***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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RE Parking at Plymouth Whitemars ,Colonial Stadium.
There are more lots just to the Northeast of the field just off of Flourtown Rd.
Stan W , Could you meet the acceptance standards at LaSalle or St Joes Prep? By the way StJoes Prep is only about a two miles from New Jersey. Check a map and learn something .
HSSPORTSFAN…I agree 100% with you regarding ACC and their impending beat-down of Wood. OK, maybe not a beat-down but ACC should get a solid win.
ACC plays a brutal schedule, which consists mostly of AAAA teams.
Wood, coming from the very over-rated Catholic League is already making excuses that their running back went down…
Pun intended…a tough break, but guess what?
Injuries are part of the game…if losing one or two guys makes that much of a difference you prolly weren’t that good anyway…which is what most of us have been saying all along.
Dog21..give it up, Wood’s good, but not ACC good.
ACC vs McDevitt for all the AAA marbles in Hershey next week…enjoy the view Wood, you can watch it on PCN.
Word.
LETS GO VIKES WE ARE TAKING IT KIDDDD
PICKS
AAAA NORTH PENN 21
LA SALLE 13
AAA ARCH.WOOD 21
ACC 42
WEST
B.MCDEVITT 30
ERIE PREP 22
AA W.CATHLIC 55
LEWISBURG 7
A RIVERSIDE 44
B,CARROLL 21
WEST CLARITON 12
FARRELL 7
I am rooting for LaSalle but they will have to play better than last week. I am hoping they were rusty because of the bye week. It will take their best game to beat NP who are hitting it on all cylinders at the exact opportune time. I have faith that the coaching staff we have them ready.
I will stay with my earlier predictions.
LaSalle over NP
Wood Over ACC
West over Lewisburg
Riverside over CArroll
Could easily be 0-4 lol
riversie rocks
diddlypooh…By the way my son wrestled in high school and college and when we would go to these tournaments in high school I was always impressed with Neshaminy wrestlers as they were tough, dedicated…winners.
diddlypooh…refreshing to hear that there are real men from public school as I knew they were around just not on this site up until now. Thank you for squaring things up as you make up for all those cry babies…A friend of mines son attends Neshaminy and tore it up last year in basketball as a soph and I look forward to going up to Neshaminy to see him play this season his name is Archidiacono and he went to Catholic grade school then you guys “recruited” him and stole him away from a Catholic High School(just kidding) his cousin recently graduated “The Prep” and got a full boat to Penn State in football.
All you Pub boys, cry me a river. Berwick in the 80s, Central Bucks West in the 90s. No recruiting or fudging on the records for where a kid lives with those teams. The Pubs have been cheating for years and they still are. Mr. Shariff Floyd from George Washington High in Philly lived in Delaware County. He now plays for the Gators of Florida. Berwick’s QB in the 80s was from Ohio before he went on to Notre Dame. Not one of the players from La Salle’s team last year went anywhere close to D 1 in college. It’s the coaching, the program and the heart.
Only an opinion here
NP over Lasalle: NP is playing some its best football of the seaon. Appear to be peaking at the right time. Highly motivated to avench the early season lost.
ACC over AW: Nosovitch, Gulyas and a solid suopporting cast. Strength of schedele: having beaten Downingtown E. Nazareth, Whitehall, and Abington Heights. Just too much firepower.
Hurt Piece…I agree with you about District 12 Public. I am sure there is a ton of talent in that league but they are at a disadvantage for more than one reason but one of the biggest is the coaching as from what I understand you must be a teacher with senority to be a head coach and once you are coach you are sort of “coach for life” where you can’t be fired for the teams performance…some kind of union thing I think. Other reasons are socio-economic where many kids need to work or help out with younger siblings among other things.
As a Graduate of Neshaminy HS (90′), proud former player of that school & supporter of the program. First, Congrats to North Penn & best of luck the rest of the way… represent D1 & bring home the title!
Next, this public vs. private school debate is old & tired. Nothing like class envy huh??!! The nature of competitive sports is to field the best team, PERIOD! Quit whining, lace ’em up tight, put your knuckles on the ground & knock the guy in front of you on their arse. Boo Hoo, they have more students, they recruit… WAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!
