RANDOLPH — No. 5 Silver Creek/Forestville possessed the ball for nearly 40 minutes of the game en route to a 20-0 victory over No. 4 Randolph in Section VI Class D quarterfinal action Friday at Raymond Van Wie Stadium. Will Duliba completed 8 of 11 passes for 113 yards and two touchdowns ...

New York’s Southern Zone early archery season kicked off Oct. 1, and it was special this year — not just because the woods became alive with fall color — but because it marked the first early archery season where modern crossbows are legal during the early big-game archery hunt. For one ...

ORCHARD PARK — Patrick Mahomes has made enough trips to Buffalo to know he and the Kansas City Chiefs shouldn’t expect a warm welcome from Bills fans on Sunday. “They don’t like us,” Mahomes said. Can you blame them? Since 2020, Mahomes and the Chiefs have blocked Josh Allen and ...

FOOTBALL Class AA Quarterfinals Thursday, Oct. 30 Lancaster 20, Niagara Falls 14 Friday, Oct. 31 Jamestown 56, Lockport 0 Saturday, Nov. 1 No. 7 Hutch Tech at No. 2 Orchard Park, 2 p.m. Semifinals Friday, Nov. 7 or Saturday, Nov. 8 No. 4 Lancaster vs. No. 1 Bennett at TBA, ...

ELMA — Southwestern’s Emma Lewis and Maple Grove’s Ethan Verbosky won Section VI cross country championships, while Maple Grove’s boys and girls, Clymer/Sherman/Panama’s girls and Silver Creek/Dunkirk/Forestville’s girls took home team titles Friday at Elma Meadows Golf Course. ...

This month’s local sports history lesson centers on coaches. Terrible ones. There are two particular coaches I had the distinct displeasure of interacting with as sports editor of the EVENING OBSERVER in the 1970s through early 1990s. The first guy was a longtime varsity football coach ...