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WPIAL Friday Night HighLights for 9/5
September 6, 2014
Here at MSA Sports, we like to spread the wealth when it comes to shining our spotlight. It seems some players shine for top teams each and every week. Sure, we will acknowledge their greatness, but we also like to tip our cap to those players and teams that are not steady contributors in each week to the 'W' column around the WPIAL. When they do, we want to salute high and proud. So without further adieu, we shine on the brightest performance from Week Two. Ben DiNucci - Pine-RichlandWPIAL & City League Saturday Football Scores – 09/06/2014
After a somewhat busy start to the Saturday high school football schedule in District 7 last week, an expected quiet second Saturday got a little busier thanks to some ball dropping in Washington County. a miscommunication between the schools and game officials forced the postponement of a Tri-County South Conference contest Friday night, thus California at Avella became the third wheel on the Saturday slate. Here are all three final results, thus closing the curtain on Week Two. Games marked with (MSA) can be heard archived here at www.MSAsports.net WPIAL CLASS A Eastern Conference: Monessen Greyhounds 35 - Riverview Raiders 26 (MSA) WPIAL CLASS A Big 7 Conference:Scholastic Notebook – 09/05/2014
September 5, 2014
It is a recurring storyline at Indiana High School. The Stapletons are staples of the football team. It has been the story in recent years at Indiana, and it is again this season. Two of the four Stapleton brothers had big impacts on the Little Indians’ opening-night upset victory against Mars last Friday. Riley Stapleton, a 6-5 senior receiver, caught seven passes for 95 yards and scored a touchdown. Dylan Stapleton, a 6-4 junior, caught five passes for 111 yards and scored two touchdowns.WPIAL & City League Friday Football Scores – 09/05/2014
With 124 football teams in the WPIAL and 6 in the Pittsburgh City League, that means there are 62 District 7 football games each weekend and anywhere from 3 to 6 District 8 games. Week two of this 2014 football season gave us the busiest Friday of the regular season with 60 WPIAL games (actually 59 games) and three more in the City League. While it will make for a quiet Saturday, here is the loooooong list of final results from Friday night. WPIAL CLASS AAAA Northern Eight Conference: Pine-Richland Rams 27 - North Allegheny Tigers 24 in Overtime Fox Chapel Foxes 41 - Seneca Valley Raiders 12 Pittsburgh Central Catholic Vikings 31 - Shaler Titans 0 WPIAL CLASS AAAA Southeastern Conference:Chicks Picks – Week Two – 2014
September 4, 2014
Welcome to Week 2 of the high school football season. Network superstar Sam Hall contacted Chick’s Picks this week to invite her on an adventure like no other – the opportunity to join him on one of his daily morning helicopter rides. Chick’s Picks was hesitant, as panic typically sets in when performing any activity in which her feet leave the ground. Smooth-talking Sam sealed the deal, though, using a classic line: “Come on Chixy, you’ll see the city like you’ve never seen it before.”District College Football Preview for Saturday, September 6th
The 2014 local college football season kicks off with several games this weekend, three of which can be heard on the Network. Can Slippery Rock head back to the NCAA playoffs. can W & J win another PAC crown and can Geneva get back on the winning track. Here are previews of all of Saturday's action: Kutztown at Slippery Rock 6pm Kutztown was picked in the middle of the pack in the PSAC East. The Golden Bears will have a new coach in 2014 as Jim Clements takes over. Kutztown has won three straight games. QB Josh Luckenbaugh returns, he threw for 1,120 yards and twelve touchdowns last season but was intercepted nine times.WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week One 2014
Welcome back, WPIAL football! And welcome back Plays of the Week. Week one was one of the more memorable in recent memory. Upsets, numerous last-second field goals, multiple games going to overtime. The bar, needless to say, has been set high for the rest of 2014. Until then, enjoy the Week One Plays of the Week:WPIAL Big Game Hunting – Week Two 2014
September 3, 2014
WPIAL Football never seems to let you down. It also never surprises me how quickly the regular season goes flying by. Especially now with conference re-alignment from last season pushing conference games up to the top of the schedule, the games become very important right out of the gate. In fact, many teams only play conference games. Getting inside a kids head and making sure they know that games in early September count every bit as much as the ones in mid-October in determining if you play in November can be a tall task for coaches around the league. Here are four great ones that will weigh heavily down the road. Yes, I just talked about playoffs in week two. I can do what I want, I write Big Game Hunting!MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Boys Soccer – 09/03/2014
For the first time in 2014...here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL boys soccer rankings for the week of September 1st. You can check out the new rankings every Wednesday through the regular season with weekly matches heard live and archived, including exclusive coverage of the 2014 WPIAL Boys Soccer Playoffs and the Pro Grass Girls Soccer Player of the Month in September, October and November ONLY here on the MSA Sports Network. WPIAL BOYS SOCCER CLASS AAA: 1) PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS (2-0-0) (Last Week *) 2) UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS (1-0-1) (Last Week *) 3) CANON-McMILLAN BIG MACS (2-0-0) (Last Week *)MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Soccer – 09/02/2014
September 2, 2014
