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2015 WPIAL Individual Track & Field Finals HIGHLIGHTS
May 14, 2015
On a day when the sun shined brightly at Baldwin Stadium, there were a number of shining performances from boy athletes at the WPIAL track and field individual championships. A total of eight championship meet records were broken Thursday. Maybe the nice weather had something to do with the good times in running events and other record performances in a few field events. Beaver Falls junior Dom Perretta was more like Dominating Peretta as he blew away the competition and set two Class AA records. He broke his own record in the 800-meter run with a time of 1 minute, 51.50 seconds. He also set a record in the 1,600 at 4:26.55. Perretta was the only athlete – boy or girl – who set two records.

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WPIAL Baseball/Softball Playoff Recaps for Wednesday 5/13
The opening round for both the District 7 baseball and softball postseason took a chilly turn Wednesday. Days after the mercury was knocking on the door of 90 degrees, temps barely got into the 50's, giving the diamond action a late March, early April feel. That didn't prevent some teams from taking care of business while earning a spot in the district Quarterfinals next week in baseball AAAA and AA along with softball AAA and AA. Here are recaps from the games heard live and archived Wednesday here on the MSA Sports Network. A special thanks to Greg Kuntz, Lee Mohn, Jason Tennant, Steve Nagler, Lou Rood, Mike Azadian, Sean Meyers, Rob Longo, Josh Rowntree, Bobby Fox and Bob Gregg for their help on these recaps.

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WPIAL Baseball/Softball/Volleyball Playoff Recaps for Tuesday 5/12
May 13, 2015
The curtain went up on the opening round on both the District 7 baseball, softball and boys volleyball postseason on a breezy Tuesday. There was your typical round one mix of thrillers and blow outs as the Quarterfinals were set in baseball AAA and A along with softball AAAA and A and volleyball AAA. Here are recaps from the games heard live and archived Tuesday here on the MSA Sports Network. A special thanks to Sam Hall, Jason Tennant, Brian Mroziak, Paul Paterra, Mike Azadian, Steve Nagler, Bobby Fox, Sean Meyers, Greg Kuntz, Bob Orkwis, Randy Gore, Dave Floyd and Don Rebel for their help on these recaps. WPIAL BASEBALL CLASS AAA First Round:

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WPIAL Softball Playoff Recaps for Monday 5/11
May 11, 2015
The curtain went up on the 2015 WPIAL Softball Playoffs Monday with a pair of Preliminary Round games at California University of Pennsylvania with the 16th-seed in both the Class AAA and Class AA playoff brackets up for grabs. Check out the first day of recaps from the softball and baseball district playoffs. A special thanks to Don Rebel and Bobby Fox for their help of these recaps. WPIAL CLASS AAA Preliminary Round:

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This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 05/11/2015
It's the final week of the regular season in WPIAL baseball, softball, lacrosse and boys volleyball this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We have the final tune-up before WPIAL postseason play from the diamonds in both baseball and softball and the fields and courts of lacrosse and volleyball, plus The WPIAL Baseball Show, the weekly edition of Rappin' on Racin' and the WPIAL Softball and Baseball Playoff Pairings Shows ALL here at MSAsports.net Monday, May 11th: TALK SHOW - Rappin' on Racin' at 6:00pm on MSAsports.net WPIAL High School Softball Playoffs: Class AA Preliminary Round - South Allegheny vs Waynesburg at 2:00pm on Greene Sports Network at MSAsports.net

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FINAL 2015 WPIAL Baseball Standings
May 10, 2015
Here are the FINAL WPIAL baseball standings for the 2015 season. The standings will be updated daily throughout the regular season...including the FINAL WPIAL playoff picture. You can follow the District 7 high school baseball season with schedules, scores, weekly rankings every Monday and game broadcasts every day through the postseason only here on the MSA Sports Network. The top three teams in each section qualify for the WPIAL playoffs. # - Clinched Section Title    * - Clinched Playoff Berth x - Eliminated From Playoff Contention WPIAL Class AAAA: (SET WITH 15 PLAYOFF TEAMS)

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FINAL 2015 WPIAL Softball Standings
Here are the FINAL WPIAL softball standings during this 2015 season...including the FINAL WPIAL playoff picture. The standings will be updated daily through the 2015 regular season. You can follow the high school softball season with schedules, scores, weekly rankings every Tuesday and game broadcasts, including another year of the MSA Sports Hometown Softball Program here on the MSA Sports Network. The 2015 WPIAL Softball Playoffs ONLY on the MSA Sports Network will be sponsored by Carlow University. Teams in capital letters are part of the MSA Sports Hometown Softball Program.

