Football
WPIAL Saturdays Scholastic Starz – Week Nine
October 29, 2017
While the final Friday of the regular season in district high school football was spectacular weather wise, the final Saturday was, well, not so much. Chilly, blustery and rainy was what eight teams had to play through to close the curtain on Week Nine. But while the weather conditions were bleak to say the least, […]
WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week Nine 2017
October 28, 2017
Mother Nature must love her high school football. After a chilly and wet week of weather, it was another glorious Friday from the scholastic gridirons weather wise. There were only nine WPIAL football playoff spots up for grabs heading into Friday of Week Nine, but there were plenty of playoff positions, some home field advantage […]
WPIAL Week Nine Saturday Football Scores 2017
Last call…for regular season district high school football! Two Class 1-A conference games joinrf with a pair of non-conference frays to close out the 2017 regular season in muddy style. Both of the conference games impacted the final playoff order in Single-A, but very little else was at stake outside of momentum heading into the […]
FINAL WPIAL Football Playoff Qualifiers
October 27, 2017
All 64 teams are now set for a postseason cruise on the Highway to Heinz or the Road to Robert Morris heading into the final day of the regular season. Here is the final WPIAL football playoff picture with the order of the postseason teams from each conference. 6-A, 5-A and 4-A – Top 4 […]
WPIAL/City League Week Nine Friday Football Scores
Here are the Week Nine final scores. The curtain has closed on the 2017 WPIAL regular season for all but 8 teams, who are still waiting for their Saturday gridiron action. 6-A Northern Seven Conference: Pine-Richland Rams 48 – North Allegheny Tigers 28 (F) Pittsburgh Central Catholic Vikings 21 – Penn Hills Indians 0 (F) […]
Chicks Picks – Week Nine – 2017
October 26, 2017
Welcome to Week 9 of the high school football season. It’s that time of year again when the fall colors abound. At a quick glance, we can see the many shades of orange, red, yellow, and yes, pink. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Once upon a time, the color pink signified delicacy and femininity. For […]
Big Game Hunting – Week Nine
October 25, 2017
I often think how funny it is to see all the work that goes into figuring out playoff scenarios, especially some of the deep-down tiebreaker stuff. The procrastinator in me just says, “week nine is coming, it will all be sorted right out there, so why bother doing the actual math?” Once again, as it […]
WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Eight 2017
October 24, 2017
Unbelievably, the 2017 football regular season is already nearing a conclusion, as last Friday marked the penultimate week. As the stretch run continued, the playoff picture throughout the WPIAL became much clearer. Several key plays proved instrumental to the outcomes, including a Cinderella team standing tall defensively to close out a wild shootout, a long […]
TribLive High School Sports Network Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/24/2017
Each and every Monday during the regular season, the new TribLive High School Sports Network will rank the Top Ten seven in 6-A and top ten football teams in each of the other five classifications. Here are the rankings following Week Seven of the 2017 high school football season. WPIAL CLASS 6-A WPIAL FOOTBALL TOP […]
This Week on the TribLive High School Sports Network – 10/23/2017
October 23, 2017
While the high school football ‘Stretch Run’ concludes, the high school soccer playoffs continue while both the girls volleyball and girls field hockey postseason begins this week here on the new TribLive High School Sports Network. We wrap up the Stretch Run of the 2017 WPIAL football season with Week Nine and The Network has […]
WPIAL Alum Q&A – Jon Girvin
Some of the best stories in sports are teams that go from basement-dwellers to championship contenders in a short period of time. For Jon Girvin, he was a part of two teams’ turnarounds in high school, and one in college, too. Girvin, a two-sport standout at Northgate High School, has also been a two-sport athlete […]
2017 WPIAL Football Standings & Playoff Clinchings
October 22, 2017
Here are the latest WPIAL football standings through Week Eight of the 2017 high school football season…including the latest WPIAL playoff clinchings. Once again this year, we have added points for and points against as well as the updated WPIAL tiebreaker points for all 121 WPIAL teams. Standings are updated after Friday and Saturday’s scholastic […]
Saturdays Scholastic Starz – Week Eight
One was a conference game, the other was a non-conference fray. One game pitted a pair of playoff hopefuls while the other matched squads that have already had their ticket punched to play meaningful November football. Here are the two players who stood out above the pack under the Saturday sun in Week Eight. Antonio […]
WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week Eight 2017
October 21, 2017
Some of the performances below were critical for teams fighting for playoff positioning or just a berth into the district high school football playoffs. Others were just for old fashioned team and school pride as dreams of the ‘second season’ have been dashed this fall. Whatever the case, here are some of the brilliant performances […]
WPIAL/City League Week Eight Saturday Football Scores
There were three Saturday afternoon high school football games to close the doors on Week Eight. Two of the games were non-conference contests along with one key Class 1-A Big 7 Conference game with playoff hopefuls going head-to-head. Even the two non-conference contests featured three playoff bound district teams. Here are ALL the results from […]
WPIAL/City League Week Eight Friday Football Scores
October 20, 2017
The middle week of ‘The Stretch Run’ means time is running out. Tick, Tick, Tick for teams fighting for a conference title, for home field or for a playoff spot. Many are already in and other will join the postseason parade this evening. And while the weather may say Mid-September, the action on the gridiron […]
Chicks Picks – Week Eight – 2017
October 19, 2017
Welcome to Week 8 of the high school football season. Late Wednesday night, Chick’s Picks was sitting back, relaxing, and enjoying some TV. Suddenly, out of the blue, a Twitter war broke out among local prognosticators. Although Chick’s Picks had done nothing but mind her own business, one of her rivals called her out – […]
Big Game Hunting – Week Eight
The penultimate weekend of the regular season is here and there is still so much to decide. There were some big upsets last week and some things got sorted out. Just two playoff spots remain in 6-A entering week eight and a single spot remains unclaimed in 5-A. Meanwhile in the smaller classifications things are […]
WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Seven 2017
October 17, 2017
The seventh week of the WPIAL football season officially begins the “stretch run” of the campaign. While some teams have already punched their tickets to the postseason, several games this past week had major implications on playoff positioning. Among the notable plays were a touchdown pass that fueled an upset of the top team in […]
