Football

CTK 2011 – WPIAL A Big 7 Conference Preview

August 30, 2011

The story of the Big Seven Conference has always been the same over the past several years...just how good is Rochester going to be? The Rams have been the standard-bearer, but are still smarting after two title game losses in the last two seasons.

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CTK 2011 – MSA Sports Top 10: WPIAL Preseason Class AA

With kickoff of the 2011 WPIAL football season less than a week away, MSA Sports continues our 'Countdown to Kickoff 2011' with the WPIAL Preseason Top Ten rankings. The weekly rankings will be released each Monday during the regular season. Here is the Preseason Class AA Top Ten.MSA SPORTS PRESEASON TOP TEN WPIAL CLASS AA:

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CTK 2011 – MSA Sports Top 10: WPIAL Preseason Class AAA

With kickoff of the 2011 WPIAL football season less than a week away, MSA Sports continues our 'Countdown to Kickoff 2011' with the WPIAL Preseason Top Ten rankings. The weekly rankings will be released each Monday during the regular season. Here is the Preseason Class AAA Top Ten.MSA SPORTS PRESEASON TOP TEN WPIAL CLASS AAA:

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This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 08/30/2011

IT's TIME! The 2011 high school football season kicks off as we say so long to August and hello to September this week on the MSA Sports Network.

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CTK 2011 – MSA Sports Top 10: WPIAL Preseason Class AAAA

August 28, 2011

With kickoff of the 2011 WPIAL football season less than a week away, MSA Sports continues our 'Countdown to Kickoff 2011' with the WPIAL Preseason Top Ten rankings. The weekly rankings will be released each Monday during the regular season. Here is the Preseason Class AAAA Top Ten.MSA SPORTS PRESEASON TOP TEN WPIAL CLASS AAAA:

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL A BLACK HILLS Conference Preview

In dedication to Clairton's school colors, maybe they should change the name of this Class A section to the Black AND Orange Hills Conference. The Bears have dominated the WPIAL and the state in recent years, but they have really done a number in the Black Hills since moving over from the Eastern Conference in 2008.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL A EASTERN Conference Preview

This is a conference that has a lot of new faces - and a couple of old faces.Avonworth, Leechburg, Northgate and Wilkinsburg all have new coaches. Meanwhile, Springdale coach Chuck Wagner and Bishop Canevin coach Bob Jacoby have 84 years of head coaching experience between them.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AA ALLEGHENY Conference Preview

August 27, 2011

Either Ford City or Shady Side Academy has won or tied for the conference championship six years in a row. Don’t look for the trend to stop this season.Ford City and Shady Side Academy are pegged by many coaches as the teams to beat in the Allegheny Conference. A year ago, Ford City finished first and Shady Side Academy fourth.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AA MIDWESTERN Conference Preview

As much as the teams change in the MAC, some things remain the same...Aliquippa, Beaver Falls and Beaver are all favored in the conference going into 2011.But will there be another feel-good story from the Midwestern this season? In 2009, Ellwood City ended a looong losing streak, then qualified for the playoffs in 2010.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AA INTERSTATE Conference Preview

August 25, 2011

Greensburg Central Catholic has won or tied for the Interstate Conference title five times since joining in 2002. Jeannette has won or tied for the Interstate title three times since 2002.Don’t look for much to change this season.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AA CENTURY Conference Preview

The Century Conference has always been one of the most competitive conferences from top to bottom in the WPIAL. Just three years ago, the conference crowned tri-champions in Sto-Rox, Seton-LaSalle and Keystone Oaks. But since winning three of four WPIAL Class AA championships from 2002 through 2005, Century Conference teams had been in a four year title drought until last fall.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AAA KEYSTONE Conference Preview

August 24, 2011

Although the Keystone Conference was winless once again in the 2010 postseason, the conference was improved. The addition of Franklin Regional helped strengthen the conference, and Ringgold had one of its best teams in a while.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AAA GREATER ALLEGHNEY Conference Preview

Quietly, the Greater Allegheny Conference in Class AAA has become a primetime postseason player...at least in the First Round. A year ago, the four playoff teams (Mars, Knoch, Indiana and Highlands) in the GAC were a combined 3-1, giving the conference a 6-2 record in the opening round of the WPIAL playoffs the past two years.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL/City League Week Two Scrimmages

One scrimmage is in the books and one more coming up this weekend as WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League football teams continue to prepare for the kickoff of the 2011 season. Scrimmage number two will take place for most teams this Friday, August 26th with two taking place on Thursday, August 25th and two more being played on Saturday, August 27th.

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This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 08/24/2011

While Countdown to Kickoff heats up as we inch closer to the start of the high school football season, August starts winding down with its final full week, this week on the MSA Sports Network.

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Terrell Pryor Selected by Oakland in NFL Supplemental Draft

One of the most celebrated athletes in WPIAL history has a new home. Terrell Pryor, the former Jeannette Jayhawk and Ohio State Buckeye is now Oakland Raiders property after the he was selected in the third round of Monday's NFL Supplemental Draft.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AAA PARKWAY Conference Preview

August 20, 2011

There are many things you need to know about the Parkway Conference. The first is that making the playoffs will likely lead to a trip down the Highway to Heinz to the Class AAA Championship Game.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AAA BIG EIGHT Conference Preview

Discussions about the race for the conference crown in the Big Eight usually start and end with the big one. Thomas Jefferson.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AAAA BIG EAST Conference Preview

August 19, 2011

This is the second season that the Big East is a little bigger. This is the second season that Altoona is in the WPIAL and in the Big East Conference. Altoona can only hope this goes a little better than the first as the team finished 0-9 last year and was outscored 354-118.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AAAA GREAT SOUTHERN Conference Preview

August 16, 2011

In the first eleven years of this century, three different Great Southern Conference teams won WPIAL football championships (Mount Lebanon in 2000, Upper St. Clair in 2006 and Bethel Park in 2008), nearly matching the total from the other three conferences combined (Woodland Hills, Pittsburgh Central Catholic, McKeesport, North Allegheny).

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