Father Judge 6 St. Joseph’s Prep 2

Father Judge took control of the game with a four-goal outburst in the second period and stunned St. Joseph’s Prep 6-2 Thursday night in a Class AAA Flyers Cup quarterfinal at the Skatium.

Carlos Rowland and Owen Myers each scored twice for the sixth-seeded Crusaders (16-5), who will face La Salle next Thursday in the semifinals while the third-seeded Hawks closed their season at 10-10.

Rowland scored the first goal of the night 7:19 into the opening period. When he scored a second time, 50 seconds into the second frame, the burst. Gavin Culver, Myers, and Joseph Mullen followed with goals in a span of 3 minutes, 6 seconds and 11:16 still to go in the second period Father Judge had a 5-0 lead.

“We weren’t prepared,” said St. Joseph’s Prep coach David Giacomin. “The boys thought they would walk all over Father Judge.”

Jai Perry-Pereira got the Hawks on the scoreboard with 2:18 left in the second session but St. Joseph’s Prep never got any closer.

Myers scored his second goal of the night with 7:09 left in regulation. Michael Washlick added the Hawks’ second goal with 4:49 remaining.

“Judge’s goalie (Christian McDonald) played great,” Giacomin said. He made four unbelievable saves.

“In one-and-done scenarios you have to show up. Father Judge did and that’s why they are moving on. Our goalie played well despite the score as he got no help in the second period.”

Father Judge 1 4 1—6

St. Joseph’s Prep 0 1 1—2

First-period goal: Carlos Rowland (FJ) from Gavin Culver, 7:19

Second-period goals: Rowland (FJ) from Jake Proud and Owen Myers, :50; Culver (FJ) from Charles Heron, 2:38; Myers (FJ) from Rowland, 4:54 (sh); Joseph Mullen (FJ) unassisted, 5:44; Jai Perry-Pereira (SJP) from Adam Charaffi, 14:42

Third-period goals: Myers (FJ) unassisted, 9:51; Michael Washlick (SJP) from Patrick Sweeney and Perry-Pereira, 12:11

Shots: Father Judge 44, St. Joseph’s Prep 35 Saves: Christian McDonald (FJ) 33, Declan Geary (SJP) 38

C.R. South 5 Boyertown 3

This was absolutely the comeback of the season. And it couldn’t have come at a better time.

Council Rock South overcame a 3-0 deficit in the final 11:19 of the third period to defeat Boyertown, 5-3, in Thursday’s quarterfinal round of the Flyers Cup at Hatfield Ice Arena.

“We flipped a switch,” said CR South senior defenseman Peter Pereborow. “We went into the locker room for that intermission (when the Zamboni was resurfacing the ice) and just changed everything. We realized we can’t let any team get to us and that we had to come out battling. Any team can beat any team and we just had to find a way to win.

“This is a lesson learned. When they scored that third goal, I was like, ‘We’re going to dig down and find a way to win this one’ and we did. I’m so proud of us.”

Boyertown, the tourney’s ninth seed, started strong with a pair of first period goals, scoring on their first shot when Noah Cutillo took a feed from Braydon Havrilla while the Bears were on a power play barely two minutes into the game.

Logan Brown added a second goal for Boyertown, assisted by Cutillo.

After a scoreless second period, the Bears added a third goal while playing shorthanded when Cutillo’s pass found Jax Drost, who got it into the net.

“I think in the early portion of the game we were playing good,” CR South senior center Jackson Mosely said. “We just weren’t playing to our potential. We were getting a lot of shots, but they weren’t going on net. I think we got away from our game a little bit. Obviously, it was frustrating because we were shooting so much and we couldn’t get a goal but eventually we were able to get them in.

“When they put in that third goal, I thought it was just going to be a harder game for us to win. I knew we were going to have to go through some adversity.”

Then everything changed.

The Golden Hawks, seeded first in the tournament, netted a power play goal on their 56th shot of the game when Jeremy Rayher took a pass from Jack Weiner and Jackson Mosley with 11:19 to go.

That was the first of many, as Weiner scored with an assist from Jake Maurer on CR South’s next shot on goal with 10 minutes to go. A minute and a half later, Jordan Sarne (Rayher assist) tied it up with a power play goal.

Less than a minute later, Jagger Smith netted the game winner with an assist from Weiner, who iced the cake with an empty net goal with 38 seconds to go.

