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WPIAL Baseball Playoff Recaps for Wednesday, May 15th
May 15, 2013
The turn-around from the First Round to the Quarterfinals was a quick one for all but one WPIAL baseball playoff team. 63 teams cut to 32 on Monday, then 32 shrunk to 16 48 hours later. But now the Final Four is set in each classification with the Semifinals set for next week. Here are recaps from all 16 games played on Quarterfinals Wednesday in the WPIAL Baseball Playoffs.A special thanks to Mark Schaas, Randy Gore, Sam Hall, Mark Uriah, Jason Tennant, Josh Rowntree, Bob Gregg, Lee Mohn, Mike Azadian, Don Rebel, Bob Orkwis, Adam Hoerner and Bob Barrickman for their help on these recaps. WPIAL CLASS AAAA Quarterfinals:

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WPIAL Softball Playoff Recaps for Tuesday, May 14th
May 14, 2013
The curtain rose on the 2013 WPIAL Softball Playoffs on Tuesday....well, at least for half the postseason field. Whle the Class AAA and Class A team will have to wait until Thursday, Class AAAA and Class AA teams had at it to get the postseason off to a flying start. While most of the results were expected, there was one eye-brow raiser in each class. Here are recaps from the 12 softball games played on Tuesday. A special thanks to Bob Gregg, Mike Azadian, Mike Sackley, Chris Lackner, Mark Schaas, Adam Hoerner. Steve Nagler, Josh Rowntree and Don Rebel for their help on these recaps.WPIAL CLASS AAAA First Round:

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WPIAL Baseball Playoff Recaps for Monday, May 13th
May 13, 2013
For the first time in several years, opening day of the WPIAL baseball playoffs was not affected by the weather. On second thought, it was not affected by wet weather as chilly, brisk temperatures made if fell more like late-March rather than mid-May. But make no mistake about it, this was playoff baseball as 64 teams shooting for four championships was cut to 32 squads on one day. Here are recaps from the First Round of the 2013 WPIAL baseball Playoffs.A special thanks to Josh Rowntree, Sam Hall, Chris Lackner, Lee Mohn, Greg Kuntz, Randy Gore, Bob Orkwis, Bobby Fox, Jason Tennant, Steve Nagler, Mike Azadian, Melissa Carle, Bob Gregg, Dennis Fischer and Adam Hoerner for their help on these recaps.  WPIAL CLASS AAAA First Round:

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This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 05/12/2013
May 12, 2013
Everybody not playing will be tuned in starting this week for EXCLUSIVE coverage of all the WPIAL springs sports playoffs starting this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We have First Round and Quarterfinals WPIAL baseball action, First Round play in the WPIAL softball playoffs as well as the start of the District 7 boys and girls lacrosse and boys volleyball postseason tournaments, plus the 2013 WPIAL Individual Track and Field Wrap-up Show, all the latest news form the world of auto racing with another edition of Rappin on Racin and the start of the 2013 Frontier League with another year of Washington Wild Things baseball ALL here ONLY at MSAsports.netMonday, May 13th:TALK SHOW - Rappin on Racin at 6:00pm on MSAsports.net

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FINAL 2013 WPIAL Baseball Standings
May 11, 2013
Here are the FINAL WPIAL baseball standings for the 2013 season. The standings will be updated daily throughout the regular season...including the FINAL WPIAL playoff clinchings with 64 teams postseason bound. You can follow the district high school baseball season with schedules, scores, weekly rankings every Monday and game broadcasts every day through the postseason here on the MSA Sports Network.The top three teams in each section qualify for the WPIAL playoffs while the top eight teams make the Pittsburgh City League postseason.# - Clinched Section Title    * - Clinched Playoff Berth x - Eliminated From Playoff Contention

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WPIAL Baseball Playoff Recap for Saturday, May 11th
The 2013 WPIAL Baseball Playoffs opened Saturday afternoon with one lone Preliminary Round contest. With the Class AAA 16th-seed decide, the stage is now set for a very busy First Round in all four classifications on Monday. Here is the recap from the pigtail game played on a chilly Saturday afternoon.WPIAL CLASS AAA Preliminary Round: Yough Cougars 3  -  Knoch Knights 2The Cougars scored all three runs in the third inning without a ball leaving the infield and held on for dear life in the seventh for their first playoff win in over ten years and a meeting with unbeaten South Park on Monday.

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FINAL 2013 WPIAL Softball Standings
May 10, 2013
Here are the FINAL WPIAL softball standings. The standings will be updated daily through the 2013 regular season...including the FINAL WPIAL playoff clinchings with 58 teams postseason bound. You can follow the high school softball season with schedules, scores, weekly rankings every Tuesday and game broadcasts, including another year of the MSA Sports Hometown Softball Program here on the MSA Sports Network. The top three teams in each section qualify for the WPIAL playoffs. The 2013 WPIAL Softball Playoffs ONLY on the MSA Sports Network will be sponsored by Carlow University. # - Clinched Section Title * - Clinched Playoff Berth x - Eliminated From Playoff Contention

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WPIAL Boys Volleyball Playoff Clinchings
The 2013 WPIAL Boys Volleyball Playoffs begin next week with the brackets being released on Monday. So as we hit the final night of section play and the regular season, here are the 24 WPIAL boys volleyball teams that have punched their ticket for the District 7 postseason.WPIAL Boys Volleyball Class AAA: (SET WITH 12 PLAYOFF TEAMS - FOUR FIRST ROUND BYES)Section 1: (Section Record) Bethel Park Black Hawks : (11-1) Peters Township Indians : (9-2) Upper St. Clair Panthers : (9-3) Baldwin Highlanders : (6-6)

