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WPIAL Friday Night HighLights for Week Three

September 14, 2013

Crazy...kooky...strange...horror. Those are all word that are usually associated with Friday the 13th. With a chill in the air, those words came to life on the football fields around Southwestern Pennsylvania with some strange results and some serious injuries. This jam-packed thriller of a night though also had plenty of heroes who swept in, kicked the 'villains' in the teeth and then rode of into the sunset without inside as they came up large in Week 3 of the WPIAL football season.Joey DeFloria - Hempfield

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CTK 2013 – WPIAL Triple-A Big Nine Conference Preview

August 16, 2013

The Big Nine Conference the past two years has been about the Big Two – Thomas Jefferson and West Mifflin. Don’t look for things to change this year. It seems just about everyone thinks Thomas Jefferson and West Mifflin will be the top teams in the conference again this season, with Thomas Jefferson holding the upper hand. Thomas Jefferson beat West Mifflin in the regular-season finale last year. Two years ago, they tied for the conference title. Thomas Jefferson has won the conference title outright nine times since 2002 and looks strong again. Elizabeth Forward made some waves last year, finishing third in the conference race. The Warriors are a team to watch again and could make some noise.

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CTK 2012 – WPIAL AAA Big Nine Conference Preview

August 17, 2012

The Keystone Conference and its futility in the postseason made the conference an easy object of many jokes over the past decade. But you can’t knock the Keystone Conference this year. Why? Because it’s gone. With the new WPIAL alignment, there are only three conferences in Class AAA now instead of four. The teams that were in the Keystone Conference were absorbed into the Big Nine and Greater Allegheny conferences. The Big Nine loses Chartiers Valley, South Park and McGuffey. Chartiers Valley moved to the Parkway Conference while South Park and McGuffey dropped to Class AA.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL AAA KEYSTONE Conference Preview

August 24, 2011

Although the Keystone Conference was winless once again in the 2010 postseason, the conference was improved. The addition of Franklin Regional helped strengthen the conference, and Ringgold had one of its best teams in a while.

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CTK 2011 – 2010 WPIAL Class AAA Football Flashback

August 16, 2011

They are few and far between, but we have seen teams pull off perfect football seasons before in the WPIAL. However the new kids on the block in Class AAA went for perfection in a different way that has never been done before. One Season - One Championship. After the 2009 school year, Center High School and Monaca High School merged to form a new school district.

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CTK 2011 – WPIAL 7:00pm Kickoffs

There are 126 schools in the WPIAL that field a high school football team. While a majority still begin at 7:30pm, 38 of them now kickoff their home games at 7:00pm, including the enire Class AAA Keystone Conference. Here is a list of schools that will get the thirty minute head start on Friday and Saturday nights.CLASS AAAA Big East:Altoona Mountain Lions

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2011 WPIAL Team Wrestling Sectionals Results

January 28, 2011

The 2011 WPIAL Team Wrestling Sectionals are history as the top five seeds have been determined from each of the four Class AAA and each of the three Class AA sections. Here are all of the results from the seven team wrestling sectionals which not set the stage for the 2011 WPIAL Team Wrestling Playoffs next week.

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Team Wrestling Playoff Teams

January 27, 2011

As is an MSA Sports Network tradition with other scholastic sports, we present our final Top Ten WPIAL wrestling teams in both classifications of this 2010-2011 season...including all of the qualifiers for the upcoming WPIAL Team Wrestling playoffs next week.

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2010 WPIAL/City League Football Standings – Week 12

November 18, 2010

Here are the latest WPIAL and Pittsburgh City League football standings through Week Twelve of the 2010 high school football season. Standings are updated after Thursday, Friday and Saturday scholastic gridiron action each week here on the MSA Sports Network. # - Clinched at least a share of the conference title * - Clinched playoff spot

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CTK 2010 – WPIAL/City League Football Coaching Changes

August 9, 2010

A pair of legends hung up the whistle this off season with George Smith of McKeesport and Guy Montecalvo of Canon-McMillan calling it quits...for now. Meanwhile, a couple of big name coaches have resurfaced in Jim Rankin and Art Tragesser while Ray Braszo is going back to the future. Which other WPIAL schools will have a new sideline general for this 2010 high school football season?

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