Tennis
PR’s Bridgham in Singles & FC’s Shymansky/Cohen in Doubles Win PIAA AAA Tennis Gold
November 2, 2013
While there was nothing to write home about for the WPIAL qualifiers in the Class AA state doubles and singles tournaments, it turned out to be a golden success for district doubles and singles girls tennis players in Class AAA this weekend at the Hershey Racquet Club in Hershey.While Class AA had no qualifiers make it to the Semifinals on Saturday in the PIAA Singles or Doubles postseason, Class AAA had two qualifiers in each make it to the final day. and when the last winner was served, Marlys Bridgham of Pine-Richland won the state Class AAA singles championship and the duo of Laurel Shymansky and Lacy Cohen claimed the Triple-A state doubles championship.North Allegheny Wins 2013 PIAA AAA Team Tennis Gold
October 26, 2013
North Allegheny winning a championship is not breaking news. However a week after winning their very first WPIAL Girls Team Tennis Class AAA title, the Tigers added their first ever state tennis crown to their crown trophy case. North Allegheny edged District 1 champion Methacton Saturday evening in Hershey to claim the PIAA Triple A championship. District 10 Mercyhurst Prep won the Class AA state championship. Here are all of the results from the 2013 PIAA Girls Team Tennis Playoffs.2013 PIAA CLASS AAA GIRL TEAM TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS 3 - Methacton Warriors 2PIAA CLASS AAA Semifinals:NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS 4 - West Chester Henderson Warriors 1North Allegheny and Greensburg CC Win WPIAL Girls Team Tennis Crowns
October 18, 2013
North Allegheny has won a lot of WPIAL gold in its rich, athletic history. now for the first time, they can add a girls tennis crown to the trophy case. The Tigers captured their first ever district girls tennis title with a victory over Shady Side Academy Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, Greensburg Central Catholic is celebrating its first girls team tennis championship in 14 years. The Centurions edged Sewickley Academy 3-2 in the finals Thursday to win the schools third Class AA district title and first since 1999. Here are ALL of the results from the 2013 WPIAL Girls Team Tennis Playoffs.2013 WPIAL GIRLS TEAM TENNIS CLASS AAA CHAMPIONSHIP:North Allegheny Tigers 4 - Shady Side Academy Indians 1Scholastic Notebook – 10/11/2013
October 11, 2013
The Beaver football team changed its offense this year, going to a spread offense with much more passing.You could say the new offense has been a Rowse-ing success.Alex Rowse is Beaver’s quarterback and is doing things unheard of by Beaver quarterbacks. After six weeks of the season, Rowse leads the entire WPIAL in passing yardage with 1,581 yards. To put that in perspective, consider that last year’s quarterbacks – Rowse and Austin Ross - had less than 1,000 yards passing combined.Fox Chapel and Sewickley Academy Duo Win WPIAL Girls Doubles Tennis Gold
October 4, 2013
For the first time in ten years, there was a repeat WPIAL champion in girls doubles tennis. Amy Cheng and Jappman Monga of Sewickley Academy captured district gold for the second consecutive season, marking the first repeat duo winners since Patty Kaczmarek and Meghan Stubblebine of Bishop Canevin in 2003. A pair of sophomores may have the chance to match consecutive crowns next fall after sophomores Laurel Shymansky and Lacey Cohen of Fox Chapel upset top-seed Maddy Adams and Anna Li of North Allegheny in the Class AAA Girls Doubles Finals Thursday afternoon.WPIAL CLASS AAA GIRLS DOUBLES TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP:Laurel Shymansky and Lacey Cohen (Fox Chapel) over Maddy Adams and Anna Li (North Allegheny) 7-5, 6-4Callie Frey of Mount Lebanon & Samantha Gohh of Sewickley Academy Claim WPIAL Gold
September 19, 2013
