High School Preps-High School Preps: Bellefonte

HERSHEY — Tom Traxler could be on his way to becoming Bellefonte’s first four-time PIAA Class AAA medalist.

UNIVERSITY PARK — At the halfway point of the race, the deficit was over three seconds. At the three-quarter mark, it was still just under two seconds.

ALTOONA — Bellefonte forced Forest Hills into the kind of deliberate, half-court game that it planned for on Wednesday night, but ultimately those plans were foiled by foul trouble, poor shooting and a ferocious Lady Ranger defense.

STATE COLLEGE — There was nothing spectacular about Bellefonte’s workmanlike 54-37 victory over Lewistown on Saturday night, but the Lady Red Raiders had absolutely no problems with that.

STATE COLLEGE — Dan Miller told his players that he wished he could strip their pain away.

Logan Strouse and Zach Tressler are the lone remaining links to the Bellefonte boys’ basketball team’s last playoff season.

BELLEFONTE — As the Bellefonte boys’ basketball team surged to a 5-1 start to the season, senior Billy Nadolsky made a comment that most would have cast aside as wild exaggeration.

BELLEFONTE — Bellefonte’s Kiersten Dovewon the balance beam title while four gymnasts finished in the top 10 in the all-around

BELLEFONTE — Four Bellefonte players scored seven or more points as the Red Raiders ended the regular season with a 58-47 home victory over Central on Friday.

MILL HALL — The Bellefonte girls’ swimming team clinched the Mountain League title and remained undefeated Saturday with a convincing 104-63 victory over Central Mountain.

BELLEFONTE — To Bellefonte boys’ basketball coach Dan Miller, the snow could not have come at a worse time.

The Centre County teams remaining in the District 6 Class AAA team duals faced daunting obstacles on their way to the semifinals.

BELLEFONTE — Billy Nadolsky scored a game-high 26 points and Zach Tressler added 20 on Saturday night as the Bellefonte boys’ basketball team rolled past Clearfield 67-57.

STATE COLLEGE — Although the snow storm isn’t expected to arrive in the area until sometime Friday afternoon, the State College High wrestling team must have felt like they were in a blizzard Thursday night.

BELLEFONTE — When Bellefonte fell behind Tyrone by 10 points in the latter stages of the third quarter, it would’ve been easy to close the book on the Red Raiders.

BELLEFONTE — Mitchell Port and Dan Dreibelbis each recorded falls to power Bellefonte to a 31-25 wrestling victory over Lewistown on Tuesday.

MILL HALL — The Bellefonte boys' basketball team held off a late Central Mountain run to come away with a 48-46 victory Monday.

BELLEFONTE — When Bellefonte and Philipsurg-Osceola met on the basketball court 26 days ago, it served as a bit of a wake-up call for the Lady Red Raiders.

PHILIPSBURG — Billy Nadolsky scored a game-high 21 points Friday as the Bellefonte boys’ basketball team bounced Philipsburg-Osceola 59-33.

BELLEFONTE — One thing was clear during a phone conversation with Dan Miller on Monday night: The Bellefonte boys' basketball coach was down in the dumps.

BELLEFONTE — Bellefonte guardsJerrica Harvey andSara Dayhelped the Lady Raider defense hold visiting Huntingdon to six first-half points in rolling to a 42-18 girls’ basketball win over the Bearcats on Friday.

Mitchell Port overpowered Conemaugh Township's Tanner Cahill with a half nelson during this past weekend's Richland Duals. The move will force nobody to flip past Port's page in Bellefonte's wrestling history book.

WINGATE — Bellefonte was starting to make a bad habit out of building comfortable halftime leads and slowly letting them slip away.

BELLEFONTE — Kierra Vereute won three events and the all-around Wednesday as the Bellefonte gymnastics team defeated St. Marys 127.275-120.575.

Zac Wynkoop tried juggling his young family, job as a social studies teacher, graduate courses and football responsibilities this past fall.

BELLEFONTE — Dan Dreibelbis took a sloppy shot during last month's Powerade Tournament and ended up one sequence short of placing at the difficult event.

Coach: Randy Pollick (sixth season)

BELLEFONTE — This is not the same Bellefonte boys' basketball team that won a single game two seasons ago and then had to scratch out every one of its 10 victories last winter.

BELLEFONTE — In the midst of the final games of last season, when Bellefonte's Billy Nadolsky was doing his best work on the basketball court, Red Raiders coach Dan Miller simply described the junior as an "enigma."