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MSA Sports Announces 2ND Annual Kennywood - MSA Sports Pre-Season All Star High School Football Team for 2009 PITTSBURGH, PA - THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2009 - In order to recognize two Western Pennsylvania traditions, High School Football and Kennywood Park, MSA Sports has partnered with Kennywood Entertainment in recognizing the talented efforts of those upcoming sophomores, juniors and seniors with outstanding individual records during the previous school year's football season. This year represents the 2nd year that Kennywood and MSA Sports will be presenting "Kennywood Arrows" to those players selected for both the Offensive and Defensive team. The award presentation will take place on Wednesday, July 29th at 1:30 pm at Kennywood Park at the Kennyville stage area. The awards presentation will also be broadcast live at www.MSASPORTS.net. Nominations were based on statistics from the previous season, with a write-in campaign also being made available to the visitors of the MSA Sports website. In less than 2 weeks time, more than 100,000 individual votes were submitted via the MSA Sports website. The results are as follows: OFFENSIVE TEAM DEFENSIVE TEAM Quarterback: Defensive Linemen:       Paul Jones Sto-Rox       Dom Cook New Castle             Aaron Donald Penn Hills Running Backs:       Desimon Green Clairton       David Miller Greensburg Central Catholic       Evan Kelly Seton-LaSalle       Sam Gooden McKeesport             Linebackers: Wide Receivers:       T.J. McElwaine North Hills       Jim Giansante Thomas Jefferson       John Fields New Castle       Kevin Weatherspoon Clairton       Greg Sotereanos Elizabeth Forward             Tight End: Defensive Backs:       Jimmy Zubik Avonworth       Ed Hasis Thomas Jefferson             Nick Bolias Monessen Offensive Linemen:       D.J. Myers Pittsburgh Central Catholic       Corey Kaczor Springdale       Brandon Ifill Penn Hills       James Shuma Monessen             Evan Sargo Serra Catholic Punter:       Jake Heintz Pine-Richland       Aaron Fleck West Allegheny       Joe Laukaitis Upper St. Clair       Kicker:             Anthony Chiappetta North Hills       ABOUT MSA SPORTS Since its inception in the fall of 1998, The MSA Sports Network continues to be a fast-growing radio network that focuses on the local high school, college and semi professional sporting events that are played in Western Pennsylvania. These broadcasts include (but are not limited to) WPIAL District 7 games (playoffs, championships, and for many sports, regular season games), the Pittsburgh Passion, the Washington Wild Things, and the Butler Blue Sox. With a network that consists of more than 25 affiliate radio stations, MSA Sports is able to provide either live "over the air" coverage and/or live internet-streaming for more than 2,500 live local sports broadcasts each year. Add to this our content-rich website and archived broadcast content, and MSA Sports continues to be the source for the most comprehensive coverage of local high schools sports in Western Pennsylvania that is accessible from any place in the US or abroad - at any time. For more information, please visit www.MSASPORTS.net ABOUT MSA Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA) engineers and commercializes information-based models, processes, and systems for industry and government. Since its incorporation in 1963, MSA has partnered with customers to identify areas where innovative uses of data and analytic systems can create value through driving growth or efficiency. Using its expertise with the tools of information management: analytics, data management, and software and systems technology, MSA develops, integrates and implements, and maintains products and services in various functional and vertical domains. Within processes, departments, across large and small enterprises, and throughout demand & supply chains, MSA helps customers put their data to work. MSA's other education-oriented initiatives include: data analytics to help schools meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind requirements, data warehousing and Information Technology services. With its partners, MSA offers web based content management, parent-student-teacher outreach software, help-desk outsourcing, dashboards, technology planning and other services. MSA's 850 employees provide solutions for over 300 clients, including some of the largest U.S. and foreign corporations and institutions. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, MSA also has offices in New York; Chicago; Atlanta; High Point, NC; Cardiff, United Kingdom; Shanghai, China; and Selangor, D.E., Malaysia.