Football
Big Game Hunting – Week Ten
November 2, 2017
With the regular season concluded and the playoffs beginning in less than 48 hours, every game becomes a big game. With that in mind, this week’s installment of Big Game Hunting will try to hone in on a particularly intriguing battle in each of the six classifications. With temperatures finally dropping this week, the quarterfinals […]
WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Nine 2017
October 31, 2017
It’s hard to believe, but the 2017 WPIAL regular season has already drawn to a conclusion. Before the focus turns to the postseason, though, let’s take a look back at the top plays from the final week of the campaign. This week’s collection includes a pair of scores in the final minutes to hand the […]
2017 WPIAL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS
October 30, 2017
A year ago in the first season of six district champions in high school football, Pittsburgh Central Catholic, West Allegheny, Thomas Jefferson, Beaver Falls, Steel Valley and Clairton claimed gold. All but Beaver Falls are back into the postseason as the 3-week trip on the Highway to Heinz and the 4-week journey on the Road […]
TribLive High School Sports Network Top Ten – Football Playoff Seeding
October 29, 2017
In this mad, mad world where social media rules and everybody’s opinion is law, we keep a long standing tradition going of throwing our two cents to the WPIAL football steering committee as they prepare to unveil the 2017 district gridiron brackets on Monday. You can hear the WPIAL Football Playoff Pairings Show Monday at […]
This Week on the TribLive High School Sports Network – 10/29/2017
We open up the postseason ride on The Highway to Heinz and The Road to RMU while we crown district champions in three other high school fall sports this week here on the new TribLive High School Sports Network. We kick off our exclusive coverage of the 2017 WPIAL Football Playoffs with the Playoff Pairings […]
WPIAL Saturdays Scholastic Starz – Week Nine
While the final Friday of the regular season in district high school football was spectacular weather wise, the final Saturday was, well, not so much. Chilly, blustery and rainy was what eight teams had to play through to close the curtain on Week Nine. But while the weather conditions were bleak to say the least, […]
WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week Nine 2017
October 28, 2017
Mother Nature must love her high school football. After a chilly and wet week of weather, it was another glorious Friday from the scholastic gridirons weather wise. There were only nine WPIAL football playoff spots up for grabs heading into Friday of Week Nine, but there were plenty of playoff positions, some home field advantage […]
WPIAL Week Nine Saturday Football Scores 2017
Last call…for regular season district high school football! Two Class 1-A conference games joinrf with a pair of non-conference frays to close out the 2017 regular season in muddy style. Both of the conference games impacted the final playoff order in Single-A, but very little else was at stake outside of momentum heading into the […]
FINAL WPIAL Football Playoff Qualifiers
October 27, 2017
All 64 teams are now set for a postseason cruise on the Highway to Heinz or the Road to Robert Morris heading into the final day of the regular season. Here is the final WPIAL football playoff picture with the order of the postseason teams from each conference. 6-A, 5-A and 4-A – Top 4 […]
WPIAL/City League Week Nine Friday Football Scores
Here are the Week Nine final scores. The curtain has closed on the 2017 WPIAL regular season for all but 8 teams, who are still waiting for their Saturday gridiron action. 6-A Northern Seven Conference: Pine-Richland Rams 48 – North Allegheny Tigers 28 (F) Pittsburgh Central Catholic Vikings 21 – Penn Hills Indians 0 (F) […]
Chicks Picks – Week Nine – 2017
October 26, 2017
Welcome to Week 9 of the high school football season. It’s that time of year again when the fall colors abound. At a quick glance, we can see the many shades of orange, red, yellow, and yes, pink. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Once upon a time, the color pink signified delicacy and femininity. For […]
Big Game Hunting – Week Nine
October 25, 2017
I often think how funny it is to see all the work that goes into figuring out playoff scenarios, especially some of the deep-down tiebreaker stuff. The procrastinator in me just says, “week nine is coming, it will all be sorted right out there, so why bother doing the actual math?” Once again, as it […]
WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Eight 2017
October 24, 2017
Unbelievably, the 2017 football regular season is already nearing a conclusion, as last Friday marked the penultimate week. As the stretch run continued, the playoff picture throughout the WPIAL became much clearer. Several key plays proved instrumental to the outcomes, including a Cinderella team standing tall defensively to close out a wild shootout, a long […]
TribLive High School Sports Network Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/24/2017
Each and every Monday during the regular season, the new TribLive High School Sports Network will rank the Top Ten seven in 6-A and top ten football teams in each of the other five classifications. Here are the rankings following Week Seven of the 2017 high school football season. WPIAL CLASS 6-A WPIAL FOOTBALL TOP […]
This Week on the TribLive High School Sports Network – 10/23/2017
October 23, 2017
While the high school football ‘Stretch Run’ concludes, the high school soccer playoffs continue while both the girls volleyball and girls field hockey postseason begins this week here on the new TribLive High School Sports Network. We wrap up the Stretch Run of the 2017 WPIAL football season with Week Nine and The Network has […]
WPIAL Alum Q&A – Jon Girvin
Some of the best stories in sports are teams that go from basement-dwellers to championship contenders in a short period of time. For Jon Girvin, he was a part of two teams’ turnarounds in high school, and one in college, too. Girvin, a two-sport standout at Northgate High School, has also been a two-sport athlete […]
2017 WPIAL Football Standings & Playoff Clinchings
October 22, 2017
Here are the latest WPIAL football standings through Week Eight of the 2017 high school football season…including the latest WPIAL playoff clinchings. Once again this year, we have added points for and points against as well as the updated WPIAL tiebreaker points for all 121 WPIAL teams. Standings are updated after Friday and Saturday’s scholastic […]
Saturdays Scholastic Starz – Week Eight
One was a conference game, the other was a non-conference fray. One game pitted a pair of playoff hopefuls while the other matched squads that have already had their ticket punched to play meaningful November football. Here are the two players who stood out above the pack under the Saturday sun in Week Eight. Antonio […]
WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week Eight 2017
October 21, 2017
Some of the performances below were critical for teams fighting for playoff positioning or just a berth into the district high school football playoffs. Others were just for old fashioned team and school pride as dreams of the ‘second season’ have been dashed this fall. Whatever the case, here are some of the brilliant performances […]
WPIAL/City League Week Eight Saturday Football Scores
There were three Saturday afternoon high school football games to close the doors on Week Eight. Two of the games were non-conference contests along with one key Class 1-A Big 7 Conference game with playoff hopefuls going head-to-head. Even the two non-conference contests featured three playoff bound district teams. Here are ALL the results from […]
