Tag: Washington

High school notebook: WPIAL wants Highlands boys soccer coach suspended

September 19, 2017

Highlands must suspend boys soccer coach Brad Walker for three games or the WPIAL will ban the team from the postseason. The discipline comes after

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WPIAL Friday Night Highlights – Week One 2017

September 2, 2017

The calendar may have said September 1st, but it felt more like October weather wise. On opening night of the regular season, there are usually major concerns of heat exhaustion and muscle cramps on high school football sidelines, but there was a chill in the air on the first night of conference play. No matter […]

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CTK ’17 – MSA Sports Preseason Top Ten – Class 2-A

August 30, 2017

Each and every Monday during the regular season, the MSA Sports Network will rank the Top Ten football teams in each of the six classifications. With days to go before the 2017 WPIAL football regular season kicks off for all with Week One, we present our Preseason Top Ten teams…with the Top Ten in Class […]

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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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HS football position by position breakdown: Scouting the linebackers

August 18, 2017

Layton Jordan's position is a multiple-choice test. The McKeesport senior is an outside linebacker on defense and a wingback for the Tigers' option offense. The

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MSA Sports 2017 Boys All-Netters

March 31, 2017

The MSA boys All Netters team is in guarded condition this year. Of the 10 players selected to the All Netters team, eight are guards and another is a guard-forward. The team also is Ram tough. Two plays from WPIAL Class 6A champion Pine-Richland Rams are on the team. The All Netters team is picked by the MSA Sports staff and is made up of the top 10 players in the WPIAL. A handful of the players on the first and second teams are headed to Division I colleges and one is headed to a major college for football. Here is a look at the MSA Sports All Netters team as well as the Player of the Year: FIRST TEAM: PLAYER OF THE YEAR

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Chicks Picks for Week Twelve

November 17, 2016

Welcome to Week 12 of the high school football season. After an incredible performance predicting last week’s winners, Chick’s Picks decided that she could take the rest of the season off and leave it in the hands of her trusty crystal ball.  So, she packed up her golf clubs and boarded a plane headed for her favorite southern destination. The sun was shining beautifully on a warm fall morning.  Chick’s Picks took a moment to enjoy the view on the first hole.  Just as she was about to tee off, she heard a man yell, “Hey!”

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Big Game Hunting for Week Twelve

Big Game Hunting salutes one of the all-time greats of the game. In addition to being one of the greatest football coaches southwestern Pennsylvania has ever known, George Novak was always more than helpful, more than kind and more than welcoming to me personally. He was all those things, win or lose, and he was all those things, first game of the year or championship game. That’s class, there is a striking lack of it in today’s society. He takes a big chunk into retirement with him. I wish him all the best and congratulate him on a fantastic career. Have fun coach! This weekend we get the odd situation of Championship Games on Friday followed by semi-finals on Saturday.

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Big Game Hunting for Week Eleven

November 9, 2016

Call it what you like, redemption Friday, redo Friday, rematch Friday, every single game in the three largest classifications this Friday night is a game that was already played at some point during the regular season. We prefer to call it the semi-finals, and there is no better time to go Big Game Hunting! The suddenness with which the semi-finals jump up on us in 3A, 4A, 5A, and 6A is a little unnerving. But hey, we got a new President recently, let’s find out if we are going to get some new champions as well.

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Chicks Picks for Week Seven

October 13, 2016

Welcome to Week 7 of the high school football season. Chick’s Picks had a tremendous performance last week, a career week, in fact – correctly predicting 53 winners.  Each Sunday, Chick’s Picks spends time reflecting on the weekend’s games, analyzing the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Despite her top-notch performance, a few incorrect picks were eating at her.

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