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This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 11/14/2011

November 14, 2011

The fall sports postseason for high school football shares center stage with the winter high school and college sports season this week on the MSA Sports Network.

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2011 WPIAL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS – 11/14

Last year, Central Valley was the perfect bracket-buster as they took their 14th-seed and raced off to a district title in their first year of existence. However this year, the District 7 postseason has gone chalk, with no sign of any double-digit Cinderella's heading into Final Four Friday.

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District College Football Recap – 11/13/2011

November 13, 2011

The PSAC title was determined, the race in the Northeast Conference is winding down and an upset of the number one team in Division I FCS play highlighted the weekend of college football around the area. Also closing out the season were the PAC teams, with Rivalry Week.

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Mars & Peters Twp Win PIAA Girls Soccer Championships

Mars proved their girls soccer team is out of this world Friday when they captured the schools first ever state title as the Planets blanked the previously undefeated Villa Jospeh Marie Jems 1-0 at Hersheypark Stadium. Crysta Ganter scored the lone goal midway through the first half for Mars.

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USC Falls in PIAA Boys Soccer AAA Championship

Only one WPIAL boys soccer team qualified for the PIAA finals this weekend in Hershey, WPIAL Class AAA champion Upper St. Clair. After a tight title game match, USC returns home with silver instead of gold.

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WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – 11/12/2011

November 12, 2011

This stretch of the Highway to Heinz could also be referred to as (excuse me basketball fans) The Road to the Final Four as each classification halved their remaining teams from eight to four.

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2011 WPIAL/Pittsburgh City League Football Standings – Week 12

Here are the latest WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League football standings through Week Twelve of the 2011 high school football season. Standings are updated after Thursday, Friday and Saturday scholastic gridiron action each week here on the MSA Sports Network.

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WPIAL Football Quarterfinals Playoff Recaps

The Chalk Playoffs continue. With only a few surprises in the opening round last week, all but two of the higher seeds were victorious with those two lower seeds being #5 over #4. Here are the game recaps from Quarterfinals Friday from around the WPIAL as the stage is set for the Final Four.

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Western Pennsylvania High School Football District Playoffs – 11/11/2011

November 11, 2011

While the WPIAL playoffs finished the Quarterfinals on the Highway to Heinz, other Districts in Western Pennsylvania were playing in the Quarterfinals or beyond in their high school football postseason this past weekend.

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Scholastic Notebook – 11/11/2011

Hopewell’s Rushel Shell has a chance to break the state career rushing record in Friday night’s WPIAL Quarterfinals against Franklin Regional. That alone makes this game special.But Shell and a running back in a Franklin Regional uniform truly make this a playoff game for the ages.

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Week 11 WPIAL/Pittsburgh City League Football Scores

Quarterfinals Friday in the 2011 WPIAL Football Playoffs. Each of the 32 remaining teams had been successful on the first go-around on the Highway to Heinz as they avoided taking the first exit. Now we have hit the half way point on our journey with only 16 survivors.

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Chicks Picks – 11/10/2011

November 10, 2011

Welcome to Week 11 of the high school football season. Between Election Day and preparations for the quarterfinals, it has certainly been a busy week for Chick’s Picks.

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District College Football Preview – 11/09/2011

November 9, 2011

The PSAC title is up for grabs with the State Title Game and spots in the Division II playoff field as well as the regular season winds down. Duquesne continues it's pursuit of the NEC title and a bid to the FCS playoffs and it's Rivalry Week in the PAC.

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WPIAL Plays of the Week

The reason for the season.  The new season, that is.  The Highway to Heinz is officially underway as teams look to merge towards the left lane and 'put the hammer down' en route to their hopeful destination on the North Shore of Pittsburgh.  Round One of the 2011 WPIAL playoffs saw a bevy of terrific matchups and potential upsets.  One of the more memorable first rou

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Big Game Hunting – The WPIAL Football Four-Pack

The quarterfinals, now things get seriously juicy. All sixteen games on the Network but four are the very tastiest of the tasty, including a pair of rematches. A shout out to the gang at MSA as they stretched themselves thin last week to bring you all 32 opening round games on the Network.

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MSA Sports Top Seven – PIHL High School Hockey – 11/09/2011

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 6th.

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WPIAL Recruiting – Shaler’s Thorpe Picks PSU Hoops

November 8, 2011

Shaler Area High School has one student who will be a future Penn State football player. Now Shaler has a student who will be a future Penn State basketball player. Geno Thorpe, a junior at Shaler Area, made a verbal commitment to Penn State this morning. He made the commitment when new Penn State coach Patrick Chambers called him at 6 a.m. to wish him a happy birthday.

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WPIAL Comes Up Empty Again in 2011 PIAA Girls Volleyball Playoffs

The drought is now five years since a WPIAL girls volleyball team has captured a PIAA championship...and Counting. Pine-Richland, Seneca Valley and West Allegheny made it through Friday's Quarterfinals pool-play, but all three fell in the Final Four Saturday morning.

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This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 11/07/2011

November 7, 2011

The fall sports postseason continues for high school football while the winter high school and college sports season begins in the first full week of November this week on the MSA Sports Network.

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2011 PIAA Girls Soccer Playoffs

Twelve WPIAL girls soccer teams entered the state playoffs which started Tuesday, and nine are moving on to Round Two this weekend. Only Penn-Trafford, Elizabeth Forward and Avonworth saw their golden state dreams come to an end, while three district teams remain in the hunt for a title in the 2011 PIAA Girls Soccer Playoffs.

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