Through 12-10 W L OTW OTL Pts
LaSalle 5 0 0 0 15
Malvern Prep 2 2 0 0 6
St. Joseph’s 1 2 0 0 3
Holy Ghost Prep 0 4 0 0 0
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Through 12-10 W L OTW OTL Pts
LaSalle 5 0 0 0 15
Malvern Prep 2 2 0 0 6
St. Joseph’s 1 2 0 0 3
Holy Ghost Prep 0 4 0 0 0
Standings and scoring through games of 12-7
SHSHL Standings
Class 2A
National Division W L T Pts
Neshaminy (2-2-1) 2 2 0 4
C.R. South (4-2-1) 1 1 1 3
Abington (1-3-1) 1 0 0 2
Pennsbury (1-2-2) 1 1 0 2
William Tennent (2-4) 1 3 0 2
Truman (2-1-2) 0 1 1 1
Continental Division W L T Pts
North Penn (4-1-1) 3 0 0 6
C.B. South (4-2) 3 0 0 6
C.B. East (5-0-1) 2 0 0 4
Pennridge (3-1-1) 2 1 0 4
C.B. West (1-4) 0 2 0 0
Souderton (0-8) 0 5 0 0
Class A
American Division W L T Pts
Wissahickon (2-0-1) 3 0 1 7
Lower Moreland (4-1-1) 2 1 1 5
Hatboro-Horsham (4-2) 2 2 0 4
Plymouth Whitemarsh (4-2) 2 2 0 4
Upper Dublin (2-4) 0 4 0 4
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Scoring
Games Goals Assists Points
Vincent DeMaio LM 6 14 9 23
Dean Keller PW 5 7 14 21
Tyler Greenstein NP 6 13 7 20
Coleman Peppelman LM 6 14 6 20
Colin Franzoni PW 6 10 6 16
Logan Hurwitz CRS 7 7 8 15
Steven Avellino 5 12 3 15
Nathan Oh NP 6 6 9 15
Bryan Garry Wiss 4 8 7 15
Jake Weikel PW 6 10 5 15
Adam Bostock LM 6 5 10 15
Ari Nordlinger UD 5 9 6 15
John Gray Soud 7 9 5 14
Reis Bracio CBS 6 8 5 13
Joshua Kaufhold NP 6 4 9 13
Tyler Scolnick LM 5 10 3 13
Mason McKeever WT 4 6 6 12
Micahel Janora CRN 5 11 1 12
Alex Howieson HH 6 3 9 12
Benjamin Lumas PW 6 2 10 12
St. Joseph’s Prep defeated Holy Ghost Pep 4-2 Friday night in an Atlantic Prep Athletic Conference game at the Class of ’23 Rink’
WARWICK— Pennridge got off to a slow start in the Suburban High School Hockey League this season. But the Rams have a lot of firepower in the lineup and Friday night they put that firepower on display.
Eric Slater scored five goals to lead his team to a 10-0 shutout over William Tennent at Revolution Ice Gardens. The game was halted 3:40 into the third period due to the 10-goal mercy rule. Pennridge now stands at 3-1-1 both overall and in SHSHL Class 2A league play. The Panthers are now 2-4 overall and 1-3 in the league.
After starting the season with a loss and a tie the Rams have won three straight, scoring 27 goals in the process.
Slater, who has scored 13 goals in his team’s five games, admitted it took he and his teammates some time to get used to each other at the start of the season.
“It was a challenge I guess to start playing as a team,” the senior winger said. “Most of us play club and we’re on different pages, club-wise (but) we finally got clicking; we’ve been playing good lately.”
Jeff Montagna is Pennridge’s third head coach in two seasons. He also coaches two club teams and a number of his club players are on the Pennridge roster. He admits that finding the right formula early on wasn’t easy.
“I know some guys know what I want,” he said, “and I have to be patient with the guys who aren’t used to what I want and that’s been an adjustment for me as well.
“Being able to teach those guys what I want but being with it. It’s not easy.”
Evan Kehoe opened the scoring for the Rams by scoring directly from a faceoff in the right circle 6:03 into the opening period. Slater scored back-to-back goals 35 seconds apart and Conrad Fisch scored 20 seconds after that to put Pennridge up 4-0 with 2:22 still to go in the first frame.
Slater completed a hat trick 5:23 into the second stanza before Andrew David made it a 6-0 game 48 seconds later.
Michael Walker added two goals 21 second apart, the first on a power play, to put Pennridge up 8-0 after two periods.
Slater scored twice in the third period to being down the curtain on the evening.
Tennent goaltender Trey Smith had the task of dealing with all this. A junior who is playing organized hockey for the first time, Smith faced 26 shots over the course of the evening.
“You play a team like Pennridge that can score at will almost against any goalie in the league and it’s going to be a challenge,” said Tennent coach Nick D’Aurizio. “We put up a fight. Our guys battled as much as they could but their big guns eventually took over.”
