Football
50 Year Drought Ends as Allderdice Wins City League Football Championship
November 5, 2017
Finally — the drought is over for Allderdice. The Dragons won their first Pittsburgh City League football title since 1967 and only the second overall by dominating Brashear, 35-7, Saturday afternoon at Cupples Stadium. Quarterback Azi Humber threw for 106 yards, and senior receiver Raquan Caldwell earned the Grayson MVP award with three touchdowns, while […]
WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week Ten
The lights are always brighter in November. The nerves are always higher on The Highway to Heinz. The stakes are always bigger on The Road to Robert Morris. With those things all coming into play, the WPIAL raised the curtain on the 2017 WPIAL Football Playoffs on Friday with 31 of 32 Quarterfinals and First […]
WPIAL/City League Week Ten Saturday Football Scores
November 4, 2017
For the first time in a decade, there was a Saturday afternoon postseason game on opening weekend of the WPIAL football playoffs. As a tri-champion in the Class 1-A Eastern Conference, Imani Christian earned the right to host a playoff game in Round One, and while they did not play at the cozy confines of […]
WPIAL Football Playoffs Quarterfinals/First Round Recaps
The curtain rose on the 2017 WPIAL Football Playoffs on Friday and one a night where they usually isn’t much drama, there were plenty of tight games that eventually turned one-sided and down to the wire contests in Quarterfinals and First Round contests alike. Blowouts or thrillers, the tradition continues with recaps from all 32 […]
WPIAL Week Ten Friday Football Scores
November 3, 2017
Chilly, crisp, damp…those are words you can use to describe November Friday night football. Oh, and there is one more you can add…ELECTRIC. November Friday football means Playoff high school football. There are no mathematical equations to figure out, no conference titles at stake, no scoreboard watching and putting your hopes in the hands of […]
Chicks Picks – Week Ten – 2017
Welcome to Week 10 of the high school football season. This week, as we wrap up the regular season and move into the playoffs, Chick’s Picks recalled the old quote, “As one door closes, another opens.” She remembered her time, many years ago, as an intern under The Boss. The WPIAL football regular season was […]
Big Game Hunting – Week Ten
November 2, 2017
With the regular season concluded and the playoffs beginning in less than 48 hours, every game becomes a big game. With that in mind, this week’s installment of Big Game Hunting will try to hone in on a particularly intriguing battle in each of the six classifications. With temperatures finally dropping this week, the quarterfinals […]
WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Nine 2017
October 31, 2017
It’s hard to believe, but the 2017 WPIAL regular season has already drawn to a conclusion. Before the focus turns to the postseason, though, let’s take a look back at the top plays from the final week of the campaign. This week’s collection includes a pair of scores in the final minutes to hand the […]
2017 WPIAL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS
October 30, 2017
A year ago in the first season of six district champions in high school football, Pittsburgh Central Catholic, West Allegheny, Thomas Jefferson, Beaver Falls, Steel Valley and Clairton claimed gold. All but Beaver Falls are back into the postseason as the 3-week trip on the Highway to Heinz and the 4-week journey on the Road […]
TribLive High School Sports Network Top Ten – Football Playoff Seeding
October 29, 2017
In this mad, mad world where social media rules and everybody’s opinion is law, we keep a long standing tradition going of throwing our two cents to the WPIAL football steering committee as they prepare to unveil the 2017 district gridiron brackets on Monday. You can hear the WPIAL Football Playoff Pairings Show Monday at […]
This Week on the TribLive High School Sports Network – 10/29/2017
We open up the postseason ride on The Highway to Heinz and The Road to RMU while we crown district champions in three other high school fall sports this week here on the new TribLive High School Sports Network. We kick off our exclusive coverage of the 2017 WPIAL Football Playoffs with the Playoff Pairings […]
WPIAL Saturdays Scholastic Starz – Week Nine
While the final Friday of the regular season in district high school football was spectacular weather wise, the final Saturday was, well, not so much. Chilly, blustery and rainy was what eight teams had to play through to close the curtain on Week Nine. But while the weather conditions were bleak to say the least, […]
WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week Nine 2017
October 28, 2017
Mother Nature must love her high school football. After a chilly and wet week of weather, it was another glorious Friday from the scholastic gridirons weather wise. There were only nine WPIAL football playoff spots up for grabs heading into Friday of Week Nine, but there were plenty of playoff positions, some home field advantage […]
WPIAL Week Nine Saturday Football Scores 2017
Last call…for regular season district high school football! Two Class 1-A conference games joinrf with a pair of non-conference frays to close out the 2017 regular season in muddy style. Both of the conference games impacted the final playoff order in Single-A, but very little else was at stake outside of momentum heading into the […]
FINAL WPIAL Football Playoff Qualifiers
October 27, 2017
All 64 teams are now set for a postseason cruise on the Highway to Heinz or the Road to Robert Morris heading into the final day of the regular season. Here is the final WPIAL football playoff picture with the order of the postseason teams from each conference. 6-A, 5-A and 4-A – Top 4 […]
WPIAL/City League Week Nine Friday Football Scores
Here are the Week Nine final scores. The curtain has closed on the 2017 WPIAL regular season for all but 8 teams, who are still waiting for their Saturday gridiron action. 6-A Northern Seven Conference: Pine-Richland Rams 48 – North Allegheny Tigers 28 (F) Pittsburgh Central Catholic Vikings 21 – Penn Hills Indians 0 (F) […]
Chicks Picks – Week Nine – 2017
October 26, 2017
Welcome to Week 9 of the high school football season. It’s that time of year again when the fall colors abound. At a quick glance, we can see the many shades of orange, red, yellow, and yes, pink. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Once upon a time, the color pink signified delicacy and femininity. For […]
Big Game Hunting – Week Nine
October 25, 2017
I often think how funny it is to see all the work that goes into figuring out playoff scenarios, especially some of the deep-down tiebreaker stuff. The procrastinator in me just says, “week nine is coming, it will all be sorted right out there, so why bother doing the actual math?” Once again, as it […]
WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Eight 2017
October 24, 2017
Unbelievably, the 2017 football regular season is already nearing a conclusion, as last Friday marked the penultimate week. As the stretch run continued, the playoff picture throughout the WPIAL became much clearer. Several key plays proved instrumental to the outcomes, including a Cinderella team standing tall defensively to close out a wild shootout, a long […]
TribLive High School Sports Network Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/24/2017
Each and every Monday during the regular season, the new TribLive High School Sports Network will rank the Top Ten seven in 6-A and top ten football teams in each of the other five classifications. Here are the rankings following Week Seven of the 2017 high school football season. WPIAL CLASS 6-A WPIAL FOOTBALL TOP […]
