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The Pennsylvania high school football season wrapped up one of the most unique seasons in its history Saturday night with St. Joseph’s Prep defeating Central York, 62-13, in the PIAA Class 6A championship game.Although neither team was from western Pennsylvania, four of the game officials ...

Seven local high school football teams will participate in the WPIAL playoffs, with four of those playing home games in the first round.The teams at Peters Township, Belle Vernon, McGuffey, California and Avella were assured of playoff berths based on their regular-season finishes. Washington ...

WPIAL sets playoff formats for fall sports

The WPIAL announced changes to its postseason formats for fall sports Wednesday and several of them are major, the result of the coronavirus pandemic that has wreaked havoc on the seasons.The most significant changes involve football. In the past, the WPIAL has used conference records, ...

ROGERSVILLE – It wasn’t pretty but Avella will take it.Wins over West Greene don’t come very often for the Eagles so their 21-20 nail-biter Thursday night was something to celebrate, even if you had to keep a social distance.It also brought their record to 3-0, the first time that has ...

Week 3 of the high school football season got started early with a game Thursday night at West Greene because there is a shortage of officials to work a full Friday schedule.The game set the table for what should be an interesting Friday night that includes key matchups in the Class 5A ...

Schedules, streaks and Avella’s start

Is it still early in the high school football season or is it getting late?It depends on which way you look at the season.Most teams have played two games, some have managed only one game, but it’s late September and that’s usually the midpoint in the season. And after this weekend, there ...