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WPIAL Big Game Hunting – The Football Four-Pack – 11/23/2011
November 23, 2011
Ahhh my favorite week of the year, no one will send me an e-mail claiming I chose the wrong game for Big Game Hunting. What an incredible night last Friday was huh? No one will soon forget all the thrilling football games during the semis in 2011. Plus they are all archived on the Network, you can go back and listen anytime!

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MSA Sports Top Seven – PIHL High School Hockey – 11/23/2011
Each Wednesday during the regular season, MSA Sports will rank the top seven teams in all four classifications/divisions in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League. Here are the rankings for the week of November 20th.

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WPIAL Football Championship Saturday Factoids
November 22, 2011
The North Allegheny Tigers - The Upper St. Clair Panthers - The Montour Spartans - The Knoch Knights - The Aliquippa Quips - The Jeannette Jayhawks - The Clairton Bears - The Sto-Rox Vikings. Eight teams that have navigated their way quite nicely to a game at Heinz Field. Eight teams that have been so impressive during the first 12 weeks of the 2011 high school football season.

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2011 WPIAL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS – 11/22
So three rounds of district playoff football leave us with this: Two defending champions - three #1-seeds - two #2-seeds - two #3-seeds - one #5 seed - four teams returning to the North Shore who played for district gold last year - and SIX undefeated teams sporting perfect 12-0 records.

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2011 PIAA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS – 11/21
November 21, 2011
The high school football focus in Southwestern Pennsylvania was on Heinz Field in Pittsburgh Saturday as District 7 held their four championship games in the big house on the North Shore. But the WPIAL football finals were the end of the district playoffs AND the start of the state playoffs.

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WPIAL Football Plays of the Week – 11/21/2011
Semifinal Friday 2011 was one of the most memorable that we've ever encountered in recent memory.  As games went down to the wire, as top seeds were turned away and unsuspecting dreams live on to play at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio, we are reminded why our little neck of the woods is so special.  A cool, crisp autumn evening turned memorable at many stadi

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This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 11/21/2011
An autumn holiday week filled with high school football championship action, college gidiron postseason play and men's and women's college basketball goodies are a feast for all this week on the MSA Sports Network.

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University Prep: First Season, First Pgh City League Title
November 19, 2011
When University Prep (11-1) and Allderdice (5-7) met on October 14 at George Cupples Stadium, it was a defensive battle ending in a 12-0 victory for the Panthers.

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District College Football Recap – 11/19/2011
In this weekend’s college football action, California advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs, Duquesne won the crosstown rivalry with Robert Morris and both PAC teams came up short in ECAC bowl games.Here are recaps of all the games:

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WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – 11/19/2011
Each Saturday during the high school football season, we look back at the top ten WPIAL performers from a busy Friday night of scholastic gridiron action. Except for this, the final edition of the Friday Night HighLights. On this edition, we take a look at the EIGHT players that were a key part to the EIGHT teams that advanced to play for District 7 gold next Saturday at Heinz Field.

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WPIAL Football Semifinals Recaps 2011
While eight teams were forced to take that final exit on the Highway to Heinz, the eight teams were winners on Semifinals Friday have reached the major goal of heading to the end of the road in the North Shore. Here are recaps from the eight Round Three contests that have set the stage for Championship Saturday next weekend.

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Scholastic Notebook – 11/18/2011
November 18, 2011
Having a chance to make it to a WPIAL championship game for the fifth time since 2004 is a driving force for the Gateway football team. But this team also has something else motivating it.The spirit of Darrell Turner.

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Week 12 WPIAL Friday Football Scores
The Final Four. The Last exit on the Highway to Heinz. Semifinals Friday. Call it what you will, but the eight games Friday night determined the eight teams that would move on to the North Shore to play for a district championship...and the eight teams that will hang up the shoulder pads for good, one win short of the grand stage.

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Chicks Picks – 11/17/2011
November 17, 2011
Welcome to Week 12 of the high school football season.

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District College Football Preview – 11/17/2011
The playoffs are here in Division II and III, while a pair of local teams are honored with ECAC bowl appearances. Plus the NEC and MVC wind down the regular season, with Duquesne and Youngstown State trying to obtain berths to the Division I FCS playoff field.Here are previews of all the game for this weekend:

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WPIAL Big Game Hunting – The Football Four-Pack – 11/16/2011
November 16, 2011
Semi-finals week is here and man oh man a lot of chalk out there, no seeds any worse than a five remaining in any of the four classifications. Pretty impressive job by the football steering committee that also sets up some fabulous football games for this coming Friday night on the MSA Sports Network.

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MSA Sports Top Seven – PIHL High School Hockey – 11/16/2011
Each Wednesday during the regular season, MSA Sports will rank the top seven teams in all four classifications/divisions in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League. Here are the rankings for the week of November 13th.

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WPIAL Football Plays of the Week – 11/15/2011
November 15, 2011
Gosh.  Prior to the first round of the Highway to Heinz, people always seem to have something to say about the WPIAL Steering Committee and their (in)ability to get the seeding right.  Right?  You know who you are.  Be it good, bad or indifferent, everyone who is somehow connected to high school football here in our fair region has an opinion on how they would do things.&nbs

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Western Pennsylvania High School Football District Playoffs- 11/15/2011
While this was the final stop on the Highway to Heinz with Semifinals Friday in the WPIAL playoffs, other Districts in Western Pennsylvania were preparing for District Semifinals, District Championship Games and even PIAA Preliminary Round high school football playoff contests. Here all final results from the Pittsburgh City League (District 8) title game along with the foot

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Cal U to host NCAA D-II First Round Playoff Game
November 14, 2011
The NCAA Division II playoff field has been announced and for the fifth consecutive year, the California Vulcans are in the field. The Vulcans, 9-2 overall, were selected as the fifth seed in Super Region One and will host fourth seeded Elizabeth City State on Saturday at Adamson Stadium, with kickoff set for noon.

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