Malvern Prep 4 The Hun School 2

Malvern Prep overcame an early 1-0 deficit by scoring three times in the first period and going on to a 4-2 APAC win over The Hun School Wednesday afternoon at Ice Land.

The Friars concluded APAC play at 3-5, they stand at 4-10 overall. Then Raiders, who are winless in seven conference starts, stand at 5-14-2 overall.

Luca Jean opened the scoring for Hun School 3:34 into the first period. Ryan Behrle, Gabe Bedwell, and Logan Love responded for the Friars with the goals coming in a span of 7 minutes, 10 seconds to give the visitors a 3-1 advantage with 4:38 left in the opening session.

Connor Mulligan scored for the Riders to make it a one-goal game with 4:16 left in regulation but Cole Scarbinsky answered for Malvern Prep with 3:04 remaining.

Hun School will face St. Joseph’s Prep Friday night at the Skatium to close out the APAC regular season before squaring off with the Friars once more on Monday at Ice Line (3:30 start) in the Founders Cup playoffs play-in game.

Malvern Prep 3 0 1—4

Hun School 1 0 1—2

First-period goals: Luca Jean (HS) from Jake Beck, 3:34; Ryan Behrle (MP) from Quinn Riley and Peter Narog, 5:12; Gabe Bedwell (MP) from Staton Johnson and Andrew Starck, 8:37; Logan Love (MP) from Starck and Johnson, 12:22

Third-period goals: Conor Mulligan (HS) from Evan Koserowski and Bailey Cook, 12:44; Cole Scarinsky (MP) unassisted, 13:56

Shots Malvern Prep 35, Hun School 26: Saves: Riley Doyle (MP) 24, Elliot Wong (HS) 31

SHSHL Update 1-4-25

National Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

X C.R. South (15-1) 14 0 0 53 3 0

X North Penn (14-2) 13 2 0 52 0 1

X C.B. South (11-4) 11 3 0 41 3 0

X Pennridge (10-5) 9 5 0 39 0 3

C.B. East (8-8) 8 7 0 24 0 0

Pennsbury (5-10) 5 9 0 22 0 2

Neshaminy (5-10) 4 10 0 15 0 1

Souderton (4-10) 4 9 0 12 0 0

C.R. North (3-12) 3 12 0 12 0 0

C.B. West (0-14) 0 14 0 0 0 0

X-Clinched playoff spot

American Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

X@ Plymouth Whitemarsh (14-0) 13 0 0 52 0 0

Wissahickon (7-4) 7 5 0 27 1 0

Hatboro-Horsham (6-7) 6 6 0 25 1 2

Springfield (5-8) 5 8 0 20 1 1

Abington (0-12) 0 12 0 0 0 0

National Division Scoring G A Pts

Shane Dachwski Pr 29 23 52

Jeremy Rayher 26 26 52

Cole Pluck NP 19 26 45

Samuel Norton NP 19 22 41

James Rush Pr 19 21 40

Jackson Accardi CRN 23 15 38

Jake Weiner CRS 25 11 36

Nolan Shingle NP 19 14 33

Jordan Sarne CRS 13 19 32

Matthew Cross Soud 19 11 30

American Division Scoring G A Pts

Dan Guller PW 16 20 46

Vincent Graziani HH 15 19 34

Nathan Nemchinov HH 19 13 32

Blake Ambler PW 16 12 28

Cooper Kanze PW 14 14 28

Owen Quinn Spr. 11 15 26

Ben Raebiger Wiss 19 6 25

Victor Wilkins HH 16 7 23

Darius Graziani HH 9 14 23

Logan Honeycutt Wiss. 13 7 20

Luke Smith PW 7 13 20

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SHSHL Sets Playoff Dates

The ‘second season’ in the Suburban High School Hockey League will commence on Monday, February 24. Six teams will qualify for the playoffs in the National Division (all are Class AA) and three more in the American Division (Class A).

Two National Division first-round games are set for Opening Night, with the third seed taking on the sixth seed and the fourth seed facing the fifth seed. The winners will advance to the semifinals on Wednesday, February 26 to join the top two seeds who will receive first-round byes.

