Tag: Washington
MSA Sports Big Game Hunting – Week Seven
October 9, 2013
What a neat year it has already been. The Pirates reached the playoffs and it appears so will the Avella Eagles and the West Shamokin Wolves! All three are tremendous stories this fall. The stretch run is here and all of those teams control their own destinies. That is all their fans have been hoping and praying for. Some teams don’t control their own fate. Some need help, and some need a lot of help. The time has come for scoreboard watching and more importantly listening to the MSA Sports Scoreboard show every Friday night with Don Rebel. But you should have been doing that all along. Let’s go Big Game Hunting. AAAA Southeastern Conference:Scholastic Notebook – 09/20/2013
September 20, 2013
Now that Shai McKenzie’s football career is over, it’s time to reflect on how good of a running back he was at Washington High School. Going strictly by statistics, it’s not an overstatement to say McKenzie was one of the best of all time in the WPIAL.McKenzie’s senior season is finished because of a torn ACL sustained in last Friday’s game against Charleroi. He was scheduled to have surgery Friday.McKenzie finished his career with 4,856 yards on 493 carries and 77 touchdowns. The yardage is the 15th best in WPIAL history. Had he stayed healthy, there is a good chance McKenzie would have become only the fifth running back in WPIAL history to reach 6,000 career yards.District College Football Preview for Saturday, September 21
September 19, 2013
Week 4 of the college football season opens a day early with one game on the slate as CMU heads to our nation's capital. Conference play begins for both the PSAC and PAC schools as the race for those titles begins.Here are previews of ALL the games, including three that can be heard here on the Network:WPIAL Friday Night HighLights for Week Three
September 14, 2013
Crazy...kooky...strange...horror. Those are all word that are usually associated with Friday the 13th. With a chill in the air, those words came to life on the football fields around Southwestern Pennsylvania with some strange results and some serious injuries. This jam-packed thriller of a night though also had plenty of heroes who swept in, kicked the 'villains' in the teeth and then rode of into the sunset without inside as they came up large in Week 3 of the WPIAL football season.Joey DeFloria - HempfieldScholastic Notebook – 09/13/2013
September 13, 2013
There is undoubtedly more passing in high school football these days. But after two weeks, could this be the year of runners in WPIAL football?While WPIAL football again has some impressive passers, the running statistics have been big through the first two weeks. Take a look:*It’s considered a nice night when a team has two 100-yard rushers in a game. It is extremely unusual when a team has two 200-yard rushers. But there have been two teams (Penn Hills and Steel Valley) that have had two 200-yard rushers in a game – and they did it on the same night (last Friday).*Penn Hills’ Billy Kisner has rushed for 200 yards in two consecutive games – and he’s a QUARTERBACK.District College Football Preview for Saturday, September 14th
September 11, 2013
Crossover play is the highlight this week in the district college football slate as the PSAC Eastern and Western Divisions square off. Robert Morris looks to win their second straight and W & J heads to meet a nationally ranked opponent.Here are previews of ALL the games, recaps will be posted on Sunday.Shippensburg (0-1) at Slippery Rock (1-0) 6pm on WLER 97.7-FM and the MSA Sports Network The Red Raiders were ranked in the top 10 to start the season but were shut out by then number 25 Shepherd last week. It was the first time the Red Raiders were blanked since 2008. Shippensburg was ranked 7th in the first AFCA poll and 14th in the D2football.com poll, they are unranked this week.Scholastic Notebook – 09/06/2013
September 6, 2013
Seneca Valley lost almost every offensive starter from a team that went 10-2 and averaged 37 points a game last season. But coach Don Holl didn’t have to look far and wide for something to jumpstart this year’s offense.He simply had to look across the family dinner table.Seneca Valley’s new quarterback is T.J. Holl, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound junior and the son of the coach. The son has definitely shined so far.District College Football Preview for 9/7/13
September 5, 2013
The 2013 district college football slate kicks off with a bang this weekend. 19 teams from the area start their season, while two others head to the field for the second time. Here are previews of all the games, including three to be played later tonight:(All games are on Saturday, except where noted)Slippery Rock at Northwood Noon on WLER 97.7-FM and the MSA Sports NetworkThe teams have not meet on the gridiron since 1992. Slippery Rock has won both meetings between the foes.The Rock was 6-5 in 2012 and finished 5-2 in the PSAC West. SRU was picked third by the PSAC coaches in the West in the 2013 preseason poll, behind IUP and Mercyhurst, last year’s co-champs.WPIAL Friday Night HighLights for Week One
August 31, 2013
The curtain lifted on the First Friday of the 2013 WPIAL football season with plenty of tightness. Yeah, there was the pressure of playing conference games right out of the gates, but tight muscles and cramps were everywhere on a humid end to what has been a pleasant month of August. Despite injury issues, here are the top performers who didn’t let their opponents or the weather ‘cramp’ their style.Ben DiNucci & Connor Slomka – Pine-RichlandCTK 2013 – MSA Sports Preseason Top Ten: WPIAL Double-A
August 28, 2013
Each and every Monday during the regular season, the MSA Sports Network will rank the Top Ten football teams in each classification. With days 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 AA.Final 2012 record is in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AA PRESEASON WPIAL FOOTBALL TOP TEN:1. ALIQUIPPA QUIPS (15-1)2. WASHINGTON LITTLE PREXIES (12-1)3. SOUTH FAYETTE LIONS (11-1)4. MOUNT PLEASANT VIKINGS (8-3)5. BEAVER FALLS TIGERS (8-3)
