WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
Announced Tuesday was the Pennsylvania Team for the annual Big 33 Football Classic and the WPIAL’s Class AAAA has ten representatives on this year’s squad. The Quad-A school fielding the most players is the Pittsburgh Central Catholic with a total of three. Quarterback and Florida State-recruit J.J. Cosentino, linebacker Niko Thorpe, and defensive back Tre… More »
In a battle between two teams atop the Section 4-AAAA standings, the third-ranked Bethel Park Black Hawks earned a 52-38 home win over the second-ranked Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils on Monday night. The reigning WPIAL champions handed Mt. Lebanon its first section loss of the season and pulls a half-game in front of their South… More »
Tonight the Bethel Park Black Hawks and Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils clash in the MSA Sports & Quad-A Conference Girls’ Basketball Game of the Week. This evening’s contest pits two Section 4 titans and perennial WPIAL championship contenders. Between the two, Bethel Park and Mt. Lebanon have won four of the last five WPIAL titles. … More »
by: Aaron Modrak, Hawk Eye The Bethel Park Black Hawks took on Upper St. Clair for a greatly anticipated Quad-A Section 4 match-up on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Bethel Park came into Tuesday’s game with a two-game losing streak against Cannon-McMillan and Mt. Lebanon. With the Storm Squad in full effect, Bethel Park defeated USC, 72-48…. More »
The North Allegheny Tigers clinched a playoff spot out of Section 3-AAAA on Friday night with an 80-65 victory over the Seneca Valley Raiders in the MSA Sports & Quad-A Conference Boys Basketball Game of the Week. The Tigers jumped to a 43-26 lead by halftime and held off the Raiders comeback efforts in the second… More »
The Baldwin Highlanders were 4.1 seconds away from a critical road victory, but Upper St. Clair junior Diandra Conwell drained a three-point shot at the buzzer to force overtime and the Panthers went on to claim a 63-58 win in Section 4-AAAA on Thursday night. The win clinches a playoff spot for the Panthers and… More »
In tonight’s MSA Sports & Quad-A Conference Girls Basketball Game of the Week, the Baldwin Highlanders (9-6, 3-5) visit the Upper St. Clair Panthers (10-4, 5-3) in a Section 4-AAAA battle. The Highlanders have won 10 of the last 12 games in this series, but it was the Panthers who won the earlier meeting this… More »
Senior Joe Mancini buried a single game school record 11 three-pointers to lead North Allegheny to a 76-44 victory over the Shaler Titans on Tuesday night in a Section 3-AAAA contest. Mancini tallied 37 points and nearly outshot the entire Shaler team, dropping in 11 of 17 from beyond the arc. The Titans totaled just 15… More »
by Andrew Heck The WPIAL released the football conference realignments on Tuesday afternoon and realignment did not bring too much change to Quad-A. Gateway dropped down a classification to triple A, and Plum moved from the Southeastern Conference to the Foothills Conference. The conferences are realigned every two years. The Conferences will be as follows starting… More »
Junior guard Amanda Batey poured in seven three-pointers and a career-high 24 points to lift the Norwin Knights over the Hempfield Spartans on Monday night, 71-67, in a Section 1-AAAA contest. It was the second time this season the Knights defeated the Spartans and helps Norwin keep pace with first place Penn-Trafford. While Batey had… More »