first half

There was always the chance it might go this way. This, after all, was a young St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, one that has struggled away from...

ALLEGANY — An undefeated season is a tall task for any team and while the Otto-Eldred girls basketball team’s looked promising, it ended with a 52-43 ...

WARSAW — Scoring three times in the first half wasn’t quite enough to put the Bolivar-Richburg boys soccer team over the edge, so the Wolverines won i...

PORTVILLE — Back on Sept. 8, the Portville girls soccer team sat 1-2 and was trailing 1-0 at halftime of its league opener against Ellicottville. “And...

HINSDALE — It was perhaps the biggest indication of just how much the Hinsdale boys soccer team has improved this season. The Bobcats, after a 1-7 sta...

OLEAN — A first-half own goal put Olean behind, then Fredonia’s Sam Murphy added a second goal with 20 minutes remaining in the second half in a Wedne...

ALLEGANY — Undefeated East Aurora edged the Allegany-Limestone boys soccer team with two second-half goals, handing the Gators their fourth loss of th...

SALAMANCA — Ashton-Clark Sanford made 27 saves in a big goalkeeping effort for the Salamanca/Cattaraugus-Little Valley boys soccer team in a bid to up...

BOLIVAR — McKinlee Harris registered a hat trick, with sister Madigan assisting all three, as the Bolivar-Richburg girls soccer team avenged a previou...

ALLEGANY — In a game between two of the Big 30’s perennially strongest girls soccer programs, Hope Russell made all the difference Thursday night. Rus...

ALLEGANY — Dale MacArthur channeled his inner Charles Dickens. His Allegany-Limestone hadn’t played particularly well in the first half, and still it ...

PORTVILLE — The Portville boys soccer team had every intention of sticking to the script, one it had been writing for the last two years. Midway throu...

CUBA — Goals from three different players gave the Genesee Valley/Belfast girls soccer team a crucial road league win, defeating Cuba-Rushford/Hinsdal...

ALLEGANY — A pair of first-half goals was all the Portville boys soccer team needed to create some distance from Ellicottville in the season-opener fo...

NEW YORK — Its crowd was incredible, a sea of brown and white that was bridged in the end zone by nearly the entire student body. It had a world of mo...

CATTARAUGUS — Cattaraugus-Little Valley’s boys basketball seniors waited their whole career for a playoff victory. They didn’t let a slow start deter ...

ALLEGANY — Once again, between the Allegany-Limestone and Salamanca boys basketball teams, it was a tale of two halves. Last month, the Warriors ralli...

ST. BONAVENTURE — For a couple of final, frantic minutes, its nightmarish start to the second half almost didn’t matter. The St. Bonaventure men’s bas...