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Andie Hill had more than the typical senior night to celebrate Thursday. Hill, a fourth-year varsity girls’ basketball player, capped her final home g...

Section 6 released its girls’ basketball playoff seedings Saturday, giving Ellicottville the No. 3 seed in Class D and setting up a potential semifina...

The Salamanca boys’ bowling team finished 16 pins shy of a repeat sectional title Wednesday, falling just short in a comeback attempt against Frewsbur...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The Ellicottville boys basketball team had every chance to think this wasn’t its night. There was the first half, when Elliot Bowen, t...

At first, coach Rich Morton thought Mushirah Sheppard was almost “too nice” for the wrestling mat. Sheppard took up wrestling as a seventh grader, joi...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Salamanca senior Jordan Johnson will play in the Big 30 Charities Classic football game as he was among the first group announced this...

BEMUS POINT — Marcus Evans of Randolph and Justin Dickinson of Cattaraugus-Little Valley earned Section 6 Class D championships on the wrestling mat S...

PORTVILLE — Ike Morrison made a halftime switch to “small-ball” and kept his Randolph boys’ basketball team’s rematch with Portville from getting near...

After Steve Brdarski took the job of St. Bonaventure women’s soccer coach in 2013, he quickly heard all about a phenom just up the road at Ellicottvil...

SALAMANCA — For Tucker Hibbert, arguably the biggest star of the AMSOIL Championship Snocross Series, there’s always room for improvement. That room c...

PORTVILLE — The Portville boys basketball team found itself in one of those close games the Panthers have come to dread. Bill Torrey’s snake-bitten sq...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The St. Bonaventure women’s lacrosse team, partnering with the Seneca Nation of Indians, will hold a free youth clinic on Wednesday,...

ELLICOTTVILLE — After posting a triple-double against Pine Valley little more than 48 hours earlier, Marissa Hamilton had an equally impressive second...

SOUTH DAYTON — Junior Marissa Hamilton posted a triple double Saturday, lifting the Ellicottville girls’ basketball team at Pine Valley in CCAA East I...

SALAMANCA — A year ago, Chris Hibbler of Seneca (Erie, Pa.) defeated Olean High wrestler Jordan Kayes on the way to the Most Outstanding Wrestler awar...

SALAMANCA — At 6 feet tall, Silver Creek’s Jacob Lewis may not be the most intimidating post presence on Salamanca’s boys’ basketball schedule, but he...

SALAMANCA — The final chance to impress before the postseason for many area high school wrestlers comes this weekend at Salamanca High School. The 24t...

CATTARAUGUS — Randolph took fifth at the Cattaraugus-Little Valley Wrestling Tournament Saturday with three second-place finishers, led by Dakota Park...