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The CCAA East I boys basketball league has announced its yearly awards, as voted on by the league’s head coaches.
BUFFALO — With its season on the line, the Randolph boys basketball team played one of its best quarters of the year, then the Cardinals endured three periods they’d rather forget.
JAMESTOWN — Tyler Hind had already put together a second quarter to remember, a masterful display to help his team wrestle control of the Section 6 Class C-2 championship game. Then he brought…
Russell Phillips typically expects freshmen big men to have a tough time adapting to the Division III level.
JAMESTOWN — Tyler Hind brought the offense, Gabe McCoy and Andrew Bernard controlled the glass, and the Randolph Cardinals returned to another Section 6 boys basketball championship game.
JAMESTOWN — Despite a CCAA East II championship and No. 1 seed in its bracket, this Ellicottville boys basketball team mostly did not yet know the growing pains associated with the sectional p…
BUFFALO — Mike Ester must not have liked his Tapestry Charter boys basketball team’s first minute of the postseason.
Days after playing each other in their regular season finale, the Ellicottville and Randolph boys basketball teams earned the top two seeds in the Section 6 Class C-2 playoffs.
SALAMANCA — Legendary football coach Bill Parcells coined the phrase, “you are what your record says you are.” But Salamanca girls basketball coach Bryelle Wallin would disagree, at least in r…
SALAMANCA — The Salamanca boys basketball team finished its regular season with a second consecutive victory, celebrating its seniors on the way to a 73-49 triumph over Cassadaga Valley on Thursday.
RANDOLPH — Randolph coach Kevin Hind got his 300th career win Thursday night as the Cardinals held off Salamanca in CCAA East I boys basketball action.
SALAMANCA — Three weeks ago, Salamanca took the first-place Allegany-Limestone boys basketball team down to the wire in CCAA East I upset bid on the road.
ELLICOTTVILLE — Powered by 18 points, 15 rebounds and three steals from senior Linnea Jimerson, the Ellicottville girls basketball snapped a four-game losing streak on Friday, improving to 5-2…
Basketball runs in Linnea Jimerson’s family, so immediately after her 1,000th career point, the Ellicottville senior thought naturally of her family.
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In his second year leading the program, and in his first full offseason, Atlantic girls basketball coach Kelly Juhl has been able to spend more time this summer working with his players individually. The Trojans spent six weeks after the end of the school year practicing as well as scrimmagi…
