High School, Soccer, Sports
Oct 26, 2022
DUNKIRK — The Portville girls soccer team simply gave up too many chances at set pieces to hope to contain a familiar thorn in its side. For the third...
High School, Soccer, Sports
Oct 14, 2022
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...
Baseball, High School, Sports
Jun 11, 2022
ENDICOTT — Mike Matz had a difficult pitching decision to make heading into the state semifinal. Would he put the Panthers’ ace on the mound to extend...
Baseball, High School, Sports
Jun 05, 2022
PORTVILLE — Playing its third game in as many days, Oakfield-Alabama did not have the benefit of rest going into Saturday’s Far West Regional. The Hor...
Baseball, Big 30, High School, ...
May 23, 2022
The postseason has arrived and several area baseball and softball teams could be in line for deep runs. But for some sectional contenders, the end cou...
Baseball, High School, Sports
May 02, 2022
NIAGARA FALLS — Mike Matz made it abundantly clear in the aftermath. “I told our kids after the game,” he said. “No disrespect to the teams that we’ve...
Baseball, High School, Sports
Apr 15, 2022
The Portville baseball team appears to be off to another strong season at 4-0 so far. Mike Matz called it one of the loosest, most fun groups of playe...
Baseball, High School, Sports
Apr 03, 2022
ALLEGANY — For the Portville baseball team, it would be hard not to be happy with the first weekend of its season. The Panthers improved to 2-0 with a...
Baseball, Columnists, High School, ...
Aug 02, 2021
One day earlier, the most pressing matter in his life was, of all things, a can drive. On Saturday, May 1, Mike Matz and the Portville baseball team h...
Baseball, Big 30, High School, ...
Aug 02, 2021
This season, the Big 30 saw not one, not two but three Division I-bound baseball players lift the teams around them. And while this season the Times H...
Baseball, Big 30, High School, ...
Jun 28, 2021
PORTVILLE — For a single team, in a single sweltering afternoon, the adversity was overwhelming. Portville baseball coach Mike Matz, sensing that some...
Baseball, Big 30, High School, ...
Jun 24, 2021
PORTVILLE — The unbeaten Portville baseball team has buried opponents with big innings all season — so much so that some Big 30 football squads would ...
Baseball, Big 30, High School, ...
May 22, 2021
Nearly two years since high school baseball teams last took the field, and with inconsistent amounts of preparation this year due to the condensed spo...
Baseball, Local Sports, Olean, ...
Jun 29, 2020
It was one of the points, an “oh, yeah” moment, raised by Portville baseball coach Mike Matz in a phone call Friday. That night, in response to Major ...
Baseball, Big 30, High School, ...
Apr 27, 2020
State championships will not be held for 2020 spring sports in New York, but the possibility for regular season games remains, officials said Monday. ...
Baseball, Big 30, High School, ...
Apr 11, 2019
SALAMANCA — On a cold early April afternoon, Joseph Long and Brandon Murray, two Portville pitchers making their debuts, never let Salamanca’s bats he...
Baseball, Columnists, Local Sports, ...
Aug 03, 2018
Adam Wray has tried not to spend too much time thinking about it. But the recent Portville Central School graduate knows he’ll soon be pitching agains...
Columnists, Local Sports, Sports
Jul 20, 2018
Assessing the Oilers’ surge for the NYCBL post season and updating Cattaraugus County’s contribution to the Jamestown Babe Ruth World Series: IT APPEA...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BELFAST — A newly constructed and reopened bridge on County Road 26 in the town of Belfast has been named the William “Bill” A. Nichols Bridge. Allega...
June 16, 2025
Donald L. Thierman, Sr. OLEAN --- Donald L. Thierman, Sr., 86, passed away peacefully Friday (June 13, 2025) at The Pines of Olean. Born August 14, 19...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
CUBA — The village of Cuba hosted the Dairy Days 2025 celebration over the weekend, which featured the Community Yard Sale throughout the area on Satu...
Local News, News
June 14, 2025
OLEAN — The first protest Nevin Oliphant took part in was in 1967 in Los Angeles. He was a young teenager protesting the Vietnam War. In 2025 his caus...
