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Kaleb Stamm wins CDT
Athlete of the Week
BY JON SAUBER
jsauber@centredaily.com
Editor’s note: The Centre
Daily Times will publish a weekly
poll on Monday mornings for read-
ers to choose the high school Ath-
lete of the Week for the previous
week of competition. The winner
will be announced on Sundays.
Check for the poll at CentreDaily-
.com.
Indiana quarterback Michael Penix Jr. reaches for the end zone for the two-point conversation to beat Penn State 36-35 in overtime on Saturday.
PSU FOOTBALL
Opening upset:
Indiana tops
Penn State in OT
BY PARTH UPADHYAYA
pupadhyaya@centredaily.com
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA
When asked earlier this week
about how he’d help his team
shake off the rust from not play-
ing a game in nearly a year, Penn
State head coach James Franklin
said there was “no supplement”
he could give his group to sim-
ulate what a real game would feel
like.
He certainly couldn’t have
expected what came Saturday,
though, when No. 8 Penn State
fell 36-35 to the Indiana Hoosiers
in overtime at Memorial Stadium
in Bloomington.
Penn State struck first, with a
1C
The Centre Daily Times ath-
lete of the week from Oct. 19-23
has been determined by our
readers. Philipsburg-Osceola
running back Kaleb Stamm
earned the honor with 58.24% of
the vote in the poll that ran from
Monday to Friday on
CentreDaily.com.
Stamm led the Philipsburg-
Osceola football team in rushing
in their 35-27 loss to Tyrone last
Friday night. This is his second
13-play, 64-yard drive that was
capped off by a two-yard touch-
down toss from redshirt junior
quarterback Sean Clifford to
junior tight end Pat Freiermuth.
But everything from that point
was downhill for the Nittany
Lions in the first half.
The Nittany Lions turned
things around in the second half,
but ultimately allowed the under-
dog Hoosiers to hang around for
too long.
Clifford finished with 24-of-35
passing for 238 yards, three
touchdowns and two intercep-
tions. He added a team-leading
119 rushing yards on 17 carries.
Penn State is now 0-1 on the
season, while Indiana moves to
1-0.
athlete of the week victory of the
season.
The senior running back was
excellent as a runner for the
Mountaineers in the game and
plowed through defenders
against the Golden Eagles. He
dominated on the ground with 29
carries for 148 yards and finished
the game’s scoring with a 50-
yard receiving touchdown on a
screen.
He’s important in the Moun-
Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford hands off to running back Noah
Cain during the first quarter of Saturday’s game in Bloomington, Ind.
PLAYERS OF THE GAME
QB Sean Clifford and WR
Jahan Dotson: For as bad as
Clifford’s accuracy was in the
first half, he made up for his
mistakes late in the contest. The
6-foot-2, 217-pound quarterback
first did his damage on the
ground — like when he ran for a
35-yard score to end the third
quarter — then made timely
throws to allow the Nittany Lions
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Philipsburg-Osceola’s Kaleb Stamm fights off Central’s Josh Biesinger as
he runs down the field during the game Sept. 25.
taineers’ run-heavy offense and
has been its leader in his final
year of high school.
Stamm was one of five options
in the poll, and finished with 530
votes, 469 more than the second-
place finisher.
ABBY DREY adrey@centredaily.com
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to climb back in the contest.
Junior receiver Jahan Dotson
was also a big reason why Penn
State was able to have a chance
toward the end of the game. He
finished with four catches for 94
yards and had a 60-yard touch-
down grab in the fourth quarter
that gave the Nittany Lions their
first lead since the 7:59 mark of
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ABBY DREY adrey@centredaily.com
Check back Monday for the
athlete of the week poll for Week
7 of the Centre County fall sports
season.
Jon Sauber: (814) 231-6461,
@JonSauber
AFIELD
Another big
black bear
hunting
season
expected
BY MARK NALE
For the CDT
A record 4,653 black bears
were harvested in Pennsylvania
last year — over 300 bears higher
than the previous record of 4,350
set in 2011. And, according to the
Pennsylvania Game Commission,
the opportunity exists for hunters
to set a record again this fall — or
at least have another large har-
vest.
Following two years with rela-
tively light harvests, the bear
population was over 20,000 last
fall. In an effort to cap or reduce
the population, the commission
made numerous changes to the
bear seasons last year. The big-
gest changes were the introduc-
tion of two new October seasons
— a muzzleloader bear season
and a special firearms season for
junior and senior license holders,
active-duty military and certain
disabled persons permit holders.
Those two new seasons, plus an
expanded archery bear season,
contributed to the record bear
harvest.
Hunters liked the expanded
bear hunting opportunities and
purchased a record of more than
202,000 licenses. Hunters shot
1,340 bears during the new sea-
sons, and archery season added
561 bears to the tally. Hunters
harvested 1,629 bruins during the
regular November firearms sea-
son and added 1,117 in the ex-
tended season.
With such a large harvest last
fall, how can the Game Commis-
sion predict the possibility of
another large harvest?
“Pennsylvania bear hunting
has never packed as much wide-
spread opportunity and excite-
ment as it does right now,” Game
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