The Buffalo Titans AAU basketball program will hold tryouts for its 14U, 16U and 17U teams’ 2012 seasons from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1, at the Buffalo Niagara Court Center, 425 Meyer Road in West Seneca. More...

The Lightning recorded Amherst Girls Hockey victories over the Navy Seals, 1-0, and the Wildcats, 3-0, on Saturday. Lightning goalie Petrina Sciandra recorded shutouts in both games. More...

Senior Will Bickelman became the eighth Williamsville East wrestler to win a Section VI title, pinning second-seed Baba Cole of Amherst in 5:03 to take top honors in the 182-pound weight class at the Section VI Division I State Qualifier Saturday at More...

Junior Noah Jones went 2-2 at 160 pounds and sophomore John Navarro went 2-2 at 220 pounds to both earn fifth place at the Section VI Division I State Qualifier Saturday at Lake Shore High School. More...

Sweet Home had best times from a few swimmers at the Section VI Class A meet Saturday at Maryvale High School. More...

Team Wins Losses North Amherst 104 43 Clarence 94 53 East Amherst 90 57 Eggertsville 90 57 Main-Transit C 87 60 North Bailey 80 67 Sn More...

The Williamsville South boys swim team placed fifth out of 16 teams with 175 points at the Section VI Class B Championships Saturday at Maryvale High School. More...

The Williamsville girls hockey team improved to 10-6 with a 2-0 win over Amherst/Sweet Home Thursday on the Northtown Center at Amherst Feature Rink. More...

The Amherst Federation boys ice hockey team beat Hamburg, 4-2, Saturday on the Northtown Center at Amherst Feature Rink and West Seneca West, 3-2, Sunday at Buffalo State College to clinch the third seed for the upcoming Section VI Small Schools play More...

The Junior Level 3 team of the Elite Heat All Stars had one of their best competitions of the season at the Shout Cheer and Dance Championships in Jamestown. More...

With his team trailing by 11 with just over three minutes remaining, Williamsville North boys basketball coach Chuck Swierski went into his bag of defensive schemes to help his team pull out a victory at Clarence. More...

Even before the Sweet Home boys basketball team took to the court at home against Lancaster last Thursday, coach Scott Martin had a feeling his players were going to play really well. More...

The Sacred Heart girls basketball team avenged a 61-55 home loss to Aquinas with a 63-62 road win Saturday. More...

Led by the first quarter shooting of Myriah Magaris, the Amherst girls basketball team picked up a 52-34 home win over Maryvale on Feb. 7. Magaris scored 10 of her 12 points in the first quarter as Amherst built a 14-4 lead. More...

The Pee Wee Rangers started the playoffs with an 8-1 win over the Coyotes. Andrew Froman of the Rangers wasted no time scoring his first of three goals, assisted by Andrew Thein, Adam Branieki and Kyle Rosenthal. More...

The Amherst girls bowling team defeated West Seneca East, 5-2, on Feb. 2. The Lady Tigers finished the regular season with a 7-3 record and clinched a tie for second place in the league. More...

Wayne Gordon’s legend continues to grow. The Sweet Home senior won the 55-meter dash at the Millrose Games Saturday at the Armory in New York City in a season-best time of 6.46 seconds. More...

SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE — Williamsville North senior Nick Konotopskyj, front row, middle, recently signed a letter of intent to run cross country at St. Bonaventure University. More...

Christian Central Academy’s varsity boys bowling team showed good progress in its second season. Team and individual scores showed increases in every category of statistics. Last year the squad recorded no wins and finished in last place. More...

ENDING STRONG — The St. More...

BRONZE — Emma Cercone, far left, of the Amherst Skating Club, won a bronze medal in senior ladies division at the Empire State Games in Lake Placid Feb. 2-5. More...

Williamsville residents Vincent Catanzaro, 12, and Michael Catanzaro, 8, wrestling for Cobra Wrestling Academy, both took third at the Lewiston Porter Round Robin Tournament on Sunday, Jan. 29. More...

The Amherst Soccer Association will hold a Presidents Week camp Feb. 20-24 and an April Break camp April 9-13 from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. More...

Christ The King’s sixth-grade boys basketball team pulled out a 35-30 win over St. Greg’s. Matt Connolly led the scoring with 11 points followed by Tom Foster (10), John Miletich (six), Joe Wood (five) and Jaime Ciesielski (three). More...

AYB KNOCKS OUT CANCER — Ed Trevino, far left, John Piosenka, Kristian Gunsalus, Jonathan Grano, Dylan Kelly and Jordan Matthews, all of Amherst Youth Basketball’s fifth-grade team Syracus More...