The comeback kids became the golden girls Thursday afternoon in the 2013 WPIAL Girls Singles Tennis Championships as Callie Frey of Mount Lebanon won her second straight Class AAA crown while Samantha Gohh of Sewickley Academy won Class AA gold at North Allegheny High School.WPIAL Class AAA Championship: Callie Frey d. Marlys Bridgham 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.2013 WPIAL Girls Singles Tennis Playoffs Recap
The battle for the first district championship of the 2013-2014 school year did not come easy as both winners needed three sets Thursday in the finals of the 2013 WPIAL Girls Singles Tennis Playoffs. Top-seed Callie Frey of Mount Lebanon made it back-to-back Class AAA titles with a comeback victory over Marlys Bridgham while Samantha Gohh won the all Sewickley Academy finals match with a comeback win over Panthers teammate Sydney Miggantz. Here are ALL of the results from both the Class AAA and Class AA tournaments. You can listen to the archive broadcast of the finals and consolations right here on the MSA Sports Network.2013 WPIAL CLASS AAA Girls Singles Tennis Championship Match:This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 09/15/2013
September 15, 2013
The first WPIAL gold of the 2013-2014 school year will be battled for this week here on the MSA Sports Network. First, we have FORTY WPIAL, District 6 and District 9 football games on Friday and Saturday with Friday night kicking off with the expanded MSA Sports Pregame Show and concluding with the one and only WPIAL High School Football Scoreboard Show.Scholastic 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.Fall Sports Underway
August 19, 2013
This week marks the start of section play in WPIAL boys golf, girls golf and girls tennis. Next week marks the beginning of section play in football while it's a post-Labor Day start up for section play in boys and girls soccer, girls volleyball, girls field hockey and boys and girls cross-country.You can check out ALL of the 2013 WPIAL section schedules in football, boys/girls soccer, girls volleyball, boys/girls golf, girls tennis, girls field hockey and boys/girls cross-country by clicking the high school link at the top of the page...then click on the logo of your favorite school and then the sport you wish to see.2012-2013 WPIAL Champions on Parade
July 16, 2013
We celebrated America's Birthday earlier this month with various parades and fireworks. You'll forgive us if we celebrate the 2012-2013 school year with just a parade and no pyrotechnics. It was been another great high school sports year in District 7 of the PIAA. All of us here at the MSA Sports Network and Management Science Associates thank our sponsors and fans for their support during the school year. As we get ready for another great scholastic campaign in 2013-2014, we look back at all the WPIAL team champions on parade from this past school year.Football:Class AAAA - North Allegheny TigersClass AAA - West Allegheny IndianaClass AA - Aliquippa QuipsClass A - Clairton BearsShady Side Academy Settles for Silver in 2013 PIAA Boys Team Tennis
May 18, 2013
The 2013 PIAA Class AAA Boys Team Tennis Finals ended the same way the 2012 championships ended a year earlier, with District 1 champion Conestoga beating WPIAL winner Shady Side Academy as the Pioneers captured their third straight state title. In Class AA after Sewickley Academy lost in the Semifinals, Wyomissing won a second straight PIAA crown by beating Lancaster Country Day Saturday in Hershey. Here are ALL the results from the 2013 PIAA Boys Team Tennis Playoffs.2013 PIAA CLASS AAA Boys Team Tennis Championship Match:Conestoga Pioneers 4 - SHADY SIDE ACADEMY INDIANS 1PIAA CLASS AAA Semifinals:SHADY SIDE ACADEMY INDIANS 3 - Council Rock North Indians 0Shady Side and Sewickley Keep the Academy’s Golden in WPIAL Boys Team Tennis
May 9, 2013
