BUFFALO — Mattias Samuelson scored with 3:24 left and Buffalo overcame a two-goal deficit in the final eight minutes to beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Sunday night in the Sabres’ first playoff game in 15 years. Tage Thompson scored goals 3:42 apart to tie it, and Alex Tuch sealed the ...

Anthony Piede’s single in the bottom of the seventh inning scored Ariez Cheverez with the winning run as Dunkirk edged Southwestern 1-0 in walk-off fashion in a Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 1 baseball game Saturday. Piede’s heroics made a winner of Marauders’ ...

FREDONIA — Sophia Utegg continued to shine for the undefeated Fredonia flag football team Saturday. The sophomore quarterback completed 9 of 15 passes for 200 yards and four touchdowns, rushed for 48 yards on four carries and added three conversion passes to spark the Hillbillies to a ...

GOWANDA — Emily Rhinehart pitched and batted Falconer to a 9-4 victory over Gowanda in a nonleague softball game Saturday. In the circle, the senior allowed four hits, struck out nine, including the 300th of her career, and walked two in 3.1 innings. Offensively, she collected three hits, ...

As winter loosens its grip across Western New York, a quieter kind of seasonal shift has started deep in the forests of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties. Black bears, after months of hibernation, are waking up. Groggy but driven, they emerge into the early days of spring with ...

With some teams still finishing up in the Central Conference, team rankings are still pending. The West Conference is in full steam with weather cancelling Cassadaga Valley and Maple Grove. No perfect scores were reported in this week’s round of matches. West Conference Cassadaga ...