Unionville 5 Marple Newtown 4

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.

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