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Shady Side and Sewickley Keep the Academy’s Golden in WPIAL Boys Team Tennis
May 9, 2013
Since 2004, Sewickley Academy has sat atop the WPIAL Boys Team Tennis Double A classification as champion. Call it a Golden Decade. The streak continued Thursday as the Panthers captured their 10th straight district team tennis crown with a victory over Mars. It's not as long, but in Class AAA, Shady Side Academy swept past North Allegheny to win a 3rd consecutive tennis title for the Indians. Here are ALL of the results from the 2013 WPIAL Boys Team Tennis Playoffs.2013 WPIAL CLASS AAA TEAM TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:Shady Side Academy Indians 5 - North Allegheny Tigers 0WPIAL CLASS AAA Semifinals:Shady Side Academy Indians 4 - Mount Lebanon Blue Devils 0

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North Allegheny and Washington Win Gold in the 2013 WPIAL Boys Team Track & Field Finals
An old-new champion was crowned in Class AAA Thursday at Baldwin High School in the boys team track finals. It is the 9th WPIAL team championship for North Allegheny, but only the Tigers first in five years. NA knocked out two-time defending champion Hempfield en route to the gold. In Class AA, Washington won its second straight district title, the 4th AA team track championship overall for the Little Prexies. Here are the results from the Semifinals and Championship Finals in the 2013 WPIAL Boys Team Track & Field Playoffs. 

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Hempfield and South Fayette are the Golden Girls of WPIAL Team Track & Field in 2013
Hempfield won their first WPIAL girls team track championship in 1984 and waited 27 years for their second crown. The wait for a third district title was a bit shorter...12 month to be exact as the Spartans won gold for a second consecutive season Thursday at Baldwin High School. Meanwhile, South Fayette captured the schools first ever girls team track gold by edging Beaver, Southmoreland and two-time defending champion Freeport. Here are the results from the Semifinals and Championship Finals in the 2013 WPIAL Girls Team Track & Field Playoffs. 

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Baseball Playoff Teams – 05/08/2013
May 8, 2013
Every week during the regular season, MSA Sports ranks the Top Ten teams in each of the four classifications. It’s a sliding system based on wins and losses that week. Our final ranking is more of a seeding as we attempt to put together our own little playoff bracket based on what we believe the WPIAL steering committee might do Thursday.The WPIAL Baseball Playoff Pairings Show can be heard Friday night at 7:00pm only here on the MSA Sports Network.The records are overall through Tuesday.WPIAL BASEBALL CLASS AAAA:

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Softball Playoff Teams – 05/08/2013
Every week during the regular season, MSA Sports ranks the Top Ten teams in each of the four classifications. Its a sliding system based on wins and losses that week. Our final ranking is more of a seeding as we attempt to put together our own little playoff bracket based on what we believe the WPIAL steering committee might do Thursday.The WPIAL Softball Playoff Pairings Show can be heard Thursday night at 6:00pm only here on the MSA Sports Network.The records are overall through Tuesday.WPIAL SOFTBALL CLASS AAAA:

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2013 WPIAL Boys Volleyball Standings
Here are the latest standings for the 2013 WPIAL Boys Volleyball season...including the FINAL WPIAL playoff clinchings with 24 teams postseason bound. You can follow the WPIAL Boys Volleyball regular season with updated results, standings, and rankings every Wednesday, plus regular season and postseason broadcasts only here on the MSA Sports Network.Top four teams in each section make the playoffs. If there is a tie for fourth place, head-to-head will be the tiebreaker. If there is a split in the head-to-head, both tied teams make the playoffs.# - Clinched Section Title    * - Clinched Playoff Berth x - Eliminated From Playoff Race

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This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 05/06/2013
May 6, 2013
we have hit the final week of the regular season in high school baseball, high school softball, high school lacrosse and high school boys volleyball this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We have plenty of WPIAL and District 6 high school baseball and softball coverage along with WPIAL high school boys and girls lacrosse and WPIAL boys volleyball, plus we have the latest news form the world of auto racing with another edition of Rappin on Racin ALL here at MSAsports.netMonday, May 6th:TALK SHOW - Rappin on Racin at 6:00pm on MSAsports.netWPIAL High School Baseball - Uniontown vs Laurel Highlands at 4:00pm on WMBS-AM 590WPIAL High School Baseball - Belle Vernon vs Elizabeth Forward at 3:45pm on MSAsports.net

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Scholastic Notebook – 05/06/2013

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WPIAL Softball Playoff Clinchings
May 5, 2013

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WPIAL Baseball Playoff Clinchings

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Hometown Softball Program Game Recap For Elizabeth Forward Warriors – 05/03/2015
May 3, 2013

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Hometown Softball Program Game Recap For Baldwin vs Bethel Park
The 2013 WPIAL playoffs started a little early Thursday in the South Hills as Baldwin visited Bethel Park in a win-and-your-in battle for third place in Class AAAA Section 4. When all was said and done, youth was served again as the freshmen led Highlanders knocked out the Black Hawks 9-5.Baldwin broke a scoreless tie in the third inning when after Jaimie Schleicher reached on an error, Kayla Ebert's pop fly fell safely when Bethel Park second baseman Julia Sherwin lost it in the sun. Abbey Suhoski tripled home both, then scored on a ground ball to the shortstop.The Highlanders added to their lead in the fourth inning on the first of three triples by Eberst scored Breanna Meyer who led the inning off with a single.

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