the Olean Oilers last played a baseball game. Of course, two years of that stretch w...

OLEAN — Along with the announcement the Olean Oilers are taking a leave of absence from the New York Collegiate Baseball League for the 2021 season it...

OLEAN — Two weeks ago, they appeared to be toast. The Olean Oilers, a two-time New York Collegiate Baseball League champion, were last in the West wit...

Assessing the Oilers’ surge for the NYCBL post season and updating Cattaraugus County’s contribution to the Jamestown Babe Ruth World Series: IT APPEA...

OLEAN — Give Brian O’Connell this, the Olean Oilers owner/manager is prescient. Before Sunday afternoon’s game against the Genesee Rapids at Bradner S...

OLEAN — The night didn’t start well for recently-signed Olean Oilers shortstop Ryan Simmons. Playing only his second game for the New York Collegiate ...

OLEAN — The Olean Oilers’ losing streak is finally over. All it took for the New York Collegiate Baseball League team to end its five-game skid was a ...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part interview with Brian O’Connell, owner of the Olean Oilers, headed into their seventh season with the ...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part interview with Brian O’Connell, owner of the Olean Oilers, headed into their seventh season with the N...

J.P. Butler’s column with Olean Oilers owner Brian O’Connell in last Wednesday’s Times Herald got me thinking about summer collegiate baseball. After ...