With a wet forecast on the way for high school football tonight a couple local teams have changed kick-off of their games to try and get ahead of the weather.
The Shenango @ Riverside game has been moved to 6 pm and the Rochester @ Union game is kicking of at 6:15 pm. Stay tune to Beaver County Radio and we’ll keep you updated on this developing story.
Check out our new feature: Pressbox Panel Picks! Our sports announcer panel chose their picks for this weekend in college and NFL football! Our panel features Bob Barrickman, Jason Colangelo, Bruce Frye, and Tom Hays! Let us know who you’re rooting for on our Facebook video comments section!
1460 WMBA’s Tom Hays and Jason Colangelo have the call from South Side Beaver High School of this WPIAL Class 2A Three Rivers Conference high school football game as the Rams battle the Blue Devils. If you can’t listen to the broadcast on the air you can click the logo below at 6:30 pm to hear the game streaming live on the Trib-Live High School Sports Network…..
(Bridgewater Pa.) Week 4 got under way with the coaches corner from the Patio at Robert’s Roadside Inn on Wednesday September 20, 2018 at 7 pm with host Bob Barrickman, Tom Hays, and Bruce Frey. Joining the guys on this special evening was guest color commentator Bill Fontana who will be on color commentary for the WBVP game Friday night when the Quips of Aliqiuippa visit Reeves Field on the campus of Geneva College and take on the host Beaver Falls Tigers in a match-up of undefeated conference foes. The guys invited in Beaver Falls Head Coach Nick Nardone and his players to talk about the huge turn around in the Tigers from last year. Friday’s game will be a battle of two undefeated teams who are perennial WPIAL Title contenders. The guys were also joined by Blachawk’s Marques Watson – Trent who was the CCBC Player of the Game for the Cougars against Knoch on August 31, 2018. Another CCBC Player of the game for the week of September 17, 2018 in Beaver Falls’- Dayln Brickner was in the house and he talked with the guys about what it’s going to take to beat the Quips on Friday night. You can check out the Facebook Live Feed below of this weeks Coach Corner Brought to you by Roberts Roadside inn and Skerlec Contracting…….
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Keselowski wins NASCAR playoff opener, gets 500th for Penske
By GREG BEACHAM, AP Sports Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brad Keselowski raced to his third consecutive NASCAR Cup victory Sunday, persevering through a wreck-filled Sunday afternoon and roaring away from the field in overtime to claim the playoff opener.
Keselowski secured team owner Roger Penske’s 500th victory across all competitions with a resourceful performance amid trying circumstances and 99-degree Las Vegas heat.
Kyle Larson was second, and defending Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr. third after a stop-and-start finish to a race that featured 12 cautions.
“To start off the playoffs with a win, that’s really strong, let alone three in a row,” Keselowski said. “We nailed the pit stops and the restarts when it counted, and we were strong.”
Eight of the 16 playoff drivers had various problems in the opener of the 10-race postseason. Four playoff drivers failed to finish — including co-leader Kevin Harvick, who wrecked with 120 laps to go when he blew his right front tire.
Michael McDowell and Kurt Busch wrecked with just two laps to go, forcing a red-flag stop and overtime. After the drivers re-fired their engines for the two-lap shootout, nobody could keep up with Keselowski’s Team Penske Ford.
“We did it, boss!” Keselowski shouted. “That’s quite a number, right? It’s really great to be a part of that, and to get the last one to get us there, that’s pretty great.”
Penske was not in attendance for his landmark victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, instead watching from Sonoma at the IndyCar season finale. He formed Team Penske in 1966, and it has fielded 50 winning drivers across 14 race series during the ensuing 52 years.
Keselowski won at Darlington and the Brickyard in consecutive weeks before Vegas. His late surge has added some intrigue into a NASCAR season dominated by the Big Three of Truex, Harvick and Kyle Busch, who finished seventh in Vegas even after skidding and plowing through the infield grass with 35 laps to go.
Joey Logano finished fourth, and Ryan Blaney was fifth.
Truex moved into the overall points lead over Busch and Keselowski, who leapfrogged Harvick.
Harvick’s blowout also wrecked pole-sitter Erik Jones, who couldn’t react quickly enough and rear-ended Harvick.
Harvick likely doesn’t need a fantastic result from the first set of playoff races to advance, but the veteran driver was still furious about his tire failure.
“We had a great car, and then you put a set of tires on it and you can’t hardly make it through the field,” he said. “I’m not happy about anything right now.”
Las Vegas has a second race this season for the first time, and the drivers learned that the track is much different in the waning days of summer. The temperature reached only 58 degrees during the annual March race, but the drivers were sweating in 99-degree heat from the start on Sunday.
The desert sun made the 1 1/2-mile track even slicker than usual, and it appeared to wreak havoc with some teams’ tire pressure decisions.
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On a game heard on WBVP and WMBA it was a game that Geneva jumped out to a 7-0 lead early, but Thiel answered on the next possession and made it 7-7. It was all Geneva after that making it a 27-7 game in the fourth quarter and out playing Thiel in the second half. Thiel wouldn’t go down easy however. Scoring a late touchdown, but coming up just short. Geneva wins 27-14.
On a game heard on WBVP and WMBA, Pitt jumped out to an early 21-0 lead over the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech. Pitt had the lead 21-0 at the half, but the Yellow Jacket’s wouldn’t give up, scoring out of the half to make it 21-6. Pitt answered with a field goal to make it 24-6. Georgia tech added two more scored and made it 24-19 where they tried the onside kick and failed. Final score ended with a 24-19 victory fr the Panthers as they get to 2-1 overall and 1-0 in the ACC (Atlantic Coastal Conference). Pitt takes on North Carolina next Saturday at 12:20 ET.
The Red Storm rolled into Pat Tarquinio Feild against the Beaver Bob Cats and turned the ball over too many times. Beaver started out strong, but punted more in the second half than putting up points. New Castle had a chance, but couldn’t pull out the win. The final score was;
New Castle: -13
Beaver-21
| New Castle Beaver (WBVP) |
13 21 Final |
| Ambridge | 6 41 Final |
| Highlands Knoch |
0 0 Final |
| Ellwood City Neshannock |
6 14 Final |
| Freedom Mohawk |
21 27 Final |
| Western Beaver Riverside |
0 24 Final |
| New Brighton Avonworth |
7 35 Final |
| South Side Carlynton |
54 33 Final |
| Cornell Sto-Rox |
0 38 Final |
| OLSH Rochester |
37 8 Final |
| Montour Aliquippa |
0 62 Final |
| North Catholic Central Valley |
14 13 Final |
| Serra Catholic Shenango |
33 34 Final |
| Baldwin Moon |
48 42 Final |