The best are that because they work harder then the other guy. It’s just that simple. Want to beat the other dude. Get in the weight room & train, find a big hill & run up it a zillion times, study your opponent & yourself, & dedicate 100% to the sport. Those who worry about fair & unfair are destined to finish last!
PW is a nice field, but I’ve seen more seating capacity elsewhere. Parking is problematic. Prepare to walk. I suspect this will be a sell out. Liberty is a really nice field with plenty of seating. Virtually no parking, it’s an inner city school. Both are markee games.
NP: 27, LaSalle: 24 ( more improved than LaSalle from the first game, especially QB)
ACC : 31, AW: 27 ( ACC too much offence, unfortunately for AW, those lost players will hurt)
Don’t follow AA or A too much, but West catholic seems to be too big & fast for anyone at AA level)
Ricky Bobby- I am sorry but your reliable source isn’t so reliable. Peoples is in a cast and will be for the next game. Wood is not made up and built around one player. They will be a tough team. They are coached very well. As fa as the Catholic vs public, you can debate it all night long. Those athletes are not getting athletic scholarships. Most are Catholic. Most have to take and pass religion class to stay on the team. Yes Catholic schools must advertise for students to stay open. They do most of their “recruiting” in Catholic Elementary School and Catholic CYO leagues. Did you see the word Catholic. They do except students from other religions but that population is very small in the schools. I cannot speak for the private Catholic schools.
@Dolittle, parking at PW may prove difficult; unlike Northeast, there is little to no street parking.
I’d suggest an early arrival Saturday.
Ricky Bobby…how can that be I was talking with a Wood coach two weeks ago and he told me Peoples broke his foot and is done. Broken foot sounds like your done till next year.
Ricky Bobby
u serious? Desmon eas on the sidelines in crutches on Friday night he broke his foot in two spots. It is highly unlikely that he can play. And if he can he will not be the same. I hope he is bc Wood is
y team but I won’t believe it u til I see it.
Doolittle, the parking at PW is really tough. I got there about 40 minutes before the La Salle-St. Joe Prep game and found one of the last spots. I would expect that there will be far more people at this game and that parking will be even more difficult. They allow some parking on Germantown Pike in front of the school for games like this, so I would expect that they will allow that on Saturday. Bottom line is if you probably want to get to the field about an hour before kickoff.
Riverside Rolls 45-6 bc there that much better than carroll
Week 15 games: Who wins and why?
JB your post #342 is right on the money my friend. I posted on this site several times about the open enrollment policy that exists in phila. Its the same policy for the PPL as it is for the PCL. And your right no one ever complained because they were slaughtering the PPL teams. And the funny thing is the PPL has WAY WAY WAY more athletes to choose from than the PCL. The switching of schools by athletes in the public league will make you dizzy if you try to keep track. And there is no entrence exam or tuition to have to worry about in the pub. Trust me there is plenty of recruiting going on in the public league but its never brought up on this sight. Ok i said my peice enought of the pub/private thing. lets talk about the games coming up and the great teams and kids that will play in them.
I will defn attend the ACC vs Wood game now. ACC(Noscovitch) vs. (Wood) D.Peoples.
These two kids are arguably the best at there respective positions QB/RB in the entire state.
Should be and entertaining shootout. I have been waiting for this one all year.
I just heard from a reliable source that D. Peoples will play against ACC. If this is true Wood will win by 2-3 TD’s. ACC hasn’t seen anything like the speed and skill of D. Peoples.
This sounds like the end of the road for ACC.
I am not familiar with Colonial Stadium the site of the North Penn vs LaSalle and from the aerial photos provided by this site although the complex looks nice with all the green open space the seating and especially the parking look like they are lacking. Am I going to have a problem getting a seat but importantly am I going to have a problem getting a parking spot? I never had a problem getting a seat and parking my car where LaSalle played Easton in Philly as at least there was plenty of on street parking. Is there additional parking from what the photo shows?