
Bellwood player gets special surprise
Bellwood-Antis High School junior football player Josh Gongloff is hoping for a victory tonight in the Blue Devils’ annual “Backyard Brawl’’ rivalry game with neighboring Tyrone. What happened at Wednesday’s practice, though, already has him feeling like a winner. “I turned around and was like ‘Whoa,’’’ Gongloff said. “I was crying.’’ Gongloff, a defensive tackle, was the victim of a beautifully-executed misdirection play. His father, Paul, is a sergeant in the National Guard’s 56th Stryker Brigade, which returned to the area this week after a year at Fort Liberty in Iraq. Paul Gongloff, nicknamed “Piper,’’ didn’t return to Blair County with the rest of the unit, though, because he was deployed out of Lewistown. So, the elder Gongloff engineered a little surprise as his son prepared for tonight’s game. “I had no idea. He told everyone to tell me he wouldn’t be coming home until [Thursday],’’ Josh said. “He showed up at practice in our car. I ran over and gave him a big hug.
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Sports in our region lost a good friend earlier this week.
Jesse Isenberg, a fixture on the local sports scene for five decades, died Monday at Somerset Hospital. He was 78.
I first met Jesse in the early 1990s.
PSU Report Card
Following is Philip Cmor’s report card from Penn State’s 38-24 win over Illinois on Saturday night at Beaver Stadium:
POSITION GRADE COMMENT
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