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WPIAL Week Ten Friday Night HighLights
November 4, 2012
Call it what you want...the postseason, the second season, this big dance or the Highway to Heinz. Whatever you want to call it, there is no question the WPIAL Football Playoffs are Primetime. Here are the players that shined the brightest on the first night on the grand stage.Tyler Roth - Mount LebanonThere was a lot of excitement about Butler making the WPIAL football playoffs for the first time since 1998. However their stay in the postseason was short and not so sweet thanks to the aerial attack by Tyler Roth and Mount Lebanon. Roth hit on 20 of 27 passes for 288 yards and a pair of touchdown tosses as the Blue Devils blew away the Golden Tornado 31-7 in a Class AAAA opening round matchup.Thomas Woodson - GatewayPerry Dethrones University Prep in OT for City League Football Crown
November 3, 2012
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2012 WPIAL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: The Highway to Heinz First Round Scores
November 2, 2012
The 2012 journey on the Highway to Heinz began Friday with 16 teams in each of the four classifications ready to fight for gridiron gold. When all was said in the done in the opening round, there were no shockers as the field of 64 was cut in half to 32 teams. Here are all of the final scores from the First Round of the 2012 WPIAL Football Playoffs.WPIAL CLASS AAAA First Round:North Allegheny Tigers 42 - Altoona Mountain Lions 14 (MSA)Bethel Park Black Hawks 31 - McKeesport Tigers 20 (MSA)Seneca Valley Raiders 50 - Hempfield Spartans 20 (MSA)Mount Lebanon Blue Devils 31 - Butler Golden Tornado 7 (MSA)Gateway Gators 35 - Peters Township Indians 19 (MSA)Scholastic Notebook – 11/02/2012
District College Football Preview for Saturday, November 3
November 1, 2012
The focus this week heads to the city of Erie to see who will win the PSAC West and face Shippensburg in next week's State Championship Game.Cal travels to Mercyhurst with both of those teams having a shot at the crown, while a few blocks away IUP meets Gannon, the Crimson Hawks are also battling for the title.The Steel City Showdown takes place in Moon Township as Duquense and Robert Morris meet, the PAC still has 2 more weeks of conference play.Here are previews of ALL the games, including 2 heard here on the Network:Chicks Picks – WPIAL First Round
Big Game Hunting – WPIAL First Round
October 31, 2012
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The Highway to Heinz officially opens for the 2012 WPIAL football postseason this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We have ALL 32 WPIAL First Round football playoff games starting with the MSA Sports Pregame Show and concluding with the one and only MSA Sports/WPIAL High School Football Scoreboard Show. We also have eight District 6 high school football games on Friday concluding with the D-6 Scoreboard Show, plus we have college football, the WPIAL boys and girls Soccer Semifinals and Championships, the WPIAL Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Championships, the WPIAL Field Hockey Championships, women’s college volleyball, the start of the 2012-2013 college basketball season and This Week in the WPIAL hits the road ALL this week here at MSAsports.netWPIAL Football Plays of the Week – Week Nine
October 30, 2012
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October 28, 2012
OK, let's clear the air on what the WPIAL Football steering committee will do on Monday. They will NOT rank the teams, they will seed them. Big Difference. They attempt to determine the top 2, then the top 4 and then the top 8 teams in each classification.However in football, sometimes their hands are tied based on home field advantage for the top 8 seeds. For example, you could make the argument that Neshannock is the fourth best team in Class A. But you can't seed the Lancers in the top eight because they are on the road with an 8-1 record after tie-breaker points and head-to-head gave the top two spots in the Class A Big 7 Conference to Sto-Rox and Rochester.So sometimes the committee has to be creative. Again, it is NOT a straight 1 through 16 rank.WPIAL Week Nine Saturday’s Scholastic Starz
