Tag: Apollo-Ridge

MSA Sports Big Game Hunting – Week Five

September 25, 2013

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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Saturdays Scholastic Starz for Week Two

September 8, 2013

On a gorgeous Saturday afternoon for high school football, nine district teams took to the field in an effort to keep the high school offense going that began on Thursday and continued big time on Friday. For the most part, those teams did no t disappoint as six of the nine scores 20 points or more. Here are the five standout performances from the second Saturday of the season.Mikell Moore - McKeesport

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CTK 2013 – MSA Sports Preseason Top Ten: WPIAL Single-A

August 29, 2013

Each and every Monday during the regular season, the MSA Sports Network will rank the Top Ten football teams in each classification. With a day to go before the 2013 WPIAL football season kicks off, we present our Preseason Top Ten teams. This article, we present the Top Ten in Class A.Final 2012 record is in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS A PRESEASON WPIAL FOOTBALL TOP TEN:1.   CLAIRTON BEARS  (16-0)2.   STO-ROX VIKINGS  (11-2)3.   CARDINAL WUERL NORTH CATHOLIC TROJANS  (9-3)4.   NESHANNOCK LANCERS  (10-2)5.   BRENTWOOD SPARTANS  (7-4)

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CTK 2013 – WPIAL Single-A Eastern Conference Preview

August 25, 2013

One record setting streak ended in the Eastern Conference last fall while another overall slide continues into this 2013 campaign.While all eyes were on Clairton’s WPIAL and PIAA record winning streak, the longest losing streak in WPIAL history came to an end last fall when West Shamokin finally put a game in the ‘W’ column. The Wolves snapped a 46-game, five year losing streak that dated back to 2007 when they knocked off the Riverview Raiders 25-6 in Week 3. West Shamokin liked the feeling so much, they won two more games before the season ended.

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Scholastic Notebook – 02/22/2013

February 22, 2013

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Boys Basketball 01/22/2013

January 22, 2013

Here are the latest MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL Boys Basketball rankings for the 2012-2013 season. Each Tuesday during the regular season, MSA Sports will release a new Top Ten boys hoops rankings plus daily updated standings with various daily broadcasts and the WPIAL Roundball Report every Wednesday at 6:00pm all here at MSAsports.netWPIAL CLASS AAAA:1.   New Castle Red Hurricane  (15-0) (Last Week #1)2.   Bethel Park Black Hawks  (14-1) (Last Week #3)3.   North Allegheny Tigers  (13-1) (Last Week #4)4.   Gateway Gators  (9-1) (Last Week #2)

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Boys Basketball – 01/15/2013

January 15, 2013

Here are the latest MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL Boys Basketball rankings for the 2012-2013 season. Each Tuesday during the regular season, MSA Sports will release a new Top Ten boys hoops rankings plus daily updated standings with various daily broadcasts and the WPIAL Roundball Report every Wednesday at 6:00pm all here at MSAsports.netWPIAL CLASS AAAA:1.   New Castle Red Hurricane  (13-0) (Last Week #1)2.   Gateway Gators  (9-1) (Last Week #3)3.   Bethel Park Black Hawks  (11-1) (Last Week #5)4.   North Allegheny Tigers  (11-1) (Last Week #4)5.   Hampton Talbots  (11-2) (Last Week #2)

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MSA Sports Top 25 WPIAL Stories of 2012 Countdown – #10 through #6

December 31, 2012

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CTK 2012 – WPIAL A Eastern Conference Preview

August 26, 2012

One of the winningest coaches in WPIAL history is out, and a team with the longest losing streak in WPIAL history is in. Such is the saga of the Eastern Conference this year. Gone from the Eastern Conference is Chuck Wagner, the former Springdale coach who retired after last season. Wagner was a head coach in the WPIAL for 47 seasons and his 270 wins is fourth on the all-time WPIAL list. New to the Eastern Conference this year is West Shamokin, which dropped down from Class AA. The Wolves have a 44-game losing streak, longest in WPIAL history. Overall, there are nine teams in the Eastern Conference. Besides West Shamokin, Apollo-Ridge also is new to the conference, dropping down from Class AA.

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Scholastic Notebook – 02/24/2012

February 24, 2012

This next statement seems awfully strange: Either Beaver or Trinity will be in the WPIAL Class AAA boys basketball Semifinals. As strange as that sounds, it is true. Beaver and Trinity play in a Quarterfinals game Friday night, and one of them will move on to next Tuesday’s Semifinals. History says how Beaver and Trinity playing in a Semifinals game is unheard of. Trinity has never been to a Semifinals game before, and the Hillers won a grand total of six playoff games in school history. Two of those were this year. The others came last year, one in 2010 and two in 1984. Beaver, meanwhile, has made it to the Semifinals only once in school history. That was in 1987. The Bobcats have only six playoff wins in school history – two this year, two in 1987, one in 1982 and one in 1977.

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