Tag: Beth-Center

Big Game Hunting – Week Nine

October 25, 2017

I often think how funny it is to see all the work that goes into figuring out playoff scenarios, especially some of the deep-down tiebreaker stuff. The procrastinator in me just says, “week nine is coming, it will all be sorted right out there, so why bother doing the actual math?” Once again, as it […]

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WPIAL Plays of the Week – Week Eight 2017

October 24, 2017

Unbelievably, the 2017 football regular season is already nearing a conclusion, as last Friday marked the penultimate week. As the stretch run continued, the playoff picture throughout the WPIAL became much clearer. Several key plays proved instrumental to the outcomes, including a Cinderella team standing tall defensively to close out a wild shootout, a long […]

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Big Game Hunting – Week Eight

October 19, 2017

The penultimate weekend of the regular season is here and there is still so much to decide. There were some big upsets last week and some things got sorted out. Just two playoff spots remain in 6-A entering week eight and a single spot remains unclaimed in 5-A. Meanwhile in the smaller classifications things are […]

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Chicks Picks – Week Six – 2017

October 6, 2017

Welcome to Week 6 of the high school football season. As many of you are aware, the MSA Sports Network has now become the TribLive High School Sports Network.  Chick’s Picks was thrilled with this news, and was particularly excited when one of her counterparts, The Birdie, mentioned her on Twitter earlier this week. At […]

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Beth-Center pulls away from Springdale to remain undefeated

September 15, 2017

Quarterback Bailey Lincoski and running back Dominic Fundy powered Beth-Center to a 53-22 win over Springdale with 300 combined rushing yards and three touchdowns on

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WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week Zero

August 26, 2017

It felt like late September instead of late August Friday evening as more teams than last year decided to turn on the lights, charge admission and strike up the band for a football game rather than a second scrimmage. In the lone true tune-up for a lot of teams before conference play begins out of […]

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High school football notebook: Pine-Richland steps back into national spotlight

August 24, 2017

Phil Jurkovec won't be the only four-star recruit at Pine-Richland's stadium this weekend. When Wayne High School visits Sunday for a game nationally televised on

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CTK ’17 – 2-A Century Conference Preview

August 23, 2017

Washington took control of the new-look Century Conference in its inception in 2016. However, the Prexies were the only team from the conference to record a postseason victory.  After the Prexies, there is an apparent log-jam for the remaining playoff spots out of the conference. Some teams are returning a vast majority of their starters, […]

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MSA Sports Saturdays Scholastic Starz for Week Eight

October 23, 2016

Rain that made Friday night in Week eight interesting carried over into Saturday afternoon, making for a slow track at four of the five 'natural surface' sites around the WPIAL as grassy fields soon turned muddy and clean uniforms were not so much. But the late Autumn weather conditions made the afternoons and evening for these five standouts really stand out as we put a bow on the next to the last weekend of regular season high school football. Dominic Fundy - Beth-Center

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CTK ’16: 2-A Century Conference Preview

August 27, 2016

The Century Conference has been dominated lately by South Fayette, which won four consecutive conference championships from 2012-15. But there will no longer be a roar of the Lions in the Century. With the new six-classification system, there is still a Century Conference. But South Fayette no longer is part of it. South Fayette is now part of Class 4A. So there will be a new champion this year. Almost everyone points toward Washington as the team that will win it. But will there still be a “game of the Century?” Here is a look at the Century Conference: BENTWORTH BEARCATS

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