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FINAL 2015 WPIAL Boys Volleyball Standings
Here are the FINAL standings for the 2015 WPIAL Boys Volleyball season...including the final WPIAL playoff picture. You can follow the WPIAL Boys Volleyball regular season with updated results and standings, plus regular season and postseason broadcasts only here on the MSA Sports Network. Top four teams in each section make the playoffs. If there is a tie for fourth place, head-to-head will be the tiebreaker. If there is a split in the head-to-head, both tied teams make the playoffs. # - Clinched Section Title    * - Clinched Playoff Berth x - Eliminated From Playoff Race WPIAL Boys Volleyball Class AAA: (SET WITH 12 PLAYOFF TEAMS)

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Scholastic Notebook – 05/08/2015
May 8, 2015
You know the saying. April showers bring May flowers and Seneca Valley blooms. OK, so the last few words aren’t part of the saying. But in WPIAL baseball lately, it fits. If Reggie Jackson used to be Mr. October, then Seneca Valley coach Eric Semega is Mr. May. Seneca Valley has made it to the WPIAL Class AAAA title game four years in a row. The Raiders are believed to be the first team in almost 100 years to make the championship four consecutive seasons. Allegheny High School won six consecutive titles from 1917-22. The WPIAL baseball playoffs start next week, and a natural question is will be a drive for five for Seneca Valley?

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Baseball Playoff Teams – 05/07/2015
May 7, 2015
Every Monday during the regular season, MSA Sports ranks the Top 10 WPIAL baseball teams in each classification. For our final rankings this spring though, we will slot all 61 district baseball postseason bound squads with 16 in AAA, and 15 each in AAAA, AA and A. As is the case in all of our playoff rankings, its more of a seeding than true ranking as we follow the WPIAL rules in an effort to avoid teams from the same section playing each other. There will be ONE First Round bye in Quad-A, Double-A and in Single-A and a full, clean bracket of 16 in Triple-A. To figure out our First Round projected matchups, use the bracket formula of 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, 3 vs 14, 4 vs 12, 5 vs 12, 6 vs 11, 7 vs 10 and 8 vs 9.

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USC & Sewickley Academy Are 2015 WPIAL Boys Team Tennis Champs
it's an even dozen when describing the on-going dominance of the Sewickley Academy boys tennis team. The Panthers swept past Winchester Thurston Thursday afternoon to capture a 12th straight WPIAL Class AA championship. The title is the 19th boys team tennis crown in 21 years for Sewickley Academy.

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Softball Playoff Teams – 05/06/2015
May 6, 2015
Every Tuesday during the regular season, MSA Sports ranks the Top 10 WPIAL softball teams in each classification. For our final rankings this spring though, we will slot all 61 district softball postseason bound squads with 12 in AAAA, 17 in AAA, 17 in AA and 15 in A. As is the case in all of our playoff rankings, its more of a seeding than true ranking as we follow the WPIAL rules in an effort to avoid teams from the same section playing each other. There will be FOUR First Round bye's in Quad-A and ONE in Single-A. In both Triple-A and Double-A, there are 17 teams thus there will be one Preliminary Round contest in each of those two classes.

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North Allegheny and Beaver Repeat as WPIAL Boys Team Track Champs
May 4, 2015
The calendar has changed, but it felt like 2014 all over again in the boys team track finals Monday at Baldwin High School. Both North Allegheny in Class AAA and Beaver in Class AA were victorious again in winning district gold. The Tigers AAA crown is their third straight and the schools 11th boys team track title. Here are ALL of the results from the 2015 Boys Track & Field Team Championships. 2015 WPIAL BOYS CLASS AAA TEAM TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS:

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Hempfield & Beaver Win WPIAL Girls Team Track & Field Titles
One school continued its dominant ways while another is tasting championship victory for a first time. Hempfield and Beaver were crowned girls team track & field champions Monday afternoon at the WPIAL finals at Baldwin High School. For the Spartans, it is a fourth straight district crown while for the Bobcats, it is the school first girls team track title. Here are ALL of the results from the 2015 Girls Track & Field Team Championships. 2015 WPIAL GIRLS CLASS AAA TEAM TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS:

