{"id":178516,"date":"2026-04-28T19:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178516\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:17:08","slug":"erie-high-celebrates-softball-coach-of-50-years-with-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178516\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie High celebrates softball coach of 50 years with surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local softball coach is being celebrated tonight for his long-time commitment to his school and athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Ron Niebauer has been coaching varsity softball at Erie\u2019s Public Schools for 50 years, leading his teams to 12 championships in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Before the first pitch at Erie High versus Titusville, the Erie School District and players held a special celebration to honor him with kind words, gifts and a cake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime flies when you\u2019re having fun. And for 50 years, I had so much fun,\u201d he said. \u201cI love the game of softball. I played it when I was young and I played it when I was old. I just wanted to teach the game to the girls to enjoy the game that I always enjoyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach Niebaur also taught within the district for 37 of those 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local softball coach is being celebrated tonight for his long-time commitment to his school and athletes. Coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,28335,137,3499,13842,79714],"class_list":["post-178516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-high","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-school-district","tag-public-schools","tag-varsity-softball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}