By Rick Woelfel
Pennridge 4 4 2—10
William Tennent 0 0 0—0
First-period goals: Evan Kehoe (P) unassisted, 6:03; Eric Slater (P) from Frankie Rota and Nick Eissler, 12:43; Slater (P) unassisted, 13:18; Conrad Fisch (P) from Richie Shanks and Andrew David, 13:38.
Second-period goals: Slater (P) from Michael Walker, 5:23; David (P) from Eissler, 6:11; Walker (P) from Rota and Matt Guinette, 10:48 (pp); Walker (P) from Slater and Guinette, 11:09.
Third-period goals: Slater (P) from Eissler, :09; Slater (P) from Walker, 3:40
BRISTOL— There weren’t a lot of style points handed out at Grundy Arena Wednesday afternoon. But it was the three points in the Atlantic Prep Athletic Conference standings that mattered after all.
Kyle Washkalavitch scored two goals and assisted on a third as Malvern Prep got the better of Holy Ghost Prep 6-5 in an APAC matchup. It was a big win for the Friars, who improved to 4-1 overall (2-1 in the APAC). It was the second win for Malvern Prep over the Firebirds this season.
Waskalavitch, a senior left winger, said he and his teammates took the ice with a focused mindset. “We go in with the same mindset every game,” he said, “just to play our absolute hardest. Only worry about the things we control. We just want to make sure we’re playing our best game defensively; that will create our offense.”
The Friars never trailed in the game. Washkalavitch and Charlie Andress scored goals to give them a 2-0 lead with 3:41 left in the opening period.
Evan Mudrick got one back for the Firebirds (4-4, 0-3) with 11 seconds left in the period before Thomas McNulty tied the game 2:27 into the second frame.
Malvern Prep took the lead for good when Matt Harris and Nick Martino scored goals 64 seconds apart to put their team up 4-2 with 8:58 left in the middle period.
The teams spent the rest of the affair trading goals. Mudrick and Byron Hartley each scored twice for Holy Ghost Prep but it wasn’t enough.
Holy Ghost Prep coach Gump Whiteside had hoped his team would get out of the gate more effectively. “Not a good enough start,” he said. “We were chasing the game. a good effort at the end but you can’t play that way and chase the game like that and expect to come out winning.”
Malvern Prep coach Dave Dorman will take the win. But he noted there are areas where his team needs work, specifically inside its own blue line.
“I think there are definitely some concerns,” he said. “Things we have to clean up in the defensive zone, picking guys up on the backcheck. Our communication is not anywhere near where it needs to be, which is one of the areas were going to focus on moving forward.”
The Friars got a solid effort between the pipes from Dan Dougherty, who finished with 21 saves.
“We trust our goaltender just as much as our goaltender trusts us to go out there and get goals for him,” Washkalavitch said. “We’re a team, it doesn’t matter, he’s going to make saves no matter what. We’ve got to make sure we’re putting it in on the other end.”
Malvern Prep 2 3 1—6
Holy Ghost Prep 1 2 2—5
First-period goals: Kyle Washkalavitch (MP) from Charlie Andress and Andrew Harder, 3:03: Andress (HGP) from Chris Blango, 12:19; Evan Mudrick (HGP) from Eric Mark, 15:49.
Second-period goals: Thomas McNulty (HGP) from Sean Marshall and Richard Spor, 2:27; Matt Harris (MP) from John Dewey, 5:58; Nick Martino (MP) from Andress, 7:02; Byron Hartley (HGP) from Alex D’Angelo and McNulty, 11:51 (pp); Ryan Sambuco (MP) from Washkalavitch, 12:59.
Third-period goals: Mudrick (HGP) from Marshall, 1:55; Waskalavitch (MP) from Harder and Martino, 2:44; Hartley (HGP) unassisted, 8:59.
