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SALAMANCA — The last two seasons have been unkind to the Salamanca girls soccer team’s win-loss record, but strength in numbers and experience have co...

Xavier Taylor made an immediate impact in his return to the Salamanca varsity football team. Taylor, who last lettered at Salamanca as a sophomore, st...

SALAMANCA — These players helped bring Salamanca football back above .500 after two winless regular seasons. Now, can they build on it against a daunt...

CATTARAUGUS — The season ended with a five-game losing streak, including a 54-6 playoff defeat against Clymer/Sherman/Panama, but the disappointing fi...

By any historical measure, he should have been a curmudgeon. “Baseball lifers” have a way of becoming irascible, prickly, unfriendly characters as the...

Being the head wrestling coach at the United States Air Force Academy places Sam Barber in close proximity to USA Wrestling and the USOC’s Olympic Tra...

Wally Holland wanted to get his lifetime’s worth of remarkable stories on print. Good thing he had a writer for a son. The product of many hours on th...

After a 37-22 victory over New York in the 45th Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic, Pennsylvania coach Todd Silfies’ postgame media comments started no...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Clearly, the first half did not go the way New York’s coaches for the 45th Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic had hoped. The Northern h...

Often sports teams participate in tournaments which provide athletes with a plethora of competition to enhance their season and improve their skills. ...

BRADFORD, Pa. — The Franklinville/Ellicottville football team’s then-undefeated season ended in November at New Era Field, but as it turned out, the T...

While Frank Brown helped the Iroquois Nationals play for an FIL World Championship medal, the National Lacrosse League’s expansion draft decided his p...

OLEAN — Chad Bartoszek has the luxury of coaching six of his Franklinville/Ellicottville football players in this year’s Big 30 All-Star Charities Cla...

A year ago, Ed Sponeybarger had just turned 31 and recently left a job at UPS. For the father of five, with another on the way, Sponeybarger, a Kill B...

Goals don’t come easily – if ever – against Olean 1854 FC, the city’s first-year men’s amateur soccer team. In Buffalo & District Soccer League 2nd Di...

ALLEGANY — Just like it had in its first two games of the District 2 Little League all-star playoffs, the Ellicottville/Cattaraugus-Little Valley soft...

(Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the St. Bonaventure men’s lacrosse program, which plays its first season in 2018-19. Today,...

(Editor’s note: this is the first of a two-part series on the St. Bonaventure men’s lacrosse program, which plays its first season in 2018-19. Today, ...