The American Division semifinal, matching the second and third seeds, is also set for Wednesday, February 26^th; the finals in both classes are set for the following evening, Thursday, February 27^th.

SHSHL Playoff results will not impact the seedings and selections for the Flyers Cup tournament, which will be announced on Sunday, February 23, eight days before the start of the tournament.

Penncrest 4 Springfield-Delco 2

Chase Francis and Andrew Hausch scored third-period goals to lift Penncrest past Springfield-Delco 4-2 Monday night in a Central League interdivisional matchup at IceWorks. The win kept the Lions unbeaten at 10-0 in the American Division (12-3 overall). They are ranked fourth in the current Class A Flyers Cup rankings. The Cougars dropped to 4-11 overall and 4-7 in the National Division.

Nash Grant gave the Lions a 1-0 lead 11:19 into the opening period. Francis extended that lead 6:18 into the second frame but Alexander Losacco and Brendan Becker scored goals for the Cougars 26 seconds apart to tie the game with 9:36 left in the middle period.

Francis’s game-winner came with 7:55 remaining in regulation on a rebound on a shot from the right point that he put behind Springfield goaltender Aidan Fitti. Hausch added an insurance goal with 1:47 remaining.

“We had trouble keeping up with their energy,” said Penncrest coach Steve Mescanti. That can happen on a Monday after they’ve been playing all weekend.

“We kept at it and grinded one out tonight. We got a couple of gritty goals off hard work. That really was the difference.”

Springfield coach Dan Dilbeck praised his team’s effort after falling behind early.

“It was a very hard fought, competitive game,” he said. “I was very proud of our team for overcoming a 2-0 deficit, but we came up a little short in the end. We were unable to capitalize on our opportunities.”

Olivia Jacobi earned the win in goal with 22 saves.

Penncrest 1 1 2—4

Springfield 0 2 0—2

First-period goal: Nash Grant (P) from Cole McCarty, 11:19;

Second-period goals: Chase Francis (P) from Grant and Michael Iacobucci, 6:18; Alexander Losacco (S) from Joseph Clifford, 6:58; Brendan Becker (S) unassisted, 7:24

Third-period goals: Francis (P) from Iacobucci and Scott Scranton, 9:05; Andrew Hausch (P) unassisted, 15:13

Shots: Penncrest 40, Springfield 24; Saves: Olivia Jacobi (P) 22, Aidan Fitti (S) 36

Garnet Valley 5 WC Henderson 2

Garnet Valley made a statement Friday night in one of the most anticipated matchups of the season. Nolan Stott scored two goal and assisted on a third as the Jaguars bested West Chester Henderson 5-2 in an ICSHL matchup at PNY Arena.

The Warriors and the Jaguars took the ice ranked one-two in the current set of Class A Flyers Cup rankings. The Jaguars were without leading scorer Kevin Walton, forward Owen Parker, and top blueliner Matt Abbonizio but their coach Stephane Charbonneau was pleased with the way the players that were available stepped up.

“I don’t schedule around my guys when they go away,” he said. “In believe in who I’ve got. It is what it is.

“I have a very good group of very mature players and they’re ready to step up to the plate.”

The goals started coming early. Kaden Longo got the Jaguars (13-2) on the scoreboard just 59 seconds after the opening faceoff. It took Hunter Haas four-and-a-half minutes to respond for the Warriors (12-3). Haas’s goal came during a power play with the Jaguars’ Nolan Stott in the box serving a roughing minor.

A.J. Tenhuisen, who assisted on Longo’s game-opening goal, got one of his own 5:59 into the middle period to give Garnet Valley a 2-1 lead. Stott made it a 3-1 game when he scored on a breakaway with 1:18 left in the period and then extended his team’s lead with another breakaway goal 3:53 into the third frame.

Andrew Denny drew the Warriors closer when he scored with 6:50 remaining in regulation but Henderson couldn’t get closer. Dylan Orr put the game on ice for the Jaguars when he scored into an empty net with 1:26 remaining.

Charbonneau was especially pleased with his team’s effort inside its own blue line.

“My goalie [Garrett Stoops] was good,” he said. “I told my defense it was the it was the best game of the season they’ve played so far.”

