***UPDATE*** Class A, AA, AAA, AAAA Brackets complete.
P.I.A.A. Class A Final Clairton Bears vs Riverside Vikings Friday, December 17 @2pm
P.I.A.A. Class AAA Final Bishop McDevitt Crusaders vs Allentown Central Catholic Vikings Friday, December 17 @ 7pm
P.I.A.A. Class AA Final South Fayette Lions vs West Catholic Burrs Saturday, December 18 @ 12pm
P.I.A.A. Class AAAA Final North Allegheny Tigers vs LaSalle Explorers Saturday, December 18 @ 5pm
Note: The following teams will be on the HOME side of HersheyPark Stadium: Clairton, West Catholic, Allentown Central Catholic, North Allegheny
Note: The following teams will be on the AWAY side of HersheyPark Stadium: Riverside, South Fayette, Bishop McDevitt, LaSalle
Stadium Aerial Links have been added for each game. Click on each blue Stadium Aerial for a photo of the host stadium. A special thank you goes out to everyone that has helped with this project. Good luck to all teams in their quest for a PIAA State Championship.  Any questions, comments or corrections please email Jeremy
Here are the direct links to each bracket.
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They should make a seperate championship for private schools since they can recruit. PIAA championships should be for publicly funded schools taht use athletes that live in the school district they play in. This isnt college here. Just sayin.
LaSalle will have click on offense way better than they did today if they are to beat NP who seem to really have it all going on as of late. Don’t matter that LaSalle beat them already as this is a brand new ballgame. I think the bye week actually hurt them today but the coaches seem to have them prepared enough to get the win week in and week out. I must get to that game.
LaSalle vs north Penn at PW on Saturday @ 1pm in the grand daddy of them all.
Can the Philly Catholic League get teams to Hershey in every class they compete? Unlikely…but possible. Wouldn’t that be something? There will be crybabies coming out of the woodwork!
Hssportsfan
Your Oline pushed around a bunch of JV teams the last three weeks. Woods line will be bigger and more athletic than anything ACC has seen. SH backfield much faster than ACC. And Wood shut them down. ACC is so overrated it is almost hilarious. Wood will shut down the QB and the Wr. And on offense Wood will jam in down their throats. By 3rd q ACC will be wishing they were playing that powerhouse Clearfield again.
Anyone know when and where ACC/Wood will be played?
Ok allow me to stir the pot lol.
Of the 16 teams in the semi finals of the 4 classes 7 are catholic schools including all 4 in AAA. let the shouting begin 🙂
JB – why do you say both you wish both school swere healthy? ACC is healthy
Went to the LaSalle vs Easton game today and didn’t think it was going to feel that cold ad there was not much sun out. LaSalle offense looked rusty but defensively they looked better especially in the 2nd half. Easton had a great play for there only bright spot and touchdown. Easton’s QB I forget his name an Italian kid I think is a special player as he seemed to be the best player on the field today. He was eluded a couple of looked like sure sacks and at the last second and on the run put the ball in a tight spot and the receiver made a diving catch in the back of the endzone to put Easton ahead 7 – 3. It was the highlight play of the day and it is a good thing for LaSalle there was only one #7 or if he had a little help it might have gone the other way. I hope that kid is a senior so he can’t come back for revenge next year. In the 2nd half LaSalle’s D stepped it up and wore that kid down I think. Does anyone know where LaSalle plays next week and where?
StanW, look you came on here preaching some agenda, not me.
The only thing I’m mystified by is why everyone north of Quakertown thinks D11 invented football. Fact is, they can’t compete.
That said, I’m looking forward to AW vs ACC; wish both squads were healthy!
D11 bites the dust again; maybe you all should beg the PIAA to let you play anyone but D12!
Easton was never in this game even when it was close; if not for a LaSalle mistake Easton wouldn’t have scored if we left them out there for a week!
Stan, the minute you wrote that NP a school of like 3,000 students draws only from a 20,000 population that I’ve lived in for many years; I know you didn’t know a thing!
Good luck to you!
LaSalle wins 19 – 7
dog21,
ACC is going to spank wood all night long. you say that wood is in another league then SH. Well guess what ACC is in another league then wood and it will show when they get beat bad.
P. Go away. your comments here are worthless. I never said kids. I said 3.3 million people. Don’t twist my statements to support your thoughts.
JB, I find your need to glorify the Catholic and private schools boring. And you are right. “You no longer know”
you should check your spelling stan…do you mean posers? not posters?…your facts are not right…there aren’t even 3.3 million people in philadelphia…let alone 3.3 million high school football players all wanting to go to la salle.
