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WPIAL/City League Football Scores for Friday, September 27th
September 27, 2013
We hit the midway point of the 2013 WPIAL football regular season on the fifth Friday of the campaign. This also marked the final Friday in September, although it felt more like the first Friday of the ninth month with temps in the 70's around kick off time. Here are ALL of the final scores from Friday night.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Southeastern Conference:Bethel Park Black Hawks 24 - Peters Township 0 (F)Woodland Hills Wolverines 49 -  Mount Lebanon Blue Devils 10 (F)Upper St. Clair Panthers 44 - AT Baldwin Highlanders 0 (F)Canon-McMillan Big Macs 17 - Plum Mustangs 7 (F)WPIAL CLASS AAAA Northern Eight Conference: Pittsburgh Central Catholic Vikings 42 - Seneca Valley Raiders 0 (F)

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WPIAL Girls Volleyball Standings – 09/26/2013
September 26, 2013
Here are the latest WPIAL girls volleyball standings for the 2013 season. Standings will be updated daily through the regular season, leading up to MSA Sports EXCLUSIVE coverage of the 2013 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Playoffs in October. Also, don't forget to click on the Girls Volleyball sports page for information on the 2013 MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program and don't miss the Hometown Girls Volleyball Show every Monday night at 7:00pm here on MSA Sports.Only section record is shown.MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program teams are capitalized and bolded.(Top 3 teams from each section qualify for playoffs) # = Clinched Section Title * = Clinched Playoff Berth x = Eliminated From Playoff Chase

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Hometown Volleyball Match Recap: FREEPORT YELLOWJACKETS 3 – Seton-LaSalle Rebels 0
The number one team in the MSA Sports Class AA Volleyball rankings showed up to impress in their first appearance as a hometown volleyball team on the MSA Sports Network. Freeport (7-0) jumped out to an early lead leaning on Senior Alexis Schrecengost for her power at the net and Sophomore Zoe Pawlak at the net and service line. Whether it was Pawlak's jump serve or a combination her and Schrecengost at the net in game one Seton-La Salle (5-1) had no answer. Freeport was able to set up their offense and win game one with a score of 25-19.

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Hometown Volleyball Match Recap: SOUTH SIDE BEAVER RAMS 3 – Central Valley Warriors 1
In what head coach Jason Benkowski called their best match of the year, the Class A South Side Rams soundly defeated Class AA Central Valley 3-1 at home on Tuesday night. Having won three of their last four matches, the Rams controlled things from the service line from the onset of this match. Alexis Dhayer and Cheyenne Seik served in dominant fashion to give South Side a decisive 25-19 victory in the first game of the match.The Rams continued to be the better of the two teams when it came to both serving and passing in game two as well. Sarah Androlia and Amanda Fraser had stretches of serving brilliance, allowing the Rams to rush out to an early lead and, eventually, a 25-18 victory in game two.

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Chicks Picks – Week Five – 2013
Welcome to Week 5. Throughout her travels, Chick’s Picks sees many fascinating sights.  It is not every day, though, that she runs into a giant rubber duckie—especially here in Pittsburgh.  In case you have missed the news, The Rubber Duck Project is making its way to our fine city this weekend.Chick’s Picks decided to do a bit of research on the project.  The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust described it best, “The friendly, floating, four-story-high Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve mondial tensions as well as define them.”  Chick’s Picks pondered the statement for a moment, then quickly realized just how much she and the rubber duckie had in common.

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District College Football Preview for Saturday, September 28th
Week 5 of the College Football season and conference play is heating up with a Top 25 meeting in the PSAC. Waynesburg puts their unbeaten record on the line with a trip to Kentucky to meet Thomas More and Geneva travels to the city to meet CMU.Here are previews of ALL the games including three heard right here on the Network, recaps will be posted SundayMercyhurst (1-2) at Slippery Rock (2-1)   6pm on 97.7 FM and MSASports.net Mercyhurst leads the series 3-2, the road team has never won in the series. The Lakers fell 20-13 at Clarion last week in the division opener. It was the first time that the Lakers had dropped the PSAC West opener.

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Leechburg’s Barto Repeats as WPIAL Boys Class AA Golf Champ
September 25, 2013
Leechburg’s Matt Barto defended his WPIAL Class AA golf title and became the ninth player ever to win the title in two consecutive years. Among others, the senior Barto joins Arnold Palmer in accomplishing this back-to-back feat. Barto shot a 3-over 75 at the Sewickley Heights Golf Club, which tied Charleroi’s Gunnar Riley and forced a sudden death playoff. Barto birdied the first hole (10th hole) of the playoff to claim the title. Barto is the first player to win consecutive titles since Mike Van Sickle from Pine Richland did so in 2003 and 2004.

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MSA Sports Big Game Hunting – Week Five
When you settle in and listen to the halftime show featuring Don Rebel and Professor White this Friday, we will have reached the exact halfway point of the 2013 WPIAL football season. It’s true, it goes by faster than a Pittsburgh Steelers offensive possession. We are beginning to see a pretty clear picture of who will be in the post season and this week we will get a chance to sort out who will become the favorites to make deep runs in said post season.

