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Canon-McMillan Stuns Defending Champs, Blank USC in Boys AAA Finals
Riverside Wins First WPIAL Boys Class A Soccer Crown in Double OT Win Over GCC
The Riverside Panthers needed two halves and almost two overtimes to defeat the Greensburg Central Catholic Centurions 2-1 to win their first WPIAL Class A Boys Soccer Championship. Austin Ridgely scored with 6:44 left on a free kick from just outside the penalty area to give the Panthers their first ever championship and the first title ever for a Beaver County school. The Panthers were outshot 18-5 in the contest. Riverside entered the tournament as the #10 seed, the Panthers won 4 one-goal games to claim the title.Greensburg Central Catholic Repeats as WPIAL Girls Class A Soccer Champions
Frannie Crouse scored two goals in 69 seconds in the second half as the Greensburg Central Catholic Centurions repeat as Girls Class A WPIAL champions with a 2-0 victory over the Sewickley Academy Panthers, handing the Panthers their first loss of the season at Baldwin High School. Crouse scored in the 51st minute off a controversial free kick, she added her 45th goal of the season on a turning shot from the right win, the junior and Penn State recruit now has 105 goals for her career.Olivia Binda made 7 saves for the win, and got some help from the post late, the Centurions are now 19-1 on the season and winners of 19 straight, entering into the PIAA playoffs on Tuesday.WPIAL Football First Round Recaps 2012
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
WPIAL Volleyball Semifinals Recaps From 11/1
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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
Fox Chapel and Shady Side Academy Work Overtime for Field Hockey Gold
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October 31, 2012
The 2012 WPIAL Field Hockey Playoffs went the distance and beyond before determining two champions as both title matches were settled in overtime Wednesday night at North Allegheny High School. Defending Class AAA champion Penn-Trafford was knocked off its throne by Fox Chapel as the Foxes won their first AAA crown and their second field hockey championship and first since 1997. Meanwhile, Shady Side Academy was able to edge Sewickley Academy in OT as the Indians repeat as AA champs. The title is the 12th in SSA history. Here are ALL the results from both the Semifinals and the Championship Finals.2012 WPIAL CLASS AAA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:Big Game Hunting – WPIAL First Round
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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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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTablWPIAL PPD’s Soccer, Volleyball & Field Hockey Playoffs on Tue to Wed
October 29, 2012
With the impact of Hurricane sandy hitting the Northeast United States, weather has become a major topic of discussion. The WPIAL has postponed 14 Soccer Semifinals, 12 Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals and both Field Hockey championship matches from Tuesday to Wednesday.Here is the statement issued by District 7 officials:MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football Playoff Rankings – 10/28/2012
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.District College Football Recap for Saturday, October 27th
The PSAC race took an interesting turn with the 13th ranked Vulcans going down to defeat, Mercyhurst and IUP picked up wins, setting up a 3-way battle to go to the PSAC title game in a couple of weeks.Waynesburg remains unbeaten, the Yellow Jackets will have a week to rest up before the battle with W & J for the PAC title.Here are recaps of all the games:Slippery Rock 28 - California 26 The Rock survived two blocked punts and a pair of fumbles late to hand the 13th ranked Vulcans a loss in back to back seasons. The win was the third straight for SRU and scrambles the PSAC West Division race going into the final week.
