Declining ticket sales impact WPIAL distributions

By CHRIS HARLAN

For the MV Independent

Penn Hills, Pine-Richland and Butler will receive more than $5,000 apiece from the WPIAL as part of its annual share-back program from playoff gate ticket revenues.

In all, more than 100 schools have a check in the mail.

But the WPIAL won’t be sharing as much as hoped because attendance was down. Both football and basketball tickets sales finished below what the WPIAL had budgeted for this school year — with football falling well short.

“Football is killing us,” WPIAL executive director Tim O’Malley said. “Gate ticket sales were down pretty far.”

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