WEXFORD -- Elizabeth Forward wanted to add another chapter to what has been a landmark season for its football program.
Central Valley will be a heavy favorite when it takes the field at North Allegheny High School tonight against Elizabeth Forward in the WPIAL Class 3A football championship game.
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California dominated the Tri-County South Conference in football this season so it wasn’t a surprise the Trojans also headlined the All-Conference team released on Wednesday.
ALIQUIPPA – Belle Vernon did plenty of good things early in the game and again late, but Aliquippa dominated the middle and that carried the Quips to a 33-25 victory over the Leopards in a WPIAL Class 4A semifinal game Friday night.
Elizabeth Forward senior Chase Whatton felt confident as his football team stepped on the field at Mars to play North Catholic on Friday night.
Belle Vernon and Aliquippa both played in a WPIAL championship game last year with the Leopards falling to Thomas Jefferson in Class 4A and the Quips losing to Central Catholic in Class 3A.
Connellsville and Laurel Highlands were both highly anticipating playing a football game against each other last Friday night.
ELIZABETH -- Elizabeth Forward's biggest football crowd of the season got to witness a program first and the ending of a long drought on Friday night.
ROSTRAVER TWP. -- Belle Vernon ran for 346 yards and exploded for 35 second-half points for a 49-21 WPIAL Class AAAA quarterfinal playoff win over visiting Chartiers Valley Friday night.
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COAL CENTER -- Trailing 21-7 with under five minutes to go in the fourth quarter, fourth-seeded California looked like it needed a miracle to get back in the game against Shenango.
North Catholic pulled away with 28 unanswered points after Mount Pleasant tied the game in the first quarter for a 35-14 victory Friday night in the quarterfinals of the WPIAL Class AAA football playoffs.
California is hoping to start a new trend in the WPIAL football playoffs tonight.
Freshman Colin Brady ran for 273 yards and four touchdowns, Corey Wise had a hand in three scores, and West Greene's offense rolled in a 54-28 victory over Jefferson-Morgan in a Class A Tri-County South Conference game played at Waynesburg University's John F. Wiley Stadium.
FREDERICKTOWN — Jared Johnson scored three touchdowns and McGuffey wrapped up the outright Class AA Century Conference championship Friday night with a 48-20 win over Beth-Center.
Year Two of Albert Gallatin's switch to being an independent football team was even more successful than the first.
Jimmy Sadler did it all Friday night to lead Chartiers-Houston to a 27-14 Century Conference victory over visiting Waynesburg Central.
Landan Stevenson rushed for 214 yards and scored five touchdowns as Mapletown out-scored visiting Bentworth, 40-29, in a Tri-County South Conference clash Friday night.
Mount Pleasant raced out to a 13-0 lead in the first quarter Friday night, but the Vikings were unable to hold the lead in a 30-19 Interstate Conference loss at South Park.
Ringgold made it a one score game in the fourth quarter, but West Mifflin responded with Ojuan Owens' 1-yard touchdown plunge as the Titans held on for a 20-8 Big Eight Conference road victory over the Rams.
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Laurel Highlands scored three touchdowns of over 70 yards but it was its defense that came up big twice in the final seconds in the Mustangs’ thrilling 34-33 victory over Trinity on Friday night.
Zion White threw two long touchdown passes and ran for another Friday night as Elizabeth Forward capped an undefeated regular season with a 35-19 victory over visiting Southmoreland in Interstate Conference action.
Avella scored two touchdowns in the second quarter and the Eagles defense made the scores stand for a 14-7 victory over visiting Carmichaels in Tri-County South Conference play.
C.J. Waldier scored three touchdowns and Gamal Marballie had a pair to lead Yough to a 48-0 road victory at Brownsville in Interstate Conference action.
Derrick Davis scored five touchdowns and ran for 113 yards to lead visiting Gateway to a 43-12 Big East Conference victory at Connellsville.
When Frazier began the 2019 football season with six straight losses it was hard to envision that a year later the Commodores would be making a push for the WPIAL playoffs.
In what was a slugfest early, Washington scored 25 second-half points to pull away for a 39-0 victory over Charleroi in a Century Conference game Friday night.
Wes Whipkey threw three touchdown passes to Nathan Orndoff and Corey Wise had two long touchdown runs as West Greene rode a balanced attack to a 53-12 win over Brownsville at Kennedy Field.
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Owen Maddich came through when it mattered most for Jefferson-Morgan.
Tyler Reese's fumble return for a touchdown cut Mount Pleasant's deficit to just two points, but Elizabeth Forward held on in the final 2½ minutes Friday night for a tight 16-14 Interstate Conference road victory.
McKeesport scored three unanswered touchdowns in the second quarter to pull away from visiting Laurel Highlands Friday night for a 35-20 Big South Conference home victory.
Ky'ron Craggette had a monster game with four touchdowns and 240 yards rushing Friday night, but the Penn-Trafford offense was just as unstoppable for a 64-28 victory over visiting Connellsville in Big East Conference play.
Kenny Fine ran for three touchdowns and caught a touchdown pass Friday night to lead Frazier to a 39-0 victory over visiting Beth-Center in Century Conference action.
Conner Murga scored a pair of rushing touchdowns Friday night as Thomas Jefferson shut out Ringgold, 41-0, for a Big Eight Conference road victory.
Devin Whitlock scored touchdowns three different ways Friday night in Belle Vernon's 52-14 Big Eight Conference road victory at Trinity.
Haden Sierocky ran for two touchdowns and pass for two more to lead visiting Ligonier Valley to a 42-7 non-conference victory Friday night at Waynesburg Central.
Yough's rally in the second half fell short in a 32-14 non-conference loss to visiting Valley.
