BATAVIA — On a football team that was stacked with talent that helped win Notre Dame it’s first Section V title since 2012, it was No. 7 out of the backfield that constantly stood out as a man amongst boys.

BATAVIA — A few changes have been finalized for the Tuesday, June 2 ‘Senior Spring Athlete Parade’ for all Genesee County student-athletes.

PEMBROKE — Casey Wurtz absolutely cherished the past two years winning back-to-back sectional basketball titles with her Pembroke teammates.

ELBA — Since 2009 Elba’s Mike Cintorino has walked the sidelines as the Lancers’ head football coach, and during that time he has seen more than most do during a decade of service. The dissolution of a once proud program, two mergers of once rival schools, as well as an introduction to eight…

BATAVIA — Depending upon how well the first three phases of governor Andrew Cuomo’s ‘Opening New York’ plan goes will determine if youth sports locally will return to the ball parks and the football fields.

As the sports world has been buzzing about “The Last Dance,” Jasmine Jordan has been holding out hope that plans for her first dance as Mrs. Rakeem Christmas can remain intact for this fall.

I think it’s easy to take for granted the people who have influenced you along the way. Parents, teachers, coaches, friends, mentors. This marathon is great opportunity for me do something meaningful for Chris and to show him how much his support has meant to me.

GREIGSVILLE — For those who have watched Riley Stella compete in sports during his high school career — whether on the football field, basketball court or the baseball diamond — nobody had more fun competing with his teammates than the 6-foot-4 York senior.

Although second-year running back Devin Singletary will return for the Bills in 2020 following a successful rookie year, newcomer to the Buffalo backfield Zack Moss comes in with a real chance to make a big impact on the team’s success in the immediate future. The Bills are without veteran r…

PERRY — Through 11 varsity seasons, Perry senior Garrett McClurg has played a major role in what will be looked back on as a successful period of Yellowjackets’ boys athletics. A four-year varsity soccer player, three-year varsity basketball player and four-year varsity baseball member, McCl…

BERGEN — In many ways there has been no stronger tradition in Genesee Region sports the Byron-Bergen volleyball program. Oftentimes champions, always contenders, the Bees have been at the top of the league standings and sectional tournaments for close to two decades.

PAVILION — Nobody was looking forward to the spring softball season more than Pavilion head coach Michelle Forti.

OAKFIELD — When the Oakfield-Alabama/Elba football program made the change from the 11-man game, one constant that allowed it to find immediate success was the presence of captain Dylan Rykert, who helped lead the Aggies to two-straight championship seasons in the first two years of Section …

BUFFALO — Although in previously proposed formats it seemed as if they would sneak into the postseason, in the most-recently proposed NHL playoff the Buffalo Sabres will be on the outside looking in at a newly constructed 24-team pool, which reportedly would include the top-12 teams in each …

BATAVIA — Batavia’s Alex Rood has accomplished a ton since joining the Blue Devils’ varsity athletics program as a youngster. A seven-time sectional champion between football and track and field, a three-time state medalist in track and field, and a four-time All-Greater Rochester selection,…

BATAVIA — Jim Johnson has not been in the best of moods lately.

PERRY — Bailey Fisher will graduate next month with honors — in both sports and academics.

With heavy hearts since the day spring sports was canceled for the rest of the school year, local athletic directors wanted to do something special to recognize their senior athletes and give some closure on what has been a very challenging few months.

ALEXANDER — This spring would have marked Alexander senior Hailee Lowe’s 11th varsity campaign for the Trojans across three sports, but this week the multi-sport star wasn’t thinking about athletics.

GENESEO — Geneseo State men’s basketball coach Steve Minton would trade all of his near 300 career basketball victories for a chance to properly say goodbye to this year’s seniors.

WARSAW — For Warsaw senior Lizzy Standera, the last 12 months have been quite the exciting ride, one that has turned upside down this spring.

ELBA — Isabella ‘Izzy’ Riner is not your average student-athlete.

BATAVIA — For coaches at all levels, the key to any success they are to achieve on the court, as well as in the relationships they build with their players off the court come down to one simple factor - communication. That communication between players and coaches has been as difficult to co…

ALEXANDER — Alexander senior Taylor Fletcher had made herself known to Trojans athletics long before this spring. A multiple-year varsity starter for both soccer and basketball, Fletcher was set to enter her fourth varsity campaign for softball. Yet even with this season being taken away by …

PEMBROKE — After falling to Letchworth in the sectional title game last season, the Pembroke softball team believed they had what it took to complete their quest for a championship this time around. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dragons won’t get that opportunity.

