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  • 2 weeks ago | herald-courier.com | Mike Tanner

    Just want to wrap up some final details of the winter sports season, as we await the start of the spring competition. And in Western New York, we are at the mercy of the weather. (Baseball needs black field marker and a fluorescent ball sometimes). Congratulations to the University of Buffalo women's basketball team, as the Bulls landed the 2025 Women's NIT Championship by beating Troy State of Alabama at the UB Alumni Arena on April 5, 88-84. Anybody make the trip from our area to the sold out ...

  • 2 weeks ago | herald-courier.com | Mike Tanner

    Matt Adams, Holland Athletic Director, announced the 2024-25 winter sports award winners. Holland’s boys’ basketball team made it to the 2025 Section VI Class C Finals, where the Dutchmen were defeated by Westfield Academy. Holland still seeks their first ever Section VI boys’ basketball title. Brady Wiskup was named MVP for the Dutchmen by Coach Matt Krotz.

  • 2 weeks ago | herald-courier.com | Mike Tanner

    On March 30, the Big 30 Senior All-Star boys’ and girls’ basketball games were played at Portville Central School. Former Ten Broeck Academy of Franklinville Coach John “Mickey” Viglietta was also inducted into the Big 30 Basketball Hall of Fame during the games. Pennsylvania won both games, as the boys defeated New York, 103-81, and the girls also defeated New York, 51-49.

  • 4 weeks ago | herald-courier.com | Mike Tanner

    On Dec. 1, the Pioneer girls’ soccer team celebrated its season and presented the team’s 2024 awards at a breakfast banquet hosted at the Holland Willows. The team’s MVP winners and 2024 Big 30 All-Stars received honors. The Panthers won the 2024 ECIC III Championship (8-0) and made it to the 2024 Section VI Class A  Finals, where they lost to Lewiston-Porter. Pioneer finished 12-6-1 overall. The awards were presented by Coach Addie Edwards.

  • 4 weeks ago | herald-courier.com | Mike Tanner

    On March 30, the 2025 Big 30 All-Star Basketball Games will be played at Portville Central School. The girls play at 2 p.m. and the boys play at 4 p.m. The games will match the top senior players from the schools in the circulation area of the Olean Times Herald, with New York vs. Pennsylvania. Two local players were selected for the boys’ game on the New York squad: Sam Platt of Pioneer, 6 ft. 4 in. forward, who is Pioneer’s all-time boys’ scorer with 1,768 points, and Bretton Blecha, 6 ft. 4 in.

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