This Month's Articles
Article | Posted 2013/05/21 - 11:11pm
Does good pitching beat good hitting? It certainly did on a warm and sunny Tuesday. There were eight WPIAL baseball games. Five ended in shutouts and the combined score of the losers in the other three games was three…one run each. Here is a look back at the day of the pitcher in District 7 with recaps from all eight Final Four contests.A special thanks goes out to Mark Schaas, Josh Rowntree, Lee Mohn, Steve Nagler, Don Rebel and Mike Azadian for their help on these recaps.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Semifinals:Seneca Valley Raiders 6 - Pine-Richland Rams 0
The Raiders will play for a third...
Article | Posted 2013/05/21 - 9:42pm
Pitching took center stage in the Final Four with five shutouts and a total of three runs allowed in the three other final results. In the end, South Park and Quaker Valley remain unbeaten and the first top-seed of the district postseason fell as Serra Catholic fell in Class A. Seneca Valley, North Allegheny, South Park, Hopewell, Quaker Valley, Beaver, Western Beaver and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart are all title game bound. Here are ALL eight results from Semifinals Tuesday in the 2013 WPIAL baseball Playoffs, plus the matchups for the championships next week at CONSOL Energy Park in...
Article | Posted 2013/05/21 - 8:58pm
Four teams with perfect records as section champions will battle for a pair of District 7 boys volleyball championships after the Final Four results from Tuesday night. While Bethel Park in Class AAA will be playing for the schools first ever volleyball crown and Derry in AA searches for its second district title and first since 1988, its been there done that time for both North Allegheny and Ambridge. The Tigers have won six straight AAA titles while the Bridgers have won gold in four of the last five years. Here are ALL the results from the Semifinals of the 2013 WPIAL Boys Volleyball...
Article | Posted 2013/05/21 - 8:43pm
A year ago, it was the Year of the Indians in district girls lacrosse with Peters Township winning their fourth WPIAL crown and first since 2009 while North Hills captured its second straight Division II championship. This year, it will be a battle of the Indians in the Division I title match as Peters Township faces Shady Side Academy. Chartiers Valley qualifies for the Division II championship where they will have to wait until Wednesday for the end results in the suspended Shaler-Hampton contest. Here are three of the four results from the Semifinals, plus the schedule for both the D-II...
Article | Posted 2013/05/21 - 12:06am
The 2013 WPIAL Softball Playoffs resumed in Week Two on Monday with Round Two action in all four classifications. The top two seeds in each classification have qualified for the Final Four, but there are some surprises as well into the Semifinals. Here are recaps from all 16 WPIAL Quarterfinals Softball playoff games played Monday afternoon/evening.A special thanks goes out to Steve Nagler, Jason Tennant, Sam Hall, Chris Lackner, Mike Azadian, Josh Rowntree, Bob Gregg, Mark Schaas and Alex Richert for their help on these recaps.WPIAL CLASS AAAA Quarterfinals:Canon-McMillan Big Macs 6 - Penn-...
Article | Posted 2013/05/21 - 12:03am
Winning a WPIAL boys lacrosse title has never happened for the North Allegheny Tigers. Winning a WPIAL boys lacrosse championships has become very odd. While the Tigers will play for their first crown on Thursday, the Blue Devils are trying for their third after winning it all in 2009 and in 2011. Here are the Division I Semifinals results from Monday along with one of the two Semifinals results from the Division II Semifinals on Tuesday in the 2013 WPIAL Boys Lacrosse Playoffs.2013 WPIAL DIVISION I CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:Mount Lebanon Blue Devils vs North Allegheny Tigers AT Baldwin High School...
Article | Posted 2013/05/20 - 11:40pm
While the District baseball and softball playoffs cruise through the Quarterfinals and Semifinals Rounds, gold will be decided in scholastic lacrosse and boys volleyball this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We have the WPIAL Baseball Semifinals, the Quarterfinals and Semifinals of WPIAL Softball along with District 6 Quarterfinals and Semifinals Baseball and Softball action and the Championship Finals in WPIAL Boys Lacrosse, Girls Lacrosse and Boys Volleyball, plus more Frontier League pro baseball with the Washington Wild Things and plenty of holiday news from the world of auto racing...
Article | Posted 2013/05/20 - 10:34pm
"One of these things is not like the other".... That lyric from a children's song could be the theme of the District 7 Softball Final Four. With the exception of Class A where the top four have advanced as predicted, each of the other three tournaments has at least one surprise crashing their third round party. Peters Township (AAAA), West Mifflin and West Allegheny (AAA) and Beaver (AA) are keeping the element of surprise alive in the district postseason. Here are ALL of the final scores from Quarterfinals Monday in the 2013 WPIAL Softball Playoffs, plus the sites and times for...
Article | Posted 2013/05/18 - 10:49pm
She is only a sophomore, but it’s not too early in Brianna Schwartz’s career to come to this conclusion: She is one of the top distance runners in the history of the WPIAL.Schwartz had already done some impressive things during her career, and what she did at Thursday’s WPIAL track championships put her among the best in WPIAL history. Heck, you could even mention her in the same breath as Carole Zajac, arguably the best distance runner in WPIAL history.Schwartz won the Class AAA 1,600 in the championships at Baldwin with a time of 4 minutes, 47.07 seconds. Not only was it a...
Article | Posted 2013/05/18 - 10:37pm
The 2013 PIAA Class AAA Boys Team Tennis Finals ended the same way the 2012 championships ended a year earlier, with District 1 champion Conestoga beating WPIAL winner Shady Side Academy as the Pioneers captured their third straight state title. In Class AA after Sewickley Academy lost in the Semifinals, Wyomissing won a second straight PIAA crown by beating Lancaster Country Day Saturday in Hershey. Here are ALL the results from the 2013 PIAA Boys Team Tennis Playoffs.2013 PIAA CLASS AAA Boys Team Tennis Championship Match:Conestoga Pioneers 4 - SHADY SIDE ACADEMY INDIANS 1PIAA CLASS AAA...
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