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AUSTIN — Nineteen years since their last District 9 postseason victory, the Austin Panthers are advancing. Using turnovers and an emphasis on getting ...

Ten days after Ridgway topped Smethport 50-33, the Elkers and Hubbers are set to meet again. The two teams will face off in the District 9 Class AA pl...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Josh Allen threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Kroft with 7:55 to play and the Buffalo Bills clinched a playoff spot, beating th...

Every now and then the question is raised … why is Buffalo in the AFC East? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have that division composed of the four tea...

Well, beating Dallas on Thanksgiving certainly helped. The Buffalo Bills’ playoffs odds went from 82 percent to 93 when they beat the Cowboys, 26-15, ...

ST. MARYS — Last week, it was for home field. Tonight, it’s win-or-go-home. A week after Elk County Catholic blanked Smethport 18-0 in each team’s reg...

SMETHPORT — What the Elk County Catholic Crusaders lack in numbers, they more so make up for in talent — and on Friday night, defense. Playing with ju...

ST. MARYS — District 9 announced brackets and seeds for all three of its volleyball classifications late Monday evening. In Class AAA, Bradford will t...

As we enter into the final week of the regular season in Pennsylvania, District 9’s playoff scenarios are all but wrapped up. In Class AAA, a sub-regi...

Bradford used a three-goal first half to power past Port Allegany 4-1 at Parkway Field in a non-league game on Wednesday in each team’s regular season...

DUKE CENTER — Needing a victory to qualify for the upcoming District 9 Class AAA playoffs, the Bradford volleyball team took care of business. After t...

KNOX — It will be tough sledding for Smethport as the regular season winds down and the postseason draws near, but the Hubbers will certainly be able ...

It was certainly an exciting Week 6 of local high school football action, with teams asserting their dominance over divisional foes. Perhaps no perfor...

Suspense. And a little bit of parity. With five games decided by two touchdowns or less, Week 4 was by far the most competitive two days of play in Di...

It’s still incredibly early in the season, but after knocking off Ridgway 25-21, Kane proved that 2018 was an aberration and that the Wolves mean busi...

There are plenty of times in this job where local athletes, or teams, make us eat our words. Such was the case Friday night for the beginning of the 2...

DUKE CENTER — They accomplished phase one of their plan last fall. After a pair of standout seasons in which it won two Allegheny Mountain League Nort...

It didn’t take long for Port Allegany coach Nate Zitnik to realize just how locked in Howie Stuckey was for the 2019 season. In fact, it took all of o...

Mike Erickson is certainly deserving of the little bit of downtime that the summer provides. Over the past few months, Erickson — who took over as Bra...

Do you wonder how Jason Botterill enjoyed the Stanley Cup finals? I do. St. Louis’ Game 7 victory over Boston for the Blues’ first NHL title in their ...