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Bishop Canevin Pulls Stunner to Win Girls AA Basketball Championship
March 1, 2013
There is a new champion in Girls AA basketball. The Bishop Canevin Crusaders (22-4) started championship weekend in grand fashion, defeating top-seeded Seton LaSalle 56-47 and winning their first championship in school history Seton LaSalle (24-2) came into the game with a 66 game winning streak over WPIAL competition and an 8 game winning streak over the Crusaders. Bishop Canevin jumped out to an early 18-8 lead thanks to three 3 pointers from Johnie Olkosky. The Crusaders defense also caused problems, forcing 8 first half turnovers.2013 WPIAL Basketball Championships Friday Blog
GAME #2: Boys Class A- #5 Clairton vs. #2 VincentianHALF: Clairton 39, Vincentian 39. Bryon Clifford and Terrish Webb with 13 each for Bears. Ryan Wolf leads a balanced Vincentian attack with 9 points.END 1: Vincentian 19, Clairton 15, depite 9 first quarter turnovers by Royals.FAST pace to start this one. Vincentian leads 9-8 with 4:30 left in 1st. About set to go here for the Boys Class A Championship, with surprising Clairton and dynamic Vincentian.GAME #1: Girls Class AA- #1 Seton-LaSalle vs. #2 Bishop CanevinWPIAL Boys Basketball Championship Previews
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FINAL 2012-2013 PIHL High School Hockey Standings
Here are the FINAL 2012-2013 standings for the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League, including all of the FINAL postseason clinchings. You can follow the PIHL high school hockey season with weekly broadcasts, the PIHL Notebook every Monday and the PIHL Power Play Show on Wednesday nights at 8:00pm right here on the MSA Sports Network.# - Clinched Section Championship * - Clinched PIHL Playoff Spot % - Ineligible for PIHL Playoffs x - Eliminated From Postseason ChaseTEAM - OVERALL RECORD - POINT TOTALWPIAL Swimming Championships Day One Results
February 28, 2013
The first day of the two day WPIAL swimming championships from the University of Pittsburgh are in the books. Day Two can be heard Friday on MSA Sports with Class AA at 10:00am and Class AAA at 3:00pm. Here is a recap from both the Class AA meets and Class AAA races on Thursday.PIHL Open Class: Nailers Cup and Chiefs Cup Championship Recaps
Two Cups were captured on Thursday night, setting the stage for the Open Class championship to be decided on Monday. Here are recaps from both the Wheeling Park Nailers Cup victory and the Ford City Chiefs Cup win. You can listen to archives from both games played at the Robert Morris University Island Sports Complex on MSAsports.netWheeling Park Patriots 4 - Morgantown Mohawks 3WPIAL Basketball Playoff Recaps From Wednesday, February 27th
February 27, 2013
Eye-brows were being raised on Semifinals Wednesday in Girls Class AAA where both the undefeated and top-seed Blackhawk Cougars along with the defending champion and #2-seed Hopewell Vikings were eliminated. Elizabeth Forward and South Park will be joined by Vincentian Academy and Serra Catholic girls and New Castle, Hampton, Beaver Falls and Burrell boys in playing for district gold on Saturday. Here are recaps from the Semifinals in Boys AAAA, Boys AA, Girls AAA and Girls A.A special thanks to Mike Azadian, Dennis Fischer, Sam Hall, Mike Krcil, Josh Rowntree, Melissa Carle, Bob Barrickman and Mark Schaas for their help on all of these recaps.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Semifinals:MSA Sports Fab Five – PIHL High School Hockey – 02/27/2013
Here are the Top Five teams in the PIHL's Class AAA, Class AA, Class A and Open Class for this week. MSA Sports will unveil a new Fab Five every Wednesday during the high school hockey regular season only at MSAsports.net. MSA Sports also has the PIHL Notebook every Monday and The PIHL Power Play Show every Wednesday night at 8:00pm on your best source for high school hockey, the MSA Sports Network.PIHL CLASS AAA:1) PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS (16-4-0) (Last Week #1)2) NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS (15-3-2) (Last Week #3)3) CANON-McMILLAN BIG MACS (11-6-4) (Last Week #4)4) BETHEL PARK BLACK HAWKS (15-5-0) (Last Week #5)WPIAL Basketball Playoff Recaps From Tuesday, February 26th
Two top seeds felt the pain of losing just short of the expected goal of a trip to the championships. Both Mount Lebanon girls and Lincoln Park boys wore the golden crowns a year ago, now they get an early jump start on preparing for the PIAA state playoffs. Here are recaps from the Boys Class AAA, Boys Class A, Girls Class AAAA and Girls Class AA Semifinals played on Tuesday.A special thanks goes out to Mike Sackley, Lee Mohn, T.J. DiStefano, Bob Orkwis, Scott Briggs, Bob Gregg and Josh Rowntree for their help on these recaps.WPIAL BOYS CLASS AAA Semifinals:This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 02/25/2013