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This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 05/03/2015
May 3, 2015
It's the final week of the regular season in WPIAL baseball, softball, lacrosse and boys volleyball this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We have the final tune-up before WPIAL postseason play from the diamonds in both baseball and softball and the fields and courts of lacrosse and volleyball, plus The WPIAL Baseball Show, the weekly edition of Rappin' on Racin' and the WPIAL Softball and Baseball Playoff Pairings Shows ALL here at MSAsports.net Monday, May 4th: TALK SHOW - Rappin' on Racin' at 6:00pm on MSAsports.net TALK SHOW - Carlow Sports Talk at 8:30pm WPIAL High School Baseball - Bethel Park vs Baldwin at 4:00pm on MSAsports.net

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2015 Baldwin Invitational Track & Field Results
May 2, 2015
Thw WPIAL Team Track & Field Finals are Monday and the WPIAL Individual Track & Field Championships are set for Thursday, May 14th, both at Baldwin High School. The tune up for those events took place Friday at the Baldwin Invitational. Here are the top three finishers from each event. BOYS 100 meters – 1. Isaac Elliott, Ambridge, 11.13. 2. Kianta Kiski Area, 11.21. 3. Antwan Brooks, Aliquippa, 11.36. 200 – Isaac Elliott, Ambridge, 22.12. 2. Kevin Garbark, West Mifflin, 22.37. 3. Jamar Sherrill, Moon, 22.42. 400 – 1. Dominic Frisina, Erie Cathedral Prep, 49.91. 2. Jamar Sherrill, Moon, 50.52. 3. Kevin Garbark, West Mifflin, 50.63.

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Scholastic Notebook – 05/01/2015
May 1, 2015
Apparently, Bo knows softball. Bo Teets is in his sixth year as the girls softball coach at Monessen High School and is conducting one of the biggest turnaround stories in the WPIAL in any sport. Earlier this week, Monessen qualified for the WPIAL Class A playoffs. It is a monumental feat for the Greyhounds when you consider this will be the first time they will be in the postseason. It’s also quite impressive when you consider how far the Greyhounds have come under Teets. Teets was hired as Monessen’s coach before the 2010 season. He took over a program that was, in a word, horrible. The Greyhounds were 9-88 in six years before Teets.

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Hometown Softball Recap for South Side Rams – 05/01/2015
At South Side High School in Hookstown Pa on Thursday, the South Side Rams defeated the Burgettstown Blue Devils 12-2 in a section 1 AA game. The win puts each of them at 9-1 in section play so they will share the Section 1 title. The Rams had a fantastic offensive day and it started in the first inning, Hunter Hand hit a 2 run HR to spark the offense to a 3-0 early lead. That was enough for Ram pitcher McKenna Smith as she zipped thru the Blue Devil lineup with ease. She had 6 strikeouts in a row at one point in the first three innings. She won the game striking  out 10, walking only 3 and giving up just two runs.

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Hometown Softball Recap for West Mifflin Titans – 04/29/2015
April 29, 2015
The West Mifflin softball team scored two runs in the sixth inning to break a tie game en route to a 4-2 victory against McKeesport on senior recognition day at West Mifflin High School. In the triumph, the home standing Lady Titans displayed strong pitching and defense, as well as potent bats, as they belted a pair of home runs. Tiana Sekowski, a freshman, drilled a ball over the center field fence with two outs in the bottom of the second to put the first run on the board for West Mifflin.

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Softball – 04/28/2015
April 28, 2015
Each week during the regular season, MSA Sports will rank the top ten softball teams in the WPIAL in all four classifications every Tuesday at www.MSAsports.net  Here are this weeks rankings...including NEW #1 team in Class AAA and in Class A. Log on every day for updated standings and game broadcasts on your exclusive home for the 2015 WPIAL Softball Playoffs sponsored by Carlow University, the MSA Sports Network at MSAsports.net WPIAL CLASS AAAA TOP TEN: 1.     NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS  (13-0) (Last Week #1) 2.     SHALER TITANS  (10-2) (Last Week #4)

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