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Chicks Picks – Week Five – 2012

September 27, 2012

Big Game Hunting for Week Five 2012

September 26, 2012

We cruise past the halfway point this weekend of the WPIAL football season, and big-time matchups abound throughout many of the classifications. The time has come to make some hay if you find your club in a good spot. If your favorite team is in a hole, the time has come to make your move because time waits for no man or football team. We are starting to see huge games that will have monstrous impact on playoff positioning and in one case a game that will likely determine a section championship this week, so let’s hurry along and go Big Game Hunting.

MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program – Avonworth

2012 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Standings – 09/26/2012

Here are the latest WPIAL girls volleyball standings for the 2012 season. The only place to find daily updated standings this fall for WPIAL Girls Volleyball is also the same place to hear exclusive coverage of the 2012 WPIAL Girls Volleyball Playoffs...the MSA Sports Network. Don't miss our weekly rankings each Friday during the regular season and don't forget to click on the Girls Volleyball sports page for information on the 2012 MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program.MSA Sports Hometown Girls Volleyball Program teams are capitalized and bolded.(Top 3 teams from each section qualify for playoffs) # = Clinched Section Title * = Clinched Playoff Berth x = Eliminated From Playoff Chase

MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Boys Soccer – 09/26/2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL boys soccer rankings for the week of September 24th. You can check out the new rankings every Wednesday through the regular season with daily updated boys soccer standings here on the MSA Sports Network. WPIAL CLASS AAA:1) UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS (7-0-1) (Last Week #1)2) PINE-RICHLAND RAMS (10-0-0) (Last Week #2)3) PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS (8-1-2) (Last Week #3)4) FRANKLIN REGIONAL PANTHERS (7-0-2) (Last Week #4)5) SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS (8-2-0) (Last Week #8)6) CANON-McMILLAN BIG MACS (7-2-0) (Last Week #5)

WPIAL Football Plays of the Week – Week Four

September 25, 2012

At the end of the season, we won’t be looking back at Week 4 as one of “those” weeks with dramatic moments, miracle finishes and big games. In fact, 62 of the 67 games were decided by at least two touchdowns. Regardless, we were able to sift through the blowouts and find the three most meaningful plays from the weekend. #1 Avella Eagles 26 - Jefferson-Morgan Rockets 21

MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Soccer – 09/25/2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls soccer rankings for the week of September 24th. You can check out the new rankings every Tuesday through the regular season with daily updated girls soccer standings here on the MSA Sports Network. WPIAL CLASS AAA:1) PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS (8-0-0) (Last Week #1)2) SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS (8-1-0) (Last Week #3)3) FOX CHAPEL FOXES (10-0-0) (Last Week #4)4) BETHEL PARK BLACK HAWKS (9-0-0) (Last Week #5)5) UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS (6-2-0) (Last Week #2)6) PENN-TRAFFORD WARRIORS (7-3-0) (Last Week Unranked)

Leechburg’s Matt Barto Wins WPIAL Boys Class AA Golf Gold

September 24, 2012

After finishing 7th as a freshman and tied for 2nd last year as a sophomore, Leechburg junior Matt Barto won the 2012 WPIAL Boys Class AA Individual Golf Championship Monday afternoon at the Youghiogheny Country Club in McKeesport. Barto fired a one-over 73 to edge Jesse Vensel of McGuffey, Darren Carone of Shenango and Matt Cioffi of Neshannock by two strokes.Barto was in the day's first group and had to wait for the other 14 groups to return before being crowned champion. "I was nervous each time a new group would come in," he said afterward. "I worked very hard for this. I thought I had a chance until i bogeyed 15, 16 and 17." Barto would par the 18th to finish off his title winning round of 73.

MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 09/24/2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL football rankings following Week Four of the 2012 high school football season. You can check out the new rankings every Monday through the nine week regular season here on the MSA Sports Network. WPIAL CLASS AAAA:1) NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS (4-0) (Last Week #1) (Week Five: host Butler on MSA)2) GATEWAY GATORS (4-0) (Last Week #2) (Week Five: at #10 Hempfield on MSA)3) UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS (4-0) (Last Week #3) (Week Five: host Baldwin)4) PITTSBURGH CENTRAL CATHOLIC VIKINGS (4-0) (Last Week #4) (Week Five: host #7 Seneca Valley Thursday on MSA)

This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 09/23/2012

September 23, 2012

There is more fall scholastic sports gold to be had as September slowly turns to October this week here on the MSA Sports Network.

District College Football Recap for Saturday, September 22

On the first official day of fall, the weather turned fall-like with rain and strong winds, or as some would say, football weather for week 4 of the college football season.A classic battle comes down to the wire in the Coal Bowl, Allegheny pulls off a shocker in the NCAC and Waynesburg dumps the reigning PAC champions for the second straight year.Here are recaps from ALL the games played yesterday:Mercyhurst 38 - Slippery Rock 23 Once again the trip up Interstate 79 was not a pleasant one for the Rock, as they dropped their fifth straight game inside the city of Erie with the loss to the Lakers and their big play offense on Saturday.

