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Olean’s 1987-88 basketball team. Assistant coaches not pictured. Standing (left to right): Coach Jeff Anastasia, Kevin Klingbeil, Don Bearfield, Dean Edwards, Matt Threehouse, John Wolfgang, Daryl Cross, Kyle Henzel. Kneeling (left to right): Joe Guenther, Andrew Robinson, Chad Hund, Brian George, Matthew DeCerbo, Jeff Sherman.

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April 8, 2026

Before he coached St. Bonaventure, Mike MacDonald experimented with basketball’s future at Olean

By HENRY BUCHAN, Special to the Era

OLEAN, N.Y. — Step into Olean High School during the 1987–88 season, and you’d see something u...

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