Henderson coach Tom Aughey saw Friday’s matchup as a battle of Titians.

“It was a tough battle between two top teams,” he said. “One team took advantage of their chances, one team did not.

“We played a little slow and laid back tonight. To win against Garnet Valley you need to be aggressive an aggressive all the time. Hopefully, we can earn our chance to see them again.”

• Garnet Valley has now won four straight and seven of its last eight. Henderson saw a three-game winning streak snapped.

Garnet Valley 1 2 2—5

WC Henderson 1 0 1—2

First-period goals: Kaden Longo (GV) from Nolan Stott and A.J. Tenhuisen, :59; Hunter Haas (H) from Declan Dowd 5:35 (pp)

Second-period goals: Tenhuisen (GV) from Ryan McGhee and Jeremy Hyczka, 11:01; Stott (GV) from Jake Morrow, 15:42

Third-period goals: Stott (GV) from Jake Robinson, 1:53; Andrew Denny (H) from John Gordon and Haas, 8:10; Dylan Orr (GV) unassisted, 15:34 (en)

Goaltenders: Garrett Stoops (GV), Matt Cieslukowski (H) (shot totals unavailable)

St. Joseph’s Prep 2 Malvern Prep 1 OT

The APAC playoffs are still a ways off, but fans who took in Thursday’s matchup between St. Joseph’s Prep and Malvern Prep got a taste of the postseason atmosphere. Cole Gargon’s goal 2:37 into overtime gave the Hawks a 2-1 win that put a damper on the Friars’ Senior Day.

The result assures St. Joseph’s Prep (9-7, 4-3 in the APAC) of a third place in the conference standings with one regular-season conference game remaining against Hun School next Friday. By virtue of the point acquired in the overtime loss, Malvern Prep (3-9, 2-5) will finish fourth, regardless of the result of their regular-season league finale next Wednesday, also against Hun School.

Gargon’s winning goal concluded an overtime session that for most of two minutes played out in the Malvern Prep offensive zone. But a turnover in the neutral zone gave the Hawks their opportunity. They patiently cycled the puck before Frankie Ely deposited it on Gargon’s stick and the sophomore put a shot past Friar goaltender Matt Crawford.

“In overtime, like anything else, it’s a possession game,” said St. Joseph’s Prep coach David Giacomin. “and they possessed it.

“You don’t want to overcommit, you want that one turnover so you can start possessing the game. And, if you watched that play develop, he took the puck out of the (Hawks’) offensive zone; they had a little bit of tired legs and all it needs is one move around a guy and we’re walking in and getting shots.”

The two regulation goals came late in the first period. Jake Weingrtner put the hosts in front when he beat Declan Geary in the Hawk net with 4:03 left in the opening session. The goal came when Michael Castelli was in the box serving a roughing infraction, one of eight penalties called in the first period.

The Hawks responded with an even-strength goal from Bradan Fisher, who beat Crawford from the low slot with 1:27 remaining.

From there. The game evolved into a goaltending dual between Geary and Crawford who between them made 48 saves. Both netminders needed to be in top form.

“It’s always fun playing against {Crawford} Geary said. “We’ve practiced with goalie coaches before. It’s a fun environment with Senior Night. It’s a big one.”

Geary said the pressure of a big game sharpens his focus.

“It’dun,” he said. “I don’t like high-scoring game. I like the low-scoring ones here it’s tight and all that. It’s just fun to compete.”

Malvern Prep coach Bill Keenan said his team was looking to keep the momentum going after defeating Hun School two days ago.

“We knew it would be a tough battle with St. Joe’s,” he said. “They’re a physical team, they move the puck well.
“Our guys matched it, our intensity was high, we came up a little short.”

The Friars are assured of hosting the postseason play-in game against Hun School sometime prior to February 19 when the semifinal are scheduled. The winner will face Holy Ghost Prep in one semifinal. St. Joseph’s Prep will face La Salle in the other. Both semifinal games will be played at Grundy Arena. The highest seeded finaliat will host the Founders Cup championship game.

