Last season, we picked up the WPIAL torch during the fall and rattled off some posts about local high school football. We’re not insiders or experts, but we do love high school football, particularly in Western Pennsylvania. We’re going to try to make a post or two every week to keep readers updated on WPIAL games. Unlike the NFL, we obviously won’t be able to follow things as closely since the games aren’t televised and we pretty much have to rely on the limited scores and stats that we get from reading the paper. We organized our previews by our predicted order of finish.
Due to time constraints, i.e. the WPIAL season starting tomorrow, we had to speed up these previews a little bit. Therefore, rather than previewing each team, we’re just going to give you our predicted order of finish. Aliquippa is going to be beastly this season. They had a young team last year and upset #1 seed South Fayette on the way to the title game. Greensburg CC, defending AA champs, lost the David Miller, their all-star running back but return a ton of other players from the team that went to the PIAA championship. Keystone Oaks, who we believed last year was the best AA team in Allegheny County, returns both their star running backs but will face a tough challenge in the Century Conference from South Fayette.
The PIAA redrew the district classifications last year, so there was some movement of teams throughout WPIAL.
Burgettstown
Southmoreland
Yough
Laurel
Kittanning
Valley
Sto-Rox
Bishop Canevin
Cornell
Northgate
McGuffey
Center
Allegheny Conference
Freeport
Ford City
Shady Side Academy
Burrell
Deer Lakes
Apollo-Ridge
Summit Academy
West Shamokin
Century Conference
Keystone Oaks
South Fayette
Seton-LaSalle
Steel Valley
Washington
South Allegheny
Burgettstown
Quaker Valley
Interstate
Greensburg Central Catholic
Jeanette
Mt. Pleasant
Charleroi
East Allegheny
Southmoreland
Yough
Waynesburg
Brownsville
Midwestern Conference
Aliquippa
Beaver
Riverside
Beaver Falls
Mohawk
Freedom
Laurel
Ellwood City
New Brighton
Preseason Top 8
1. Aliquippa
2. Greensburg Central Catholic
3. Keystone Oaks
4. South Fayette
5. Beaver
6. Jeanette
7. Freeport
8. Beaver Falls
Predicted AA Champion
Homer Pick: Keystone Oaks
Realistic Pick: Aliquippa
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