NOTE: This is the second part of an ongoing series. If you missed the initial article, be sure to visit observertoday.com. Last week the tips for shaving precious strokes off the scorecard included choosing the shorter club off the tee, playing the game one hole at a time and going with your ...
MAYVILLE — Kyleigh Perdue's 15 points led No. 2 Chautauqua Lake to a 69-19 Section VI Class C-1 quarterfinal victory over No. 7 Cattaraugus-Little Valley. Perdue, the lone senior on the team, also had four steals and five assists. "It was Kyleigh's last home game, so she played a really ...
Chautauqua Lake/Westfield/Brocton Thunderbirds running back Ryan Jafarjian, pictured above, announced his college commitment on Friday to play football at SUNY Brockport. Jafarjian is a senior at Westfield Academy and Central School.
OBSERVER Staff Report ALBANY - One local wrestler's pursuit of a New York State Public High School Athletic Association Divsion II individual wrestling championship will continue today. Chautauqua Lake/Westfield/Panama/Clymer's Martin Ohlsson (99 pounds), seeded fourth in his weight class, ...
OBSERVER Staff Reports SILVER CREEK — The Silver Creek Black Knights started the postseason off on the right foot, beating the Gowanda Panthers 101-50 at Silver Creek High School on Friday night in the first round of the Section VI Class C-1 Sectional Playoffs. While the Panthers kept it ...
Mother Nature has left the playoff schedule completely up in the air. After all of Thursday’s girls basketball games were postponed because of the weather, the local basketball scene is still a bit unclear. At the moment, what we do know is this: Dunkirk and Fredonia have their Sectional ...
Thursday night originally had five girls basketball playoff games on the slate, but a blizzard sweeping across Western New York had other plans. Instead, the games were moved to tonight, and while snow and cold put the first round of games in peril, a few of the games should bring the heat — ...
The Westfield Wolverines have spent the last two seasons as the best team in CCAA Division 2 West. This season, the team defended its first undisputed league title since 2000 last year by earning another one, with a second straight year with a home playoff game in the process. For the second ...
Submitted photo From left: Fredonia wrestlers Alex Christy, David Ball and Jake Skinner left Wednesday for the State Tournament in Albany this weekend. Ceric Kristan of Brocton will join his Hillbillies at the State Tournament as well.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the ice on Chautauqua Lake was getting “funky.” Ice fishing on Chautauqua Lake has been pretty good especially over the weekend. Skip Bianco at Hogan’s Hut/Stow reports that there has been about 5 inches of ice cover on the lake, but the recent warming trend ...
Referencing facing divisional opponents in the postseason, coaches often say, “It’s hard to beat a team three times.” The Dunkirk Lady Marauders didn’t have that problem on Tuesday against the visiting Olean Lady Huskies. Dunkirk took the lead less than two minutes into the game and ...
Coming into Tuesday night’s action to begin the 2019-20 postseason, the Fredonia Lady Billies found themselves as the 10-seed, taking on the 7-seed Health Science Lady Falcons. While normally the 7-seed would be the home team, Health Science doesn’t have a home gym to call their own, ...
OBSERVER Staff Report BUFFALO — The Dunkirk Marauders season came to an end on Tuesday night, as the 14-seed Marauders fell to the 11-seed Maryvale Flyers 63-48 at Maryvale High School. The Marauders trailed 32-18 at the half, but came out roaring in the third quarter, and were able to ...
OBSERVER Staff Reports LANCASTER — The Fredonia Unified Bowling team played two matches on Tuesday, beating Iroquois 4-3 and Amherst 5-2. Although it was the first week since the season opener where the total pin count for the team dropped, Fredonia still had some high scores, ...
The love for the game blossomed early. Growing up in a family of athletes - mostly baseball players - Mark Orlando's youth in the grape vineyards of Northern Chautauqua County was highlighted by participation in team sports. But, occasional trips north on the New York State Thruway to War ...
After a regular season for the ages, Dunkirk’s best team since 1991 is poised to make some more history. Two years ago a very young sophomore starting five at Dunkirk of Kymi Nance, Jessica Beehler, Olivia Smith, Nadara O’Dell and Amari Carter found their way to the Sectional Final ...
MAYVILLE – Chautauqua Lake’s Girls Basketball program teamed up with Maple Grove’s Girls’ Basketball program to raise funds for the Western New York Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation during the “Ballin for a Cure” charity game on Friday, Feb. 13. On Wednesday, Feb. 19, ...
JAMESTOWN — Jenna Caskey, a member of Jamestown Community College’s volleyball team, has signed a National Letter of Intent to further her academic and athletic pursuits at West Liberty University. Caskey, a Sinclairville native, had pictured herself moving on to the ranks of the NCAA and ...
The Section VI class playoffs kick off today with three Dunkirk and Fredonia games on the schedule. Despite being the Class B2 10-seed, Fredonia (11-9) has earned a home playoff game against 7-seed Health Science (6-3) who does not have a home gym and plays of their games on the road. Both ...
BROCTON — The Chautauqua Hurricane (7-3) continued its hot streak with two big PBL wins against the Rochester Razorsharks this past weekend at the Brocton Central School gym. On Saturday, the Hurricane won a close game 103-97, then on Sunday the Hurricane won again, 100-85. In the first ...