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Boys Soccer – 09/25/2013
Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL boys soccer rankings for the week of September 23rd. You can check out the new rankings every Wednesday through the regular season with weekly matches heard live and archived, including exclusive coverage of the 2013 WPIAL Boys Soccer Playoffs here on the MSA Sports Network.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1)   UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS  (9-0-1) (Last Week #1)2)   CANON-McMILLAN BIG MACS  (8-0-2) (Last Week #2)3)   PITTSBURGH CENTRAL CATHOLIC VIKINGS  (9-1-1) (Last Week #8)4)   FOX CHAPEL FOXES  (8-1-0) (Last Week #3)5)   PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS  (8-2-1) (Last Week #4)

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Hometown Volleyball Match Recap: BLACKHAWK COUGARS 3 – Hopewell Vikings 2
September 24, 2013
The Blackhawk Cougars rallied from a 0-2 deficit to defeat the 2nd ranked Hopewell Vikings Tuesday night in Chippewa 21-25, 18-25, 26-24, 25-18 and 15-9. With the victory, the Cougars move into a tie for first place with Hopewell for the top spot in Section 1 AA at 5-1.The Vikings led 22-17 in the third game, when Blackhawk coach Cindy Guthrie called a timeout. She said that she told the girls to just get the score to 22-20 and see where it goes from there. Blackhawk scored three straight points to make it 23-20 and Hopewell coach Terry Borkovic called timeout.The Cougars were able to tie the game at 23 and then won it with senior Haley Schramm making the big play to give Blackhawk the win.

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WPIAL Boys Class AAA Individual Golf Semifinals
Wednesday marks the first of three WPIAL individual golf championships with the Boys Class AA finals from the Sewickley Heights Country Club. Tuesday, the Semifinals for the Boys Class AAA Championships were held at three sites. The qualifiers advance to the finals to be held on Wednesday, October 2nd.WPIAL Boys AAA Semi-Final Individual Qualifier - Cranberry Highlands G.C.- Par 70

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Soccer – 09/24/2013
Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls soccer rankings for the week of September 23rd...including a NEW #1 team in Class AAA. You can check out the new rankings every Tuesday through the regular season with weekly matches heard live and archived, including exclusive coverage of the 2013 WPIAL Girls Soccer Playoffs here on the MSA Sports Network.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1)   BETHEL PARK BLACK HAWKS  (8-1-1) (Last Week #4) 2)   PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS  (9-2-0) (Last Week #5)3)   NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS  (10-0-0) (Last Week #6)4)   FOX CHAPEL FOXES  (9-1-0) (Last Week #7)

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WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Four 2013
A historic week in the WPIAL saw the end of the Nation’s longest winning streak, overtimes, dramatic wins, upsets and the like. In all, Week 4 was the best of the 2013 season and the Top Plays are a direct indication of why. #1 Monessen 42, Clairton 24 

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 09/23/2013
September 23, 2013
Each and every Monday during the regular season, the MSA Sports Network will rank the Top Ten football teams in each classification. Here are the latest WPIAL football rankings following Week FOUR...including a NEW #1 team in Class A.WPIAL CLASS AAAA TOP TEN:1.   PITTSBURGH CENTRAL CATHOLIC VIKINGS  (4-0) (Last Week #1) (This Week: host #5 Seneca Valley on MSA Sports)2.   UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS  (4-0) (Last Week #2) (This Week: at Baldwin)3.   GATEWAY GATORS  (4-0) (Last Week #3) (This Week: host #10 Hempfield on MSA)4.   McKEESPORT TIGERS  (4-0) (Last Week #4) (This Week: host Altoona on MSA)

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MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Salute – BRENTWOOD SPARTANS
The Lady Spartans are heading in the right direction this year as they prepare for solid section play against big hitting schools Vincentian Academy, North Catholic and Serra Catholic.The squad is well balanced between veterans and inexperience. For what the inexperienced players lack in experience, they make up for in aggression and heart.

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This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 09/23/2013
There is more WPIAL gold as we head to the course while we also hit the mid-way point of the high school football season this week here on the MSA Sports Network. To celebrate the fifth week of the season, we have FORTY-TWO WPIAL, District 6 and District 9 football games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday with Friday night kicking off with the expanded MSA Sports Pregame Show and concluding with the one and only WPIAL High School Football Scoreboard Show.

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District College Football Recap for September 21
September 22, 2013
Conference play opened up in the PSAC and PAC, as W & J and Geneva opened with big wins. Clarion and California went to 3-0 overall and Duquesne crossed the border into Ohio with not so good results.Here are recaps of ALL the games from Saturday.Gannon 38 - Slippery Rock 20 The Rock’s woes continued in the city of Erie, where SRU has not won a game since 2002. 4 turnovers and a powerful Gannon running game that controlled the clock took the Golden Knights to the win in the PSAC Western Division opener for both teams.

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Saturdays Scholastic Starz for Week Four
The real winner on the fourth Saturday of the WPIAL football season was Mother Nature. For the first time in this 2013, she played a key role in the three games that were played Saturday afternoon with a steady, drenching rain. Even though the skies were cloudy all day, these three players helped shed some light on their teams wild and wet victories.Hunter Roknich - Western Beaver

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WPIAL Football Scores for Saturday, September 21st
September 21, 2013
You could say by comparison, the fourth Saturday of the high school football season was a bonanza of action compared to the third Saturday of 2013. Sure, there were only three afternoon contests on the WPIAL football slate, but that is triple the excitement from what we saw from last weeks schedule. This was also the first battle lost to Mother Nature of this young football season with steady rain throughout the afternoon action. Here are the three final results from Saturday afternoon.WPIAL CLASS A Big 7 Conference:Western Beaver Golden Beavers 20 - Union Scotties 0WPIAL CLASS A Eastern Conference:Wilkinsburg Tigers 16 - Northgate Flames 0WPIAL CLASS A Tri-County South Conference:

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WPIAL Friday Night HighLights for Week Four
History was made Friday night when the longest winning streak in WPIAL and PIAA history came to a crashing end. Monessen went into Clairton and beat the Bears 42-24 ending a mind-numbing 66-game winning streak. So as we look back at some of the top performances from the fourth Friday of the 2013 WPIAL football season, what better way to begin than to salute...The Clairton Bears

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