One team was playing for playoff positioning and a chance to finish as high as third place instead of sixth place while the other was home for one final game playing for pride and bragging rights against an arch-rival. That was the setup for the final Saturday of the 2012 WPIAL football regular season and the lightest day of the season with only two games on the docket. But that didn't slow down these two players from shining bright on a dreary afternoon.Patrick Frey - Trinity2012 WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League Standings & Playoff Clinchings
October 27, 2012
Here are the latest WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League football standings through Week Nine of the 2012 high school football season. Standings are updated after each game on Thursday, Friday and Saturday's scholastic gridiron action each week. Standings can be also seen on each teams football webpage here on the MSA Sports Network.# - Clinched at least a share of the conference title * - Clinched playoff spot x - Eliminated from playoff chase % - Not eligible for WPIAL playoffsWPIAL CLASS AAAA:Northern Eight Conference:WPIAL Week Nine Friday Night HighLights
Some of the games held great meaning in the district playoff picture, others were just playing for pride. Whether there was intense pressure or with very little at stake, here are the Primetime Performances from the final Friday of the regular season in the WPIAL.Patrick Turner - Kiski Area2012 has been the year of the great turn-around for several programs in the WPIAL, including that of Kiski Area. Patrick Turner helped complete the comeback season, rushing for 101 yards and scoring four touchdowns on three runs and a 61-yard fumble return for a score as the Cavalier, 1-8 in 2011, improved to 4-5 this season by clinching a Class AAAA Foothills Conference playoff spot with a 41-14 victory over the host Latrobe Wildcats.WPIAL Week Nine Saturday Football Scores 2012
And then there were two. What was the quietest Saturday of the WPIAL regular season actually doubled because of a water main break on Friday. One game helped determine the final playoff order in the Class AAA Big Nine Conference while the other was a battle for Beaver County pride. Here are the final two results of the regular season, both of which were heard Saturday afternoon here on the MSA Sports Network.WPIAL CLASS AAA Big Nine Conference:Trinity Hillers 31 - Ringgold Rams 30 in Double Overtime (MSA) WPIAL CLASS A Big 7 Conference:Western Beaver Golden Beavers 20 - South Side Rams 15 (MSA)2012 WPIAL FOOTBALL FINAL PLAYOFF PICTURE
The MSA Sports 'Stretch Run' to the 2012 WPIAL football regular season is nearly in the books. All the 64 playoff spots have been secured with the order in all 14 conferences now determined and finalized. Here is the break down and the final order of the playoff teams in each conference.Conference records are in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Northern Eight Conference:* North Allegheny Tigers (7-0) have clinched the conference championship, a First Round home playoff game and the #1 spot* Seneca Valley Raiders (6-1) have clinched a First Round home playoff game and the #2 spot* Pittsburgh Central Catholic Vikings (5-2) have the #3 spot* North Hills Indians (4-3) have the #4 spotScholastic Notebook – 10/26/2012
October 26, 2012
Saying “it’s time to move on,” Chartiers Valley’s Chris Saluga will coached his final game with the Colts Friday night. Saluga has decided to resign as Chartiers Valley’s football coach, effective after Friday night’s game against West Allegheny. Saluga already has handed in his letter of resignation to the school board. “I don’t know how to say it, other than it’s just time for me to move on,” Saluga said. “I’ve done all I can here.”WPIAL and City League Week Nine Friday Football Scores
While the Pittsburgh City League has already reached it's short two-week postseason, the regular season was still the focus for one final Friday in 2012 for the WPIAL. It may have felt like early September outside, but make no mistake about it, it was do or die time for many teams fighting for a conference championships, a home playoff game and a playoff berth. Here are ALL the final scores for a busy Week 9 on the final Friday of October.Games marked with (MSA) can be heard archived on The Network.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Southeastern Conference: Woodland Hills Wolverines 27 - Penn Hills Indians 0 F (MSA)Upper St. Clair Panthers 21 - Mount Lebanon Blue Devils 19 F (MSA)Big Game Hunting for Week Nine 2012
October 24, 2012
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