Tag: Beaver
PIAA Baseball Class AA Championship Preview
June 13, 2013
The scholastic sports season winds down with the PIAA Baseball and Softball Championships at Penn State University coming up on Friday. After a quick start for District 7 in this years state baseball playoffs, 2013 WPIAL champion Beaver is the lone district baseball team to navigate the Path to Penn State. Here is a preview of the PIAA Class AA baseball championship game, which can be heard right here on the MSA Sports Network.CLASS AA BASEBALL: BEAVER BOBCATS (20-3) VS. LOYALSOCK TOWNSHIP LANCERS (21-3) 3:30PM ON WBVP 1230-AM AND MSASPORTS.NET with Bob Barrickman and Bruce Frey The Bobcats make their second trip to the state title game. The only other trip was in 1983 when Beaver was led by soon to be major leaguer John Burkett.2013 PIAA BASEBALL PLAYOFFS
June 11, 2013
District 7 had one team clinch a trip Happy Valley on Monday and had three more teams with state gold dreams ending in the Final Four 24 hours later. Semifinals Tuesday turned into Black Tuesday for the WPIAL as all three teams, North Allegheny in Class AAAA, Keystone Oaks in Class AAA and California in Class A had their state title bubble pop with losses in Round Three. Here are ALL the final scores through the Semifinals, plus the four championships games on Friday at Penn State University in the 2013 PIAA Baseball Playoffs with the Class AA contest right here on MSA Sports.2013 PIAA CLASS AAAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME:North Penn Knights 6 - Lower Dauphin Falcons 5PIAA Baseball Semifinals Recap from Monday
Rain late Sunday and early Monday coupled with a shaky forecast forced the PIAA to postpone 15 of it's 16 baseball and softball Semifinals contests. The lone exception was played at high noon Monday at Pullman Park where a rematch of the WPIAL Class AA championship game from two weeks ago was played. The result in Butler was similar to the result in Washington. Here is a recap of the lone state playoff game from Monday.Thanks to Mike Azadian for his help on this recap.PIAA CLASS AA SEMIFINALS: Beaver Bobcats 7 - Quaker Valley Quakers 0Scholastic Notebook – 05/31/2013
May 31, 2013
The South Park baseball and Riverside softball teams did something unusual this week – win a WPIAL title with a perfect record.On Monday, both begin a quest to do something even more rare– win a PIAA title with a perfect record.Since the PIAA started softball and baseball championships in the 1970s, no WPIAL baseball team has won a PIAA title with an undefeated record. Elizabeth Forward came the closest, making the PIAA Semifinals in 2011.While no WPIAL baseball team has won a PIAA title with an undefeated record, three WPIAL softball teams have won PIAA titles with perfect records, but it has been 14 years since it happened.NA, SP, Beav and WB All Claim 2013 WPIAL Baseball Gold
May 30, 2013
Four new champions were crowned as the District 7 baseball postseason came to an end. A little WPIAL history was made as South Park became the fifth school to win a baseball championship with an undefeated record. When all was said it done, the Eagles were the only top-seed to win a title while a pair of #2-seeds...North Allegheny in Quad-A and Beaver in Double-A won championships while the party crashers was Class A #5-seed Western Beaver. Here are ALL of the final results from the 2013 WPIAL Baseball Playoffs.All games with (MSA) after the score can be heard archived here on the MSA Sports Network.2013 WPIAL CLASS AAAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME:WPIAL Softball Consolation Recaps
May 29, 2013
Eight teams had to wait an extra 24 hours to see if their season would continue after the WPIAL postponed all four softball consolation games from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon. For Hempfield, West Allegheny, Chartiers-Houston and Burgettstown, it was worth the wait as they picked up victories and now move on to the PIAA state softball playoffs while Peters Township, West Mifflin, Beaver and Frazier see their successful 2013 campaign come to an end.
Beaver Claims Class AA Baseball Gold With Victory Over Quaker Valley
For the second time in six years, the Beaver Bobcats are the toast of Class AA, winning WPIAL gold in a dominating performance against previously unbeaten Quaker Valley in a 7-1 win Tuesday at CONSOL Energy Field..2013 WPIAL Baseball Championships Preview
May 27, 2013
The upcoming 2013 WPIAL baseball championships are as easy as 1, 2, 3. One defending champ looking for a third straight title...Two undefeated teams trying to stay perfect in securing district gold...Three top seeds heading into a game that many expected them to be a part of. Here is a look at the Class AA and Class AAA finals on Tuesday and the Class A and Class AAAA championship games on Wednesday at CONSOL Energy Park in Washington and only here on the MSA Sports Network.Hempfield and South Fayette are the Golden Girls of WPIAL Team Track & Field in 2013
May 9, 2013
Hempfield won their first WPIAL girls team track championship in 1984 and waited 27 years for their second crown. The wait for a third district title was a bit shorter...12 month to be exact as the Spartans won gold for a second consecutive season Thursday at Baldwin High School. Meanwhile, South Fayette captured the schools first ever girls team track gold by edging Beaver, Southmoreland and two-time defending champion Freeport. Here are the results from the Semifinals and Championship Finals in the 2013 WPIAL Girls Team Track & Field Playoffs.
