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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/21/2014
October 21, 2014
Each and every Monday during the regular season, the MSA Sports Network will rank the Top Ten WPIAL football teams in each of the four classifications. Every Friday and Saturday during the high school football season, we have the best coverage with over 30 broadcasts each weekend with updated scores and standings here on your exclusive home for the 2014 WPIAL Football Playoffs, the MSA Sports Network. WPIAL CLASS AAAA FOOTBALL TOP TEN: 1. PINE-RICHLAND RAMS (8-0) (Last Week #4) (Week Nine - host Peters Township)PIHL Notebook – 2014-2015 Class A Preview
October 20, 2014
Welcome to another edition of “PIHL Notebook” as we continue our comprehensive preview of the 2014-15 high school hockey season. Today we take a look at the teams vying for the Class A championship. Class A has the most complex breakdown of the new alignment, split into two tiers with two conferences in each. Tier 1 is, fittingly, the more stacked of the two. Three of last year’s final four will compete in the Western Conference, including defending champion Quaker Valley, while McDowell and Montour join from the Open Division and Class AA respectively. The Eastern Conference includes Chiefs Cup finalist Hempfield, the “other” member of last year’s Class A final four in Freeport, and another Open transplant in Gateway.UPDATED WPIAL Football Playoff Picture
October 19, 2014
Purchasing a ticket to ride on the Highway to Heinz can be easy or can become very complicated. Some conferences like the Class AA Allegheny Conference are smooth sailing into Week Nine. Meanwhile, it's like the Highway to Hell trying to figure out the Class AAA Greater Allegheny Conference. Hey, if it was easy, everybody could do it. Thus with abacus in hand, here is the WPIAL Football Playoff Picture heading into the final week of the regular season. CLASS AAAA Foothills Conference:This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 10/19/2014
While the 'Stretch Run' concludes in high school football, we continue the district playoffs and championships of several other fall high school sports this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We wrap up the regular season with Week Nine and 29 WPIAL football games on Friday and Saturday with Friday's action starting with the MSA Sports Pregame Show and concluding with the one and only WPIAL Scoreboard Show.District College Football Recap for Saturday, October 18th
Week 7 of the district college football season saw two PSAC West foes travel to Ann Arbor for a meeting in the Big House, a battle for first place in the Coal Bowl, and two more first place match ups in the PAC and NEC. Here are recaps of ALL the games, including two heard here on the Network: Mercyhurst 45 – Slippery Rock 23 In the Big House Battle at Michigan Stadium, the Lakers scored 28 points in the second half and held the Rock off the board to claim the win before over 15 thousand fans.WPIAL Saturday’s Scholastic Starz for 10/18
There were six WPIAL teams in action on the Eighth Saturday of the 2014 high school football season and only one of them will be enjoying a ride on the Highway to Heinz in two weeks. While it has been a season to shine for defending Class A champion Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic, the days other two road warriors, Mohawk and Riverview also had reason to be beaming on an overcast, chilly day. Here are the standouts from Saturday. Cayne Yakubic - Mohawk2014 WPIAL & City League Football Standings – Week 8
October 18, 2014
Here are the latest WPIAL and the FINAL Pittsburgh City League football standings through Week Eight of the 2014 high school football season...including the latest WPIAL playoff clinchings for the Highway to Heinz. This year we have added points for, point against and the updated WPIAL tiebreaker points for all 124 teams. Standings are updated after Friday and Saturday's scholastic gridiron action each week. Standings can be also seen on each teams football webpage here on the MSA Sports Network.Scholastic Notebook – 10/18/2014
Neshannock High School has never gotten much attention for football, and not just because the small Lawrence County school is on the outer edges of the WPIAL. Neshannock hasn’t gotten much attention because the football team had been one of the least successful in WPIAL history – until lately. What is going on the past few seasons at Neshannock is really one of the biggest turnaround stories in the WPIAL in a long time. And this year, the story might have a perfect ending.WPIAL Week 8 Saturday Football Scores
While most of the football games on the Week Eight Friday night schedule had some sort of playoff implication tied into it, that was not the case for the three games on the Saturday slate. Instead of the 'P' word being playoffs, the word for four of the six teams in action is pride. Only defending district and state Class A champion Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic played Saturday with any guarantees of playing meaningful football come Week Ten. Here are the three results as the road teams swept on the eighth Saturday of the WPIAL football season. WPIAL CLASS AA Midwestern Athletic Conference: Mohawk Warriors 42 - Summit Academy Knights 14 (MSA) WPIAL CLASS A Eastern Conference:WPIAL Friday Night HighLights for 10/17
Some coaches will tell you that a win is a win is a win. But if you look closely at some of the victories on the eighth Friday of the WPIAL football season, you would see that is not true. Some triumphs kept undefeated seasons alive, some kept conference championships alive, some were key playoff positioning wins while others just kept playoff hopes alive while others were accomplished with a group of young men just playing for school pride. No matter how you label it, these players performed at the top of their games Friday while enjoying the sweet taste of victory after. Ben DiNucci - Pine-RichlandWPIAL & City League Week 8 Friday Football Scores
October 17, 2014
