ROCHESTER — The Southwestern sailing team got out on the water for the first time this spring season to participate in the Fleet Qualifier at the Rochester Yacht Club. Weather has been a big hindrance this year but despite everything, Southwestern’s sailors took advantage of every ...
BUFFALO (AP) — Tage Thompson and the Buffalo Sabres entered their first-round series against Boston being questioned over their lack of playoff experience. Turns out, they needed just over 52 minutes of game time to get the hang of it. Drawing upon the never-quit identity the team forged in vaulting from last place in the Eastern Conference standings in early December to winning its first Atlantic Division title, the Sabres marked their return to the playoffs after a NHL-record 14-season drought with a big bang. Thompson scored twice as part of Buffalo’s four-goal surge over ...
ORCHARD PARK (AP) — As he prepares to turn 30, celebrates the birth of his first child and adapts to a new head coach for the first time in his nine seasons in Buffalo, Josh Allen said his love of football and desire to win haven’t changed as much as they’ve evolved. Starting a family has a way of altering one’s perspective. “That want to win will never change. The why I want to do it has,” Allen said on Monday, two weeks into the Bills’ offseason workout program. “So why I want to do it is to show my family, to show my daughter how hard you need to work in order to ...
BUFFALO — Mattias Samuelson scored with 3:24 left and Buffalo overcame a two-goal deficit in the final eight minutes to beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Sunday night in the Sabres’ first playoff game in 15 years. Tage Thompson scored goals 3:42 apart to tie it, and Alex Tuch sealed the ...
One of the finest high school basketball coaches this area has ever produced was inducted into the New York State Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday. Ben Drake, the former Jamestown High School boys mentor, was enshrined during a ceremony at Harding Mazzotti Arena (formerly Cool Insuring ...
DUNKIRK — Anthony Piede’s single in the bottom of the seventh inning scored Ariez Cheverez with the winning run as Dunkirk edged Southwestern 1-0 in walk-off fashion in a Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 1 baseball game Saturday. Piede’s heroics made a winner of ...
