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WPIAL Week Seven Friday Night HighLights
October 13, 2012
The seventh Friday of the WPIAL football season brought forth a couple of stunning results as three Top Five teams were knocked off while one top-ranked team was on the ropes late and barely avoided the knockout blow. Here are the top performances from Friday, including those surprises that started off the Stretch Run with a bang.Chiante Pryor - Bethel ParkWPIAL Week Seven Saturday Football Scores 2012
The second busiest Saturday schedule of WPIAL football came to pass under picture-perfect weather conditions. The expanded schedule was thanks in part to a couple of afternoon homecoming specials. Here is a rundown of ALL the finals from Saturday with four of the games available on archive here on the MSA Sports Network.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Northern Eight Conference:Pine-Richland Rams 49 - Shaler Titans 6 (MSA) WPIAL CLASS AA Non-Conference:Jeannette Jayhawks 31 - Shady Side Academy Indians 26 (MSA) WPIAL CLASS A Eastern Conference:Riverview Raiders 27 - Leechburg Blue Devils 19North Catholic Trojans 20 - Wilkinsburg Tigers 02012 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Standings & Playoff Clinchings
October 12, 2012
Here are the latest WPIAL girls volleyball standings for the 2012 season, including the latest WPIAL PLAYOFF CLINCHINGS. The only place to find daily updated standings this fall for WPIAL Girls Volleyball is also the same place to hear exclusive coverage of the 2012 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Playoffs...the MSA Sports Network. Don't miss our weekly rankings each Friday during the regular season and don't forget to click on the Girls Volleyball sports page for information on the 2012 MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program.MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program teams are capitalized and bolded.WPIAL and City League Week Seven Friday Football Scores
AND DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME... We have hit the final three weeks of the regular season. For years, we here at The Network refer to this final three weeks as the Stretch Run. Games hold more meaning as teams clash for titles, home field and playoff berths. Here are the WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League scores for the lucky seventh Friday of the season.Games marked with (MSA) are archived here on the MSA Sports Network.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Northern Eight Conference:Seneca Valley Raiders 40 North Hills Indians 26 (F) (MSA)Pittsburgh Central Catholic Vikings 0 North Allegheny Tigers (F) (MSA)Pgh Central & Burgettstown Win WPIAL Boys Golf Championships
October 11, 2012
From 1998 through 2001, Burgettstown captured four straight WPIAL Division II championships. They hadn't won one since, but the eleven year drought ended Thursday as the Blue Devils captured the Class AA crown with Owen Miller leading the way with a 74. Another much longer drought also ended at the Cedarbrook Golf Club in Belle Vernon thanks to Kris Wrights 74 as the Pittsburgh Central Catholic Vikings won their first ever Class AAA championship.2012 WPIAL BOYS CLASS AAA TEAM GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP:Pittsburgh Central Catholic Vikings 387Peters Township Indians - 395Latrobe Wildcats - 406Bethel Park Black Hawks - 414Hempfield Spartans - 414Penn-Trafford & Central Valley Win Gold in Girls Team Golf
It was a day of firsts Thursday at the Cedarbrook Golf Club in Belle Vernon. Haley Borkovich helped lead Penn-Trafford to the Warriors first ever WPIAL Girls Golf Class AAA title while Central Valley's Macky Fouse had low score as the Warriors captured the inaugural WPIAL Class AA Girls Golf crown.2012 WPIAL GIRLS CLASS AAA TEAM GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP:Penn-Trafford Warriors - 338North Allegheny Tigers - 356Peters Township Indians - 358Upper St. Clair Panthers - 367Franklin Regional Panthers - 385Mars Fighting Planets - 390 Pine-Richland Rams - 400 2012 WPIAL GIRLS CLASS AA TEAM GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP:2012 WPIAL Football Playoff Picture Through Week Six
This weekend begins the MSA Sports 'Stretch Run' to the 2012 WPIAL football regular season. The final three weeks in which you will here plenty of talk with these words and phrases: Conference champions; Home field advantage; Playoff positioning; Staying alive; Controlling your own destiny; wild card and of course, the dreaded Gardner points. Bottom line is these final three weeks will help set up the brackets for the eventual drive on the Highway to Heinz.We will break down the WPIAL football playoff picture each week over the next couple of weeks, with each break down being more specific in what needs to happen for all teams involved. Conference records are in parenthesis as well as remaining conference games.Chicks Picks – Week Seven – 2012
Welcome to Week 7 of the high school football season. Chick’s Picks, in her travels this week, noticed several signs for an annual UFO Conference scheduled to take place in the area. After further research, Chick’s Picks learned that the conference is a showcase where investigators gather to share research into the unknown.District College Football Preview for Saturday, October 13th
Week 7 of the College Football season continues with some good match ups this weekend. Conference play rolls on in the NEC, PSAC and PAC, along with the WVIAC and the NCAC.Here are previews of All the games, including 3 that can be heard right here on the Network:Slippery Rock(2-4) at Clarion(3-3) 1pm on WLER 97.7-FM and the MSA Sports Network Both teams are 1-2 in PSAC West divisional play. Slippery Rock leads the all-time series 47-23-3 and has won the last 6 meetings. SRU lost last week to IUP 33-18. The Rock has dropped 3 straight games. RB Akeem Satterfield is 8th in the PSAC in rushing at 83 yards per game. Satterfield has scored just 4 touchdowns this season.Big Game Hunting for Week Seven 2012
October 10, 2012
The “stretch-run” is here. The final third of the 2012 season starts this weekend and you can be sure MSA will provide the finest escort to you as you get set to embark on your own personal “Highway to Heinz”. With the two largest classifications each taking a wild-card into the post season the super –knowledge that Don Rebel doles out each Friday night will save you tons of sleep. The games just keep getting bigger so let’s don’t waste any more time on the opening paragraph. Instead, let’s go Big Game Hunting. AAAA Northern Eight ConferenceMSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Boys Soccer – 10/10/2012
Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL boys soccer rankings for the week of October 8th. You can check out the new rankings every Wednesday through the regular season with daily updated boys soccer standings here on the MSA Sports Network.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1) UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS (14-0-1) (Last Week #1)2) PINE-RICHLAND RAMS (15-0-0) (Last Week #2)3) PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS (11-1-2) (Last Week #3)4) PITTSBURGH CENTRAL CATHOLIC VIKINGS (13-2-0) (Last Week #5)5) FOX CHAPEL FOXES (11-2-1) (Last Week #6)6) BETHEL PARK BLACK HAWKS (13-2-0) (Last Week #7)WPIAL Football Plays of the Week – Week Six
October 9, 2012
Goal line stands and 99-yard touchdown passes. Week 6 had a little bit of everything. Here are your Plays of the Week for Week 6 of the 2012 WPIAL football season. 1. Jeannette Jayhawks 28 - Mount Pleasant Vikings 27 in Double OvertimeMSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Soccer – 10/09/2012
Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls soccer rankings for the week of October 8th. You can check out the new rankings every Tuesday through the regular season with daily updated girls soccer standings here on the MSA Sports Network.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1) PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS (13-1-0) (Last Week #1)2) SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS (14-1-0) (Last Week #2)3) BETHEL PARK BLACK HAWKS (15-0-0) (Last Week #3)4) PENN-TRAFFORD WARRIORS (12-3-0) (Last Week #4)5) NORWIN KNIGHTS (12-1-2) (Last Week #6)6) UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS (9-3-2) (Last Week #5)MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/08/2012
October 8, 2012
Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL football rankings following Week Six of the 2012 high school football season. You can check out the new rankings every Monday through the nine week regular season here on the MSA Sports Network. WPIAL CLASS AAAA:1) NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS (6-0) (Last Week #1) (Week Seven: host #7 Pittsburgh Central Catholic on MSA)2) UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS (6-0) (Last Week #3) (Week Seven: at #10 Bethel Park on MSA)3) GATEWAY GATORS (5-1) (Last Week #2) (Week Seven: host #1 North Allegheny on MSA)4) NORTH HILLS INDIANS (5-1) (Last Week #4) (Week Seven: host #5 Seneca Valley on MSA)PIHL High School Hockey Notebook – Class AAA Preview
Welcome to the first ever installment of “PIHL Notebook” (formerly dubbed “PIHL News & Notes”) and our annual season preview. Over the next four Monday’s, we will provide thumbnail sketches of all 63 PIHL teams to make sure local high school hockey fans are ready when the puck drops on October 29.This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 10/07/2012
October 7, 2012
The Stretch Run of the 2012 WPIAL football regular season begins with Week Seven this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We have FORTY WPIAL and District 6 high school football games between Friday and Saturday with Fridays action starting with the MSA Sports Pregame Show and concluding with the one and only MSA Sports/WPIAL High School Football Scoreboard Show, plus we have college football, WPIAL girls volleyball, WPIAL soccer and WPIAL girl's and women's college field hockey along with the MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Show and This Week in the WPIAL ALL here at MSAsports.netMonday, October 8th:TALK SHOW - MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Show at 7:00pm on MSAsports.netMSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Volleyball – 10/07/2012
Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls volleyball rankings for the week ending October 6th...including a NEW #1 team in Class AAA. You can check out the new rankings every Friday through the regular season with daily updated girls volleyball standings here on the MSA Sports Network.Section record in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1) NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS (7-1) (Last Week #2)2) MOUNT LEBANON BLUE DEVILS (8-1) (Last Week #5)3) OAKLAND CATHOLIC EAGLES (8-0) (Last Week #6)4) FOX CHAPEL FOXES (6-3) (Last Week #8)5) SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS (5-3) (Last Week #9)WPIAL Week Six Saturday’s Scholastic Starz
The sun was shining bright Saturday afternoon, even though the mercury did not reach the 70's as has been the case the last week or so. For that matter, most temps didn't even make it into the 60's, but nonetheless, each of the five WPIAL football games played had a player heat up the gridiron with a winning effort on the first Saturday in October.Luke Brumbaugh - Seton-LaSalleDistrict College Football Recap for Saturday, October 6th
The weather turned cold on the opening weekend of October and wind conditions affected several games thruout the area. Several teams pulled out big wins as Cal and Mercyhurst stay on top of the PSAC West.Unfortunately the focus was on Crestview, Kentucky as the W & J Presidents took the field after one of their team was killed on Thursday.Here are recaps of all the games, with three heard here on the Network:IUP 33 - Slippery Rock 16 On Homecoming Day at George P. Miller Stadium, the Crimson Hawks pounded out 388 yards rushing and led 27-9 at the half to cruise to the win and remain in the chase for a division title. IUP ground out 29 first downs and held the football for over 41 minutes in the win.WPIAL Week Six Friday Night HighLights
October 6, 2012
We have reached the summit and are now on the downward slide toward the 'Stretch Run" and then eventually dropping us off on the "Highway to Heinz". The second half of the regular season began with ideal like weather conditions...perfect for the elite to 'do their thing'. Here are the players who took advantage of the comfortbale stage to make life very uncomfortable for their opponents on the first Friday of high school football in October.North Allegheny Tigers Defense
