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BELFAST — Hinsdale used a 22-9 second-quarter run to earn a season-opening 62-42 win over Belfast in Allegany County Division II girls basketball acti...

ST. BONAVENTURE — With 1:46 remaining, Dominick Welch took an open 3-pointer from the wing that would have made it a one-possession game. The ball wen...

BINGHAMTON — Brian Ramarge knew the name well before most New York basketball junkies. It was 2012 and the Olean 10-year-old was getting ready to comp...

Walking into the media room after his team’s 52-45 loss to last-place La Salle, Jesse Fleming’s face told the story of his St. Bonaventure women’s bas...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Erica Marshall stood at the free-throw line with no time left on the clock. One make, and the Bradford Owls would pull off arguably th...

PORT ALLEGANY, Pa. — Two of the most unlikely candidates may have produced the game of the night in District 9 boys basketball on Friday. Down 16 poin...

For one fleeting five-minute stretch, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team was everything coach Mark Schmidt has wanted it to be. Aggressive. Unw...

SALAMANCA — In high school basketball, free-throw shooting can swing close games either way, as the Salamanca boys team painfully learned Wednesday ni...

BUFFALO — The last time she donned a red and gold uniform, Sara Pfeiffer had just led the Olean High girls basketball team to the Section 6 Class A-2 ...

LEWISTON — If it had any ill effect, you wouldn’t have known it. Early in pregame warmups, both the St. Bonaventure and Niagara men’s basketball teams...

ALLEGANY — As standout basketball players at Allegany-Limestone, the Martin sisters would often stay after practice to shoot extra free throws. They d...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Matt Mobley raced the length of the floor, riling up an already bursting St. Bonaventure faithful, holding three fingers to the sid...

JAMESTOWN — Tied 54-54 with 3:06 to play in a Section 6 Class C semifinal Monday night, the Allegany-Limestone boys basketball team gave itself a prim...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Brian Moritz, who covered the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team for the Times Herald back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, had...

ALLEGANY — Nineteen days earlier, the Allegany-Limestone girls basketball team rallied from a 17-point halftime deficit to beat Portville, 49-44. On M...

LAKEWOOD — It had never previously happened in Jeff Anastasia’s 31 years as head coach and 37 seasons at Olean. On Tuesday, the Huskies (7-1, 2-0) cru...

HOUGHTON — Tom Parks said the sights were eerily similar in the first quarter. A week ago, Parks’ Fillmore girls basketball team trailed Genesee Valle...

FRANKLINVILLE — The Franklinville boys basketball team had nine days to stew over a one-point loss at Burgard. However, instead of becoming frustrated...