Big Weekend For WPIAL Teams At PIAA Football Championships

December 11, 2021 11:45 pm

The WPIAL had teams in five of the six PIAA Football Championship games this weekend in Hershey, the most ever for District 7.  The League had never won more than three state football titles in any single year until this year with the WPIAL winning the four largest classifications.  Mt. Lebanon capped the weekend Saturday night, winning its first-ever football state title, beating three-time defending champion St. Joseph’s Prep of the Philadelphia Catholic League.  PIAA Brackets

Thursday scores
Class 1A D6 Bishop Guilfoyle 21, D9 Redbank Valley 14
Class 4A D7 Aliquippa 34, D3 Bishop McDevitt 27

Friday scores
Class 2A D4 Southern Columbia 62, D7 Serra Catholic 25
Class 5A D7 Penn-Trafford 17, D12 Imhotep Charter 14, OT

Saturday scores
Class 3A D7 Central Valley 7, D3 Wyomissing 0
Class 6A D7 Mt. Lebanon 35, D12 St. Joseph’s Prep 17