High School Preps-High School Preps: Bald Eagle Area

It wasn't quite the drama of belting a game-winning home run in a district title game, but a stroke of the pen Wednesday afternoon was pretty exciting for Bellefonte High School softball standout Erica Pooler, too.

WINGATE — Bald Eagle Area kept things simple on Friday night against visiting Lewistown.

HUNTINGDON — Anybody stubborn enough to assert a strong leg can’t dominate a football game hasn’t watched Huntingdon’s Andrew Cerrett.

WINGATE — It may have been 33 degrees and snowing at Alumni Field when Bald Eagle Area hosted undefeated Central on Friday, but for Lucas Runk and the Scarlet Dragon spread offense, it was 75 and sunny.

HYDE — It may have been Homecominig for Clearfield, but it was a coming out party for Brock Bathurst and his Bald Eagle Area teammates.

WINGATE — For a little while at least, bigger was better here Friday night.

WINGATE — Bellefonte rallied from a 12-6 deficit in the fifth set to slip past Bald Eagle Area 21-25, 25-17, 18-25, 25-15, 16-14 Thursday night in Mountain League girls’ volleyball.

MILL HALL — For a fleeting moment, Bald Eagle Area looked like it was on the verge of making a comeback.

WINGATE — Caitlin Foresman and Taylor Parsons each notched two goals Wednesday as the Bald Eagle Area girls’ soccer team bounced Tyrone 7-0.

BELLEFONTE — Central’s offense works its way into wacky positions.

ST. MARYS — Missed chances usually cost teams a shot at a win, and it wasn't any different for Bald Eagle Area on Friday, as it fell to St. Marys 20-14.

Head coach: Jason Bair (10th year)

Assistant coaches: Dan Walter

Last season: 9-10, lost to top-seeded Lewistown in first round of the District 6 Class AA playoffs

The skinny: Graduation has taken a lot of experience from the Lady Eagles, including three-year starting keeper Megan Ebling and four-year starters Margaret Rougeux and Rebecca Crust.

Head coach:Larry Campbell (third season)

WINGATE — Bald Eagle Area discovered how to win close games last year, defeating Centre County rivals Philipsburg-Osceola, Penns Valley and Bellefonte to qualify for the District 6 Class AA playoffs.

WINGATE — Bulldozers plow through once-green grass surrounding Bald Eagle Area Junior/Senior High School.

It’s one thing to say you’re going to equal the accomplishments of the best team in school history, it’s another thing to pull it off.

SHIPPENSBURG — You don’t see many job interviews during a state championship softball game, but Bald Eagle Area coach Dave Breon needed to get some answers.

SHIPPENSBURG — It was the bottom of the fifth inning and Brandywine Heights had the bases loaded with one out in the PIAA Class AA championship game against Bald Eagle Area.

By this morning the PIAA gold medals won by the Bald Eagle Area girls’ softball team are hanging in places of honor in the rooms of the recipients, replacing the silver medals that have hung there for the past year as a reminder of how close they had come a year ago.

The Lady Eagles have won the state title again.

Maybe déja vu isn’t the correct term, but Bald Eagle Area softball coach Dave Breon sure has a strange feeling he’s been here before.

Bald Eagle Area softball catcher Brooke Klinefelter hobbled out of a dugout after a recent playoff game wearing about as much ice as Frosty the Snowman.

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Bald Eagle Area softball pitcher Megan Shaw is so stone-faced that she could have a spot on Mount Rushmore. You'd be likely to see more emotion from the carvings of George Washington or Teddy Roosevelt.

Only one opponent stands between the Bald Eagle Area softball team and a return trip to the PIAA Class AA championship game in Shippensburg, but that foe casts a big shadow.

The Bald Eagle Area softball team will walk onto a familiar field as it tries to take the final step in returning to the state championship game.

Most folks who have played a sport have heard it uttered, "It's better to be lucky than good," after catching a break.

ALTOONA — Bald Eagle Area will attempt to win its third straight District 6 Class AA baseball title next year.

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Maybe it was caused by a post P-O letdown, a hangover from Saturday's prom or a steady diet of tough pitches from Bishop Canevin's Jamie Kertes, but the Bald Eagle Area softball team didn't open the PIAA Class AA playoffs hitting on all cylinders Monday.