Tag: Upper St. Clair

WPIAL Football Championship Saturday Factoids

November 22, 2011

The North Allegheny Tigers - The Upper St. Clair Panthers - The Montour Spartans - The Knoch Knights - The Aliquippa Quips - The Jeannette Jayhawks - The Clairton Bears - The Sto-Rox Vikings. Eight teams that have navigated their way quite nicely to a game at Heinz Field. Eight teams that have been so impressive during the first 12 weeks of the 2011 high school football season.

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2011 WPIAL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS – 11/22

So three rounds of district playoff football leave us with this: Two defending champions - three #1-seeds - two #2-seeds - two #3-seeds - one #5 seed - four teams returning to the North Shore who played for district gold last year - and SIX undefeated teams sporting perfect 12-0 records.

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2011 PIAA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS – 11/21

November 21, 2011

The high school football focus in Southwestern Pennsylvania was on Heinz Field in Pittsburgh Saturday as District 7 held their four championship games in the big house on the North Shore. But the WPIAL football finals were the end of the district playoffs AND the start of the state playoffs.

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WPIAL Football Plays of the Week – 11/21/2011

Semifinal Friday 2011 was one of the most memorable that we've ever encountered in recent memory.  As games went down to the wire, as top seeds were turned away and unsuspecting dreams live on to play at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio, we are reminded why our little neck of the woods is so special.  A cool, crisp autumn evening turned memorable at many stadi

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WPIAL Friday Night HighLights – 11/19/2011

November 19, 2011

Each Saturday during the high school football season, we look back at the top ten WPIAL performers from a busy Friday night of scholastic gridiron action. Except for this, the final edition of the Friday Night HighLights. On this edition, we take a look at the EIGHT players that were a key part to the EIGHT teams that advanced to play for District 7 gold next Saturday at Heinz Field.

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WPIAL Football Semifinals Recaps 2011

While eight teams were forced to take that final exit on the Highway to Heinz, the eight teams were winners on Semifinals Friday have reached the major goal of heading to the end of the road in the North Shore. Here are recaps from the eight Round Three contests that have set the stage for Championship Saturday next weekend.

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Scholastic Notebook – 11/18/2011

November 18, 2011

Having a chance to make it to a WPIAL championship game for the fifth time since 2004 is a driving force for the Gateway football team. But this team also has something else motivating it.The spirit of Darrell Turner.

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Chicks Picks – 11/17/2011

November 17, 2011

Welcome to Week 12 of the high school football season.

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WPIAL Football Plays of the Week – 11/15/2011

November 15, 2011

Gosh.  Prior to the first round of the Highway to Heinz, people always seem to have something to say about the WPIAL Steering Committee and their (in)ability to get the seeding right.  Right?  You know who you are.  Be it good, bad or indifferent, everyone who is somehow connected to high school football here in our fair region has an opinion on how they would do things.&nbs

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2011 WPIAL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS – 11/14

November 14, 2011

Last year, Central Valley was the perfect bracket-buster as they took their 14th-seed and raced off to a district title in their first year of existence. However this year, the District 7 postseason has gone chalk, with no sign of any double-digit Cinderella's heading into Final Four Friday.

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