Tag: Charleroi

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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High school football notebook: WPIAL playoff field filling up

October 18, 2017

With two weeks left in the regular season, the WPIAL playoff field is already more than 70 percent set. In all, 46 of the 64

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WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week Seven – 2017

October 14, 2017

Friday of Week Seven not only marked the start of the ‘TribLive Stretch Run’ and the final three weeks of the regular season, it was also Friday the 13th. (ooooooohhh, aaaaaaaahhh) But on a night littered with showdonw games in each classification, there was nothing scary about these top performances as broken mirrors, walking under […]

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Greensburg Central Catholic can’t keep up with Charleroi

September 22, 2017

Visiting Charleroi had no problem taking care of Greensburg Central Catholic on Friday, defeating the Centurions, 50-3, in nonsection play. Hunter Perry had 127 yards

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WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week Two 2017

September 9, 2017

While the 2017 football season continues to be dry, cool and crisp, we are only two weeks in to the regular season and the offensive numbers being put up continue to be hot and impressive. While the pass happy days of recent years are still here, old school strategy of lining it up and running […]

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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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Week Zero’s don’t-miss matchups in Westmoreland County

August 24, 2017

NonCONFERENCE GREENSBURG C.C. (2-8 in '16) at TUSCARAWAS C.C., OHIO (5-5 in '16) 7 p.m. Saturday Last year: Greensburg Central missed the playoffs for the

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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 Seven

October 16, 2016

A couple of more Homecoming Weekends once again expanded the Saturday WPIAL football slate on a chamber of commerce postcard picture perfect October day. Some school districts have a parade through town to coincide with their special autumn weekend in which alumni return to their alma mater. There five players put their skills on display as Week Seven concluded and we took another step toward then end of the regular season. Garrett Day - Avonworth

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Big Game Hunting for Week Three 2016

September 14, 2016

In my time doing Big Game Hunting I cannot recall any other regular season week in which the top games were so obvious. Week three has it all, consistent Top-Ten battles across five of the six classifications, the two leading passers in the WPIAL, the leading rusher and scorer in the WPIAL, and three of the top six receivers in the WPIAL. All of this saves me the trouble of having to come up with an engaging and interesting opening paragraph, and let’s be honest I was only hitting about .250 at that to begin with so, without further ado, let’s go Big Game Hunting!

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