LE ROY — It has been a glorious run — on and off the athletic surface for Olivia Johnson.

BATAVIA — Batavia senior Jake Humes was primed and ready to cap-off what has been a fine career for the Batavia baseball team. The Monroe County Division IV Player of the Year in 2018, and a first-team All-Monroe County League selection last season, Humes was preparing to take his game to th…

GUTHRIE, Okla. – As the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Unleash The Beast’s Cooper Tires Invitational, presented by Ariat, came to a close Sunday evening inside Lazy E Arena, viewers around the globe witnessed further league history.

Mike Rapone has accomplished about all there is to accomplish during what has been a storied career at Notre Dame High School. Nine sectional championships, two state titles, a selection to the Section V Hall of Fame, the list of accolades goes on and on for the longtime Irish coach whose ca…

ATTICA — For Attica High School senior Emily Tait, she had already been an accomplished athlete before heading into her final year with the Blue Devils. Yet it was a rather last-minute decision that could have possibly reshaped her further athletic career.

LE ROY — Mike Battaglia simply describes Le Roy senior Bailey Logsdon as the “toughest athlete I have ever coached.”

ATTICA — Claudia Hardie and her Attica softball teammates were expecting a big season in 2020.

BERGEN — For a number of reasons, Bryce Yockel has been the face of Caledonia-Mumford/Byron-Bergen football.

BATAVIA — Travis Sick has been moving up the MILB ladder.

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — The first time I stayed up to watch the Korean Baseball Organization, or KBO and its ‘Opening Day’ live on ESPN, I was intrigued. Unsure of what to expect I figured, ‘Hey it’s baseball.’. While that portion of my assumption was correct, assuming that my viewing experienc…

ORCHARD PARK — One of the drawbacks for NFL teams during the current health crisis has been the lack of physical interaction between new teammates.

PAVILION — When the Notre Dame football team came away with the Section V Class D title this past fall — its first block since 2012 — a lot of big names put their hands on the trophy.

ALEXANDER — The range of emotions for the Alexander community during the 2016-2017 school year can be likened to a roller coaster ride. In the fall, the school won its first ever Section V Football title, leading to a celebration the likes of which hasn’t been season in Trojan Country before…

BERGEN — When word officially came down on Friday morning from New York State governor Andrew Cuomo that schools would remained closed for the rest of the academic year, all sports for the season came to an expected end.

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ORCHARD PARK — Along with several big additions through the draft, the Bills also added several players through free agency this offseason and have filled their roster with great depth. With each position coming equipped with a quality starter as well as adequate backups, Buffalo has firmly …

LATHAM — Local coaches are both “disappointed” and “heartbroken” over Friday’s news that NY schools will be closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year, meaning any chance of spring sports making a return won’t happen.

MEDINA — For the Medina baseball team, the cancellation of the NYSPHSAA spring season was a gut punch. Coming off of a season in which they finished 21-3, won the Section VI Class B Title and advanced to the state final four, the Mustangs were primed to take their success to another level in 2020.

It was an impressive decade of softball for the Cal-Mum Lady Raiders and head coach Dan Dickens finishing with 180 victories against just 47 losses (.800 winning percentage) along with five sectional titles and one trip to the NYS title game where they fell 8-6 in the 2016 Class C finals aga…

Vowing to return next summer, this year’s Little League World Series was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

ORCHARD PARK — For the Bills, selecting quarterback Jake Fromm at pick No. 167 in the fifth round of the 2020 NFL Draft was something that was simply too good to pass up. Although Buffalo already came equipped with bona fide third-year starter Josh Allen and a quality backup in veteran Matt …

Great sports memories are often produced as a result of a few common occurrences. A last second shot, a game-winning score, an unlikely act of heroism, etc. For the 2013 Batavia boys basketball team, they experienced all of the above, and then some, in one of the most-exciting moments in Sec…

COOPERSTOWN — The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced Wednesday that its Board of Directors has voted unanimously to cancel 2020 Hall of Fame Induction Weekend events as a result of health and safety concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.