LIVE BLOG: Updates, scores, photos & video from Week 4 of Centre County high school football
While Happy Valley is preparing for Penn State’s prime-time White Out game against Auburn on Saturday, Centre County’s five high school football teams are set to take the field Friday night.
Penns Valley (1-2) will be hosting Philipsburg-Osceola (1-2), while Bald Eagle Area (2-1) will be heading to Huntingdon (0-3) for another Mountain League matchup. State College (2-1) is hosting Mid Penn Commonwealth foe Chambersburg (2-1), and Bellefonte (1-2) will be traveling to Hollidaysburg (1-2).
Here’s what has happened so far:
Philipsburg-Osceola 20, Penns Valley 35 (final)
Chambersburg 22, State College 38 (final)
An 80-yard pass from QB Finn Furmanek to T.J. Yoder set up a 7-yard touchdown run from Owen Yerka to put State College on the board, 7-0, after Quinn Murphy’s PAT was good with 9:07 left in the first quarter.
Chambersburg responded with a big 72-yard pass play for a touchdown. The PAT was no good, giving the Little Lions the 7-6 edge at 8:19.
Murphy kicked a 34-yard field goal with 7:47 left in first half to extend State College’s lead to 10-6.
A pick-6 from Branden Price gave the Little Lions some more breathing room, extending their lead to 17-6 after the made PAT.
Furmanek hits Donte Nastasi to give State College an 18-point lead.
The game pauses as State College senior Jashaun Green goes down with injury.
Furmanek runs up the middle for his fourth rushing TD of the season to make it 31-6.
Chambersburg’s Rhaigeon Parker took a kickoff return 96 yards to the house. Parker then caught the two-point conversion to make it 31-14.
Furmanek hit Price for a 50-yard touchdown at 2:02 left in the third. The TD was Price’s third of the season (his first on offense) and Furmanek’s seventh passing TD of the year.
State College’s defense gave up another big pass play, as Chambersburg closes the gap to 38-22 with a two-point conversion.
Bald Eagle Area 42, Huntingdon 0 (final)
A 20-yard TD pass from Carson Nagle extended the Eagles’ lead to 14-0.
Nagle connected with Owen Irvin for a 62-yard touchdown play to extend BEA’s lead to 14-0.
Chase Thompson ran it in for BEA’s third touchdown.
Offensive lineman Chandler Burns ran in for another Bald Eagle touchdown
Bellefonte 0, Hollidaysburg 41 (final)
Hollidaysburg QB Jake McGinnis hit Avery Sloan for a 16-yard pitch and catch to give the Tigers the 7-0 lead.
Zander Bainey finds a hole and runs 56 yards to the house for his third rushing TD of the season, giving the Tigers a 14-0 lead.
A 26-yard TD run by Chase Fox at 9:56 in the second quarter gave Hollidaysburg the three-TD lead.
McGinnis found Caden DeLattre for an 11-yard touchdown to extend the Tigers’ lead to 28-0 with 3:40 left in the half.
After four Tigers touchdowns, the half ended 28-0.
Fox punched in a 3-yard TD run in the third quarter to make it 35-0 and start the running clock.
This story was originally published September 17, 2021 at 5:50 PM.