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2017 WPIAL GIRLS LACROSSE PLAYOFFS
May 16, 2017
Last year, Mount Lebanon won their second Class 3-A title in three years and fifth championship in school history while Blackhawk won Class 2-A gold for the first time in school history. Now both teams are back to defend their crowns and in the bottom half of the brackets in each class. Here are ALL the finals from the First Round on Monday, plus the sites and times for the Quarterfinals on Wednesday in the 2017 WPIAL Girls Lacrosse Playoffs. WPIAL CLASS 3-A Quarterfinals: #1 Fox Chapel Foxes vs #8 Upper St. Clair Panthers AT Fox Chapel High School on Wednesday, May 17th at 7:30pm2017 WPIAL BOYS VOLLEYBALL PLAYOFFS
After an eight year run of titles, 2016 marked a second straight Class 3-A boys volleyball champion that was NOT North Allegheny as Penn-Trafford won gold for the first time in school history, dethroning Fox Chapel. Also last spring, Ambridge saw its four year championship run come to an end as Beaver County Christian also captured a first ever district crown. Here are the matchups for the First Round of the 2017 WPIAL Boys Volleyball Playoffs. WPIAL CLASS 3-A First Round: #1 North Allegheny Tigers - BYE #8 Peters Township Indians vs #9 Hempfield Spartans AT Norwin High School on Tuesday, May 16th at 6:00pm #4 Seneca Valley Raiders - BYE
WPIAL Alum Q&A – Molly Welsh
Although the WPIAL softball playoffs just got under way this week, for many college players, the 2017 season has already drawn to a conclusion. Molly Welsh, who played at both Bethel Park and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in high school, recently wrapped up another successful campaign at Wheeling Jesuit. Welsh is this week's feature for the WPIAL Alum Q&A. Welsh played for the Bethel Park varsity squad as a freshman, and then exploded onto the scene as a sophomore in 2013. In that campaign, the outfielder compiled a batting average of .509, the highest mark in team history. The Black Hawks finished with a record of 10-8, although failed to qualify for the playoffs in Class Quad-A.WPIAL Softball First Round Recaps From Monday, May 15th
Opening day of the district softball playoffs was played with a picture perfect sunny backdrop as play began with Round One in three classifications. There were a couple of surprises and a couple of games that went beyond the standard seven innings to kick start the new expanded edition of the WPIAL Softball Playoffs. Here are the recaps from 6-A, 4-A and 3-A First Round action on Monday, all of which can be heard archived here on MSA Sports. A special thanks to Sean Saputo, Sean Meyers, Lee Mohn, Bob Gregg, Rob McKinney, Lou Rood, Mark Schaas, Randy Gore, Rennie Detore, Johnny Lee, Mike Azadian, Steve Nagler, Nate Regotti and Justin McCauley for their help on these recaps. WPIAL CLASS 6-A First Round:2017 WPIAL SOFTBALL PLAYOFFS
The postseason is underway with results from the opening round in three of the six classifications. With the exceptions of 4-A #11 Elizabeth Forward and 4-A #12 South Fayette. the brackets played out with the higher seeds winning and advancing to Round Two. Here are ALL the results from the First Round on Monday, plus the schedule for openers in 5-A, 2-A and 1-A on Tuesday AND the sites and times for the 6-A, 4-A and 3-A Quarterfinals on Wednesday in the 2017 WPIAL Softball Playoffs. WPIAL CLASS 6-A Quarterfinals: #1 Hempfield Spartans (20-0) vs #9 North Hills Indians (11-9) AT Gateway High School on Wednesday, May 17th at 5:00pm on MSAsports.net
Central Catholic’s Peilert chooses Boston University
May 15, 2017
Sewickley's John Peilert expects a smooth transition to the Boston University men's rowing team. Peilert, a Central Catholic senior, recently committed to the Terriers for
Coaches Corner – Steve Bucci
In this feature titled “Coach’s Corner”, I will be interviewing a different coach every week and asking them questions about their personal life and about coaching. Hopefully their answers will not only shed some light on how they coach their respective teams, but also allow readers to get to know the men behind the fields/courts. This week features head baseball coach Steve Bucci of the South Park Eagles. Coach Bucci also had coaching stints of 3 years at Canon-Mac and one year at Bethel Park. In 2008, he led the Big Macs to a 4A state title, and after losing in the WPIAL title game in 2002 with South Park, he finally captured WPIAL gold with the Eagles in 2013. Let’s take a look inside Coach Bucci’s corner:This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 05/14/2017
