Sports

UNIVERSITY PARK — A proposal by Major League Baseball would drastically change the landscape of the minor league baseball system and the State College Spikes could be one of the teams impacted according to a New York Times report. The report lists 42 teams in the lower level of minor league baseball that…

BOALSBURG — Hey Boalsburg! Are you ready for some softball? This week, Saint Joseph’s Catholic Academy distributed a press release noting softball will now be offered as scholastic sport beginning this spring. St. Joe’s new director of athletics and student activities, Dr. Justin Rodkey, said he is looking forward to…

State College and Bald Eagle Area came through with impressive victories in their respective first-round PIAA tournament games last weekend, although Bellefonte ran into a very good Cathedral Prep team and lost by a score of 49-21 at Clarion University. Prep was on fire from the very beginning as it ran out to early…

Three Centre County high school football teams captured District 6 Championships over the weekend even though a state record was set in Penn Valley’s 2A semifinal contest with talented Richland. The 49-21 loss ended the Rams’ season (10-2) but not before quarterback Aaron Tobias set the Pennsylvania state record for touchdown passes in…

SIDMAN — The Bald Eagle Area girls’ soccer team had its best season in the past decade come to a end on Nov. 9 with a PIAA, 2A quarterfinal loss to North Catholic, 5-0. The team finished with a 20-2-1 record for the season and had its first winning campaign since 2009. …

UNIVERSITY PARK — So many of the signature moments in the first 10 years of Cael Sanderson’s tenure as head coach of the Penn State wrestling team have come courtesy of the stars. As the curtain raised on the start of Sanderson’s 11th season Nov. 10 in front of a Rec Hall sell-out crowd…

WINGATE — One of Centre County’s longest tenured football officials has completed his final season. Larry Dyke, who just wrapped-up his 50th year of officiating scholastic football in Centre County, ruled over his final game on Thursday, Oct. 24, in the same place he began. “I know it is time…

HERSHEY — It was a one-two finish for Penns Valley’s Colton Sands and Brendan Colwell in the PIAA state championship cross country race, held Nov. 2 in Hershey. Sands kicked it into high-gear during the last quarter mile of the course to finish in first place and capture the gold medal with a time…

HERSHEY — The girls’ cross country runners of St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy may not have qualified for the Class A state championship meet as a team, but they won it anyway — perhaps in the most unconventional way possible. As a team, St. Joe’s failed to place first or second at the earlier District…

Four of the local Centre County high school football teams have qualified for the 2019 playoffs and will be starting their “second seasons” beginning this week. All four, interestingly, are in different divisions and all four will face their own set of problems on the way to…