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SALAMANCA — You could see the experience gap five minutes into Saturday’s championship final of the 85th Salamanca Tip-Off Tournament. The host Warrio...

CATTARAUGUS — Sam Grey said this year brings his most inexperienced group in nine seasons coaching wrestling at Cattaraugus-Little Valley, but that do...

In his first year as Salamanca varsity boys basketball coach, Adam Bennett had the benefit of nine seniors, including three captain returning starters...

The Franklinville/Ellicottville football team earned four Big 30 All-Stars and finished atop the Olean Times Herald’s small school poll for a third st...

In 1979, they shared a high school field as teammates, Mike Furlong a sophomore, Pete Lee a senior for the Salamanca Warriors. But for more than two d...

Section 6 Class D regular season champion Franklinville/Ellicottville earned six spots on the division’s first-team all-star team, including offensive...

The fall sports season may be long gone for our area schools, with athletes moving on to start winter practices in basketball or wrestling last week. ...

ONTARIO CENTER — Finishing 13th and 14th, respectively, twin sisters Bailey and Abby Gostomski, seniors at Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School, h...

Tanner John played his entire fourth year at Hobart College assuming it would be his last as a college men’s lacrosse player. But he got to the end, a...

There’s a good reason Cattaraugus-Little Valley cross country stars Abby and Bailey Gostomski saw their times and place-finishes suffer between the CC...

BUFFALO — Salamanca senior Rochelle Bish swam the school’s third-fastest time in history in the 100-yard breaststroke, good for an eighth-place finish...

BEMUS POINT — Cattaraugus-Little Valley senior Abby Gostomski finished fourth in the Section 6 cross country Class D championship Friday, with her twi...

ORCHARD PARK — For two and a half quarters, Franklinville/Ellicottville looked primed for a sectional title, and perhaps a run at the state championsh...

ORCHARD PARK — With an undefeated team, No. 1 seed and regular-season win over Maple Grove, Franklinville/Ellicottville coach Chad Bartoszek still doe...

OLEAN — A week after setting Salamanca High School’s six-dive scoring record, Mushirah Sheppard set another in the 11-dive competition at the CCAA Cha...

It's easy to see why Mckenna Maycock says she feels more comfortable than entering her first two years on the St. Bonaventure women's basketball team....

FRANKLINVILLE — Chad Bartoszek said it wasn’t the result of some inspiring halftime speech, or a schematic shift, his Franklinville/Ellicottville foot...

There's not much Chad Bartoszek has to say come game day this time of the year to motivate his Franklinville/Ellicottville football team. Section 6 Cl...