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( Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on the new management group of the Olean Oilers and their return to the New York Collegiate Ba...

( EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on the Olean Oilers and the decision to take a leave of absence for the 2021 New York Collegi...

HOUGHTON — Back where they’d played a middle-of-the-night doubleheader less than two days earlier, the Olean Oilers were far from their best on Sunday...

OLEAN — Brian O’Connell Jr. knew his team was in trouble. His Olean Oilers absolutely had to win Friday’s home doubleheader against Rome to give them ...

OLEAN — Several Oilers have their work cut out for them to improve their summer batting averages. The player who jump-started Olean’s biggest inning F...

OLEAN — If the Olean Oilers turn around their struggling start to this New York Collegiate Baseball League season and earn a spot in the playoffs, it’...

OLEAN — The Olean Oilers’ disappointing season got a lot more discouraging on Monday night. A strong effort in the opener of a doubleheader at Bradner...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Brian O’Connell Jr. won’t make any excuses for his team’s struggling start. The Olean Oilers owner/manager has seen his squad’s firs...

ST. BONAVENTURE — What’s certain is that it’s a victory the Olean Oilers desperately needed. What’s to be determined is whether Saturday afternoon’s 4...

OLEAN — With a threatening forecast, Thursday night’s Oilers-Destroyers matchup began without pregame introductions. Fortunately for Olean, it had the...

OLEAN -- Mired in a four-game slide characterized by late-inning collapses, an occasional lack of hitting and bad luck, the Olean Oilers gathered for ...

OLEAN — Another game, another wasted pitching performance by the Olean Oilers. The victim Tuesday night was Jack Collins, who tossed five shutout inni...

Sharing some info on a new way to follow the Olean Oilers as well as an update on one of their former players: — The New York Collegiate Baseball Leag...

OLEAN — A day earlier, the Oilers were told to go back to bed. Olean’s players woke up at 4:30 a.m. Thursday, ready to board a bus to Niagara Falls. B...

It’s a new-look New York Collegiate Baseball League which opens today. And that’s just fine with Brian O’Connell Jr., the owner and manager of the Ole...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series with Olean Oilers owner/manager Brian O’Connell Jr. Today he discusses the future of the New Y...

OLEAN — Their biggest inning of the year, in this latest come-from-behind triumph, started out innocently enough. With one down, a runner at second an...

OLEAN — Brian O’Connell Jr. called a team meeting. His Olean Oilers had just been handled by Rochester, 12-4, in falling to a season-worst three games...