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Awesome audio slideshow from The Ralph

Check out Mark Mulville's audio slideshow from this past weekend's Section VI football championships. Some tremendous stuff.

---Keith McShea

Prep Talk Live's Class AA replay: NT clobbers Lancaster, 54-7

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What did you think of the game? Let us know in the comments section below.

---Keith McShea

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Prep Talk Live's Class C replay: Southwestern survives Eden, 21-8

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What did you think of the game? Let us know in the comments section below.

---Keith McShea

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Prep Talk Live's Class B replay: Cheektowaga outlasts Alden, 27-13

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What did you think of the game? Let us know in the comments section below.

---Keith McShea

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A winning weekend: One Friday down, one Saturday to go

Football, cross country, soccer, volleyball, field hockey. A total of 17 team championships.

The first weekend of November is traditionally one of the busiest of the high school sports year, and Friday was packed with action.

Check out seven stories and our scoreboard at the high school home page (and of course, go buy the paper itself :-) ).

There's more to come today -- more football, more soccer, more field hockey, more volleyball. Eleven Section VI titles are on the line in three sports while the boys volleyball final fours are being held at Orchard Park. Berths in the Monsignor Martin football championships are up for grabs, as is the final spot in the Harvard Cup playoffs.

Stay tuned to Prep Talk Live for the football action from The Ralph. Our accounts of Friday's games are below.

We'll provide scoring updates (from all sports) from throughout Western New York when we get them, and you can feel free to chime in as well.

As always, if you are at a game, let us know what you thought of the action, no matter what the sport. There are links to discuss every fall sport at the high school home page.

---Keith McShea

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Prep Talk Live's Class A replay: Sweet Home rallies past GI, 20-13

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What did you think of the game? Let us know in the comments section below.

---Keith McShea

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Prep Talk Live's Class D replay: Randolph edges Maple Grove, 21-20

Check the Prep Talk Live page for outstanding photography from The News' Mark Mulville.

What did you think of the game? Let us know in the comments section below.

---Keith McShea

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Prep Talk Live is up, and it's good

The Prep Talk Live page is up -- we're online from The Ralph.

Scroll down or visit my earlier post today detailing our live coverage of Section VI football championship weekend.

Feel free to get ready for the game by clicking incessantly on some ads. :-)

---Keith McShea

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Class B field hockey final rescheduled

Section VI has announced that the Class B field hockey final has been changed from Saturday at Medina to Monday (Nov. 9) at 3 p.m. at Amherst.

No reason was cited. The game has Amherst taking on Williamsville South. A sectional final usually isn't moved to he site of the home team, but I'm guessing/hoping both school signed off on this one, and it's not like South's fans aren't nearby as well.

---Keith McShea

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Follow the finals from The Ralph at Prep Talk Live

For those of you looking forward to monitoring this weekend's Section VI championships on our live blog here at Prep Talk, we've got something special planned this year.

It's Prep Talk Live, and it's modeled after the popular Bills Live feature we started this year during Bills games.

In addition to being able to monitor the game via my play-by-play and provide comments, you'll be able to check out some great photographs from The News' Mark Mulville.

Just a note/disclaimer regarding commenting during games. I'm providing play-by-play, first and foremost, for a very selective audience -- and that's me, myself and I. :-) I'm keeping notes on the game that I will refer to when writing my story.

I'll green-light comments when I can, but there will definitely be times during games when I won't be able to even read the comments in the mission control window on my computer, much less click on them to let them pass through.

Also: Late in the action during evening games, I may only be able to provide brief updates. Tonight's 8:30 p.m. Class A game is the best example for this weekend. My first deadline to get a story in is 10:15 p.m. -- you do the math. I'll have to be doing a lot of writing during the game.

Thanks for your understanding and see you tonight from The Ralph.

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My predicted winners remain the same from the beginning of the playoffs: North Tonawanda (AA), Sweet Home (A), Cheektowaga (B), Southwestern (C) and Maple Grove (D). Maybe I'll get daring and put some points predictions up before the start of the live blogs.

---Keith McShea

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