Since 2004, Sewickley Academy has sat atop the WPIAL Boys Team Tennis Double A classification as champion. Call it a Golden Decade. The streak continued Thursday as the Panthers captured their 10th straight district team tennis crown with a victory over Mars. It's not as long, but in Class AAA, Shady Side Academy swept past North Allegheny to win a 3rd consecutive tennis title for the Indians. Here are ALL of the results from the 2013 WPIAL Boys Team Tennis Playoffs.2013 WPIAL CLASS AAA TEAM TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:Shady Side Academy Indians 5 - North Allegheny Tigers 0WPIAL CLASS AAA Semifinals:Shady Side Academy Indians 4 - Mount Lebanon Blue Devils 0SSA’s Nimgaonkar/Grubbs and Sewickley’s Kleeman/Kaye Win WPIAL Doubles Tennis Gold
April 29, 2013
A year ago, Alok Nimgaonkar and Chris Grubbs of Shady Side Academy won the WPIAL Class AAA Boys Doubles Tennis championship while the duo of William Kleeman and Patrick Dellinger from Sewickley Academy won Class AA titles. This year, Nimgaonkar, Grubbs and Kleeman are repeat winners. It wasn't easy, but Nimgaonkar and Grubbs knocked off Fox Chapel's Sid Rajupet and Ben Short to win the AAA titles while Kleeman teams with Colin Kaye to win AA gold with a straight set win Tuesday over Josh Raymundo and Aaron Gruber of Mars. Here are ALL of the results from the 2013 WPIAL Boys Doubles Tennis Playoffs.2013 WPIAL CLASS AAA BOYS DOUBLES TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:PCC’s Blasinsky & Vincentian’s Chen Win WPIAL Boys Singles Tennis Titles
April 16, 2013
2013 WPIAL BOYS SINGLES TENNIS RESULTS
April 15, 2013
The 2013 WPIAL Boys Singles Tennis Playoffs are in the books as a pair of new champions were crowned at the Lakevue Racquet Club in Valencia Tuesday afternoon. You can listen to the archive broadcast of the finals anytime here on the Network. Here are all the results from both postseason tournaments.2013 WPIAL CLASS AAA BOYS SINGLES TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:Adam Blasinsky (Pittsburgh Central Catholic) over Peter Hazlett (Mount Lebanon) 6-2, 6-1 (MSA)WPIAL CLASS AAA Consolation:Caleb Kramer (Pine-Richland) over Fernando Escribens (Upper St. Clair) 6-4, 6-4 (MSA)WPIAL CLASS AAA Semifinals:This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 04/15/2013
We hit the middle of the Month of April and the midway point of the high school softball and baseball season as well as crown the first champions of the spring sports season all this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We have plenty of WPIAL and District 6 high school baseball and softball coverage along with college baseball featuring Slippery rock University, high school boys and girls lacrosse and some WPIAL boys volleyball matches as well, plus we have the 2013 WPIAL Boys Singles Tennis Championships and for the race car fans, we have another edition of Rappin on Racin ALL here at MSAsports.netMonday, April 15th:TALK SHOW - Rappin on Racin at 6:00pm on MSAsports.netMSA Sports Top 25 WPIAL Stories of 2012 Countdown – #20 through #16
December 29, 2012
It has become a tradition like no other...at least during the holidays here at The Network. It's time to look back at another high school sports year with the top stories from around the WPIAL in 2012. We continue our countdown with the five stories that ended up #20 through #16.Two WPIAL Singles Players Settle for Silver In PIAA Playoffs
November 3, 2012
Two WPIAL tennis players made it through the state tournament all the way to the finals, but both Callie Frey of Mount Lebanon and Spencer Caravaggio of Quaker Valley are returning home from Hershey Saturday with silver.2012 WPIAL Class AAA champion Callie Frey won her first three matches in the tournament without dropping a set. However in the finals, she lost to District 11 champion Cristina Kaiser of Plymouth Whitemarsh 7-5, 6-3.In the Class AA tournament, WPIAL champion Spencer Caravaggio also made it to the finals without losing a set before falling to Audrey Ann Blakely, the District 3 champion from Wyomissing 6-4, 6-4.
