Pat Rothdeutsch

Let’s take a closer look at the 2016 Bald Eagle Area High School baseball team.

It doesn’t seem right to allow the 2015-16 high school basketball season to move into the record books without a few final words about what turned out to be a very interesting and exciting four months.

A game this frantic was certain to have a wild finish. The State College girls overcame all but one point of a 13-point deficit to Penn Hills in the last three minutes only to see their final chance at victory slip away when the Indians stripped the ball.

The State College Little Lions paid dearly for their slow start against Carlisle in the first round of the PIAA Tournament at Bald Eagle Area High School on March 5. The Little Lions fell behind by 11 points in the first four minutes of the game.

Turn up the heat. That was the decision of the State College boys’ basketball team at halftime of its District 6 AAAA final game against Altoona on Feb. 27 at Mt. Aloysius College.

With possible big distractions floating all around the State College girls’ basketball team, it would have been easy for the Lions to lose focus in their District 6 Class AAAA final against Altoona on Feb. 27 at Mt. Aloysius College. Fortunately, they didn’t.

The State College girls’ and boys’ basketball teams may have taken slightly different routes, but they both arrived at the same place: the District 6 Class AAAA Basketball Finals at Mt. Aloysius College on Saturday, Feb. 27.

District 6 Class AA basketball powers and neighbors Penns Valley and West Branch somehow bypassed each other for much too long a time. That changed during the postseason.

It’s time to set everybody’s record back to 0-0 and get ready for basketball’s second season, otherwise known as the playoffs. This year, there will be six teams representing Centre County in the District 6 Basketball Tournament — Penns Valley boys and girls, State College boys and girls, Bellefonte boys and Philipsburg-Osceola girls.…

WINGATE — Bald Eagle Area seniors Trey Butterworth and Noah Chambers believe they have some form of ESP when they are on a basketball court. That claim is hard to dispute after what happened on the deciding play in BEA’s last-second, 46-43 victory over Bellefonte on Senior Night in Wingate. Down by…