Tag: Elizabeth Forward

Big Game Hunting for Week Seven 2012

October 10, 2012

The “stretch-run” is here. The final third of the 2012 season starts this weekend and you can be sure MSA will provide the finest escort to you as you get set to embark on your own personal “Highway to Heinz”.  With the two largest classifications each taking a wild-card into the post season the super –knowledge that Don Rebel doles out each Friday night will save you tons of sleep. The games just keep getting bigger so let’s don’t waste any more time on the opening paragraph. Instead, let’s go Big Game Hunting. AAAA Northern Eight Conference

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Soccer – 10/09/2012

October 9, 2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls soccer rankings for the week of October 8th. You can check out the new rankings every Tuesday through the regular season with daily updated girls soccer standings here on the MSA Sports Network.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1)  PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS  (13-1-0) (Last Week #1)2)  SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS  (14-1-0) (Last Week #2)3)  BETHEL PARK BLACK HAWKS  (15-0-0) (Last Week #3)4)  PENN-TRAFFORD WARRIORS  (12-3-0) (Last Week #4)5)  NORWIN KNIGHTS  (12-1-2) (Last Week #6)6)  UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS  (9-3-2) (Last Week #5)

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Chicks Picks – Week Six – 2012

October 4, 2012

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Soccer – 10/02/2012

October 2, 2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls soccer rankings for the week of October 1st. You can check out the new rankings every Tuesday through the regular season with daily updated girls soccer standings here on the MSA Sports Network.WPIAL CLASS AAA:1)  PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS  (10-1-0) (Last Week #1)2)  SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS  (11-1-0) (Last Week #2)3)  BETHEL PARK BLACK HAWKS  (12-0-0) (Last Week #4)4)  PENN-TRAFFORD WARRIORS  (9-3-0) (Last Week #6)5)  UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS  (6-2-0) (Last Week #5)6)  NORWIN KNIGHTS  (9-1-2) (Last Week #7)

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/01/2012

October 1, 2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL football rankings following Week Five of the 2012 high school football season. You can check out the new rankings every Monday through the nine week regular season here on the MSA Sports Network. WPIAL CLASS AAAA:1)  NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS  (5-0) (Last Week #1)  (Week Six: at #2 Gateway on MSA)2)  GATEWAY GATORS  (5-0) (Last Week #2)  (Week Six: host #1 North Allegheny on MSA)3)  UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS  (5-0) (Last Week #3)  (Week Six: at Butler on MSA)4)  NORTH HILLS INDIANS  (4-1) (Last Week #6)  (Week Six: host Fox Chapel on MSA)

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Soccer – 09/25/2012

September 25, 2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls soccer rankings for the week of September 24th. You can check out the new rankings every Tuesday through the regular season with daily updated girls soccer standings here on the MSA Sports Network. WPIAL CLASS AAA:1)  PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS  (8-0-0) (Last Week #1)2)  SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS  (8-1-0) (Last Week #3)3)  FOX CHAPEL FOXES  (10-0-0) (Last Week #4)4)  BETHEL PARK BLACK HAWKS  (9-0-0) (Last Week #5)5)  UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS  (6-2-0) (Last Week #2)6)  PENN-TRAFFORD WARRIORS  (7-3-0) (Last Week Unranked)

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Girls Volleyball 09/16/2012

September 16, 2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL girls volleyball rankings for the just completed week of September 10th. You can check out the new rankings every Friday through the regular season with daily updated girls volleyball standings here on the MSA Sports Network.Section record in parenthesis. WPIAL CLASS AAA:1)  NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS  (3-0)2)  PINE-RICHLAND RAMS  (3-0)3)  SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS  (2-1)4)  CANON-McMILLAN BIG MACS  (3-0) 5)  PLUM MUSTANGS  (4-0)6)  PENN-TRAFFORD WARRIORS (4-0)7)  PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS (3-0)

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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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WPIAL Hires, Resignations and Commitments

July 18, 2012

Even though the school doors are locked and the student-athletes are preparing for a new school year, there has been plenty of news in the first couple weeks of July with athletic directors and coaches on the move as well as players making D-I verbal agreements.Butschle Steps Down at Sto-RoxThe 2011 WPIAL Class A runner-up is looking for a new coach just one month before training camp officially opens up. Ron Butschle's second stint as head coach at Sto-Rox has ended when he resigned due to personal reasons.Butschle, who led the Vikings to an undefeated regular season last fall and a berth in the district title game, hopes to coach again some day, but a family situation has forced him to step away at least for the 2012 season.

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Montour Blanks EF For 2nd WPIAL AAA Softball Crown in 3 Years

June 1, 2012

At the University of California of PA in the WPIAL girls AAA Softball Championships, the Montour Spartans defeat the Elizabeth Forward Warriors by a score of 7-0 to claim their second title in the last three years.They put on a hitting display and kept the foot on the gas making sure the Warriors could not come back late in the game.The scoring started for the Spartans in the 3rd inning as the number nine hitter, Junior Alyssa McMurtrie led off with a line drive home run to CF to make it 1-0. One out later Megan Vacco started a string of three straight singles, the other two by Kaitlyn Kutchman, and Alllison Hryadil and they led 2-0.The score grew to 4-0 Spartans in the 5th as Tori Roman and Stephanie Seibert singled then Olivia Dixon reached on an error.

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