St. Joseph’s Prep 1 0 0 1—2

Malvern Prep 1 0 0 0—1

First-period goals: Jake Weingartner (MP) from House Young, 12:57 (pp); Ben Kersun (SJP) from Bradan Fisher, 15:33

Overtime goal: Cole Gargon (SJP) from Frank Ely, 2:37

Shots: St. Joseph’s Prep 28, Malvern Prep 23 Saves: Declan Geary (SJP) 22, Matt Crawford (MP) 26

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C.B. East 5 Pennsbury 3

Jaden Young made a big impression Wednesday night. He scored three goals and assisted on a fourth, as Central Bucks East downed Pennsbury 5-3 at Hatfield Ice in a SHSHL National Division matchup with significant postseason implications.

The win moved the Patriots past the Falcons into fifth place in the division standings. It also gave them a sweep of the two-game season series.

Young spoke to the significance of the occasion.

“This game was especially important,” the senior said. “We need to get as many wins as as we can. We need to win the games we need to win.

“In reality, we need to play our game every game regardless of who the competition is.”

Ethan Cenci gave East (7-9, 7-8 in the division) the lead with 2:43 left in the first period when he won a race for a loose puck on the right wing and went on to put a backhander past Falcon goaltender Brendan Millikan. Ben Dempsey made a 2-0 game with 29 seconds left when a rebound of Young’s shot squirted free.

Kevin DeRosa scored for Pennsbury (5-11, 5-10) 2:19 into the second frame but then Young stepped up, scoring two goals 20 seconds apart to give his team a 4-1 lead 3:22 into the period.

Jacob Sarver scored a power play goal for the Falcons with 2:39 left in the period but Pennsbury could get no closer. Young completed his hat trick 1:21 into the third period. Shane Hicks closed out the scoring for Pennsbury with 10:17 left in the game.

East coach Jeff Mitchell said his team’s quick start was huge in light of later stumbles.

“We got great momentum to start the first period,” he said. “We started taking a couple of penalties a let them back into the game; teams make us pay when we go down a man.”

Mitchell noted that Young’s back-to-back goals swung momentum in the Patriots’ direction.

“We doubled up on him within one shift,” he said. “That just goes to show just how big a difference maker {Young} can be.”

Cole Breen got the win in goal, stopping 15 shots along the way. Pennsbury coach Ryan Daley said Breen’s impact on the game was huge.

“We had a lot of great chances in the first period,” he said. “Their goalie had a great night. You just hope you score on some of the chances you worked so hard for. We just couldn’t get them to go in.

Pennsbury 0 2 1—3

C.B. East 2 2 1—5

First-period goals: Ethan Cenci (CBE) from David Brown, 14:17; Ben Dempsey (CBE) from Jaden Young and Brown, 16:31 (pp)

Second-period goals: Kevin DeRosa (P) from Chris Sarver, 2:19; Young (CBE) from Gavin Wilmer, 3:02; Young (CBE) from Cenci, 3:22; Jacob Sarver (P) from Chris Sarver, 14:21(pp)

Third-period goals: Young (CBE) unassisted, 1:21; Shane Hicks (P) from DeRosa, 6:43

Shots: Pennsbury 18, C.B. East 28; Saves: Brendan Millikan (CBE) 23, Cole Breen (CBE) 15

