thomas bates

ALLEGANY — The Olean boys basketball team ended Thursday’s portion of the Joe DeCerbo Holiday Showcase with perhaps the day’s best performance. On a d...

WELLSVILLE — The Olean High boys basketball team, after an already up-and-down start to its season, was missing two starters. Beyond that, it was taki...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Despite the loss of another solid senior class, Jason Marsh believed his Franklinville/Ellicottville football team had a good recipe i...

OLEAN — In the fall of 2016, with a first-year coach, on the heels of a handful of lean years, the Olean High footbal team turned in an undefeated reg...

OLEAN — Jason Brooks just missed on his opportunity to win the game in the seventh. The star senior, his coach maintained, wasn’t going to come short ...

OLEAN — The Olean baseball team’s pitching and hitting did enough to overcome five errors in the field and get past Fredonia Monday afternoon. In a Me...

OLEAN — They’d set a goal for 2020 before the 2019 season had even come to an official end. That’s how motivated Thomas Bates and Mark Brown had been....

ORCHARD PARK — They established this goal last spring, when they first teamed up as doubles partners. A year later, Filip Morawski and Thomas Bates ha...

ORCHARD PARK — Filip Morawski and Thomas Bates have reached another step. A year after falling in the second round, the Olean duo won won its first- a...

LAKEWOOD — Just like their teammate the day before, Filip Morawski and Thomas Bates have punched their ticket back to sectionals. Olean High’s top tan...

FREDONIA — Score a big one for Ben Wright’s humility. The Olean High boys tennis coach is chairman of the Chautauqua Cattaraugus Athletic Association ...