The Battle to the Bluff is about to begin, and the only place to follow the action of the start of the February Frenzy is here this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We start with the WPIAL Basketball Playoff Pairings Show and then follow-up with EVERY WPIAL boys and girls basketball postseason contest starting this weekend. We also have the final week of the regular season for boys and girls hoops in District 6, men's and women's college hoops along with D-6 scholastic wrestling and the WPIAL Class AA Individual Wrestling Sectionals and PIHL high school hockey, plus the PIHL Power Play Show, the WPIAL Roundball Report and Inside the WPIAL Wrestling Circle all this week here at MSAsports.net2013 PIHL Open Class Hockey Playoffs
February 24, 2013
Two champions have been crowned in the PIHL high school hockey Open Class Playoffs Thursday night. Wheeling Park laid claim to the 2013 Nailer Cup title with a victory over Morgantown while Ford City defeated Indiana to win the Chiefs Cup championship. The Patriots and Sabers will now meet Monday night in the PIHL Open Class Championship Game at the RMU Island Sports Complex on Neville Island and here on the MSA Sports Network.2013 PIHL OPEN CLASS CHAMPIONSHIP GAME:Wheeling Park Patriots (19-4-0) vs Ford City Sabers (20-2-1) AT RMU Island Sports Complex on Neville Island on Monday, March 4th at 8:00pm on MSAsports.net---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2013 WPIAL BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS Update – 02/24
The all Section 3 Final Four has been whittled to two in Quad A. The two teams that played for the WPIAL Class AAA championship a year ago will now play for the Class AAAA title here in 2013. Both New Castle and Hampton move on to Palumbo after Semifinals victories eliminated Seneca Valley and North Allegheny from the golden chase. Here are all four finals from Semifinals Wednesday in the 2013 WPIAL Boys Basketball Playoffs, plus the schedule for Championship Weekend at Duquesne University.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Semifinals:New Castle Red Hurricane 71 - Seneca Valley Raiders 46 (MSA)Hampton Talbots 66 - North Allegheny Tigers 62 (MSA)2013 WPIAL CLASS AAAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME:Championship Saturday: City League & SWCAC Hoops and State Rifle
While there was plenty to focus in on Saturday including the WPIAL Class AA Wrestling Championships, the WPIAL Class AAA Wrestling Sectionals, the WPIAL Class AAA Diving Championships and the WPIAL Basketball Quarterfinals, there were other titles decided on the final weekend in February. Here is a brief recap of the Pittsburgh City League Basketball Championships, the SWCAC Basketball Championships ad the State Rifle Championships.2013 PITTSBURGH CITY LEAGUE BOYS BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP:Westinghouse Bulldogs 61 - Perry Commodores 52WPIAL Class AAA Individual Wrestling Sectional Results – 02/23/2013
February 23, 2013
While the WPIAL was crowning district champions this weekend in Class AA, the top wrestlers in Class AAA were wrestling to earn their invitation to the 2013 WPIAL Class AAA Individual Wrestling Championships next weekend. The top five finishers in each section will move on to the D-7 finals on February 28th, March 1st and March 2nd.WPIAL Section 1-AAA at Gateway High School:2013 WPIAL Class AA Individual Wrestling Results
The Class AA WPIAL Championships had a lot of variety to the weekend, with 12 total schools being represented at the top of the podium at Chartiers Valley. Burrell led the way with 3 Champions, including Senior Phil Marra at 145, Senior Dakota DesLauriers at 182, and Sophomore Alan Beattie at 285. 11 other schools brought home individual gold, including Burgettstown, Derry, South Side, South Park, Kittanning, Charleroi, Freedom, South Fayette, Jefferson-Morgan, Chartiers-Houston, and Avella.WPIAL Basketball Playoff Recaps From Saturday, February 23rd
Quarterfinals Saturday in the WPIAL Basketball Playoffs was a little wild, a tad crazy and a bit one-sided as well. Boys Class AAAA made history with all four Section 3 teams winning to make it to the Semifinals while in Boys AA, Burrell, Quaker Valley and Apollo-Ridge won to eliminate seeds 2, 3 and 4. Meanwhle, the eight girls teams won by a combined 197 points or an average margin of victory of just under 25 points. Here are recaps from Quarterfinals Friday played in the Boys AAAA, Boys AA, Girls AAA and Girls A brackets.A special thanks to Mike Azadian, Dennis Fischer, T.J. DiStefano, Mike Sackley, Mark Schaas, Josh Rowntree, Bob Barrickman, Greg Kuntz, Randy Gore and Johnny Lee for their help with these recaps.P-R’s Dominic Giordano and CV’s Maria Lohman Repeat as WPIAL Diving Champs
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The winter WPIAL diving championships began early Friday afternoon at South Park High School in South Park with nine invitations to the PIAA state diving championships up for grabs.The boys field saw a lot of familiar faces carry over from the 2012 competition into 2013's. With the exception of South Park's Bill Rountree, the top six divers from last year were in the field this year. The success of each of these divers had indeed carried over into Friday's dive. The sixteen diver field had a lot of great dives and a few duds during the duration of the competition. Going into the semifinals and the final round the group had narrowed itself down to three divers vying for the number one spot.
