Cole Blackburn scored three goals and assisted on a fourth as Unionville stunned Marple Newtown 5-4 Tuesday night in a Class A semifinal game at Ice Line.
The ninth-seeded Longhorns will move on to next week’s final. Michael Ta and Sam Burke also scored for Unionville, which built a 4-1 lead after two periods.
Ethan McKay scored three goals for the fourth-seeded Tigers.
McKay’s second goal of the game came on a power play and cut Unionville’s lead to 4-2 with 10:38 left in the third period.
Blackburn countered with his third goal 44 seconds later; a shorthanded effort.
Tyler Newby’s goal made it a 5-3 game 13 seconds after that; McKay’s third goal came with 15 second remaining.
Zach Tomaszewicz got the win in goal; he finished with 18 saves.
Unionville 2 2 1—5
Marple Newtown 1 0 3—4
Hershey 5 Garnet Valley 1
Blake Umberger and Kyle Kloss scored two goals as third-seeded Hershey downed second-seeded Garnet Valley 5-1 Tuesday night in a Class A semifinal at Ice Line. David Miash also scored for the Trojans, who lost to West Chester East in last year’s title game.
Jake Robinson scored for the Jaguars.
Hershey 1 3 1—5
Garnet Valley 0 01—1
Hershey will face Unionville in next week’s title game with site and time to be determined.
Rick has worked in print and broadcast journalism for more than 35 years. He's covered golf in one medium or another for more than 30. He is the co-author of the book So You Want to Play Golf with PGA professional Kim Verrecchio and the host of the Women's Golf Report podcast.
Most recently, Rick served as an associate editor for The Mulligan Magazine. He also served as an associate editor for Philadelphia Golf Magazine and New Jersey State Golf from 2004-07.
Rick covered his first LPGA Tour event in 1986 and continues to cover women's golf for various media outlets. High on his bucket list is having the opportunity to one day play in an LPGA Tour pro am.
Rick is also a longtime correspondent for two suburban Philadelphia daily newspapers, the Intelligencer and the Bucks County Courier Times in Doylestown, PA. Over the course of his career he has coverzed a wide variety of sporting events.
He is also a veteran play by play and public address announcer, and handles the PA mic for the nationally ranked Delaware Valley University football program.
Rick is also a longtime contributor to Referee, a magazine devoted to sports officiating. He called his first baseball game at age 13 and continues to umpire softball and baseball today.
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