State High Sports
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Area Volleyball Squads Off to Flying Starts
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A new high school girls volleyball season has been delivered around Centre County, with most teams playing their first match Aug. 29. Among the opening contests was Philipsburg-Osceola’s visit to Penns Valley a few hours after the end of the first day of school in Spring Mills. The Lady Mounties, the state’s No. 1 Class…
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High School Football Season Kicks Off
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All five Centre County high school football season kick off the 2023 season on Friday night.
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State High Teams Shine at PIAA Track and Field Championships
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SHIPPENSBURG — State College Area track and field coach Artie Gilkes has a couple of nicknames for Jesse Myers just to keep him loose. “I like to give him the business sometimes,” Gilkes said. “He just smiles and laughs or comes back with something funny. That lets us know he doesn’t take himself too seriously.”…
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Local School Districts Preparing for First Season of PIAA-Sanctioned Girls Wrestling
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With the May 17 announcement that there will be a PIAA-sanctioned girls wrestling season in 2023-24, Bald Eagle Area, Philipsburg-Osceola and State College are beginning to plan what that season will look like. All three schools had already started a program — BEA in 2021 and P-O and State College this year — but they…
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State High Coach Jane Borden Combines Passion for Tennis, Family on Road to Success
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STATE COLLEGE — If you play serious tennis and you live in Centre County, you’ve crossed paths with Jane Borden. And if you’re serious about tennis and you live in State College, odds are you’ve played for Jane Borden. That probably came well after you’d already met her, though. “I have known Coach Jane for…
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State College, St. Joe’s Set to Begin PIAA Boys Basketball Tournament
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The State College Little Lions and the St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy WolfPack will both be playing in the first round of the PIAA boys basketball tournament, set to begin Friday and Saturday. The Little Lions, after beating Altoona in the District 6, 6A final and then trouncing Erie in the D6-8-10 regional final, will face…
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State College Area Considering Addition of High School Girls Wrestling Team
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State College Area High School could have a girls wrestling team starting with the 2023-24 winter season. The school board will consider a funding request for the team in the 2023-24 budget. If approved, State College would become the the third Centre County school district with a high school girls wrestling program. Bald Eagle Area…
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State High Football 2022: Someday, the 13 Will Outweigh the 1
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State College Area High School’s undefeated football season came to an end on Dec. 3 with a loss to Harrisburg in the state semifinals. As the senior players walked around the field after the game, for most of them the realization that this will be the last football game they played began to take hold.…
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State High Football’s Undefeated Season Ends Following 27-7 Loss to Harrisburg in 6A State Semifinals
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Sometimes when it rains it pours. That was what State College learned on Saturday afternoon falling 27-7 as Harrisburg rattled off 27-straight points in the second half to advance to the PIAA 6A State Finals. The loss gives the Little Lions their first and only defeat of the season. In a game that literally started…
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Unbeaten State High to Battle Harrisburg in PIAA Semis
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In recent years, the State College Little Lions always seemed to end their football season somewhere in the PIAA playoffs against a team from the WPIAL. Not this year. After losing, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12 of its last 13 games against District 7 teams, State College stared down history and dispatched D7’s North…