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WPIAL Week Ten Friday Night HighLights

November 4, 2012

Call it what you want...the postseason, the second season, this big dance or the Highway to Heinz. Whatever you want to call it, there is no question the WPIAL Football Playoffs are Primetime. Here are the players that shined the brightest on the first night on the grand stage.Tyler Roth - Mount LebanonThere was a lot of excitement about Butler making the WPIAL football playoffs for the first time since 1998. However their stay in the postseason was short and not so sweet thanks to the aerial attack by Tyler Roth and Mount Lebanon. Roth hit on 20 of 27 passes for 288 yards and a pair of touchdown tosses as the Blue Devils blew away the Golden Tornado 31-7 in a Class AAAA opening round matchup.Thomas Woodson - Gateway

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/21/2012

October 21, 2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL football rankings following Week Eight 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  (8-0) (Last Week #1)  (Week Nine: host North Hills on MSA)2)  GATEWAY GATORS  (7-1) (Last Week #2)  (Week Nine: at McKeesport)3)  SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS  (7-1) (Last Week #3)  (Week Nine: at Fox Chapel)4)  MOUNT LEBANON BLUE DEVILS  (7-1) (Last Week #4)  (Week Nine: at #5 Upper St. Clair on MSA)

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/15/2012

October 15, 2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL football rankings following Week Seven 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  (7-0) (Last Week #1)  (Week Eight: at Shaler on MSA)2)  GATEWAY GATORS  (6-1) (Last Week #3)  (Week Eight: at Penn-Trafford on MSA)3)  SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS  (6-1) (Last Week #5)  (Week Eight: host Bethel Park on MSA)4)  MOUNT LEBANON BLUE DEVILS  (6-1) (Last Week #6)  (Week Eight: at Penn Hills on MSA)

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WPIAL Football Plays of the Week – Week Six

October 9, 2012

Goal line stands and 99-yard touchdown passes. Week 6 had a little bit of everything. Here are your Plays of the Week for Week 6 of the 2012 WPIAL football season. 1.  Jeannette Jayhawks 28 - Mount Pleasant Vikings 27 in Double Overtime

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 10/08/2012

October 8, 2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL football rankings following Week Six 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  (6-0) (Last Week #1)  (Week Seven: host #7 Pittsburgh Central Catholic on MSA)2)  UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS  (6-0) (Last Week #3)  (Week Seven: at #10 Bethel Park on MSA)3)  GATEWAY GATORS  (5-1) (Last Week #2)  (Week Seven: host #1 North Allegheny on MSA)4)  NORTH HILLS INDIANS  (5-1) (Last Week #4)  (Week Seven: host #5 Seneca Valley on MSA)

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WPIAL Week Four Saturday’s Scholastic Starz

September 23, 2012

Bookended between morning rain and evening precipitation was a sunny, near perfect afternoon FOUR high school football. Perfect FOUR the busiest Saturday of the 2012 WPIAL football season with FOUR afternoon classes and two evening showdowns. Here are the players who a cut above FOUR their teams in leading them to Week FOUR wins.Nick Santiago - Ambridge

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Big Game Hunting for Week Three 2012

September 12, 2012

Just two games in and we are already beginning to sort the wheat from the chaff here in the 2012 WPIAL football season.  That process will continue as we get into week three.Here’s hoping your favorite high school team is having more success than our local major - college and professional football teams are in Pittsburgh.Heading into the final game of the first third of the football season and Avella has more wins than Woodland Hills and McKeesport combined…that is why you have to pay close attention on a weekly basis in the WPIAL and that close attention starts with Big Game Hunting.  

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MSA Sports Top Ten – WPIAL Football – 09/10/2012

September 10, 2012

Here are the MSA Sports Top Ten WPIAL football rankings following Week Two 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  (2-0) (Last Week #1)  (Week Three host #5 Seneca Valley on MSA)2)  GATEWAY GATORS  (2-0) (Last Week #2)  (Week Three: at #10 Kiski Area on MSA)3)  UPPER ST. CLAIR PANTHERS  (2-0) (Last Week #3)  (Week Three: at #9 Peters Township on MSA)4)  PITTSBURGH CENTRAL CATHOLIC VIKINGS  (2-0) (Last Week #4)  (Week Three: host Canon-McMillan)

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Scholastic Notebook – 09/07/2012

September 7, 2012

Sophomores had big games. Players who were their team’s No. 1 running back for the first time did some good things. A receiver turned running back also had a big game. The first weekend of the high school football season was a virtual coming-out party for some. Players introduced themselves to WPIAL football – and they were loud introductions. The leading rusher on the first weekend of the season was North Catholic’s P.J. Fulmore, a 10th-grader who had 265 yards. The second-leading rusher was Fort Cherry’s Koltan Kobrys, who played receiver last year. He ran for 250 yards.

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WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – Week One 2012

September 1, 2012

It's a new season so an introduction may be needed. every Saturday during the high school football season, we look back at some of the top performances from the previous night...thus the HighLights aspect of this column. Just having the lights back on Friday nights is a highlight for many, but these players (when hydrated) were shining bright in the first primetime contest of the 2012 campaign.Mack Leftwich - North Allegheny

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