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You could be excused for incorrectly guessing which team traveled with low numbers at Saturday night’s Southern Tier Diesel home opener at Bradner Sta...

It had been three weeks since the Southern Tier Diesel took the field last, but if they were rusty it didn’t show in the results. The Diesel scored a ...

(Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part column series on the NCAA baseball champion Florida Gators. Today’s column features the career of UF a...

CHAFFEE — Breaking out with 11 runs in the seventh inning, Salamanca clinched a chance at the District 2 Little League 10-12-year-old baseball regiona...

Driving home from Monday’s Penn York Junior Golf League season-opening tournament at Elkdale Country Club, the loss started to sting Kyle Henzel. Henz...

SALAMANCA — Terry Koniak, Neil Stern, Steve Beattie and Tom Buffamante teamed to with the Dr. Green Lawn Custom Turf Scramble’s net championship Wedne...

Ella Crane, daughter of Aaron and Jill Crane, a seventh grader at Ellicottville Central School, has been named as a 2017 National Lacrosse All-Star an...

SALAMANCA — Jake McCollough picked a fine day to shoot his best golf score of the year so far. McCollough, 17, of Warren, Pa., entered Penn-York Junio...

Before Mike Trout was a two-time American League MVP by age 25, he was a 16-year-old from Millville, N.J., trying to make a name for himself. Olean Oi...

ST. BONAVENTURE — As a Division I men’s lacrosse coach, former star player for the Buffalo Bandits and Rochester Knighthawks and a fan, Randy Mearns p...

On a photo assignment for our sister paper, the Olean Times Herald, I had the chance to hear Rich Morton’s induction speech at his alma mater, Olean H...

Saturday night showed the Southern Tier Diesel just how quickly a comeback road win can turn into a deflating two-score loss. After a four-plus-hour r...

How do you make a baseball hall of fame without ever playing the sport competitively? Oh, you just need nearly a half-century dedicated to coaching th...

JAMESTOWN — The senior all-stars from CCAA Div. I East made Mike Matz’s job easy Wednesday night, just as he expected. Matz, the Portville baseball co...

DUNKIRK — Chautauqua and Cattaraugus County high school softball seniors got one last chance to make an impression Monday night, and Salamanca’s Emma ...

SALAMANCA — To set themselves apart among athletes at Salamanca High School, Michael Collins and Meagan Martin didn’t just stand out in one sport per ...

Entering a season with a small-numbered roster and an all-new wide receiver group, Southern Tier Diesel coach and owner J.R. Bennion expected to have ...

ENDICOTT — When it comes to the competition at the New York State Public High School track and field championship meet, the best of the best show up t...