softball

BELFAST — Hannah Southwick was determined. A year ago, the Belfast middle-schooler was nominated, and tried out, for the U12 Softball Youth All-Americ...

(Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series with five former St. Bonaventure baseball players, all of whom are now in the minor leagues. ...

FILLMORE — It’s become one of the most commonly-used words in this COVID-19 pandemic era. “Distance.” Jon Beardsley knew that, at some point, he was g...

It’s uncertain when professional sports of any kind are returning in America. No one knows if the NBA or NHL are going to complete their regular and p...

The 2020 spring high school sports season in New York officially ended with Governor Andrew Cuomo’s announcement Friday that schools would remain clos...

Social Distancing is not good for a softball season. It has increased my time at home. I am trying to stay active and the latest snowfall isn’t helpin...

I’m reminded of a phrase when I reflect on what every athlete is going through in this difficult time. One special coach has said it to me over the ye...

I’ve been playing softball since I was five years old. I started out just like most kids would, playing for the town league baseball, then to town lea...

Senior year is certainly something we have all been looking forward to. Our last year to make the memories that will last a lifetime. There were so ma...

Throughout senior year, teachers and parents of students probably at least once heard some of us say things like, “I want to drop out” or “I hate scho...

PORTVILLE — Bill Torrey got the idea from the coaching staffs at Ellicottville and Cattaraugus-Little Valley. He’d seen some of the videos that had po...

Schools in Cattaraugus County planned to play 408 varsity, junior varsity or modified baseball or softball games this spring. Each of those games requ...

From helping a soldier find his family to a bright Easter wardrobe for an Olean women, from a No. 1 pick for Bona Bob to “a fireman’s worst nightmare,...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The 10 a.m. departure time for Emmitsburg, Maryland, came and went. Brooke Kane-Walker and her St. Bonaventure softball teammates we...

Monday began a period without high school sports, as schools around the Southern Tier joined the many around the country shut down in an attempt to st...

Matt Burke had a good experience playing in the now-defunct Cattaraugus County Exceptional Seniors baseball game “decades ago.” In recent years, he’d ...

BUFFALO — Despite all the thrilling places his coaching career has taken him, from the highest levels of college basketball to the NBA, John Beilein s...

There was a special buzz in the air around Bradford 50 years ago on Sept. 3, 1969, as softball royalty made its way to McKean County. Eddie “The King”...