Longtime Cooperstown Central School coach and athletic director Dave Bertram announced Monday, June 22, that he would be leaving the district to become the athletic director at Mohonasen Central School.

NYSPHSAA took a small step toward staging a fall sports season jeopardized by the COVID-19 pandemic Friday, June 12, by releasing guidelines for summer conditioning programs.

Just minutes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced New York schools and universities would continue distance learning through the end of the academic year, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association followed with the announcement that all of the state’s sections had canceled thei…

The Daily Star’s sports department announces its 2019-20 girls basketball all-area team.

Bob Zeh has been around the local basketball scene since The Beatles were topping the Billboard charts, but more than 50 years later, the Jefferson native is still finding success as the Unatego girls basketball coach.

Last week, this space was used to emphasize the difficulty of selecting this year’s player and coach of the year awards in boys basketball.

Franklin sophomore Kayla Campbell has not had a typical high school basketball career.

After winning just about everything there was to win in 2018-19, Cooperstown boys basketball coach John Lambert faced a different challenge in his second season leading the Hawkeyes.

The Daily Star’s sports department announces its 2019-20 boys basketball all-area team.

For an Oneonta boys basketball team facing an uphill climb from well before the first practice of the season, it was the quality of the ascent rather than the height of the peak that highlighted the year.

As the people at NYSPHSAA and other sporting institutions around the world have realized in the past month, some decisions are just plain difficult.

Sixteen area boys basketball players landed on the New York State Sportswriters Association All-State lists for Class B, C and D, announced by the organization Thursday, April 16.

Dr. Robert Zayas, the executive director of the New York State Public High Schools Athletic Association, said Monday that it was with great disappointment that his organization had elected to cancel the remaining winter state championships.

After two weeks in limbo, the winter state championships went away without much resistance.

Oneonta senior boys basketball player Graham Wooden announced Sunday, March 22, his decision to play collegiate basketball for Mansfield University.

The disruption that had most concerned Cooperstown’s baseball industry arrived Friday, March 20.

ONEONTA — Six months after getting a new name, Joe Hughes Field at Oneonta High School finally has a name tag.

Concerns about the spread of COVID-19 finally affected local high schools sports Thursday, March 12, as the New York State Public High Schools Athletic Association announced in a press release on its website that all winter championships were “postponed indefinitely.”

Senior boys basketball players from across the Midstate Athletic Conference gathered in Sidney for an exhibition basketball game Tuesday, March 10, with a team from Delaware and Otsego counties edging a squad from Chenango and Broome counties, 104-96, in overtime.

Senior basketball players in the Delaware League gathered at South Kortright on Monday, March 9, to play exhibition senior games.

Unatego’s Jacob Haqq recorded a leap of 46-11.25 to win the boys triple and claim state gold Saturday, March 7, during the NYSPHSAA Indoor Track and Field State Championships at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island.

SYRACUSE — When top-seeded Weedsport erased Cooperstown's hard-earned, six-point halftime lead early in the third quarter, the Hawkeyes leaned on the little things to regain the momentum.

SYRACUSE — Cooperstown looked well on its way to a second consecutive boys basketball section title, before three whistles in the third quarter left a 6-foot-9-inch hole in its defense.

CORTLAND — Unatego is nothing if not consistent.

ALBANY — While zero local wrestlers left the 2020 NYSPHSAA Wrestling Championships with a gold medal, they all took home something possibly even more valuable from the Times Union Center: the chance to try again next year.

Unatego’s Jacob Haqq will enter the NYSPHSAA Indoor Track and Field Championships as the favorite in the triple jump, leading a group of five local athletes competing in seven events at the meet.

ONEONTA — They say it’s hard to beat the same team three times in the same season. It’s even harder when the team is known for relentless full-court pressure.

ONEONTA — A 32-point second half pushed second-seeded South Kortright past No. 3 Franklin, 50-29, in a Section IV Class D girls basketball semifinal at SUNY Oneonta’s Dewar Arena, Wednesday, March 4.

Third-seeded Unatego got 16 points from Meghan Perry, beating No. 2 seed Deposit/Hancock for the first time in three tries, 45-42, in a Section IV Class C girls basketball semifinal Wednesday, March 4, at SUNY Cortland.

 ONEONTA — Melanie Hoyt had a game-high 17 points as No. 4 Stamford upended topseed Cherry Valley-Springfield, 57-45, in a Section IV Class D girls basketball semifinal Wednesday, March 4, at SUNY Oneonta’s Dewar Arena.