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District College Football Recap for Saturday, September 15th
September 16, 2012
Divisional play began in the PSAC and conference play started in the PAC to highlight the matchups in Week 3.Cal maintained their perfect record and high national ranking and Thiel ended a long losing streak.Here are recaps of all the games:Slippery Rock 38 - Gannon 18 The Rock trailed early at home against the Golden Knights to open PSAC West Division play, but took control in the first quarter and claimed the victory over the team that cost them the outright division title one year ago.SRU scored five different ways in the game, a run and a pass play. The Rock also scored on a fake field goal, a kickoff return and a Pick 6.Scholastic Notebook – 08/31/2012
August 31, 2012
The storylines are many as the WPIAL football season kicks off tonight. But is there a storyline with more irony than the Springdale at West Shamokin game? There is the new guy taking over for one of the winningest coaches in WPIAL history, and his first game is against a team with a historical losing streak. Dave Leasure will be in his first game as Springdale’s head coach. He takes over for Chuck Wagner, who retired last season after 47 years as a high school head coach in the WPIAL (Oakmont, Riverview, Fox Chapel and Springdale high schools). Wagner retired with a record of 270-202-11, and the 270 wins are fourth on the all-time list.CTK 2012 – WPIAL A Black Hills Conference Preview
August 23, 2012
The Black Hills Conference already was pretty good. But after the WPIAL’s realignment of conferences for this season, the Hills are alive even more. A few changes to the Black Hills made it a 10-team conference – and also made it stronger. One of the conference’s new members is Bishop Canevin, a team that is always more than competitive. Coach Bob Jacoby’s team was 11-1 last year and made the WPIAL semifinals. Monessen, which always has some talented players, moved into the Black Hills from the Tri-County South. California and Imani Christian also are new additions to the league. California comes from the Tri-County South while this is Imani’s first year in the WPIAL.CTK 2012 – WPIAL AAA Big Nine Conference Preview
August 17, 2012
The Keystone Conference and its futility in the postseason made the conference an easy object of many jokes over the past decade. But you can’t knock the Keystone Conference this year. Why? Because it’s gone. With the new WPIAL alignment, there are only three conferences in Class AAA now instead of four. The teams that were in the Keystone Conference were absorbed into the Big Nine and Greater Allegheny conferences. The Big Nine loses Chartiers Valley, South Park and McGuffey. Chartiers Valley moved to the Parkway Conference while South Park and McGuffey dropped to Class AA.Scholastic Notebook – 06/22/2012
June 22, 2012
Joe Dunn was known as one of the good guys among WPIAL basketball coaches. But that fraternity is now minus one good guy. Dunn resigned as Trinity High School’s boys coach last week. He wouldn’t rule out returning to coaching someday, but for now, he wants to spend more time with his family. Dunn and his wife have two daughters and a son. Dunn has been coaching for 26 years and had other successful coaching stints at Mount Pleasant and Seton-LaSalle. Dunn became pretty good at taking down programs and turning them into more than respectable. He did it at Mount Pleasant and he did it at Trinity, where he was coach since 2001.PIAA Baseball Quarterfinals Recaps for Thursday, June 7th
June 8, 2012
District 7 had eight baseball teams put up a 'W' in round one. With a couple of head-to-head matchups, there was a chance to have as many as six teams play in next weeks PIAA Semifinals. Instead, only two remain alive for state gold. Here are recaps from all six games on a tough day for D-7.A special thanks to Mark Schaas for his help on these recaps.PIAA CLASS AAAA Quarterfinals:WPIAL Players and Alum Selected in 2012 MLB Draft
June 6, 2012
