The Richland Rams (0-1) and the Bishop Carroll Huskies (1-0) faced off at DeGol Field in Loretto, PA in their first Friday night contest. The Huskies beat the Rams 27-20 in a close contest that saw the Huskies lead most of the game. Leading the way for the Huskies was senior RB/DB Ryan Woo who [...]

Pre-season rankings for the 2010 season include only the teams ranked and their respective geographic district. Teams listed as honorable mentions are arranged in numerical order by geographic district. EasternPAFootball.com & WesternPAFootball.net statewide rankings will be updated throughout the season the Monday of each week by site reporter Josh Funk. AAAA: 1. Woodland Hills (7) [...]

The Maxwell Football Club (MFC) today announced the watch lists for the 74th annual Maxwell Award and 16th annual Chuck Bednarik Award. 45 FBS schools, representing 10 conferences, are represented on the 2010 Maxwell Award list; 45 FBS schools from 11 conferences are on the Chuck Bednarik watch list. There are several familiar names on [...]

Dan Smith, Bedford Area Most teams would be done and prepping for the start of the next season after beginning a football season with a 1-5 record. But Dan Smith and Bedford Area were just getting warmed up. The Bison won six of their next seven games after that rough start and made it to [...]

ALTOONA, Pa. – State College head coach Al Wolski reclined on the Mansion Park Stadium turf with a football in his right hand. His State College Little Lion football team crowded behind him. Moments earlier, State College finished striking big play after big play after big, big play in winning District 6’s first ever “AAAA” [...]

Clairton Clairton’s Deontae Howard went over 2,000 yards rushing for the season against Conemaugh Township. His 45-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter put him over the milestone. His team went on to walloped Conemaugh Township 46-0 in a PIAA Class A western quarterfinal game. Howard now has 2,041 yards and 34 touchdowns this season [...]

Farrell Farrell won back-to-back District 10 Class A titles in a 34-7 win over Sharpsville. Malcolm Hailstock rushed for 76 yards on eight carries and two touchdowns. Kevin Brodie rushed for 67 yards on four carries and one score. He also threw one pass that went 54 yards for a score to Preston Jefferson. Farrell [...]

“I can’t begin to tell you just how proud I am of each and every one of you”. That is what State College coach Al Wolski told his team after a dominating performance over powerful Woodland Hills at Mansion Park in Altoona Friday night. The 14-3 win represented more to State College than just the [...]

PITTSBURGH-Given that Gateway was the top overall seed in the WPIAL Class AAAA playoffs, and Woodland Hills was the second seed, it was only fitting that the last championship game of the day feature the two heavyweights of the league. And in the primetime slot at 8:00 p.m., the bright lights at Heinz Field were [...]

By Bill Albright GREENVILLE — The Mercer County Cup will stay with Grove City College at least for another year. After falling behind Thiel 17-0 and still trailing by that score after three quarters, the Wolverines rallied to tie the game at 17-all to send it to overtime before downing the Tomcats 31-24 in the [...]

Erie East Warriors have made good strides Who would have thought that through the first five weeks of the season that the Erie East Warriors would have the same overall record as the Strong Vincent Colonels? Weird, I know. Both teams are 3-2. Cathedral Prep head coach Mike Mischler noticed East’s improvement. Granted, his Ramblers [...]

Linesville QB one of the driving forces behind 4-0 start Trevor Litwiler, senior quarterback for the Linesville Lions, a Class “A” team in District 10, has helped propel the orange and black to a 4-0 start. He’s really done the bulk of the damage offensively and in terms of scoring. As a team, Linesville has [...]

Wilmington – Hounds’ went with “spread” attack to slow Grove City Down 14-7 and its running game getting stuffed by an unrelenting Grove City defense, Wilmington had to make some kind of a change or face the prospect of getting run out of its own stadium. Wilmington primarily runs out of a twin wingback formation [...]

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. – Standing on the Greyhound Stadium turf postgame, Grove City head coach Jeff Bell was looking for some divine intervention. “If we could have got some lightning and the lights went off (in the third quarter), it would have been a great ending,” the Eagles’ boss said. Instead, Wilmington was the one [...]

Erie Cathedral Prep – Rolling up the rushing yardage against St. Joseph’s Cathedral Prep opened its season with a tight 14-7 loss to McDowell. For St. Joseph’s, a school based in Cleveland, Ohio, that did not bode well. Not only did the Ramblers drop a 68-spot on the Marauders, they averaged 21.2 yards per carry [...]

JEFFERSON HILLS, Pa- Well, back to the story about the Thomas Jefferson Jaguars…..where were we? Oh thats right, the start of a new season filled with quite a bit of doubt for Bill Chirpak’s Jaguars, at least there WAS doubt. After losing a lot of key guys after their second straight state title, many had [...]