May 14, 2017
The final gold rush of the 2016-2017 school year begins with the start of the spring high school sports postseason this week here on the MSA Sports Network. MSA Sports once again has EXCLUSIVE broadcast coverage of the 2017 WPIAL Baseball, WPIAL Softball, WPIAL Lacrosse and WPIAL Boys Volleyball Playoffs which all begin this week, plus the first full week of Frontier League pro baseball continues with Washington Wild Things away and home baseball ALL here at MSAsports.net Monday, May 15th: WPIAL High School Softball Playoffs - Class 6-A First Round: Shaler vs Norwin at 3:00pm on MSAsports.net WPIAL High School Softball Playoffs - Class 6-A First Round: Latrobe vs Mount Lebanon at 5:00pm on MSAsports.netFINAL 2017 WPIAL Baseball Standings
Here are the latest WPIAL baseball standings for the 2017 season...plus all the FINAL teams that have clinched playoff berths. The standings will be updated daily through the regular season. You can follow the high school baseball season with schedules, scores, weekly rankings every Monday and daily game broadcasts here on the MSA Sports Network. The 2017 WPIAL Baseball Playoffs sponsored in part by the Aul Bat Company can be heard ONLY on the MSA Sports Network. The top four teams in each section qualify for the WPIAL playoffs. # - Clinched Section Title * - Clinched Playoff Berth x - Eliminated From Playoff Contention {SET WITH 13 CLASS 6-A PLAYOFF TEAMS}FINAL 2017 WPIAL Softball Standings
Here are the FINAL WPIAL softball standings for the 2017 season...including the FINAL list of teams that have clinched WPIAL postseason berths. The standings will be updated daily through the regular season. You can follow the high school softball season with schedules, scores, weekly rankings every Tuesday and game broadcasts, including another year of the MSA Sports Hometown Softball Program here on the MSA Sports Network. The 2017 WPIAL Softball Playoffs ONLY on the MSA Sports Network will be sponsored by Carlow University. Teams in capital letters are part of the MSA Sports Hometown Softball Program.FINAL 2017 WPIAL Boys Volleyball Standings
Here are the FINAL standings for the 2017 WPIAL Boys Volleyball season...including the latest WPIAL Playoff clinchings. You can follow the WPIAL Boys Volleyball regular season with updated results and standings, plus regular season and postseason broadcasts only here on the MSA Sports Network. Top four teams in each section make the playoffs. If there is a tie for fourth place, head-to-head will be the tiebreaker. If there is a split in the head-to-head, both tied teams make the playoffs. # - Clinched Section Title * - Clinched Playoff Berth x - Eliminated From Playoff Race Only section records are shown. (SET WITH 12 CLASS 3-A PLAYOFF TEAMS)FINAL 2017 WPIAL Lacrosse Standings
Here are the FINAL WPIAL boys and girls lacrosse standings for the 2017 season...including the FINAL list of teams that have clinched playoff spots. The standings will be updated daily through the rest of the regular season. You can follow the high school lacrosse season with schedules and scores along with weekly broadcasts here on the MSA Sports Network. The 2017 WPIAL Boys and Girls Lacrosse Playoffs can be heard ONLY on the MSA Sports Network.2017 WPIAL BOYS BASEBALL PLAYOFFS
May 13, 2017
Last year, Norwin, Chartiers Valley, Riverside and Serra Catholic won WPIAL baseball championships. All four are back with two of them garnering top seeds. But even if they all repeat, there will still be two new champions crowned at Wild Things Park in Washington. The opening round begins Tuesday, May 16th and Wednesday, May 17th. Here are the First Round matchups for the 2017 WPIAL Baseball Playoffs. WPIAL CLASS 6-A First Round: #1 Pine-Richland Rams - BYE #8 Plum Mustangs vs #9 Peters Township Indians AT Fox Chapel High School on Tuesday, May 16th at 4:30pm #4 Bethel Park Black Hawks vs #13 Shaler Titans AT the Burkett Complex in Robinson Township on Tuesday, May 16th at 6:30pmScholastic Notebook – 05/12/2017
May 12, 2017