While next week is Rivalry Week as we conclude the regular season, this is the week of focus. You know what coaches and players say all the time…“one game at a time”…”we can’t look past our next opponent”…”our biggest game is the next game”. They are tired clichés, but usually the teams that adhere to them avoid upsets and will still be playing in two weeks. Here are ALL the finals as the Stretch Run continues on the Eighth Friday of the season. Games with (MSA) following can be heard archived here on The Network. WPIAL CLASS AAAA Foothills Conference: McKeesport Tigers 35 - Norwin Knights 14 (MSA)MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Volleyball Playoff Teams – 10/17/2014
Here is the FINAL edition of the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls volleyball rankings for the 2014 regular season. However this time, we will rank ALL of the district playoff teams in each classification instead of just the top ten teams. Monday, we will have the 2014 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Playoff Pairings Show on Monday at 6:00pm as we begin our exclusive two week coverage of the district playoffs ONLY here on the MSA Sports Network. Final section record in parenthesis. WPIAL CLASS AAA: (16 Teams - No Bye's, No Preliminary Round Matches) 1) SHALER TITANS (12-0)FINAL 2014 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Standings
Here are the FINAL WPIAL girls volleyball standings for the 2014 season, including the final playoff clinchings. Standings will be updated daily through the regular season, leading up to MSA Sports EXCLUSIVE coverage of the 2014 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Playoffs in October. Also, don't forget to click on the Girls Volleyball sports page for information on the 2014 MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program and don't miss the 2014 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Playoff Pairings Show Monday night at 6:00pm here on MSA Sports. Only section record is shown. MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program teams are capitalized.North Allegheny & Sewickley Academy Win WPIAL Team Tennis Gold
October 16, 2014
Two programs with recent success walked away from Bethel Park High School on Thursday with district gold. North Allegheny repeated as Class AAA champs by knocking off Shady Side Academy, while Sewickley Academy claimed a fourth WPIAL Class AA championship in the last seven years with a victory over cinderella Indiana. Here are ALL of the results from 2014 WPIAL Girls Team Tennis Playoffs. WPIAL CLASS AAA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: North Allegheny Tigers 4 - Shady Side Academy Indians 1 WPIAL CLASS AAA Consolation: Mount Lebanon Blue Devils 5 - Peters Township Indians 0 WPIAL CLASS AAA Semifinals:Chicks Picks – Week Eight – 2014
Welcome to Week 8 of the high school football season. The Stretch Run continues this week as we near the end of the regular season. Each year at this time, Chick’s Picks likes to celebrate the Stretch Run by seeking out the latest fitness trend and planning a group activity involving it with all of Team MSA. This year, her activity of choice was Aerial Yoga. Aerial Yoga is a new way to practice traditional yoga, which involves the use of fabric hammocks suspended from the ceiling. Participants use the hammocks to explore fluid, floating poses, rather than classic mat yoga poses.2014 PIAA Individual Golf Western Regionals
The PIAA held their state Semifinals in golf on Tuesday, a little event known as the PIAA Western Regional Championships. It was a good day at the Toms run Golf Course for WPIAL golfers as 10 boys Class AAA, 13 boys Class AA, 7 girls Class AAA and 5 girls Class AA golfer qualified for the PIAA Individual Golf Championships October 20th and 21st at the Heritage Hills Golf Resort in York. BOYS CLASS AAA (Top 12 Qualify): Sasha Lobel (Allderdice) - 73 Anthony Cordaro (Fox Chapel) - 74 Zack Taylor (Baldwin) - 74 Harison Laskey (Laurel Highlands) - 75 Alex Stopperich (Peters Township) - 75District College Football Preview for Saturday, October 18th
October 15, 2014
Week seven of the local college football season has a little of everything this week. A Thursday night game, battles for first place in the NEC, PSAC West and PAC and two local teams making a trip to Michigan to play in the Big House. Here are previews of ALL the games, including two that can be heard here on the Network: Gannon (4-2) at Edinboro (1-5) Thursday 7pm Thursday night football comes to Erie County. Gannon has lost two straight and is now 3-2 in the West Division. RB Brock Jones leads the offense, he is seventh in D-II at 142 rushing yards per game, he has scored eight touchdowns. QB Liam Nadler has thrown for over 14 hundred yards and has eleven touchdown passes.WPIAL Big Game Hunting – Week Eight – 10/15/2014
Before we move on to week eight here at Big Game Hunting, a reminder, you need to go into the archive and listen to Lanny and Bobby on the call of the West Allegheny overtime win against Woody High in week seven. It is a shining example of why you should never ever find yourself anywhere else on a Friday night other than right here at The Network. Go ahead, I will wait, in fact here is the link http://www.msasports.net/broadcasts/woodland-hills-boys-football-at-west-allegheny-boys-football-02014 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Standings – 10/15
Here are the latest WPIAL girls volleyball standings for the 2014 season, including the latest playoff clinchings. Standings will be updated daily through the regular season, leading up to MSA Sports EXCLUSIVE coverage of the 2014 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Playoffs in October. Also, don't forget to click on the Girls Volleyball sports page for information on the 2014 MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program and don't miss the Hometown Girls Volleyball Show every Monday night at 7:00pm here on MSA Sports. Only section record is shown. MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program teams are capitalized.WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Seven 2014
October 14, 2014
What a memorable week seven of this 2014 WPIAL football season. With nine games decided by a touchdown or less, the Stretch Run was kicked off with a bang. Now it’s time for playoff clinchings, playoff positioning and conference titles to be won. With only two weeks left of the regular season, let’s take a look back at the top plays from week seven: 1. West Allegheny 42, Woodland Hills 41 (OT)
