Pat Rothdeutsch

STATE COLLEGE — The State College baseball team could not hold on against Red Land on April 4 and fell 9-5 to the Patriots in Lewisberry. The Little Lions opened the game with four runs in the top of the first inning, but Red Land immediately struck back with three runs in the bottom.…

One of the nicest things about the beginning of a new softball season is that it’s never a very long wait before Philipsburg-Osceola and Bald Eagle Area get together. The two teams, without fail, are always at or near the top of the Mountain League and District 6, and in recent years they have…

WINGATE — The Bald Eagle Area baseball team’s first outing of the 2017 season, against Penns Valley on March 27, was a definitive example of the kinds of things that can happen in early-season high school baseball. Twenty total runs, 17 hits, 29 walks, eight errors and 29 runners left on base. The game…

SPRING MILLS — The young 2017 baseball season has not been very kind so far to the Penns Valley Rams. It seems to be all about timing. In PV’s first outing against Juniata on March 24, the Rams’ hitters struggled with just four hits, and they fell 5-0. Against Bald Eagle Area…

BELLEFONTE — After the Bellefonte baseball team beat Susquehanna Township in the PIAA state championship game at Medlar Field last June, Red Raiders coach Dan Fravel knew there would be a myriad of questions about how the Raiders pulled off such an astounding feat. To him, it was simple. “I always knew there…

The State College boys’ basketball team’s season came to an end after an overtime loss to Butler, 53-50, in a PIAA 6A second-round game held at Pitt-Johnstown on March 16. A win for the Little Lions would have meant at trip to the quarterfinals, against western Pennsylvania favorite Pine-Richland, but SC was held to…

The State College boys’ swimming team came out of the PIAA Swimming and Diving Championships held at Bucknell University on March 18 and 19 impressively standing in third place among the schools in the AAA Division. The results are not final pending the completion of the AAA diving competition, which will be held Sunday,…

STATE COLLEGE — The Butler Golden Tornadoes may only have finished in third place in the WPIAL 6A 1 Division, but they were just beginning to find their game as the regular season ended. Butler entered the WPIAL playoffs as the No. 7 seed, and they had no easy road ahead of them. First,…

WINGATE — Appearing in the PIAA 5A first-round game on March 11 against Trinity was all about beginnings and endings for the Bellefonte girls’ basketball team. The last time the Red Raiders appeared in the state playoffs in 2009, it came at the end of a very successful run for Bellefonte girls’ basketball, and…