“We had some good bursts of momentum in the first and second periods, but I think we really got on board when we got that first goal,” Mosely said. “We needed to get one to get a few. I think they knew how good we are and once we got that first one, they were shaken a little bit.”

The Golden Hawks held an astounding 68-23 advantage in shots on goal.

“They have a great goalie (Tyler Griffith) and that’s hard to work against,” said Weiner, a junior forward. “In playoff hockey, anything can happen any time. We were going hard the whole game; we were taking a lot of shots. We just needed to bury one. There was never a doubt in my mind that we would pull it off.

“Being the one seed puts a target on our backs, but I love that. I love teams coming at us. It makes us work harder and not want to give up.

We’re excited for the next game. We know business is on the table and we have to finish, and we’ll take what we learned in this game as we move forward. Never give up. Keep shooting. Find a way to win.”

CR South advances to the semifinals and will take on 12th seeded Spring-Ford, a 4-0 winner over fourth seed Haverford.

Boyertown 2 0 1—3

Council Rock South 0 0 5—5

First-period goals: Noah Cutillo (B) from Brayden Havrilla, 2:10; Logan Brown (B) from Cutillo, 9:40

Third-period goals: Jax Drost (B) from Cutillo, :40; Jeremy Rayher (CRS) from Jack Weiner and Jackson Mosely, 5:41; Weiner (CRS) from Jake Maurer, 6:59; Jordan Sarne (CRS) from Rayher, 8:34; Jagger Smith (CRS) from Weiner, 9:06; Weiner (CRS), 16:22

Shots: Boyertown 23, Council Rock South 68; Saves: Tyler Griffith (B) 63; Trey Prozzillo (CRS) 20

Flyers Cup Results for Thursday, 3-6

There are 10 Flyers Cup games on the schedule for Thursday night. By the time finishes Thursday night, 25 of the 41 teams that started the week will have been eliminated.

Class AAA Quarterfinals

Salesianum 4 Malvern Prep 2

Father Judge 6 St. Joseph’s Prep 2

Class AA Quarterfinals

Council Rock South 5 Boyertown 3

Spring-Ford 4 Haverford High 0

North Penn 5 Pennridge 0

Downingtown East 4 Downingtown West 0

Class A Quarterfinals

Garnet Valley 10 Plymouth Whitemarsh 0

WC East 3 Kennett 2

WC Henderson 7 Marple-Newtown 6 OT

Hershey 6 Penncrest 0

La Salle 7 Devon Prep 0

The atmosphere of the Flyers Cup tournament is unique. A period of adjustment is often necessary. Therefore, it was not surprising that it took La Salle some time to get started against Devon Prep Tuesday night.

But, the Explorers eventually got rolling and the two-time defending Class AAA Flyers Cup champions rolled on to a 7-0 win over the Tide at Hatfield Ice Arena. The top-seeded Explorers (16-7) will move on to next Thursday’s semifinals against St. Joseph’s Prep or Father Judge. Devon Prep, the seventh seed, finished its third varsity season at 14-7.

While La Salle dominated on the scoreboard, it took some time for the Explorers’ offense to settle in. Cam Ross scored the only goal of the first period with just 56.4 seconds remaining.

Danny Burke extended the La Salle lead two minutes into the second frame.

“It was the first Flyers Cup game for easily half our team,” said La Salle coach Wally Muehlbronner in explaining his team’s start. “There were a lot of jitters I think they had to get out.

“We played a pretty good game. Their goaltender (Grant Gales) was strong early on.

Nole Donohue extended the Explorer lead to 3-0 when he scored with exactly one minute left in the second period before Alistair St. Hilaire, Will Gregorio, Donohue, and Grant LaGreca found the back of the net in the third.

Donohue said the Explorers; experience and cohesion is showing when it matters most. “We have a good bond,” he said. “We all work good together.

“We work hard as a team and pick each other up. That’s what gets us all going.”

One individual seemingly unfazed by the environment was La Salle goaltender Jake Rossi who pitched a shutout, making 14 saves along the way. He spoke to what the Flyers Cup experience is like for his less-experienced teammates.

“I think for them it’s realizing the intensity and importance of it,” he said. “It was a little bit of a slow start today but around the second period and into the third we really put our foot down.”

Devon Prep coach Matt Fabrizio was disappointed with the result but not with his team’s effort.

