WPIAL Saturday’s Scholastic Starz – Week Nine

By: HSSN Staff
Sunday, November 1, 2015 | 7:20 AM

While we prepare to tip our cap on Saturday Starz for the final time this season (except for the four title games at Heinz Field, this year on a Saturday), we remember an old school house of thrills that will likely be no more following Saturday’s game. We likely say goodbye to Historic Graham Field in Wilkinsburg as the Tigers prepare to merge with City League Westinghouse. The old grandstand has many thrilling tales to tell, including being the home to the WPIAL football finals way back in the day. it was a proper send off to a field that has hosted many a one-sided blowouts in recent years was the home to a competitive dandy on its final Saturday afternoon of varsity high school football action. Thanks for the memories old pal.

Austin Scott – Bishop Canevin

Austin Scott wasn’t the starting quarterback at the start of the season, but the 6’4 junior has taken over the position and has now led Bishop Canevin not only to a playoff spot, but to a rare home postseason game next Friday at Dormont Stadium. Scott hit on 10 of 15 passes for 224 yards and two touchdown tosses of 75 and 26 yards, both to Sean Fitzgerald as the Crusaders clinched second place in the Class A Black Hills Conference with a 34-20 conquest of the Brentwood Spartans.

Khalil Smith – Serra Catholic

Even though there is no playoff talk on the big hill in McKeesport, this 2015 has been a special one given that going into Week Nine, Serra Catholic had already won more games on the field this year…two, then in the past three years combined. Khalil Smith helped end this successful season on a high note by rushing for 113 yards and scoring on touchdown runs of 10 and 3 yards, the latter turned out to be the game winning score in the fourth quarter as the Eagles flew to a 23-20 Class A Eastern Conference victory over host Wilkinsburg ending over 100 years of Tigers football. 

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