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Scholastic Notebook – 04/14/2012
April 14, 2012
Tis’ the season for basketball all-star games. The top senior players – boys and girls - in the WPIAL and City League will be playing in two all-star events the next two Saturdays. The Roundball Classic will be played next Saturday at Geneva College’s Metheny Fieldhouse. This has become the top all-star games in the area. The event includes two boys games and two girls games. The girls games are at 2 and 4, and the boys games at 6 and 8. A few of the top players in the girls games are Oakland Catholic’s Bobbi Baker, Mount Lebanon’s Kelly Johnson and Fort Cherry’s Beka Bellhy, Bethel Park’s Justine Carroll and North Allegheny’s Alexis Aiken. The boys games feature, among others, Highlands’ Micah Mason, Beaver Falls’ Sheldon Jeter, Butler’s Nate Snodgrass, Plum’s Nolan Cressler and Lincoln Park’s Devontae Watson.MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Baseball – 04/09/2012
April 9, 2012
Each week during the regular season, MSA Sports will rank the top ten baseball teams in the WPIAL in all four classifications every Monday at www.MSAsports.net Log on every day for updated standings and game broadcasts on your exclusive home for the 2012 WPIAL Baseball Playoffs, the MSA Sports Network at MSAsports.netWPIAL CLASS AAAA:1) SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS (5-1) (Last Week #1)2) NORWIN KNIGHTS (5-0) (Last Week #3)3) BUTLER GOLDEN TORNADO (6-0) (Last Week #5)4) BETHEL PARK BLACK HAWKS (5-1) (Last Week #2)5) UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS (6-1) (Last Week #9)6) SHALER TITANS (4-2) (Last Week #4)7) HEMPFIELD SPARTANS (4-2) (Last Week Unranked)8) PINE-RICHLAND RAMS (4-2) (Last Week #7)Scholastic Notebook – 03/30/2012
March 30, 2012
The high school baseball season is young and maybe it still isn’t clear as to who are all the best teams are in each classification. But it is quite clear a team worth watching is in Class AAAA. Mount Lebanon. Through the first week of the season, Mount Lebanon just might be the biggest surprise. After all, the Blue Devils weren’t in the MSA Sports preseason top 10. They weren’t in the Post-Gazette top five, either. But heading into Friday, Mount Lebanon had a 3-1 record and had knocked off some of the big boys, namely three teams in the MSA top 10. Mount Lebanon started the season last Friday with a 7-4 victory against No. 5 Pine-Richland. The Blue Devils beat No. 8 North Allegheny, 9-6, on Tuesday. Yesterday, they knocked off No. 1-ranked and defending WPIAL champion Seneca Valley, 10-9.MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Softball – 03/29/2012
March 29, 2012
Each week during the regular season, MSA Sports will rank the top ten softball teams in the WPIAL in all four classifications every Tuesday at www.MSAsports.net While the first pitch to the 2012 season was thrown this past Friday, section play began Thursday for some district teams. So for now, MSA Sports presents our 'Preseason' WPIAL softball rankings.Final 2011 record is in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AAAA:1) HEMPFIELD SPARTANS (17-1)2) SHALER TITANS (16-2)3) PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS (9-6)4) LATROBE WILDCATS (17-5)5) SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS (13-7)6) NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS (14-5)7) BALDWIN HIGHLANDERS (11-4)MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Baseball – 03/28/2012
March 28, 2012
Each week during the regular season, MSA Sports will rank the top ten baseball teams in the WPIAL in all four classifications every Monday at www.MSAsports.net While the first pitch to the 2012 season was thrown this past Friday, section play doesn't start for most district teams until next week. So for now, MSA Sports presents our 'Preseason' WPIAL baseball rankings.Final 2011 record is in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AAAA:1) SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS (18-4)2) BETHEL PARK BLACK HAWKS (14-6)3) NORWIN KNIGHTS (17-1)4) SHALER TITANS (12-8)5) PINE-RICHLAND RAMS (13-6)6) PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS (20-3)WPIAL Boys and Girls Basketball Realignment for 2013 and 2014
February 22, 2012
The WPIAL Board of Control Tuesday approved the new basketball alignments for both the boys and girls for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 high school winter sports seasons. Here is the new section break down in each classification for both the boys and the girls.WPIAL schools moving up in class for the next two seasons are New Castle boys, Hampton boys, Trinity boys, Freeport boys, Ellwood City boys, Steel Valley boys, Elderton boys, Bentworth boys, Laurel Highlands girls, Chartiers Valley girls, Southmoreland girls, Brownsville girls, Waynesburg girls, Keystone Oaks girls, Quaker Valley girls, Riverview girls, Chartiers-Houston girls and Fort Cherry girls.WPIAL Football Plays of the Week – 11/15/2011
November 15, 2011
Gosh. Prior to the first round of the Highway to Heinz, people always seem to have something to say about the WPIAL Steering Committee and their (in)ability to get the seeding right. Right? You know who you are. Be it good, bad or indifferent, everyone who is somehow connected to high school football here in our fair region has an opinion on how they would do things.&nbsChicks Picks – 11/10/2011
November 10, 2011
Welcome to Week 11 of the high school football season. Between Election Day and preparations for the quarterfinals, it has certainly been a busy week for Chick’s Picks.WPIAL Plays of the Week
November 9, 2011
The reason for the season. The new season, that is. The Highway to Heinz is officially underway as teams look to merge towards the left lane and 'put the hammer down' en route to their hopeful destination on the North Shore of Pittsburgh. Round One of the 2011 WPIAL playoffs saw a bevy of terrific matchups and potential upsets. One of the more memorable first rou2011 WPIAL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS – 11/07
November 7, 2011
32 have exited the Highway to Heinz while 32 others are rambling on toward the round two exit. There were very few surprises in the First Round as only four double-digit seeds were victorious. #10 Hopewell in Class AAA, #13 Ellwood City in AA and a pair of #11-seeds - South Fayette in AA and Fort Cherry in A were able to keep their long-shot title hopes alive through the opening weekend.
