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Last year brought the Salamanca boys basketball team somewhere it had never been before. After a 13-7 regular season, 5-5 in the highly competitive CC...

It was cold in New Bethlehem that night. The Port Allegany football team had gotten its first taste of November football the week prior, upsetting Key...

WARSAW — After stunning No. 2 Marion four nights earlier, the Bolivar-Richburg girls soccer team couldn’t quite conjure the same magic. On Friday, Cas...

PORTVILLE — In earning a bye as one of the top seeds in its bracket, the Portville girls soccer team had to endure an eight-day layoff between games. ...

Its rise began in earnest in, of all years, the pandemic season of 2020 … When the window for preseason practice was shorter, the schedule was condens...

A year ago, goals came at an absolute premium against the Allegany-Limestone boys soccer team. The Gators allowed just two goals all regular season, w...

PORTVILLE — Josh Brooks and the Portville football team have been in this exact position before. In 2018, his first year as head coach, Brooks inherit...

SALAMANCA — Just five months after an impressive playoff run to the New York State Class B semifinal, the Allegany-Limestone boys basketball team prov...

After being sidelined with the rest of the sports world in the spring of 2020, the Portville baseball team certainly made the most of what came next. ...

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...

WELLSVILLE — With big first and second innings behind a strong pitching effort from Makenzie Cowburn on Thursday, the Wellsville softball team rolled ...

NUNDA — The Bolivar-Richburg baseball team would have certainly preferred to play this game at home. After all, it’s the top seed in the Section 5 Cla...

NORTH COLLINS — The Ellicottville softball team has begun to make a bit of a habit of playing exciting, if slightly stressful, nail-biters of late. Bu...

Over the last three high school baseball seasons, the Bolivar-Richburg baseball team set a high standard for itself. Coach Dustin Allen’s Wolverines d...

And that’s the way St. Bonaventure’s bizarre basketball season ended … with a severe case of “too little, too late.” This team that endured an undulat...

A look at what’s happening in the NCAA Tournament as the Sweet 16 begins Thursday: Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski’s 26th, and final, appearance in the NCA...

Some observations after three days of watching college basketball: — The pain of St. Bonaventure’s heart-breaking loss to Saint Louis in Friday aftern...

AMHERST — The New Life boys basketball team split with Christian Central in the regular season, exchanging a tough 78-51 loss midseason for a 65-56 vi...