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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

PORTVILLE — For a single team, in a single sweltering afternoon, the adversity was overwhelming. Portville baseball coach Mike Matz, sensing that some...

PORTVILLE — The unbeaten Portville baseball team has buried opponents with big innings all season — so much so that some Big 30 football squads would ...

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...

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 ...

State championships will not be held for 2020 spring sports in New York, but the possibility for regular season games remains, officials said Monday. ...

SALAMANCA — On a cold early April afternoon, Joseph Long and Brandon Murray, two Portville pitchers making their debuts, never let Salamanca’s bats he...

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...

Assessing the Oilers’ surge for the NYCBL post season and updating Cattaraugus County’s contribution to the Jamestown Babe Ruth World Series: IT APPEA...