“The way my guys came out and battled, the fight was pretty even up through the last minute or so of the second period when it was 2-0,” he said. “We were happy with the opportunity to play La Salle. We regard La Salle and Holy Ghost, and all those teams as the cream of the crop, so any chance we get to play those guys is a huge opportunity.”

Devon Prep 0 0 0—0

La Salle 1 2 4—7

First-period goal: Cam Ross (L) from Alistair St. Hilaire, 16:04

Second-period goals: Danny Burke (L) from St. HiIaire and Liam Greenwalt, 2:00; Nole Donohue (L) from Tristan Mitchell 16:00

Third-period goals: St. Hilaire (L) from Donohue, 6:02; Will Gregorio (L) from St. Hilaire and Julian Tarsi, 8:03; Donohue (L) from Tarsi, 11:13; Grant LaGreca (L) from Declan Kelly and Michael Zarzycki, 15:11

Shots: Devon Prep 17, La Salle 57; Saves: Grant Gales (DP) 50; Jake Rossi (L) 17

Flyers Cup Schedule Results, Tuesday March 4

Class AAA First Round

Holy Ghost Prep 10 Owen J. Roberts 0

The top-seeded Firebird blasted the eighth-seeded Wildcats Tuesday night at Hatfield Ice Arena in a Class AAA quarterfinal game that was terminated 1:07 into the third period.

Brady Logue scored three times for the Firebirds. John Gavaghan found the back of the net twice while five other players scored one goal each.

“We had a very simple plan tonight,” said Holy Ghost Prep coach John Ritchie, “to control the tempo and pace of the game against a team we were only able to video pre-scout against some common opponents.

“I would say we accomplished that but their team and goaltender deserve lot of credit for hanging in there.”

Holy Ghost Prep (19-4-1) will face either Malvern Prep or Salesianum in next Thursday’s semifinals.

Owen J. Roberts 0 0 0—0

Holy Ghost Prep 5 4 1—10

First-period goals: Brady Logue (HGP) from Anthony Valeriote, 3:01; Patryk Oszer from Michael Previtera, 7:32; John Gavaghan (HGP) from B. Logue and Valeriote, 9:25 (pp); William Harmar from Nate Romer, 10:19; B. Logue from Joe Spadaccino and Harmar, 16:15;

Second-period goals: B. Logue (HGP) from Joseph Kaufmann and Chase Logue, 11:04; C. Logue (HGP) from Kaufmann, 11:42; Kaufmann (HGP) from Spadaccino, 14:49; Gavaghan (HGP) from B. Logue, 16:07 (pp)

Third-period goal: Brian Kinniry (HGP) from Colin Bara, 1:07

Shots: O.J. Roberts 8, Holy Ghost Prep 43; Saves: Josh Burnheimer (OJR) 33, Jack Unger (HGP) 8

La Salle 7 Devon Prep 0—Check elsewhere on this site for details.

Class AA First Round

Spring-Ford 4 Central Bucks South 3—Dylan Cyr scored a shorthanded goal 5:11 into overtime as the 12th-seeded Rams stunned the fifth-seeded Titans at Hatfield Ice Arena.

Cyr’s winning goal, his second goal of the game, came when the Titans coughed up the puck behind their own net during a power play.

Spring-Ford trailed 3-1 going into the third period but goals from Stephen Falbo and William Schaeffer forced overtime.

The Titans trailed 1-0 after the first period but Logan Hood, Jake Stepp, and Ryan Frey all scored goals in a span of 3:04 to give South a two-goal lead with 7:48 left in the middle period.

The Titans closed the season at 17-7.

Spring-Ford will gave Haverford High in Thursday’s quarterfinals.

Pennridge 7 Avon Grove 2—The seventh-seeded Rams took a 3-1 lead into the first period and broke the game open with four unanswered goals in the third at Hatfield Ice Arena. Nate McKean and Rush each scored two goals as the defending Class AA Flyers Cup and state champions began their defense. James Embert, Shane Dachowki, and James Young also scored goals. Dachowski contributed two assists while Jacob Winton recorded 28 saves in goal.

Pennridge coach Jeff Montagna spoke to the importance of his team’s fast start.

“Even with the new guy, we have a lot of experience,” he said. “We have. a lot of pride, we have. a lot of expectations. We’ve been here before, we know what needs to be done.

