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Local Sports

Which rifle caliber is best for harvesting a whitetail?

Walk into any deer camp in Western New York during rifle season, and you’ll hear it before the coffee finishes brewing: the age-old argument over which rifle caliber (where allowed) is best for harvesting a whitetail. The debate is friendly, occasionally loud and rarely settled. At the ...

HIGH SCHOOL SCHEDULE

Monday’s Schedule Boys High School Basketball Jamestown at Frontier, 7:30 p.m. Dunkirk at Southwestern, 7:30 p.m. Girls High School Basketball Westfield at Panama, 6 p.m. Forestville at North Collins, 6 p.m. Cattaraugus-Little Valley at Pine Valley, 6:30 p.m. Gowanda at ...

Ever so close

DUNKIRK — The Olean Huskies are Dunkirk’s kryptonite this season. Entering Friday night, through the first two months of action this season, the only blemish on an otherwise perfect record for the Dunkirk Marauders was a 42-39 loss to Olean on Dec. 18. The Marauders let the game slip ...

Lady Eagles finish 2nd at Section VI duals

BUFFALO — Chautauqua Lake came up just a few points short of a Section VI girls wrestling dual meet championship Friday at D’Youville University. After winning Pool A with a 2-0 record, the Eagles — made up of girls from Chautauqua Lake, Panama, Clymer, Brocton, Westfield and Sherman ...

Bears dominate CCAA swimming & diving championships

OLEAN — Frewsburg/Southwestern/Jamestown/Falconer won nine of 12 events to claim the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association boys swimming and diving championship with 441 points Friday at Olean Intermediate Middle School. Landon Frederes, Miles Moore and Grady Moore were double ...

Southwestern starts hot vs. Falconer

FALCONER — Southwestern drilled nine first-half 3-pointers, built a big lead and cruised to a 68-45 victory over Falconer in a Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 1 boys basketball game Friday night. Roger Markham led the Trojans (7-5, 4-3), who led 40-22 at the break, with ...