Tag: Connellsville
Scholastic Notebook – 10/18/2014
October 18, 2014
Neshannock High School has never gotten much attention for football, and not just because the small Lawrence County school is on the outer edges of the WPIAL. Neshannock hasn’t gotten much attention because the football team had been one of the least successful in WPIAL history – until lately. What is going on the past few seasons at Neshannock is really one of the biggest turnaround stories in the WPIAL in a long time. And this year, the story might have a perfect ending.CTK ’14: WPIAL AAAA Foothills Conference Preview
August 12, 2014
The Gateway Gators have finished first or second in the Foothills Conference for six consecutive seasons. Don’t look for Gateway near the top of the conference this year. That’s because Gateway is no longer in the conference. The Gators dropped from Class AAAA to AAA for this season. The Foothills Conference, though, still has nine teams. Plum was moved from the Southeastern to the Foothills. McKeesport is the defending conference champion. The Tigers lost a number of key players, but still should be in the top of the conference. Many are pointing toward Penn-Trafford as the team to beat. Here is a look at the Foothills: ALTOONA MOUNTAIN LIONSMSA Sports Countdown of Top 25 WPIAL Stories of 2013 – 12/28/13
December 28, 2013
It has become a tradition like no other...at least during the holidays here at MSA Sports. It's time to look back at another high school sports year with the top stories from around the WPIAL in 2013. We begin our countdown with the five stories that ended up #25 through #21. #25 - Playoff Drought Ends In a year when the Pittsburgh Pirates ended a long Major League Baseball playoff drought, a long WPIAL football playoff drought also came to an end when in Week 9, the Avella Eagles clinched a WPIAL playoffs berth with a 55-14 thrashing of Bentworth to clinch fourth place in the Class A Tri-County South Conference.CTK 2013 – WPIAL Quad-A Foothills Conference Preview
August 13, 2013
The Foothills Conference is made up of nine schools who played a lot of young players in 2012. While that led to a competitive conference and some exciting football a year ago, it also led to an 1-6 record in the postseason with only conference champion Gateway picking up a postseason victory in the 2012 WPIAL football playoffs.There is an effort up and down the conference to shed that ‘weak link’ reputation the Foothills has when compared to the other Class AAAA conferences. In the 32-year history of WPIAL Quad-A football, Foothills Conference teams have captured gold only four times: Gateway in 1986, Connellsville in 1991, McKeesport in 1994 and only once since the turn of the century, when the Tigers won it again in 2005.Scholastic 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.2013 WPIAL Team Wrestling Section Championships Results
January 23, 2013
For the third year in a row, the WPIAL held their team wrestling section tournaments Wednesday to help determine section champions, postseason order and district team playoff berths. Canon-McMillan won their 12th straight section title while Burrell is celebrating a 10th consecutive section crown. Here are ALL the match results from the four Class AAA and three Class AA section playoffs.You can listen to archive broadcasts from all seven section sites by clicking on the Broadcasts tab at the top of this page. The matches covered in full are marked below.WPIAL Class AAA Section 1 Semifinals: Kiski Area Cavaliers 38 - Greensburg-Salem Golden Lions 24 (MSA)Franklin Regional Panthers 39 - Latrobe Wildcats 33 (MSA)MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Team Wrestling – 01/17/2013
January 17, 2013
Every Thursday through January, MSA Sports ranks the top ten teams in both the WPIAL Class AAA and Class AA team wrestling. Don't miss Inside the WPIAL Wrestling Circle Show every Monday at 7:00pm AND weekly matches broadcast on Wednesday's and select weekends only here on the MSA Sports Network.Section records in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1. Canon-McMillan Big Macs (5-0) (Last Week #1)2. North Allegheny Tigers (5-0) (Last Week #2)3. Kiski Area Cavaliers (5-0) (Last Week #3)4. Connellsville Falcons (5-0) (Last Week #4)MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Team Wrestling – 01/10/2013
January 10, 2013
Every Thursday through January, MSA Sports ranks the top ten teams in both the WPIAL Class AAA and Class AA team wrestling. Don't miss Inside the WPIAL Wrestling Circle Show every Monday at 7:00pm AND weekly matches broadcast on Wednesday's and select weekends only here on the MSA Sports Network.Section records in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1. Canon-McMillan Big Macs (4-0) (Last Week #1)2. North Allegheny Tigers (4-0) (Last Week #2)3. Kiski Area Cavaliers (4-0) (Last Week #3)4. Connellsville Falcons (5-0) (Last Week #4)MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Team Wrestling – 01/03/2013
January 3, 2013
Every Thursday through January, MSA Sports ranks the top ten teams in both the WPIAL Class AAA and Class AA team wrestling. Don't miss Inside the WPIAL Wrestling Circle Show every Monday at 7:00pm AND weekly matches broadcast on Wednesday's and select weekends only here on the MSA Sports Network.Section records in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1. Canon-McMillan Big Macs (4-0) (Last Week #1)2. North Allegheny Tigers (2-0) (Last Week #2)3. Kiski Area Cavaliers (3-0) (Last Week #6)4. Connellsville Falcons (4-0) (Last Week #4)MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Team Wrestling – 12/21/2012
December 21, 2012
Every Thursday through January, MSA Sports ranks the top ten teams in both the WPIAL Class AAA and Class AA team wrestling. Don't miss Inside the WPIAL Wrestling Circle Show every Monday at 7:00pm AND weekly matches broadcast on Wednesday's and select weekends only here on the MSA Sports Network.Section records in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1. Canon-McMillan Big Macs (2-0) (Last Week #1)2. North Allegheny Tigers (1-0) (Last Week #2)3. Franklin Regional Panthers (2-0) (Last Week #3)4. Connellsville Falcons (3-0) (Last Week #4)