SHSHL Update 1-28-25

National Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

C.R. South (14-1) 13 0 0 49 3 0

North Penn (13-2) 12 2 0 49 0 1

C.B. South (11-4) 11 2 0 41 3 0

Pennridge (10-4) 9 4 0 38 0 2

C.B. East (6-8) 6 7 0 24 0 0

Pennsbury (5-9) 5 8 0 22 0 2

Neshaminy (5-9) 4 9 0 15 0 1

Souderton (3-9) 3 8 0 12 0 0

C.R. North (3-12) 3 12 0 12 0 0

C.B. West (0-13) 0 13 0 0 0 0

American Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

P-W (12-0) 11 0 0 44 0 0

Wissahickon (7-4) 7 3 0 23 1 0

Hatboro-Horsham (6-6) 6 5 0 24 1 1

Springfield (3-8) 3 8 0 9 0 1

Abington (0-12) 0 11 0 0 0 0

National Division Scoring G A Pts

Shane Dachwski Pr 28 22 50

Jeremy Rayher 24 23 47

Cole Pluck NP 19 26 45

James Rush Pr 19 21 40

Samuel Norton NP 18 22 40

Jackson Accardi CRN 23 15 38

Jake Weiner CRS 25 11 36

Nolan Shingle NP 19 13 32

Jordan Sarne CRS 12 19 31

Matthew Cross Soud 19 9 28

American Division Scoring G A Pts

Dan Guller PW 12 22 34

Vincent Graziani HH 14 17 31

Nathan Nemchinov HH 17 12 29

Ben Raebiger Wiss 19 4 23

Darius Graziani HH 9 14 23

Victor Wilkins HH 16 6 22

Owen Quinn Spr. 9 11 20

Cooper Kanze PW 10 9 19

Luke Smith PW 6 12 18

Logan Honeycutt Wiss. 12 5 17

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Holy Ghost Prep 4 Pringy 2

Holy Ghost Prep overcame a 2-0 first-period deficit to record a 4-2 won over Pingry School Monday afternoon at Grundy Arena.

Tyler Jones and Ethan Cowan scored for Pingry to put the visitors up 2-0 with 6:39 left in the first period.

Brian Kinniry cut the deficit in half for the Firebirds (14-4-2) with 5:45 left in the first frame. Joe Spadaccino and Joseph Kauffmann scored in the second period before William Harmar added a goal in the third.

Matt Salita got the win in goal with 19 saves.

Pingry School 2 0 0—2

Holy Ghost Prep 1 2 1—4

West Chester East 3 Kennett 1

West Chester East was in shutdown mode Monday night.

Three different Vikings scored goals en route to a 3-1 Ches-Mont League win at Ice Line.

Sean Farrell, Jaxon Swirzina, and Braedon McVeigh scored for East (7-8, 3-7 in the Ches-Mont) but the Vikings were arguably most impressive inside their own blue line; they limited the Blue Demons (9-4-1, 6-3-1) to just 18 shots on goal with 12 of the 18 coming in the final period.

West Chester East coach Eric Wolf said his team stepped up after a 5-1 loss to Downingtown East last Friday night. The Vikings now won three of their last four starts.

“We got it together tonight,” he said. “Kennett is a very top-heavy team. They have a very good line and a very good line.

“So, we were focusing on ‘We’re not going to let that line beat us. The goaltender might beat us; there’s nothing really we can do about that but we didn’t want to let that line beat us.”

Sean Farrell have East a 1-0 lead 5:26 into the first period when his shot from the right point deflected past Kennett goaltender Auden Mott. The goal came one second after a roughing penalty to the Blue Demons Ben Fisher expired.

The Vikings extended their lead in the second frame. Jaxon Swirzina made it a 2-0game at the 1:41 mark before Braedon McVeigh extended his team’s advantage with a sharp-angle shot from the deep left wing that eluded Kennett goaltender Aiden Mott.

After managing a total of just shots on goal in the first two periods combined, Kennett came out swarming in the third, energized in part by a power-play chance that materialized when East’s James Hayes was called for tripping just 34 seconds into the period.

It took just 12 additional seconds for Kennett to get on the scoreboard. Colin Kelly scored the goal from close range via a feed from Lucas Mott who started the play from behind the Viking net.

The Blue Demons kept the pressure on from there and had a 12-6 shot advantage in the third period but were unable to solve Chandler.

Kennett’s last chance came when East’s Ben Peruto was called for tripping with 2:09 left in regulation the Vikings’ penalty killing unit was in top form. It limited the Blue Demons to one shot during the power play and that shot was not on goal; Kennett spent a few brief spurts in the offensive zone.

Kennett won te first meeting of the season between the two teams 3-2 in overtime on November 7.

Kennett 0 0 1—0

West Chester East 1 2 0—3

First-period goal: Sean Farrell (WCE) unassisted, 5:26;

Second-period goal: Jaxon Swirzina (WCE) from Teagan Stutzman and Ben Peruto 1:41; Braedon McVeigh (WCE) from James Hayes, 5:26

Third-period goals: Colin Kelly (K) from Lucas Mott :47

Shots: Kennett 18, W.C. East 31; Saves: Aiden Mott (K) 28, Cameron Chandler (WCE) 17