Pat Rothdeutsch

Four wins in five games for Centre County high school football teams in Week 1 was not bad. Bellefonte, Penns Valley, Bald Eagle Area and State College all came through with victories, with the lone exception being a Philipsburg-Osceola loss to West Branch. And, even the Mounties looked to be on their way…

More than one knowledgeable football forecaster has said that losing all-everything running back Saquon Barkley to the NFL might actually open up the Penn State offense. The thinking goes that teams will no longer have to concentrate so intensely on stopping Barkley and therefore will open up and play more “honest” defenses. That should…

All five Centre County High School football teams will be in action Friday, Aug. 24. If that seems unusually early, it is, yet here is the lineup, nonetheless: ■ Mifflin County (2-8) at State College (10-3) State College, 7 p.m. The State College Little Lions will open the season with local Mid Penn…

It was difficult to determine when the Blanchard Bees began to celebrate along the way to their CCBL championship-clinching, 8-3 win over Clarence on Aug. 15. It might have been after the very first inning when they took a quick three-run lead. After all, with fireballer Kenny Heverly on the mound, not many teams…

The new guys on the block from Blanchard will have their shot at Centre County Baseball League gold. After rejoining the league just this year, the young and very surprising Bees outlasted Howard 5-0 in the fifth game of the semifinal series against the Hawks on Aug. 5 at Blanchard. The win closed…

From the miserable weather, to the defending champion Clarence Mounties’ first playoff loss in two years, to a last-inning, game-saving rally by the Howard Hawks, the 2018 County Baseball League playoffs so far have been anything but run-of-the-mill. And, as both semifinal series stand at 2-1 with a do-or-die fourth game on tap, there…

With a very successful and unpredictable 2018 regular season in the books, it’s not surprising that the Centre County Baseball League’s playoffs began with two of the four lower seeds winning games in the first round of playoff games July 15. Lower seeds Howard and Spring Mills both came through with impressive victories on…

PHILIPSBURG — They are not really part of an army, and they are not really worms, but Pseudaletia unipuncta,  true armyworms, can cause major damage to grass, field and forage crops, vegetables and ornamental plants nonetheless. Just ask P-O High School and the Spike Island Pirates. According to the Utah State University Extension,…