***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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Wow, I am stunned at the level of mean-spiritedness of some of the people who have posted here. Folks, we’re talking about high school kids who work their butts off in hopes of being Kings of the Hill in one of the most competitive high school football states in the country. These kids play their hearts out every single week, and some of you come on here and disparage them without knowing anything about them except where they are from, some scores, and maybe a few unsubstantiated rumors? Shame on you.
None of these kids, nor their programs, nor the results in any individual game, is “pathetic.” Let’s have a higher baseline of decency here, and give credit to ALL of the (teen-aged) players and their coaches — who sacrifice time away from their families, contend with criticism from many sources, and work hard to build winning and CLEAN programs.
On one particularly ignorant and offensive comment (of many) posted by WHspirit18, I issue a challenge. If you really believe that La Salle cheats, back it up — if you can. If you can’t back it up, that accusation is as vile as it is serious. I have all the confidence in the world that you’ll come up empty. And spare us all the name-calling and “in-my-opinion” nonsense in your response. Let’s see facts. Let’s see proof. Let’s see some integrity. Let’s see some sportsmanship.
Incredible.
Why was my comment taken off of here? You guys let people come on this site and do senseless trash talking like WHSpirit and Dog, but a comment that addresses the racially charged bull being thrown on your live in game chat is not good enough? Their comments about West Catholic this weekend and the last one were offensive. I’m talking about coach hanni and some others of course. I guess you didn’t want your site buddy’s to hear they’re racially charged biased addressed. Moderation and favoritism are two different things.
It’s over!!!! It was fun! We’ll cuss & discuss at each other again next year!!! Can’t wait. Have a good off-season!! Go Easgles!!!!!!!!!!!
Meant to say D7 team
Buddy…Just saying that it is hard enough to win states and then get back to the championship game in the very next year to defend the title. LaSalle is the only team in recent memory to do that in more than a decade and the only other team to do it was CB West (although they did it and then some) at least in AAAA anyhow. No D& team has ever done it to my recollection. NA is the best team in the state this year but lets see if they can defend their title on the last day. One state championship does not a program make.
Who changed my posting below? Was #9. Didn’t know you guys had that editing power. @ WHspirit18: The only way WH would beat LaSalle is the same way NA did: turnovers. One can’t score points if one gives the ball away.
@deo7: no idea what you are saying in your last comment?? Both NA & LaSalle will be in the playoffs next year, take it to the bank. The rest makes no sense.
@WHspirit18. It is great to have school spirit and believe in your team. Woody High is a good team in the best league in the state (because of the number of good teams in all four classifications). But Woody is 0-3 in state championship appearances, so to say they would have beat LaSalle is little “out there”!
WPIAL has been trash the past few years they win a title every once inawhile you guys out west need to be more consistent
sorry, i meant district 7
also, quit saying teams like selinsgrove, and mcdevitt are part of that east, west area. i know they want to define these schools as east vs west but they are more centrally located. saying selinsgrove is from the east is like saying state college is from the west. that is a gray area the piaa needs to clear up. perhaps altering the brackets to be more geographicly concise.
the reason you don’t see teams from district 11 repeating like the teams from the philadelphia area is because the talent level is spread out in a greater base area. your so called one hit wonder theory has no basis. on any given year in district 11 you could have as many as 10 teams capable of winning states. which makes it extremely hard to repeat. what i see out of pcl is the same 3 or 4 teams competing with each other year in and year out. teams like lasalle, wood, west, are going to be there every year because they horde up all the talent and leave the rest to fend for themselves. i’ll take the west any day over the east. week in and week out is nothing but solid matchups while the east has to wait for their district championships to see a competitive game. i will take my NA’s and Clairton’s over their recruiting catholic teams any day of week.there is much more satisfaction when they win. granted they probably won’t be their to repeat next season, but that only confirms my beliefs from above.
LaSalle had to score some points to win the game… they didn’t score at all. That’s pretty pitiful.
Also, now I know my team (Woodland Hills) would have killed LaSalle, too.
hssportsfan: I’m not a North Allegheny fan at all! They beat my team in the close WPIAL championship game this year. But, all I know is that they beat an overrated Lasalle team that cheats and still can’t win. I just think that’s funny. And sorry, we’re not talking about next year, we’re talking about THIS year.
Buddy – I have to step in here. The discussion between you and Woody was about La Salle (being a rich private school that recruits vs North Allegheny that supposedly does not) and that si (ok) some kind of Christmas present (thought you were not allowed to mix Christmas and a public school in the same sentence) and then you add in 6 other schools. Woody made it clear that between LaSalle and NA that LaSalle already won a state title and then got back to Hershey to defend their title and NA won’t be able to duplicate that feat and you got to love that “one hit wonder” line or whatever which I too predict NA will be.
WHspirit18. you are full of yourself where will North allegheny be next year? It wont be the championship game garuntee you that. And one more fact for you Eastern PA by far had way better teams then Western PA.
@woody: there are certain teams that are back every year. North Allegheny, Gateway,Pittsburg CC, Bishop MvDevitt, North Penn, Neshaminy, Ridley etc. and yes, probably LaSalle. All the above teams, and quite a few more, are never one year wonders. Their programs & coaches are too good not to be there every year.
Hahahahah you Eastern PA people are so full of yourselves! What did I say?! I knew Lasalle would lose! Now, I’m no North Allegheny fan.
Buddy…LaSalle won states in its 2nd year and got back to the state championship in its 3rd (hard to do) and I am willing to bet that North Allegheny will bow out next year without much of fight. LaSalle was young this year so they will most likely be back next year already battle tested. NA will be a one year wonder.
north allegheny is good. But ACC was by far the best team in any classification in the state this year. Who dey think they gonna beat them vikings? NOBODY!!!!
North Allegheny( public school) = 21
LaSalle (private school) = 0
YES VIRGINIA….THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS!!!!!
Good Luck to WC and LS today; bring it home!
Who is Chris, NPF? Sounds like a bitter dude to me!
yea baby. ACC all day book it now they will repeat next year you can count on that. Mcdevitt give you credit you shut down the star qb but ACC has too many weapons.
Moose…How can the east be 1-0 before it even starts as first of all it had not started and Bishop Mc Devitt is from the West.
Good luck to all sides and may all the contests be decided by the participants and not the referees !