Southwestern’s Gianna Sirianni (2) puts up a shot during Saturday’s Section VI Class B2 quarterfinal girls basketball game against Medina at the Southwestern High School gym. Photo courtesy of Shelly ...

The Southwestern girls basketball team trailed Newfane 57-54 with 33.3 seconds left in the Section VI Class B1 semifinals ...

P-J photo by Scott Kindberg Southwestern girls basketball coach Kay Sirianni said the word of the week for her team was “faith.” As it turned out, there was plenty of that to go around Thursday night.

Sirianni’s high-motor, unrelenting level of ambitiousness came from both nature and nurture, rooted in the southeast corner of Chautauqua County. A 1999 Southwestern High graduate, he had a ...

the son of Fran and Amy Sirianni. His father was the head football coach at Southwestern Central High School in West Ellicott, New York, where Sirianni graduated in 1999. Fran coached there for ...