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Johnny Seravalli scored goals to help Holy Ghost Prep to a 4-2 win over Buffalo St. Francis Saturday evening in the third round of the National Scholastic Invitational in Jamestown, New York. Colin Mudrick finished with 24 saves.
The win puts the Firebirds into Sunday morning’s semifinals.
Earlier Saturday, A.J. Prete scored two goals to lead Holy Ghost Prep to a 5-0 win over Medina, Ohio on Saturday in a second-round game.
Colin Mudrick got the shutout in goal, making 25 saves.
Brady Baehser delivered a hat trick, including the winning goal with 1:23 left in overtime, as Holy Ghost Prep downed Erie Cathedral Prep 5-4 Friday evening in the opening round of the National Scholastic Invitational in Jamestown, New York.
Cathedral Prep scored two power-play goals to take a 4-3 lead with 1:38 left in regulation before Baesher tied the game 20 seconds later to force overtime.The Firebirds (3-1), who are the Invitational’s defending champions, are scheduled to face Medina (Ohio) at noon on Saturday and St, Francis from Buffalo at 6:00 Saturday evening.
The two teams skated to a 2-2 standoff on Thursday.
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Monday 12-12 5:15 La Salle vs. Malvern Prep
Friday 12-16. 8:45 Lower Dauphin vs. Hershey
Thursday 12-22 7:00 Conestoga vs. Penncrest
Thursday, January 5 7:10 Plymouth Whitemarsh vs. Abington
Friday, January 13 6:30 Radnor vs. Owen J. Roberts
Friday, January 20 9:00 Eastern vs. Washington Township
Friday, January 27 6:30 Father Judge vs. Salesianum
Wednesday, February 1 7:20 Pennridge vs. Council Rock South
Friday, February 10 6:30 West Chester East vs. Avon Grove
2-13 9:00 West Chester Rustin vs. Conestoga Girls
Hun School jumped to a 3-0 first-period lead Sunday afternoon but fell 5-3 to Fort Erie International Academy Sunday afternoon in the final round of the Shady Side Academy holiday tournament.
Mark Gall, Jack Neckritz, and Brandon Marino scored for the Raiders who went 2-2 against elite competition during the weekend. Both losses came in shootouts.
For the second time in two days, Hun School fell in a shootout. In this instances. 4-3 decision to the host team Saturday night in the Shady Side Academy holiday tournament.
Elian Estulin, Justin LaPlante, and Brendan Marino scored regulation goals for the Raiders
The Raiders picked up the win Saturday morning at the Shady Side holiday tournament.
Jack Neckritz, Justin Laplante, and Elian Estulin were the goal scorers. Julian Arsebault got the win in goal.
The Raiders fell in a shootout to St. Francis Friday evening in the opening round of the Shady Side Academy holiday tournament. Elian Estulin scored the Hun School goal.
The Raiders are scheduled to play two games on Saturday.
Jeffrey Hammond’s goal in the opening seconds of the third period gave St. Joseph’s Prep a 2-1 win over Gonzaga Friday evening in their traditional holiday matchup at the University of Pennsylvania’s Class of 1923 rink. John Lynch also scored for the Hawks, who improved to 5-1 on the season.
Lynch gave the Hawks a 1-0 with 4:39 left in the first period before Will Gletner tied the game for the Eagles with 10:31 left in the second frame.
Ajay White got the win goal, making 36 saves.
Gonzaga 0 1 0—1
St. Joseph’s Prep 1 0 1—2
First-period goal: John Lynch (SJP) from Caden Kelly, 12:21
Second-period goal: Will Gletner (G) from Andre Lucas Abrantes, 6:29
Third-period goal: Jeffrey Hammond (SJP) unassisted, :14
Shots: Gonzaga 37, St. Joseph’s Prep 31; Saves: Jack Trevisan (G) 13 and Carsten Komorowski G) 16; Ajay White (SJP) 36
La Salle built a 4-1 lead and held on for a 4-3 win over Malvern Prep Wednesday night in an APAC game at Ice Line.
Charlie Kennedy scored two goals for the Explorers, who picked up their first win after two season-opening losses. James Carpenter and Declan Kelly also scored for La Salle.
Jack Sharer scored twice for Malvern Prep, which lost for the first time in five starts. Both teams are 1-1 in the APAC.
Kennedy’s opening goal came with 9:01 left in the first period while his teammate Grant LaGreca was serving a roughing minor. The Friars lost the puck at the La Salle blue line and Kennedy took it the distance before beating Malvern Prep netminder Brandon Novabilsky with a backhander.
The goal proved a jump start to the Explorers in the game and perhaps for their season.
“It 100 percent did,” Kennedy said. “Definitely, I would have to say that. It definitely got us going, 100 percent, got us hyped.”
James Carpenter made it a 2-0 game just over two minutes later. Sharer scored for Malvern Prep with 3:24 remaining before Kelly answered for La Salle.
When Kennedy scored his second goal with 7:42 left in the second frame, it gave his team a three-goal advantage.
But the defending APAC and Class AAA Flyers Cup champions didn’t go away and outshot La Salle 15-6 in the third period.
Sharer scored his second goal of the night on a blast from the left point with 8:22 remaining and Caiden Canale followed with 4:12 remaining.
La Salle netminder Aries Carangi had to make some big saves down the stretch but the Explorers hung on.
Malvern Prep coach Bill Keenan “We knew La Salle was coming off a loss against (Holy Ghost Prep),” he said, “And we knew they were going to come out firing. “They outskated us, they outworked us. They were the better team tonight.”
Kennedy said he and his teammate were confident they would get things turned around after starting the season with two losses.
“We’ve had some good practices thanks to (Coach Wally Muehlbronner,” he said. “He definitely worked us hard and got us to do what we needed to do in order for us to get that work ethic that we needed, and it showed up.”
La Salle 3 1 0—4
Malvern Prep 1 0 2—3
First-period goals: Cgarlie Kennedy (L) unassisted, 7:59; (sh); James Carpenter (L) from Tim Whittck, 10:12; Jack Sharer (MP) from Jimmy Jacobs and Matt Barbacane, 13:36; Declan Kelly (L) unassisted, 15:12
Second-period goal: Kennedy (L) from Liam Donahue and Thomas Doucet, 9:18
Third-period goals: Sharer (MP) from Jeremy Jacobs, 8:38; Caiden Canale (MP) from Jacobs, 13:48
Shots: La Salle 30, Malvern Prep 31; Saves, Aries Carangi (L) 28, Brandon Novabilski (MP) 26
More details on this game to follow.
Elsewhere:
Central Bucks East 6, Central Bucks West 2
Pennridge 6, Souderton 5
Bux-Mont Catholic 8, HH/William Tennent 3
Council Rock North vs. Council Rock South
North Penn vs. Central Buck South
Neshaminy vs. Pennsbury
Holy Ghost Prep 8 Father Judge 1
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