WPIAL Week Four Saturday’s Scholastic Starz

Bookended between morning rain and evening precipitation was a sunny, near perfect afternoon FOUR high school football. Perfect FOUR the busiest Saturday of the 2012 WPIAL football season with FOUR afternoon classes and two evening showdowns. Here are the players who a cut above FOUR their teams in leading them to Week FOUR wins.Nick Santiago - Ambridge

MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Volleyball 09/23/2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls volleyball rankings for the week of September 23rd...including a NEW #1 team in Class AAA. You can check out the new rankings every Friday through the regular season with daily updated girls volleyball standings here on the MSA Sports Network.Section record in parenthesis. WPIAL CLASS AAA:1) PINE-RICHLAND RAMS (5-0) (Last Week #2)2) NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS (4-1) (Last Week #1)3) PLUM MUSTANGS (5-0) (Last Week #5)4) PENN-TRAFFORD WARRIORS (5-0) (Last Week #6)5) SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS (3-2) (Last Week #3)

WPIAL Week Four Friday Night HighLights

September 22, 2012

On a night lacking a lot of marque punch with only one game involving Top 10 teams going head-to-head, five teams rose from the deck to turn an 0-3 record to a 1-3 mark with their first taste of victory in 2012. We salute those five along with the other top performances from the Fourth Friday of the high school football season in District 7.Forrest Barnes - Seneca Valley

WPIAL Week Four Saturday Football Scores

The busiest Saturday of high school football in the WPIAL featured six games. Among the one Class AAA, three Class AA and two Class A contests were four undefeated football teams and two teams still in search of their first victory in 2012. Three of the four unbeaten improved to 4-0 while the winless fell to 0-4. Here are ALL of the final scores from the week Four Saturday schedule.WPIAL CLASS AAA Parkway Conference:Ambridge Bridgers 41 - Moon Tigers 17 (MSA) WPIAL CLASS AA Allegheny Conference:Kittanning Wildcats 28 - Summit Academy Knights 0 (MSA)WPIAL CLASS AA Century Conference:South Fayette Lions 56 - Burgettstown Blue Devils 6

2012 WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League Football Standings – Week 4

Here are the latest WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League football standings through Week Four of the 2012 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. # - Clinched at least a share of the conference title * - Clinched playoff spot x - Eliminated from playoff chase % - Not eligible for WPIAL playoffsWPIAL CLASS AAAA:Northern Eight Conference:

Scholastic Notebook – 09/21/2012

September 21, 2012

After seeing Clairton clobber Monessen, 52-7, on Thursday night, it makes you wonder if this is the same Clairton team that struggled to beat Chartiers-Houston, 22-20, on the opening night of the season? It most certainly is not the same team – at least defensively. Clairton was without 10 players the first three weeks of the season. The players missed time because of grades or attendance issues from last school year, and the players returned to the team for the Monessen game. Only two of the players who missed the first three weeks were starters. But still, the return of the group of players changed Clairton.

WPIAL and City League Week Four Friday Football Scores

We have hit mid-September and the days and evenings are getting a little cooler. All that means is the action on the high school football fields around Southwestern Pennsylvania will be getting hotter. While the weren't a lot of marque matchups on this Fourth Friday, there were still a lot of games where eye-brow raisers could throw a monkey wrench in the breakdown of any of the conferences. Thus, here are the WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League football scores for Friday, 9/21. Games marked with (MSA) can be heard archived here on The Network.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Foothills Conference:Kiski Area Cavaliers 21 Hempfield Spartans 42 (F)

CALLIE FREY & SPENCER CARAVAGGIO WIN 2012 WPIAL GIRLS SINGLES TENNIS TITLES

September 20, 2012

A returning champion and a first-time winner are wearing the gold Friday after winning titles in the 2012 WPIAL Girls Singles Tennis Championships at North Allegheny High School. Quaker Valley senior Spencer Caravaggio won her second WPIAL title with a straight set victory over freshman Alyvia Kluska of Greensburg Central Catholic. Caravaggio overcame a shoulder injury which forced her to serve underhand to claim the title she won as a sophomore in 2010. Meanwhile, Mount Lebanon junior Callie Frey was a straight set winner over rival Megan Adamo of Upper St. Clair. Here are all of the results, including the two consolation winners from the first WPIAL postseason of the 2012-2013 school year.

Chicks Picks – Week Four – 2012

Welcome to Week 4 of the high school football season. After hearing of the West Shamokin win over Riverview Friday night that ended a WPIAL record 45-game losing streak, Chick’s Picks knew this was cause for celebration. She contacted her people in Rural Valley, PA, offering to throw a party for the victorious Wolves in honor of their win. The plans were in place, so Chick’s Picks hopped in her car and headed north to kick off the festivities.

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