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 ...

In Tom McFall’s lifelong hockey career, he had two opportunities to win a national championship, but came up short in both of those games. The first chance came with the Chicago Minor Hawks in the 1979 PeeWee Tier 1 title game and then eight years later with Oswego State University ...

LAKEWOOD — Southwestern and Dunkirk struggled to find a timely hit late in Friday’s Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 1 baseball game. In the end, the Trojans didn’t even need one to win the game. Alex Watkins drew a two-out, bases-loaded walk in the bottom of ...

BROCTON — Micaleb Anderson went 3 for 4 with a double to lead Clymer/Sherman/Panama to a 5-3 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 2 win over Brocton/Cassadaga Valley, in a game that was resumed from a Wednesday rain delay. The Bulldogs (0-3, 0-1) led 3-0 through four ...