Tag: West Allegheny

Scholastic Notebook – 09/13/2013

September 13, 2013

There is undoubtedly more passing in high school football these days. But after two weeks, could this be the year of runners in WPIAL football?While WPIAL football again has some impressive passers, the running statistics have been big through the first two weeks. Take a look:*It’s considered a nice night when a team has two 100-yard rushers in a game. It is extremely unusual when a team has two 200-yard rushers. But there have been two teams (Penn Hills and Steel Valley) that have had two 200-yard rushers in a game – and they did it on the same night (last Friday).*Penn Hills’ Billy Kisner has rushed for 200 yards in two consecutive games – and he’s a QUARTERBACK.

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MSA Sports Big Game Hunting – Week Three

September 11, 2013

According to the weather folks; this Friday night will feel like fall, as we get set for week three. Let’s you and I have a little top-ten party for this week’s version of the football four-pack. As always with the recent re-alignment there is no shortage of big games in each of the classifications. But, week three presents a little extra, not just big, conference games but also, big games featuring both participants as ranking in the MSA Sports Top Ten as complied by the MSA team.

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MSA Sports Big Game Hunting – Week One

August 28, 2013

It is funny isn’t it? How every year near then end of summer the smell of freshly cut grass just starts to smell like football? Doesn’t smell like that in the springtime. I wonder how that works. I am glad it works that way, and I am delighted that it is time to crank up the Big Game Hunting for another WPIAL football season! The first of 16 Big Game Huntings is always determined by the four defending WPIAL champions. So let’s kick it off for the 2013 year it’s time to take a look at four big games for opening weekend!Class AAAA - Non-Conference:

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CTK 2013 – MSA Sports Preseason Top Ten: WPIAL Triple-A

August 27, 2013

Each and every Monday during the regular season, the MSA Sports Network will rank the Top Ten football teams in each classification. With days to go before the 2013 WPIAL football season kicks off, we present our Preseason Top Ten teams. This article, we present the Top Ten in Class AAA.Final 2012 record is in parenthesis.WPIAL CLASS AAA PRESEASON WPIAL FOOTBALL TOP TEN:1.   WEST ALLEGHENY INDIANS  (12-2)2.   THOMAS JEFFERSON JAGUARS  (11-1)3.   CENTRAL VALLEY WARRIORS  (9-3)4.   WEST MIFFLIN TITANS  (11-2)5.   MARS FIGHTING PLANETS  (9-2)

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CTK 2013 – WPIAL Triple-A Parkway Conference Preview

August 15, 2013

While repeats have been the story in the WPIAL in the last few years with Clairton winning five consecutive Class A titles, two straight Class AA titles for Aliquippa and three straight titles for North Allegheny in Quad A, there have been no repeat champion in Class AAA.However, a team from the Parkway Conference has claimed the last four AAA trophies, with West Allegheny as the defending champion. In fact, five of the nine coaches in the conference has won a WPIAL championship, those coaches have combined for 13 gold medals for their teams since 1991.

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WPIAL Softball Consolation Recaps

May 29, 2013

Eight teams had to wait an extra 24 hours to see if their season would continue after the WPIAL postponed all four softball consolation games from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon. For Hempfield, West Allegheny, Chartiers-Houston and Burgettstown, it was worth the wait as they picked up victories and now move on to the PIAA state softball playoffs while Peters Township, West Mifflin, Beaver and Frazier see their successful 2013 campaign come to an end.

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WPIAL Class AAA and Class AA Baseball Consolation Recaps

With a PIAA state playoff berth at stake, both the Class AAA and Class AA WPIAL consolation baseball games were thrillers all the way down to the final at bat. A walk-off sacrifice fly and a walk-off triple helped keep the 2013 baseball season alive for both Shady Side Academy in AA and Keystone Oaks in AAA.

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Scholastic Notebook – 05/18/2013

May 18, 2013

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2013 WPIAL Hall of Fame Class

April 11, 2013

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MSA Sports Top 25 WPIAL Stories of 2012 Countdown – #25 through #21

December 28, 2012

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