SILVER CREEK — After defeating Fredonia on Tuesday, Southwestern head coach Jared Brown said, “We’ve got to keep the pedal to the metal.” His team got the message. Southwestern delivered a statement on Friday. Supported by 18 runs, including a 12-run fourth inning, Southwestern ...

BUFFALO — The time for talking, practicing and poring over game film is over as far as Sabres coach Lindy Ruff is concerned. With Buffalo facing elimination for the first time this postseason, Ruff told his team to avoid the rink Friday, meet at the airport and contemplated canceling the ...

FALCONER — Southwestern won its sixth match of the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association golf season Friday, edging Falconer via tiebreaker at Breezewood Links. The Trojans’ Andyn Smith and the Golden Falcons’ Kale Livengood shared medalist honors with 42 apiece in a match ...

Falconer found Diethrick Park to its liking Friday, sweeping Ellicottville in a Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 3 doubleheader 6-4 and 8-1. In the first game, the Golden Falcons trailed 3-2 after six innings, but pushed across four runs in the top of the seventh and Liam ...

DUNKIRK — Gabriella Grann and Charli Ross were locked in a pitcher’s duel Friday in a Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 1 softball game. Grann was just a little bit better. The seventh-grader allowed four hits and no earned runs, struck out four and walked two to ...

Here, at the halfway point of the spring gobbler season, maybe you’ve been calling gobblers but haven’t brought one into shooting range. A likely reason is your set-up. Your mileage may vary, but for me, the number one problem that has cost me shots at gobblers — more than calling, ...