For the first time in 2014...here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls soccer rankings for the week of September 1st. You can check out the new rankings every Tuesday through the regular season with weekly matches heard live and archived, including exclusive coverage of the 2014 WPIAL Girls Soccer Playoffs and the Pro Grass Girls Soccer Player of the Month in September, October and November ONLY here on the MSA Sports Network. WPIAL GIRLS SOCCER CLASS AAA: 1) SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS (1-0-0) (Last Week *) 2) PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS (2-0-0) (Last Week *) 3) UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS (1-0-1) (Last Week *)MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 09/01/2014
September 1, 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. WOODLAND HILLS WOLVERINES (1-0) (Last Week #1) (Week Two - at Bethel Park on MSA)This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 09/01/2014
While others spend their time creating smoke and polishing mirrors, we spend our time on our Labor of love here in September with plenty of high school and college fall sports action this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We move into Week Two of the 2014 season with 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.WPIAL Saturday’s Scholastic Starz for 8/30
August 31, 2014
Saturday football continues to become more rare with each passing school year. Now that Geibel Catholic is not fielding a team this season (moment of silence), the WPIAL now only has four schools that play a majority of their home games on Saturday afternoon: Summit Academy, Wilkinsburg, Riverview & Western Beaver. But that doesn't mean good things don't happen the day after Friday night lights. Here are the top five performances from a rather busy first Saturday of 2014. Tyler Perone - Seton-LaSalleWPIAL Friday Night HighLights for 8/29
August 30, 2014
The curtain rose Friday night on the 2014 WPIAL football season. Once again this season, MSA Sports will take time to look at ackowledge the top performances each Friday night with a little piece we call Friday Night HighLights. Sometimes they have gaudy numbers, sometimes they just grind it out, most times its an individual , but there are times we tip our cap to an entire unit or team. Whatever the case, here are the top performances that led to an opening night victory. Nicolas Coxon - PlumWPIAL & City League Saturday Football Scores – 08/30/2014
While the first Friday of the 2014 high school football season is in the books, opening weekend is not over yet. The first Saturday of the new scholastic pigskin campaign was a rather busy one with two WPIAL Class AA conference contests, three WPIAL Class A matchups and one non-conference game from the Pittsburgh City League. Here are ALL the district high school football results from the next to the last day of August. Games marked with (MSA) can be heard archived here on MSAsports.net WPIAL CLASS AA Midwestern Athletic Conference: Ellwood City Wolverines 35 - Summit Academy Knights 0 (MSA) WPIAL CLASS AA Century Conference: Seton-LaSalle Rebels 19 - South Park Eagles 8 (MSA)2014 WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League Football Standings
Here are the latest WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League football standings through Saturday of Week One of the 2014 high school football season. Standings are updated after each game on Thursday, 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. CLASS AAAA FOOTHILLS CONFERENCE TEAMWPIAL & City League Friday Football Scores – 08/28/2014
August 28, 2014
After a month of preparation, Countdown to Kickoff has come to an end, giving way to the start of a new high school football season. Every team began with a clean slate and with golden hopes and dreams. Here is a rundown of ALL of the finals from the First Friday of football in both the WPIAL and the Pittsburgh City League. WPIAL CLASS AAAA Southeastern Conference: Penn Hills Indians 31 - Upper St. Clair Panthers 13 Woodland Hills Wolverines 27 - Peters Township Indians 0 Mount Lebanon Blue Devils 40 - Canon-McMillan Big Macs 0 WPIAL CLASS AAAA Northern Eight Conference: North Allegheny Tigers 14 - Seneca Valley Raiders 0 North Hills Indians 35 - Fox Chapel Foxes 7Chicks Picks – Week One – 2014
Welcome to Week 1 of the high school football season. The ice bucket challenge has taken over social media outlets everywhere over the last several weeks. Chick’s Picks recently accepted the challenge – which raises money for ALS – and then, once completed, appropriately passed the challenge onto three others. Spending countless hours selecting her chosen three, Chick’s Picks finally narrowed down her list to two old pals from college, and, last but not least, The Fumbler. Chick’s Picks selected her biggest prognosticating rival for the challenge after realizing that she had been tolerating The Fumbler’s competitive taunting for 15 years—and there was no one she would rather see dump a chilly, ice-filled bucket upon their head than him.WPIAL Big Game Hunting – Week One 2014
August 27, 2014
We’re back! MSA is delighted to begin their 16th season of high school sports and I am very happy to continue in my second decade with the network and, can you believe it my 6th year already of writing BGH. Where does the time go? Not a question we care to try and answer here in Big Game Hunting but, where should you go with your smart phone or radio dial in week one of the 2014 WPIAL football season? That we can definitely help with. So forget the time and let’s go Big Game Hunting!CTK ’14: MSA Sports Preseason Top Ten – WPIAL Class A
Each and every Monday during the regular season, the MSA Sports Network will rank the Top Ten football teams in each classification. With days to go before the 2014 WPIAL football season kicks off, we present our Pre-season Top Ten teams. This article, we present the Top Ten in Class A. Final 2013 record is in parenthesis. WPIAL CLASS A PRE-SEASON WPIAL FOOTBALL TOP TEN: 1. CARDINAL WUERL NORTH CATHOLIC TROJANS (16-0) (Week One - at Northgate on MSA) 2. CLAIRTON BEARS (10-2) (Week One - at California)
