Pat Rothdeutsch

There will be a new breed of coyote roaming the northern reaches of Centre County this summer. They will be, according to Centre County Baseball League president Tony Rider, the Clarence Coyotes, and they will be the newest of seven teams competing for the 2016 CCBL Championship.

Bellefonte pitcher Dominic Masullo and Philipsburg’s Josh Earnest battled to a virtual standstill in the two teams’ Mountain League showdown on May 2 in Philipsburg.

For those of you scoring at home, Philipsburg senior Haley Hayward showed up at second base to begin the 10th inning courtesy of international softball tiebreaker rules.

The 2016 NFL draft is in the books, and all 32 of the league’s teams are already beginning to process and evaluate their hauls.

It is very difficult to say where Bellefonte softball opponents least like to encounter junior Tara Baney — on the mound or in the batter’s box. The fact is that in either place, Baney can do some serious damage.

In the top of the fifth inning of Bald Eagle Area’s baseball game at Bellefonte on April 18, Eagle third baseman Hunter Eminhizen sent a hard ground ball up the middle against Red Raider pitcher Dominic Masullo.

They are young, fast, accurate, competitive and were fully on display for the first time in Penn State’s annual Blue-White game at Beaver Stadium on April 16.

Chambersburg center fielder Manning Brookens lined a one-out double in the fourth inning of the Trojans’ game against State College on April 8 at Community Field.

The Philipsburg-Osceola baseball team has already shown this season that it can pound teams into submission, but how will the Mounties stack up against upcoming Mountain League rivals with top-tier pitching? A 5-0 win should be a good indicator.

Because of a scheduling vagary, new Bald Eagle Area softball coach Don Lucas squared off with his old team, the Penns Valley Rams, in the opening game of 2016 for BEA on March 29 in Milesburg.