For many, the novel coronavirus pandemic has served as a chance for people to bundle up and binge watch all of their favorite Netflix shows. Fredonia’s Jake Skinner is not the many, he is the few, he is a Division-I athlete. Skinner is set to join the Division-I FCS football program Central ...
OBSERVER Sports Editor Braden Carmen and Sports Reporters Anthony Dolce and Christian Storms have selected the 2020 OBSERVER All-Stars for boys basketball in the winter sports season. Listed below are the players honored from the OBSERVER coverage area, which includes 11 high schools: Brocton, ...
No fooling! The yellow perch fishing has been pretty good lately, in 55 to 64 feet of water off Evangola State Park, weather permitting. Close to 50 boats have been spotted in the general area on fair weather days, and most of the anglers have been reporting decent catches of fish. Before ...
OBSERVER Sports Editor Braden Carmen and Sports Reporters Anthony Dolce and Christian Storms have selected the 2020 OBSERVER All-Stars for girls basketball in the winter sports season. Listed below are the players honored from the OBSERVER coverage area, which includes 11 high schools: Brocton, ...
Former Fredonia Hillbillies ace lefty Cameron Voss has had a bumpy road since moving on from his orange and black roots. Voss, who was a key contributor to Fredonia’s 2013 State Championship, had some relatively high expectations after graduating high school in 2015. Originally committing to ...
JAMESTOWN — Looking to keep adding to the Jamestown Community College swimming & diving team, head coach Todd Conklin has inked three more signees. The new signees include two local swimmers in Tia Moppert from Gowanda Central School and Colby Pantall from Maple Grove High School. To ...
OBSERVER Staff Report Maple Grove led the way with five grapplers honored as Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 2 wrestling coaches recently announced their all-star team. Lukas Baer (113 pounds), Luke Tomlinson (132 pounds), Kyle Trim (182 pounds), Jake Tomlinson (195 ...
Nadara O’Dell spent most of the season atop the stat sheet for the high-scoring Dunkirk Lady Marauders. The rest of the league clearly took notice, as O’Dell was named the CCAA Division 1 West Player of the Year. “It’s really great for her. Nadara had a great season. She scored almost ...
Replacing a player like Brady Woleben is never easy. Add in replacing a head coach too, and you’ve got the ingredients for a tough season. To Silver Creek’s credit, that wasn’t the case in 2020, as the Black Knights finished tied for second in the CCAA East 1 Division. A big reason why ...
In the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, the entire sports world at every level has been put on hold. Leagues like Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League have all had to postpone games, while the NCAA cancelled the March Madness college ...
Hunters in New York harvested an estimated 224,190 deer during the 2019-20 hunting seasons, State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced Monday. “Regulated hunting benefits all New Yorkers by reducing the negative impacts of deer on forests, ...
The coronavirus pandemic has suspended play of nearly every sporting event across the globe, leaving a huge void in the lives of sports fans looking for something to watch on TV. CBS has tried to fill time with old March Madness games. On what would have been Opening Day for Major League ...
Editor’s Note: This story was put together by looking at past OBSERVER articles written by Jerry Reilly and Kyle Kubera in 1987 and 1988. In 2019, the Dunkirk girls bowling team snapped a 21 year drought of team state championships won by Dunkirk High School. Prior to the Lady Marauders ...
One of the most heart-breaking stories from the winter sports season was that the Dunkirk Lady Marauders girls basketball team could not complete its journey toward a state title. Seeking the program’s first ever state championship, the all-senior Dunkirk starting five saw their high school ...
Special to the OBSERVER Lucky Lanes Junior Bowling announced the winners of the Priscilla Seybold Memorial Singles Tournament held Feb. 9 at Lucky Lanes. This is the third year for the tournament, which was renamed this year after Priscilla Seybold, who was one of the most instrumental ...
Special to the OBSERVER The management of Darwins Health Club would like to wish everyone well during this trying period. In response to the mandated shut down of business we encourage all people, members of gyms and non-members, to do their best to stay healthy and fit. Maintain established ...
FREWSBURG — The Relief Zone (TRZ) fundraising committee is rescheduling its 8th Annual 5K/10K/Kidz Fun Run from Saturday, April 18, to Aug. 8, at the Frewsburg Firemen’s Grounds. The race will begin at 9 a.m. followed by awards at 11 a.m. This years 10K Race is apart of the Chautauqua ...
This is not the first time the Sportsman’s Journal has appeared on a Saturday. Over the past few years, the SJ has appeared on Saturdays usually covering a Big Fish Friday fishing tournament event. With the coronavirus situation, it is hard to say if there will even be any fishing tournaments ...
The Westfield Wolverines won back-to-back league titles in the CCAA West 2 Division, and with those two titles came two First Team selections this season. Seniors Ryan Jafarjian and Michael Johnson were selected as First Team All-Stars by the CCAA West 2 Division in the league’s season ...
The 2020 Section VI high school football schedule was released earlier this week. Here is a list of all the games by week for the teams in the OBSERVER coverage area, tenatively scheduled and subject to change if necessary. Week 1: Sept. 11-12 Friday CSP at Chautauqua ...