April 2012
Article | Posted 2012/04/29 - 6:38pm
As the mercury keeps rising and the calender changes from April to May, we have stretch run regular season softball and baseball action this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We feature plenty of WPIAL and District 6 baseball and softball including three more games from the MSA Sports Hometown Softball Program. We also have WPIAL boys volleyball and boys lacrosse, plus football with the debut of the Pittsburgh Passion for 2012 AND the PSFCA all-star football game along with news from the auto racing world with Rappin on Racin...
Article | Posted 2012/04/29 - 9:10am
In Hometown Softball Action the South Side Beaver Rams beat the Rochester Rams 18-2 in 4 innings. The South Side Beaver Rams scored 9 runs on 7 hits in the first inning and never looked back. They plated 1 run in the 3rd inning and ended the game with 8 runs on 8 hits in the bottom of the 4th inning invoking the 15 run rule. South Side had 18 runs on 17 hits.The game started under cloudy skies and temperatures in the low 40's. The game ended in a light hail storm a first for the crew of the MSA Sports Network and the South Side coach Theresa Waxler. " We have...
Article | Posted 2012/04/29 - 9:08am
For Chartiers-Houston it was just another day at the office. The Bucs (17-1, 9-0) dismantled Avella (5-10, 4-5) on a chilly Saturday afternoon, invoking the 15-run mercy rule in less than four complete innings, beating the Eagles 15-0.The Bucs scored three runs in the first, four in the second, three in the third and five in the fourth to win the game in just 3.2 innings.On the year, it was the 14th shutout and 15th 10+ run win for Chartiers-Houston, the unanimous #1 team in Class A and defending WPIAL Class A Champions. Piper McLaughlin and Kayla Briggs, who only let up two hits in the...
Article | Posted 2012/04/27 - 10:58pm
Elizabeth Forward (11-4, 6-2) has struggled at times this season with leaving runners stranded on base. Through four innings on Friday it appeared that trend would continue. However, the Warriors were determined to buck the trend, scoring six runs in the 5th and 6th innings and defeating Thomas Jefferson 7-3 in a gigantic AAA Section 3 matchup.Thomas Jefferson (7-6, 5-3) got two runs in the first, thanks in part to a fielding error, but would only score one run - a solo home run by Amanda Wrobleski - the rest of the way.Courtney Hrabosky would score in the bottom of the first on a fielding...
Article | Posted 2012/04/27 - 6:57pm
The up and down season for Brentwood softball was on the upswing Friday in a must-win situation as the Spartans held off the Quaker Valley Quakers 6-4 to stay alive, for now, in the WPIAL Class AA Section 1 playoff chase.Sydney Bauer got the ball rolling for Brentwood in the bottom of the first when after getting hit by a pitch, she stole second, took third on a passed ball and scored on a dropped third strike when Quakers catcher Emma Fortuna threw to first base to get Miranda Klein.The Quakers took...
Article | Posted 2012/04/27 - 2:50pm
It took four years for Serra Catholic pitcher Alain Girman to finally lose a game. Then it happened in consecutive days.
Girman is a senior at Serra who started winning games as a freshman pitcher three years ago and was undefeated through his junior season. With five wins this season, he had an incredible 29-0 record when he took the mound in relief Wednesday against Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.
But OLSH scored two runs on walks off Girman and handed him his first career loss, 7-6.
Less than 24 hours later, Girman got the start Thursday as Serra played Chartiers-Houston. But Char-...
Article | Posted 2012/04/27 - 11:37am
The West Allegheny Indians have lost only twice so far in 2012 – that’s the good news. The bad news is that both defeats have come against section rival Montour Spartans. For the second time in two weeks, the Montour Spartans topped the Indians, this time by the score of 6-3. Montour senior Kaitlyn Kutchman led the way by pitching seven strong innings and striking out nine Indians as well as by crushing a long solo home run, against the wind, to left field. That home run tied the game at three in the bottom of the 3rd inning. The Spartans got on the...
Article | Posted 2012/04/25 - 2:26pm
Each week during the regular season, MSA Sports will rank the top ten boys volleyball teams in the WPIAL in both classifications every Wednesday at www.MSAsports.net Log on every day for updated standings and match broadcasts on your exclusive home for the 2012 WPIAL Boys Volleyball Playoffs, the MSA Sports Network at MSAsports.netSection record in parenthesis. WPIAL CLASS AAA TOP TEN:1) NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS (8-0)
(Last Week #1)2) SENECA VALLEY RAIDERS (6-1)
(Last Week #2)3) NORWIN KNIGHTS (7-0)
(Last Week #3)4) ...
Article | Posted 2012/04/25 - 12:18am
On a day that saw three one run games broadcast among the Hometown Softball teams. The game that had the Jeannette Jayhawks visiting the South Allegheny Gladiators may have been the best one all day. South Allegheny played in their third straight one run game and pulled out a come from behind 8-7 win over the Jayhawks.
South Allegheny head coach Hal Minford said before the game" this could be a wild one with the wind blowing out today ". How right he was as the teams combined for 23 hits, and 4 HR in the ball game. Before the game outfielders had a lot of trouble...
Article | Posted 2012/04/24 - 9:15pm
Despite a furious late inning comeback, #5-ranked Vincentian (3-2, 6-4) came up just short in a 6-5 loss to #2-ranked Sto-Rox (8-0, 12-0) in WPIAL Class A Section 3 action earlier today at the Vincentian Athletic Complex in McCandless.
The Royals remain firmly in control of the third and final 3-A playoff spot, two full games in front of fourth place North Catholic (2-5, 3-6) , while Sto-Rox can sew up its 26th section championship with a win at Sewickley Academy on Thursday.
The Vikings struck first in the top of the first inning, benefitting from two Vincentian errors to tally two...
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