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Mayo Steps Down at Shenango
November 6, 2012
The Shenango Wildcats are looking for a new football coach. Ryan Mayo annouced his resignation after 6 years at the helm. The Cats finished 3-6 this season.Mayo was hired in March of 2007, he compiled a 21-34 record at Shenango and did not make the playoffs in his term. The Wildcats were 7-18 at home over the same period and will carry an 8 game home losing streak into 2013.The resignation will not become official until the Shenango school board meets on Monday.WPIAL Plays of the Week – First Round
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November 5, 2012
The Highway to Heinz continues toward the second exit this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We have ALL 16 WPIAL Quarterfinals football playoff games starting with the MSA Sports Pregame Show and concluding with the one and only MSA Sports/WPIAL High School Football Scoreboard Show. We also have five District 6 high school football playoff games concluding with the D-6 Scoreboard Show, plus we have college football, PIAA Girls Volleyball state playoff action, men's and women's college basketball, the debut of PIHL high school hockey, the Second Chance at Life Charity Hockey Game and This Week in the WPIAL all this week here at MSAsports.netMonday, November 5th:Peters, Mars and Greensburg CC are the Golden Girls in WPIAL Soccer Again
Sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men do work out in the end. No, there are not any mice on the WPIAL Soccer Steering Committee, however the men and women who put together this years girls soccer postseason brackets knew what they were doing. It was #1 vs. #2 in all three championship finals, with all three top-seeds winning the gold. Peters Township won in Class AAA for the second time in three years, while Greensburg Central Catholic RE-peated in Class A and Mars THREE-peated in Class AA. Here are all of the results from the 2012 WPIAL Girls Soccer Playoffs.All scores followed with (MSA) indicates the match can be heard archived on the MSA Sports Network.2012 WPIAL CLASS AAA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:Canon-Mac, Quaker Valley & Riverside Surprising 2012 WPIAL Boys Soccer Champions
When all was said and done, three unlikely champions were draped in gold on top of the district boys soccer mountain. #13 Canon-McMillan in Class AAA, #4 Quaker Valley in Class AA and #10 Riverside in Class A all bucked the odds to win a soccer title, the first in school history for the Big Macs and Panthers and the seventh boys soccer crown for the Quakers. It was however, QV's first boys soccer championship since 1999. Here are all of the results from 2012 WPIAL Boys Soccer Playoffs.All games marked with (MSA) after the score can be heard archived on the MSA Sports Network.2012 WPIAL CLASS AAA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:Canon-McMillan Big Macs 1 - Upper St. Clair Panthers 0 (MSA)Mt. Lebanon, Mars & Greensburg CC Win 2012 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Championships
Two schools celebrated first time girls volleyball championships while another won a sixth crown out of the #5-seed. Mount Lebanon captured the Class AAA title, their second in four years, out of the fifth-seed. The Blue Devils also won district gold in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2007 and 2009. Meanwhile, special first-time champions were crowned in Class AA as Mars knocked off defending champion Hopewell, and in Class A as Greensburg Central Catholic went from wire to wire at #1. Here are ALL of the results from the 2012 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Playoffs.All games with (MSA) after the score can be heard archived on the MSA Sports Network.2012 WPIAL CLASS AAA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:2012 WPIAL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Sites for Quarters on Highway to Heinz
We have passed one exit on the 2012 journey on the Highway to Heinz and with very few surpises, we are left with some marvelous Second Round contests set for this Friday for the 32 remaining teams. Here are all of the scores from the First Round, plus the sites and times for the Quarterfinals of the 2012 WPIAL Football Playoffs.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Quarterfinals:#1 North Allegheny Tigers (10-0) vs #9 Bethel Park Black Hawks (7-3) AT Martorelli Stadium in the North Hills High School on Friday, November 9th at 7:30pm on MSAsports.net#4 Seneca Valley Raiders (9-1) vs #5 Mount Lebanon Blue Devils (8-2) AT North Allegheny High School on Friday, November 9th at 7:30pm on MSAsports.netWPIAL Week Ten Friday Night HighLights
