WPIAL Football Championship

You could drive from Kittanning to the WPIAL Championship Games at HeinzField quicker than you could to any participating high school. Actually no school north of Pittsburgh is playing for a WPIAL title, including no A-K Valley team, though Highlands was close. Back in 1989, Freeport was the last school from Armstrong County to a WPIAL Title Game. Of this year’s eight participates, only Bethel Park (1980) has not appeared in a championship game within last 10 years. You have to be at least 42 years old have to seen Leechburg win Armstrong County’s last WPIAL Football title. One has to wonder how many times this year a group will host the trophy, before we will see one of our own.