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Demi Elliott set an aggressive motto for her team this fall. “My motto all year has been Bolivar-Richburg volleyball does not play safe,” the eighth-y...

Winning a state championship can be one of the most exhilarating moments for a high school athlete. Now, the Portville girls volleyball team hopes to ...

Major League Baseball’s offensive problem is obvious. Teams don’t score enough runs — and hitters don’t make contact often enough — to hold viewers’ a...

Kylie Blessing looks back now and laughs, but she didn’t want to be a setter at first. Blessing started coming to Kelly Unverdorben’s summer volleybal...

WELLSVILLE — On Saturday, Makenzie Cowburn came within the final batter of a no-hitter. Two days later, the other half of the Wellsville softball team...

NEW YORK — They’ve waited for the Wahoos, stood by for the Sod Poodles, bided their time for the Biscuits or Trash Pandas. After more than a year of u...

(Editor’s note: This is the next in a series in which the Times Herald and Bradford Era will be presenting the best season/team accomplishment for eve...

Marcus Thames has been going to the Yankees’ facility a couple times a week to work with the players who are still reporting to George M. Steinbrenner...

Without a pitch being thrown, a bat being swung or a ball being dropped in the outfield, Clint Frazier’s situation with the Yankees has already become...

It’s the biggest story in professional baseball, and perhaps all of sports. And it’s not going away anytime soon. The Houston Astros illegally stole a...

Morgan Sibble, admittedly, might not fit the traditional mold of an overpowering pitcher. At 5-foot-4, she isn’t particularly tall. She didn’t throw q...

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...

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...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Portville appeared to be in another tight, tense softball contest, much like the one it had four days ago against the defending stat...

( EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a six-part series spotlighting the Big 30’s baseball and softball teams. Today: Allegany County softball.) WELL...

BUFFALO — He only pitched three games here, but Fergie Jenkins remembers his brief stint as a Buffalo Bison. Jenkins, a Baseball Hall of Fame righthan...

OLEAN — Tyler Vogel was strong throughout, but came up biggest against his last batter of the night. With runners on second and third, two outs and We...

ALLEGANY — Shaylynn Maples (RBI, double) and Taylor Searle each had three hits as Cuba topped Fillmore, 12-8, in District 2 10-12 all-star softball Tu...