November 4, 2012
Call it what you want...the postseason, the second season, this big dance or the Highway to Heinz. Whatever you want to call it, there is no question the WPIAL Football Playoffs are Primetime. Here are the players that shined the brightest on the first night on the grand stage.Tyler Roth - Mount LebanonThere was a lot of excitement about Butler making the WPIAL football playoffs for the first time since 1998. However their stay in the postseason was short and not so sweet thanks to the aerial attack by Tyler Roth and Mount Lebanon. Roth hit on 20 of 27 passes for 288 yards and a pair of touchdown tosses as the Blue Devils blew away the Golden Tornado 31-7 in a Class AAAA opening round matchup.Thomas Woodson - GatewayMars Shoots Down Moon For Third Straight WPIAL Girls AA Crown
Quaker Valley Wins Boys AA Crown in Dramatic 2OT Triumph Over Mars
Mount Lebanon Wins AAA Volleyball Gold over Fox Chapel
In AAA Volleyball there were 8 teams who legitimately thought they could get to the championship game. The number three seeded Fox Chapel Foxes and the fourth seeded Mount Lebanon Blue Devils fought their way through the field to get there. In the end Mount Lebanon would win their schools 6th Girls Volleyball Title 21-25, 25-13, 25-22, 25-20.The Blue Devils still have a ways to go to catch up to the leaders in girls volleyball titles. Farrell leads with 20, Norwin is second with 15, and Baldwin third with 9. Mount Lebanon has now won three of the last 6 titles in Girls AAA. Their other three titles were won between 1997-2001.Mars Dethrones Hopewell For Schools First AA Volleyball Championship
The Mars Planets girls volleyball team came into the championship tournament as the number three seed, they left as the champion after defeating the the Hopewell Vikings 25-22, 25-18, and 25-17. It was the schools first ever Girls Volleyball championshipGreensburg Central Catholic Powers Past Canevin for First Volleyball Gold
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November 3, 2012
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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.Peters Twp Duo Beat OC Duo Again to Win PIAA AAA Double Tennis Title
Sara Komer and Abby Cummings of Peters Township beat Nicole Cyterski and Megan Wasson of Oakland Catholic last month in the WPIAL Girls Doubles Championship. Saturday, the two teams met again for state gold in Hershey with the same result.Komer and Cummings swept past Cyterski and Wasson 6-4, 6-3 to win the 2012 PIAA Class AAA Girls Doubles Crown at the Hershey Racquet Club.The Peters Township duo did not lose a game in four victories in the state doubles playoffs.In the Class AA state playoffs, the WPIAL finalists of Amy Cheng and Jappmann Monga of Sewickley Academy and Chelsea Carter and Sara Kaminsky of South Park each won in the First Round before being eliminated in the PIAA Quarterfinals.PIAA Cross-Country – WPIAL Runners Come Up Empty on Gold
While there was plenty of gold in WPIAL soccer and volleyball being won, there was no gold to be had in the 2012 PIAA Cross-Country championships Saturday at Hershey Park.One of two medalists from District 7 was Shaler sophomore Brianna Schwartz, the 2012 WPIAL champion who finished second to Marissa Sheva of Pennridge with a time of 18:39 in the Girls Class AAA state championship. Mary Malone of North Hills finished in 4th place in the same race.The Mount Lebanon Blue Devils ended up finishing in fifth place in the Girls Class AAA team standings.Uniontown senior Julie Friend, the 2012 WPIAL Class AA champ, finished in fourth place in the Girls Class AA race with a time of 19:32. She helped the Red Raiders to an eighth place team finish.Peters Township Returns to Top of WPIAL Girls AAA Soccer Hill
Canon-McMillan Stuns Defending Champs, Blank USC in Boys AAA Finals
Riverside Wins First WPIAL Boys Class A Soccer Crown in Double OT Win Over GCC
The Riverside Panthers needed two halves and almost two overtimes to defeat the Greensburg Central Catholic Centurions 2-1 to win their first WPIAL Class A Boys Soccer Championship. Austin Ridgely scored with 6:44 left on a free kick from just outside the penalty area to give the Panthers their first ever championship and the first title ever for a Beaver County school. The Panthers were outshot 18-5 in the contest. Riverside entered the tournament as the #10 seed, the Panthers won 4 one-goal games to claim the title.