W L OTW OTL Pts
LaSalle 4 0 0 0 12
Malvern Prep 1 1 0 0 3
Holy Ghost Prep 0 2 0 0 0
St. Joseph’s 0 2 0 0 0
Wednesday’s game
Malvern Prep at Holy Ghost Prep, 3:30 at Grundy Check back here for a recap
Monday result
LaSalle 6 St. Joseph’s Prep 0
Standings and scoring through games of 12-30
SHSHL Standings
Class 2A
National Division W L T Pts
Neshaminy (2-1-1) 2 1 0 4
C.R. South (4-1-1) 1 1 1 3
Abington (1-2-1) 1 0 0 2
Pennsbury (1-2-2) 1 1 0 2
William Tennent (2-3) 1 2 0 2
Truman (1-1-2) 0 1 1 1
Continental Division W L T Pts
North Penn (3-1-1) 2 0 0 4
C.B. East (4-0-1) 2 0 0 4
C.B. South (2-2) 1 0 0 2
Pennridge (1-1-1) 0 1 0 0
C.B. West (1-3) 0 1 0 0
Souderton (0-5) 0 5 0 0
Class A
American Division W L T Pts
Wissahickon (2-0-1) 2 0 1 5
Lower Moreland (3-1-1) 2 1 1 5
Hatboro-Horsham (2-1) 2 1 0 4
Plymouth Whitemarsh (3-2) 2 2 0 4
Upper Dublin (0-4) 0 4 0 4
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Scoring
Games Goals Assists Points
Coleman Peppelman LM 5 14 6 20
Dean Keller PW 5 7 12 19
Vincent DeMaio LM 5 11 8 19
Tyler Greenstein NP 5 10 6 16
Logan Hurwitz CRS 6 7 8 15
Nathan Oh NP 5 6 8 14
Bryan Garry Wiss 3 8 6 14
Colin Franzoni PW 5 8 5 13
Jake Weikel PW 5 8 5 13
Mason McKeever WT 4 6 6 12
Micahel Janora CRN 4 11 1 12
Alex Howieson HH 5 3 9 12
Tyler Scolnick LM 4 9 3 12
Holy Ghost Prep lost to North Allegheny in a. shootout Saturday night after the regulation game finished 1-1 after overtime.
The Firebirds are 2-1 at the National Scholastic Invitational in Jamestown, New York.
Holy Ghost Prep defeated Medina, Ohio 6-0 Saturday afternoon
Holy Ghost Prep defeated Upper St. Clair, PA 6-2 on Friday.
HATFIELD TOWNSHIP—The eruption came without warning. For one period and part of another, LaSalle and Malvern Prep battled on even terms. But the Explorers took over the game by scoring four goals in a span of 5 minutes, 18 seconds in the second period.
Neither team scored thereafter and LaSalle left Hatfield Ice Friday night as 4-0 winners.
Four different players scored goals for the Explorers, who stand at 5-2 on the season and a perfect 3-0 in the Atlantic Prep Athletic Conference, having defeated every other team in the league once.
Sophomore Daniel Sambuco scored LaSalle’s first goal at the 7:10 mark of the second frame with help from Michael Casey and Sam Lipkin. Casey made it a 2-0 game with Sambuco’s help at 9:15 and Fabrizio Mazzarelli extended the lead just 39 second later. Eric Ford finished the scoring at 12:28.
Sambuco, who leads the APAC in scoring with three goals and five assists for eight points in three conference games, said he and his mates on the Explorers’ top line took things up a notch in the second period. “We started running some quick passes and two-on-ones,” he said, “and started driving more pucks to the net That was just our game plan from there on out, put everything to the net.”
LaSalle coach Wally Meuhlbronner was pleased to get production from four lines, particularly in the early going. “We were rolling four (lines) right out of the gate,” he said, “and we switched up a little bit and and kind of got the Sambuco line out there every third (shift) and I think that got them energized a little bit more.”
At the other end of the ice, LaSalle goaltender Aidan McCabe stopped all 19 shots he saw. His best effort came two-and-a-half minutes into the third period when he turned aside Chris Blango’s slapshot from just inside the blue line.
McCabe noted that the effort of the defense corps in front of him expanded his comfort zone. “It allows me to be really confident in the net,” the junior said. “They keep the shots to the outside which lets me see the puck. So I just try to do my job.”
The loss was the first for Malvern Prep after three wins (1-1 in the APAC). Friar coach Dave Dorman saw the evening as another step in the maturation of his young team.
Danie”It was a very typical LaSalle-Malvern Prep hockey game,” he said. “For our younger guys it was baptism by fire. Not the result we want but you know what? That’s part of the learning process, the maturation process for these younger kids.”
Notes—Sambuco’s cousin Ryan, also a sophomore, was in uniform for Malvern Prep. The hitting was intense but clean; there was just five penalties called by referee Eric Michaels, three to LaSalle and two to Malvern Prep, and one of the Malvern penalties was a bench minor for too many men on the ice.
Malvern Prep 0 0 0—0
LaSalle 0 4 0—4
Second-period goals: Daniel Sambuco (L) from Michael Casey and Sam Lipkin, 7:10: Casey (L) from Sambuco, 9:15; Fabrizio Mazzarelli (L) from Ryan Walsh and David Kimmel, 9:54; Eric Ford (L) from Jan Olenginski, 12:28.
Shots: Malvern Prep 19, LaSalle 32; Saves: Dan Dougherty (MP) 28, Aidan McCabe (L) 19.
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Through 11-29-18 G A Pos
Daniel Sambuco LaSalle 2 4 6
Sam Lipkin LaSalle 2 2 4
Michael Casey LaSallr. 2 2 4
Nick Martino Mal. Pr 3 0 3
Brandon Leer LaSalle 2 1 3