Football
WPIAL/City League Week Eight Friday Football Scores
October 20, 2017
The middle week of ‘The Stretch Run’ means time is running out. Tick, Tick, Tick for teams fighting for a conference title, for home field or for a playoff spot. Many are already in and other will join the postseason parade this evening. And while the weather may say Mid-September, the action on the gridiron […]
Chicks Picks – Week Eight – 2017
October 19, 2017
Welcome to Week 8 of the high school football season. Late Wednesday night, Chick’s Picks was sitting back, relaxing, and enjoying some TV. Suddenly, out of the blue, a Twitter war broke out among local prognosticators. Although Chick’s Picks had done nothing but mind her own business, one of her rivals called her out – […]
Big Game Hunting – Week Eight
The penultimate weekend of the regular season is here and there is still so much to decide. There were some big upsets last week and some things got sorted out. Just two playoff spots remain in 6-A entering week eight and a single spot remains unclaimed in 5-A. Meanwhile in the smaller classifications things are […]
WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Seven 2017
October 17, 2017
The seventh week of the WPIAL football season officially begins the “stretch run” of the campaign. While some teams have already punched their tickets to the postseason, several games this past week had major implications on playoff positioning. Among the notable plays were a touchdown pass that fueled an upset of the top team in […]
TribLive High School Sports Network Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/16/2017
October 16, 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 […]
WPIAL Alum Q&A – Jake Elk
Linebacker is a position that often features the vocal leader of a defense. That description applies perfectly to Jake Elk. Elk, formerly a captain at Baldwin High School, is now a senior captain at Thiel College. He is this week’s spotlight player for the WPIAL Alum Q&A. At Baldwin, Elk was a three-year letterwinner, as […]
2017 WPIAL Football Standings – Week 7
Here are the latest WPIAL football standings through Week Seven 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 […]
This Week on the TribLive High School Sports Network – 10/16/2017
While the high school football ‘Stretch Run’ continues, the high school futbol playoffs begin for both the both and girls this week here on the new TribLive High School Sports Network. We continue the Stretch Run of the 2017 WPIAL football season with Week Eight and The Network has 25 WPIAL and four District 6 […]
WPIAL Saturdays Scholastic Starz – Week Seven
October 15, 2017
The first Saturday edition of the ‘TribLive Stretch Run’ was a good one weather wise and performance wise too. Five district high school football games were on the docket and four of them carried playoff implications for both teams. Here are the players that helped their teams clinch a playoff spot, improve their positioning or […]
WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week Seven – 2017
October 14, 2017
Friday of Week Seven not only marked the start of the ‘TribLive Stretch Run’ and the final three weeks of the regular season, it was also Friday the 13th. (ooooooohhh, aaaaaaaahhh) But on a night littered with showdonw games in each classification, there was nothing scary about these top performances as broken mirrors, walking under […]
WPIAL Week Seven Saturday Football Scores 2017
Five high school football games were slated for Saturday as we prepare to close the door on Week Seven of the WPIAL campaign. Four of the games were conference contests, all of which held playoff implications of some sort for the eight participants. Here are results from all five tilts, with two of the games […]
WPIAL/City League Week Seven Friday Football Scores
October 13, 2017
A new era of the ‘Stretch Run’ is upon us. No longer known as the ‘MSA Stretch Run’, Friday night kicks off the final three weeks of the regular season that will now be known as the “TribLive Stretch Run’. The games seem to take on a bigger feel as teams battle for conference championships, […]
Chicks Picks – Week Seven – 2017
October 12, 2017
Welcome to Week 7 of the high school football season. Among other things, Chick’s Picks has been described as superstitious. Needless to say, she has been on edge this week with Friday the 13th looming. Chick’s Picks tried everything in an attempt to squash her concerns over this unfortunate day. After all, 13 is just a […]
Big Game Hunting – Week Seven
We head into the stretch run and, as with every other year, it feels to me as if the season has only just started two weeks ago. Some fantastic performances last week have set up some amazing match-ups for this coming Week Seven. Hopefully, none of you suffer from triskaidekaphobia, as we make our way […]
TribLive High School Football Show for Week 7
Click below to watch TribLive’s Kevin Gorman and Chris Harlan as they welcome OLSH football coach Dan Bradley. Plus the latest high school football news from around the WPIAL prior to Week Seven. http://ljsp.lwcdn.com/api/video/embed.jsp?id=d612f836-525f-4f2f-9714-eed25989218b&pi=fd73db78-9c6c-47b3-8f6a-45b75e826890
WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Six 2017
October 10, 2017
Choosing just four plays from this past week was particularly difficult, as nearly a dozen games were tightly-contested and featured prominent action. However, two-point conversation attempts were the common theme for this compilation. Three of the top plays consisted of conversation attempts – one successful, and two which failed – that directly determined the outcome […]
WPIAL Alum Q&A – Justin Watson
Justin Watson enjoyed a terrific high-school football career at South Fayette, and was part of perhaps the Lions’ greatest team in school history in 2013. Since then, he’s been one of the best players in the Ivy League while staring at Penn. Watson is this week’s feature for the WPIAL Alum Q&A. Watson was a […]
TribLive High School Sports Network Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/9/2017
October 9, 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 Six of the 2017 high school football season. WPIAL CLASS 6-A WPIAL FOOTBALL TOP […]
This Week on the TribLive High School Sports Network – 10/09/2017
We STRETCCCCHHHH into a new era with the first full week of fall high school sports action this week here on the new TribLive High School Sports Network. We kick off the Stretch Run of the 2017 WPIAL football season with Week Seven and The Network has 25 WPIAL and five District 6 and District […]
WPIAL Football Standings After Week Six
October 8, 2017
Here are the latest WPIAL football standings through Week Six of the 2017 high school football season. 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 gridiron action each week. Click […]
