By Kenny Varner

BELLEFONTE – It was an offensive explosion Tuesday night at Rogers Stadium as the Bellefonte Red Raider boys soccer team scored early and often and never looked back as they defeated Penn Cambria 8-1 in a game that was put in mercy rule action.

The Red Raiders exploded for six first half goals.

Bellefonte outshot the Panthers 25.- 7 and also held the advantage in corners by a 8-5 tally.

The Red Raiders goalie Eli Davis was spectacular in the contest finishing with five saves while Penn Cambria’s goalkeep Cooper Sassey had 11.

“We got a go quick. I think we got our first goal in under a minute and a half,” said Bellefonte coach Scott Martz. “We scored quick and took all that pressure off. One thing I wanted to do tonight was I wanted us to win every ball and every 50/50 ball. I think we did that tonight. We passed the ball well and we got everybody involved on the offense. Everybody was getting shots on goals. It was really nice to get some of the younger guys in.”

In the starting seconds of the game, the Red Raiders made quite the statement as they squashed an early offensive run at the net for the Panthers and reversed the field and put the ball downfield.

Seconds later, Conelle Stabinger hit a blast that finished as an unassisted, goal at 39:26.

The Red Raiders continued to pin Penn Cambria down in their own end.

Less than six minutes from the first Red Raiders goal, the home team struck again.

Pushing down deep in the back-third, John Servant scored on a cross pass from Stabinger at 33:19, making it a 2-0 contest.

Bellefonte wasn’t done yet.

Before the clock dipped under 30 minutes to play Stabinger scored his second on a pass from Aidan Reed, 30:52.

The Bellefonte defense refused to allow a breakaway as the ball sent back up field into the Wesley Cook foot. Cook found the net scoring on an unassisted goal at 21:16.

Just before anyone blinked, Bellefonte’s Jamin Ondrasik got on the board as well on and unassisted, blast at 19:10.

The hits kept coming for the Raiders as Gage Rankin made it 6-0 lead as he posted an unassisted, 7:39.

In the Second half, Bellefonte once again continued its dominance as

Stabinger scored from Servant, at 27:54.

Rounding out the Red Raider goals was Ollie Thornburg as he blasted a shot past the Panthers goalie at 2:53.

The Panthers refused to go away without a fight. Nick Marshall put his team on the board blasting an unassisted, goal at 20:17.

Bellefonte 8, Penn Cambria 1

PC  0  1 – 1

BE   6 2 – 8

Scoring

First half

Bellefonte – Conelle Stabinger unassisted, 39:26.

BE – John Servant from Stabinger, 33:19.

BE – Stabinger from Aidan Reed, 30:52.

BE – Wesley Cook unassisted., 21:16.

BE – Jamin Ondrasik unassisted, 19:10.

BE – Gage Rankin unassisted, 7:39.

Second half

BE – Stabinger from Servant, 27:54.

BE – Ollie Thornburg unassisted, 2:53.

PC – Nick Marshall unassisted, 20:17.

Shots on goals: BE – 25. PC – 7,

Corners: BE –    8. PC –  5.

Saves – Eli Davis ( Bellefonte )  5, Cooper Sassey (Penn Cambria)11.