The game: Bellaire (OH Div. IV, 0-1) vs. John Marshall (WV, Class “AAA”, 0-0) When: Saturday Sept. 5, 2009 @ 8:30 p.m. Where: Wheeling Island Stadium, Wheeling, W. Va. About the game: Regional rivals square off in this fifth and final game of the Wheeling Hospital Rally in the Valley. Neither team had a whole [...]

WesternPAFootball.net has compiled a statewide list of available radio and tv games that are streamed on the internet each week. Schedule is broken down by network and linked back to their page. If we are missing a network please submit your stream schedule to jeremy@westernpafootball.net. We hope this schedule makes it easier for the fan [...]

They range from Salmon High School in Salmon, Idaho to Quirinus Gymnasium in Kaarst, Germany. A total of 244 high schools contributed to the 256 players selected in the seven rounds of the 2009 NFL Draft on April 25-26, USA Football announced a few weeks ago. There were 12 schools that had two players each [...]

Wilmington breezed through the first nine weeks of its 2008 schedule, but the final four games for the Hounds proved to be anything but a cakewalk.  Wilmington’s last four opponents, Slippery Rock, Central-Martinsburg, Aliquippa, and West Catholic, finished 2008 with a combined record of 46-12.  Wilmington won its ninth District 10 championship since moving from [...]

Steelton-Highspire has been living up to its nickname lately – they’ve simply been steamrolling opponents. But it’s not just steamrolling teams with its potent offense that can choose whether to throw on the snow tires or air it out – the defense has also been flattening people and deflating some potent offenses. Now the Rollers [...]

By Bill Albright Western PA Writer NEW WILMINGTON — Any way you look at it, Saturday’s meeting between Grove City and Westminster provided both sides of the emotional coin. On the Westminster side of the field, it was jubilation as the Titans put up a goal line stand in the final three seconds for an [...]

Vince Lombardi once said, “Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” At 11:45 Tuesday night all of Western PA was shocked to hear the news that Pittsburgh Central Catholic junior running back Kyle Wilson had died at the age of 17. Head coach Terry Totten and [...]

MONROEVILLE, Pa. – There’s a saying that says the great teams are the ones that overcome adversity. The Gateway Gators, a consensus #1 “AAAA” team, and ranked 4th in the nation, were holding on to a 31-27 lead with 2:23 left in its regular season finale with McKeesport.  All the black and gold needed was [...]

By BILL ALBRIGHT Special to the Tribune     SLIPPERY ROCK — If you are an Edinboro Fighting Scot football fan and were concerned about the possibility of a letdown following last week’s emotional win over IUP, you need not worry any longer.     Shaking off a slow start, the Scots were all over Slippery Rock as they [...]

Can you believe it? That we are already in week eight of the High School Football season in Western PA, it feels like just yesterday we were sitting by the pool talking about what we think Pittsburgh Sports Weekly first game of the season would be like at Montour. Week one is long gone and [...]

By KIM MOERSCHBACHER kim@lockhaven.com LOCK HAVEN - Bellefonte has had a lot of success passing the ball this season. That was the weapon that Zac Wynkoop;s team wanted to use against Central Mountain. The Wildcats, however, had plenty in their arsenal in the form of Matt Overdorf and a relentless defense. With his 167 yards, Overdorf [...]

WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. – Two solid lines of red-clad West Middlesex residents watched as the annual homecoming parade traveled down Route 318 to the high school. Come game time, Farrell’s offense marched through the Big Reds’ defense with little resistance. The Steelers (4-2) rolled up 450 yards of offense and 19 first downs, shutting down [...]

FRANKLIN, Pa. – Two years ago, Strong Vincent lost at Franklin High School in a downpour. This time around, the Colonels didn’t fool around in the rain.  They just shoved the ball down Franklin’s throat, and the Knights became opponent #3 to fall under the red and black steamroller. Strong Vincent (3-0) ran for 318 [...]

 By Bill Albright Western PA Writer     GREENVILLE — Many times in a close football game, the team that has the ball inside the final three minutes wins the game.     That was pretty much the case Saturday afternoon at Alumni Stadium as the Marietta College Pioneers came from behind in the waning moments of [...]

Every game since 1991 the Eagles of BEA award the jersey # 31 to the player who showed the hardest work ethic the previous week in honor of former player Steve Dorman who was killed in an accident in 1991. Tonight that jersey belonged to starting qb Derek Noll. Next week it should belong to [...]

The Game: Perry Traditional Academy (8 AAA) @ Brashear (8 AAA)  Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, from Cupples Stadium in Pittsburgh  2007 Record: Perry Traditional Academy: 4-6 Brashear: 12-1   About Perry Traditional Academy: 2007 was a rough year for Commodore fans to swallow, posting a sub-.500 record and missing the City League playoffs for [...]

  2008 team schedules are out on WesternPAFootball.net! We still need some schedules to complete our list. You can email your schedule to dave@westernpafootball.net. We will update the list as we get schedules. Schedules needed – Updated on 6/13/08 District 7 Geibel Catholic Summit Academy Wilkinsburg

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