The weather has been pretty decent for high school sports this spring. At West Allegheny, the spring has been near perfect. But it has nothing to do with the weather. The West Allegheny baseball team and the West Allegheny softball team are enjoying tremendous success. Both teams came close to perfect regular seasons. The West Allegheny softball team was undefeated until the final game of the season when it lost to Chartiers Valley, 4-2. The Indians finished 18-1. By coincidence, the West Allegheny baseball team also finished the regular season 18-1. The baseball Indians lost only to Moon, 9-5, in the regular season.2017 WPIAL BOYS LACROSSE PLAYOFFS
Last year, both North Allegheny in 3-A and Mars in 2-A captured their very first WPIAL boys lacrosse championships. Now both the Tigers and Fightin' Planets are the top-seeds for this years years postseason. Here are the matchups for the First Round of the 2017 WPIAL Boys Lacrosse Playoffs. WPIAL CLASS 3-A First Round: #1 North Allegheny Tigers - BYE #8 Mount Lebanon Blue Devils vs #9 Butler Golden Tornado AT Peters Township High School on Tuesday, May 16th at 6:00pm #4 Upper St. Clair Panthers vs #13 Latrobe Wildcats AT Upper St. Clair High School on Tuesday, May 16th at 8:00pm #5 Bethel Park Black Hawks vs #12 Fox Chapel Foxes AT Bethel Park High School on Tuesday, May 16th at 8:00pmMSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Baseball Playoff Teams – 05/11/2017
May 11, 2017
Call it ranking them, call it seeding them, whatever you want to refer them as, MSA Sports presents our final Top Ten of the baseball season as we put the 75 postseason bound teams in their respective classification in the order as we see it. Obviously, the steering committee will have their own view, which becomes official Friday when the brackets for the upcoming district playoffs are released. The one rule of thumb guiding us which the committee will also follow is trying to stay away from First Round matchups between teams from the same section. Tune in Friday evening at 7:00pm for the WPIAL Baseball Playoff Pairings Show here on your exclusive home for the District Diamond Postseason, the MSA Sports Network.MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Softball Playoff Teams – 05/10/2017
May 10, 2017
Call it ranking them, call it seeding them, whatever you want to refer them as, MSA Sports presents our final Top Ten of the softball season as we put the 78 postseason bound teams in their respective classification in the order as we see it. Obviously, the steering committee will have their own view, which becomes official Thursday when the brackets for the upcoming district playoffs are released. The one rule of thumb guiding us which the committee will also follow is trying to stay away from First Round matchups between teams from the same section. Tune in Thursday evening at 7:00pm for the WPIAL Softball Playoff Pairings Show here on your exclusive home for the District Diamond Postseason, the MSA Sports Network.Hometown Softball Recap – Baldwin Highlanders – 05/10/2017
With a section title matchup against Canon-McMillan looming, Baldwin took the field against a Bethel Park squad determined to spoil its rivals hopes of a third straight section championship and senior day. The playoff bound Black Hawks did just that with an 8-7 stunner Tuesday over the Highlanders.2017 Hometown Softball Recap – Belle Vernon Leopards
In a battle of MSA’s #1 and #2 teams, Belle Vernon defeated Yough 5-4 in 12 innings in a thrilling section finale for both teams at Belle Vernon High School on Tuesday. The win by Belle Vernon makes the Leopards and Cougars Section 2 Class 4-A Co-Champions with the teams finishing 11-1 in section play and providing the lone loss to each other. For the largest part of the game it was a pitching duel between BV’s ace junior Bailey Parshall and Yough’s sophomore Kiera Waywood.Hometown Softball Recap – Elizabeth Forward Warriors – 05/10/2017
The Elizabeth Forward Warriors celebrated their senior recognition day with an impressive victory, 8-0, against West Mifflin at William Penn Field on Tuesday. In their final home contest of the season, the Warriors plated a pair of runs in the first, third, fourth and fifth innings, and also received a complete-game shutout from pitcher Lauren Mathews. As a result, Elizabeth Forward concludes its Class 4-A Section 2 slate with a record of 7-5 (8-10 overall), while the Titans season comes to an end with a mark of 2-10 (6-12 overall). Although West Mifflin, coming off of a 17-2 victory against Carrick, threatened to score in the top of the first, Mathews worked out of trouble, stranding a pair of runners to keep the Titans off the board.
