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Here is a new Wolf Word from FSN football analyst Craig Wolfley: “He’ll snoggle-late you,” he said of Fox Chapel’s Montay Green. Straight man, play-by-play man Rob King responded, “You hate to be snoggle-lated.” I bet it hurts.

Fox Chapel’s Montay Green hasn’t given up. He just ran 26 yards for a touchdown and the score is 41-7, Penn Hills. Green, a junior, has a nice build and some speed and looks like a player Quad East opponents need to respect. Fox Chapel has gained 117 yards since halftime after getting only 40 in the [...]

It’s Thursday night and that means televised high school football on FSN –  Penn Hills vs. Fox Chapel in the Quad East. I  missed the beginning of the game, opting for dinner with the family, but I played a little head game with myself. “I predict,” I told myself, “Penn Hills will be winning, oh, [...]

Thomas Jefferson finally gained control midway through the fourth quarter, turning to fullback Dylan Breisinger, who gained some tough yards, including a 9-yard run for the game’s first touchdown. Then, Giansante, who had two big catches from quarterback Sam Johnston earlier in the game, intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown and a 20-0 lead. That [...]

Thomas Jefferson is anything but dominant, but another Mike Wainauskas field goal — this one from 27 yards — just gave the undefeated Jaguars a 6-0 lead midway through the third quarter. It’s a clinic on tackling — Chartiers Valley’s Tyler Wilps has three sacks and TJ’s Jim Giansante knows how to come up from [...]

Give Cherpak credit — the elements don’t bother him. It’s a cold night and Cherpak’s counterpart on the other sideline, Chris Saluga, has a thick tossle cap on his head. But Cherpak is wearing his trademark shorts. Not surprising. He wears shorts in late November when his teams are playing for WPIAL championships. It may be cold, [...]

On a cold, wet night, Thomas Jefferson had to settle for a 3-0 lead at halftime of its Thursday night game at Chartiers Valley when Mike Wainauskas kicked a 23-yard field goal late in the first half. What really had to bother TJ coach Bill Cherpak was kicking a field goal after moving inside the [...]

When Don Holl packed up his family and moved south from Erie to Cranberry Township to be the new football coach at Seneca Valley, no one tried to talk him out of  it. But he was warned: Winning won’t be easy. There was the tough competition in the Quad North. A tradition of losing tradition at the [...]

Football fans’ eyes and ears will turn toward Hopewell’s Tony Dorsett Stadium on Friday when two of the top running backs in the WPIAL clash in a high-stakes game that probably will decide the Class AAA Parkway Conference. Hopewell sophomore Rushel Shell, who has led his team to a 6-0 record by rushing for 1,143 [...]