JB
all i will say is that NL basicaly lost there defensive starters before the game and it just got worse as game went on if they maybe had some depth it wouldn’t have been by that much but then again i really don’t care about NL just acc and as a fan i am extremely excited to see next weeks game so lets just but all the judgement aside and enjoy some football
Len, the playing field between the public schools and the private schools is not level. End of my discussion on that.
Up until my last post with you, my discussion with you was polite and respectful. I never ordered you out of this forum called your posts garbage or crap. Why do you feel its all right for YOU to do that? Who appointed you the guardian of all thats right and fit on this forum?
I have a problem with that. I have a problem with posters who disagree with me and then feel its OK to call my posts stupid rather than pointing out where they may be mistaken, inaccurrate, or need to be reconsidered. I have a problem with posters who tell me to check my facts for accuracy and do my homework but failed to check theirs or do theirs.
StanW, your entire arguement (whatever you’re trying to prove) bores me. In fact, I no longer know or care about whatever you’re trying to prove.
and Stan…go away…your comments on here are worthless…you stated that La Salle had open enrollment, which means that they have 3.3 million kids by which they can field a football team, compared to north penn’s mere 20,000? You are wrong, so stop arguing. Admit it dude.
Congrats to Wood and West Catholic. Way to do the PCL proud. Keep it up. I’ve wanted to comment on the La Salle vs. Easton game. Many people have commented how La Salle got lucky last year against Easton, stating that if the weather was not snowy, the game would have turned out differently. First of all, it was snowing outside for both teams; so there was no advantage or disadvantage. Second, if you took away Easton’s three big plays, essentially, that would have had no positive yardage. La Salle simply shut them down. The fact is that is the weather was nicer, La Salle’s winning margin would have been greater. Now, I hope nobody on here takes this the wrong way. Easton’s players (with the exception of a few players who tried to jump over La Salle’s linemen to get to the quarterback while kneeling for the win) were stand up gentlemen, especially the running back, Gatty (sorry for spelling?).
This year’s bout between La Salle and Easton should be a good game. I just think La Salle will out-man Easton. I have seen game film and highlights of Easton, and their offense seems bland. I hope La Salle comes out on their A game. If not, they will have their hands full with a very good Easton team.
JB way off base about what? The population of Towamencin Twp? when I was first researching the pop. of NP a google article stated that North Penn was located in Towamencin Twp. pop app 20,000. I made the incorrect assumption that that meant the district. It turns out it did not. Len was kind enough to inform me that I had omitted several boroughs and twps in the school district that would add an addtional 70,000(post 280) I then added another 10,000 for the sake of argument and made it an even 100,000
How does “learn what LaSalle and SJP are about.Its not atheletics” make my argument about open enrollment any less valid?
Here is an excellent opportunity for you to DO YOUR HOMEWORK. In none of my posts did I ever state that atheletics was the only reason a student went to those schools.
In post 273 you state: “StanW…….blows a hole in your LaSalle recruits crap” Again another opportunity to DO YOUR HOMEWORK, In none of my posts do I accuse the Catholic or private schools of recruiting. In post 248 I clearly state that these schools do not recruit.
In post 253 you tell me to “get your facts straight…..LaSalle is not an Archdiose school”
And once again another chance for you to GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT. In my post 248 I say that LaSalle is “located” in the Archdiose of Philadelphia, The last time I looked 8605 Cheltenham Ave Glenside Pa is located in the Archdiose of Philadelphia.
I reviewed my one post in which I addressed specifically you. My words and tone were not disrespectful, combative, or accustory. Yours have been, not only to me, but to many others here as well
You attempt to hide your rudeness and disrespect behind the demand for “the facts” and for othwers to do “their homework”
As an alum of LaSalle(post 59) you do your school a great diservice with your bitterness and resentment towards anyone who disagrees with you about Catholic or private schools
You nneed to take the advice you give WH in post 175 and lose that “unattractive chip”
johnny mo, history proves that D12 is far superior to D11.
See W. C. – N. Lehigh!
HOW BOUT DEM BURRS!!!!!!!!!!! let’s give NL some credit they have some talented young men, but West Catholic has a GIFTED group….ON TO THE NEXT ONE
that what it is my opinion you don’t need to rant and rave about it. who really cares its just hs football all we win is bragging rights, No matter what i’ll still believe in my team i just believe we had better competition and you had less of a challenge to get to this point