After a quiet first day, six current WPIAL seniors and alums were selected in Day Two of the 2012 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, three of which were picked by the 'hometown' Pittsburgh Pirates. Here is a rundown of area high school players who have the chance to turn pro after being selected Wednesday afternoon.* JORDAN STERANKA (6'01" 205-lbs DOB: 11/14/89) - Former Mount Lebanon Blue Devils and current third baseman from Penn State University selected in 21st Round with the 646th overall pick by the PITTSBURGH PIRATESWPIAL Softball Playoff Recaps for Wednesday, May 16th
May 16, 2012
Ten more games were played on Wednesday in the opening round of the 2012 WPIAL Softball Playoffs with six Class AAA and four Class AA Round One matchups. Here are recaps from half of those games, including a pair of wins by MSA Sports Hometown Broadcasts teams.A special thanks to Josh Rowntree, Mike Azadian, Bob Gregg, Jess Levo and Jason Tennant for their help on these recaps.WPIAL CLASS AAA FIRST ROUND:
Bethel Park Edges Rival Peters Township for Penguins Cup AAA Title
March 24, 2012
The turnaround is complete.Zach Volzer scored with just 1:56 to play, lifting #6 Bethel Park (18-7-1) to their historic 7th PIHL Penguins Cup title, defeating #5 Peters Township (15-6-3) 2-1 Saturday at CONSOL Energy Center.After starting the season 3-7-1, Bethel Park rattled off 15 straight wins, with many of them coming by only one goal.After a scoreless first period, Bethel Park would strike first, as Derek Lesnak would knock in his second goal of the postseason at the 4:40 mark of the second period, making it 1-0 Black Hawks.Peters Township would not wait long to respond, as Trevor Recktenwald would net his 4th goal of the playoffs, evening the score at 1-1.The score would remain ties until Volzer’s goal, as he would take a pass from Lesnak and riffle a shot by Indians’ goaltender Brian Baker, making it 2-1.That was all Bethel Park would need, fending off a furious attack in the final two minutes by Peters Township.2012 PIHL Penguins Cup High School Hockey CLASS AAA Blog
It's championship time, so that means it's MSA Sports blog time! Sure, we are the only place to listen to all three PIHL Penguins Cup Championship Games live (and archived), but if you don't have the time and want a quick update on the happenings of the high school hockey finals all day long from the CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh.CLASS AAA CHAMPIONSHIP: #5 Peters Township Indians vs. #6 Bethel Park BlackhawksBethel Park now has 7 Penguins Cup Championships, the 2nd most out of any PIHL team (Meadville).FINAL SCORE: Bethel Park 2, Peters Township 1.Empty net for Peters Township! 52 seconds to go. GOAL! With just 1:56 to go, Zach Volzer's shot from the point redirects off a Peters player and goes in, making it 2-1 Bethel Park.A couple of penalties each way, but still no scoring. Remains a 1-1 game. 8 minutes to go.PIAA Has A New Leader
March 23, 2012
The PIAA Board of Control announced this morning that Dr. Robert Lombardi will replace Bradley Cashman as executive director of the PIAA, at the end of Cashman's term.Cashman announced his retirement last year and the board narrowed the search down to two candidates, who were interviewed this morning. Lombardi has been with the PIAA since 1988 and oversees several championship events. He is also responsible for the PIAA officials convention, held in August and works with the PIAA's registered sports officials.
WPIAL Softball Realignment for 2013 and 2014 Seasons
March 20, 2012
The WPIAL Board of Control has approved the new realignment for the 2013 and 2014 seasons. Here is a breakdown of each section in all four classifications for the next two years of District 7 softball.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Section 1: Connellsville Falcons Franklin Regional Panthers Hempfield Spartans Kiski Area Cavaliers Latrobe Wildcats Norwin Knights Penn-Trafford WarriorsWPIAL CLASS AAAA Section 2: Allderdice Dragons Gateway Gators McKeesport Tigers Oakland Catholic Eagles Penn Hills Indians Plum Mustangs Woodland Hills WolverinesCLASS AAAA Section 3: Butler Golden Tornado Fox Chapel Foxes North Allegheny Tigers North Hills Indians Pine-Richland Rams Seneca Valley Raiders Shaler Titans
