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CTK 2012 – MSA Sports Preseason Top Ten: WPIAL Class AAAA
August 26, 2012
Each and every Monday during the regular season starting on Labor Day (9/3), the MSA Sports Network will rank the top ten football teams in each classification. With days to go before the 2012 WPIAL football season kicks off, we present our Preseason Top Ten teams. This article, we present the Top Ten in Class AAAA.Final 2011 record is in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AAAA PRESEASON WPIAL FOOTBALL TOP TEN:1. NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS (15-1) 2. GATEWAY GATORS (9-3)3. UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS (11-2)4. WOODLAND HILLS WOLVERINES (6-4)
CTK 2012 – MSA Sports Football Preseason Elite Eleven
August 19, 2012
Quarterbacks and receivers are big in WPIAL football this year. The MSA Sports Preseason Elite 11 includes four receivers and three quarterbacks. The team, picked by the MSA Sports Staff, is made up of the top 11 players in the WPIAL heading into the 2012 season. Western Pennsylvania isn’t known much for producing Division I college receivers, but this year’s crop of pass-catchers is very good. All four receivers on the Elite 11 have either committed to a Division I college, or have scholarship offers from Division I teams. Two of those four will also also play some at running back this season. The remaining part of the Elite 11 is made up of two offensive linemen, one tight end and one running back.CTK 2012 – WPIAL AAAA Foothills Conference Preview
August 15, 2012
Over the past three seasons, three different teams have won the Foothills Conference championship. Gateway won in 2009, McKeesport in 2010 and Penn-Trafford last year. It’s a pretty safe bet one of those teams will end up on top of the standings again this year – and just about everyone has Gateway as the favorite. The Foothills looks a little different this season, at least in size. The conference is bigger. Altoona and Kiski Area have moved from the Big East to the Foothills. Here is a look at the Foothills Conference: ALTOONA MOUNTAIN LIONS:Scholastic Notebook – 05/25/2012
May 25, 2012
Seven of the eight teams in the WPIAL baseball finals are quite familiar with this championship stuff. They all have won at least one title in the past nine seasons. As championship traditions go, the eighth team in the finals is like the odd man out. Belle Vernon has never won a WPIAL championship, and the WPIAL has been staging championships since 1914. Belle Vernon will try to win its first title when it plays Blackhawk in the Class AAA championship Tuesday night at Consol Energy Field in Washington.National Letter of Intent Day: Division I-A Signings From WPIAL Class of 2012
February 1, 2012
32 WPIAL players put signature to paper and faxed their futures plans to their respective schools on National Letter of Intent Day on Wednesday. Here is a rundown of the players and the Division I-A FBS schools they are now officially headed to.Scholastic Notebook – 01/14/2012
January 14, 2012
Things have been relatively easy for the Montour boys basketball team so far. The Spartans are 6-0 and have outscored opponents, 73-44.But things are about to get a lot tougher for Montour, as the Spartans are about to embark on a week-long schedule that is probably tougher than any other team’s in the WPIAL.MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/25/2011
October 25, 2011
Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL football rankings following Week Eight of the 2011 high school football season. This is the final rankings of the 2011 regular season. This weekend, we will rank the Top 16 playoff teams in each classification here on the MSA Sports Network.WPIAL CLASS AAAA:Friday Night HighLights – 10/22/2011
October 22, 2011
Different strokes for different folks. Some of the top performers from Friday night in Week Eight helped their teams stay alive for a conference title…others helped their teams solidify a district playoff berth…while others stayed alive for a drive on the Highway to Heinz.MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/17/2011
October 17, 2011
Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL football rankings following Week Seven of the 2011 high school football season.Scholastic Notebook – 10/15/2011
October 15, 2011
Since the WPIAL formed Class AAAA football in 1980, only six running backs who played in Class AAAA rushed for more than 4,000 career yards.But two of them reached the milestone on the same night Friday.Mount Lebanon’s Luke Hagy and Pittsburgh Central Catholic’s Damion Jones-Moore had big games in victories Friday night and also pushed past 4,000 yards.