“We have enough guys in that locker room that understand that in this type of game you can win the game in the first period.”

Pennridge (14-8) will face second seed North Penn on Thursday in the quarterfinals.

Downingtown West 3 Central Bucks East 1—Gavin Widmer gave the 11th-seeded Patriot a 1-0 lead with five seconds left in the second period but the sixth-seeded Whippets responded with three goals in the third.

Downingtown West will face Downingtown East in Thursday’s quarterfinals.

The Patriots closed the season at 10-10-1.

Class A First Round

Kennett 7 Strath Haven 1

Hershey 4 Hatboro-Horsham 1—Four different player scored for the sixth-seeded Trojans. Vince Graziani scored for the Hatters (12-9)

Marple-Newtown 9 Palmyra 3

Strath Haven 2 Moorestown 1

Strath Haven took its first steps into the Flyers Cup pool Monday night, and emerged to fight another day. Michael Leuthold’s goal with 12:30 left in the third period proved to be decisive as the Panthers bested Moorestown 2-1 Monday night in a Class A Flyers Cup play-in game at Hatfield Ice Arena.

The 13^th-seeded Panthers (5-13-2) will have little time to celebrate their victory; they’ll be back in action against fifth-seeded Kennett (6:30 at Ice Line) in a first-round game.

Going into the game, Strath Haven coach John Gavin anticipated that goals would be few, if only because his own team scored just 33 goals in 19 games prior to Monday night. He also knew that his goaltender Jacob Aranda was taking the ice with a .904 aver percentage.

“Given our goaltending, I knew their goaltending was strong, given how the stats played out, I figured that was the type of game we were going to have.

Primo Modesti gave Strath Haven a 1-0 lead when he beat Quakes netminder David Rho midst of a scramble in front of the net with 2:52 left in the first period.

As the game played out, it seemed one goal might be enough. Quality shots were rare, both goaltenders were sharp and physicality was minimal.

Michael Leuthold extended the Strath Haven lead 4:30 into the final period.

Jakub Brazina cut the deficit in half at the 7:15 mark but that was the only one of 41 Moorestown shots that Aranda could corral.

Gavin, naturally enough, celebrated the performance of his goaltender.

“It was a great win for the boys,” he said. “We got great goaltending from Jacob, who is a senior for us, who was great for us all night.

“We got two big goals that we desperately needed and now we have a big game {Tuesday} against Kennett.”

Gavin noted that his team avoided the breakdowns and errors that take a team out of a single-elimination tournament.

“We usually do a pretty good job with that,” he said. “Our struggle has been scoring goals. We’ve been working on the power play and I was hoping maybe tonight we’d get a power-play goal. We definitely generated some chances off of that I think led to momentum and scoring at even strength.

There were just five penalties called in the game, four of them against Moorestown The Panthers wound up with three power-play chances, one of them lasting four minutes but were outshot 41-26 for the evening.

Strath Haven 1 0 1—2

Moorestown 0 0 1—1

First-period goals: Primo Modesti (SH) from Carson Farrington, 14:08

Third-period goals: Michael Leuthold (SH) from Christian Henzel, 4:30; Hunter Orr (M) from Jakub Brazina and Charles Hartzell, 7:15

Shots: Strath Haven 26, Moorsetown 41 Saves: Jacob Aranda (SH) 40, David Rho (M) 24

Championhip Thursday 2-27

SHSHL

American Division Final

Hatboro-Horsham 5 Plymouth Whitemrash 2

National Division Final

Council Rock South 4vs. Central Bucks South 3

ICSHL

Prep/Catholic Final

Salesianum 6 Devon Prep 2—The Sallies overcame a 2-1 second-period deficit with five straight goals over the last period and a half. Connor Davis scored twice foe Salesianum with both goals coming in the third period.

Ches-Mont Final

Kennett 2 West Chester Henderson 1—Luke Ganley scored the winning goal with 5:11 left in the third period. Lucas Mott also scored for Kennett. Nick Denrdi’s goal gave Henderson a 1-0 lead late in the first period.

Central Final

Garnet Valley 10 Haverford High 0—A.J. Tenhuisen scored three goals and Dylan Orr added two more as Garnet Valley rolled to the Central League title at Ice Works. jake Morrow and Jake Robinson each recorded three assists.

Playoff Results 2-24

SHSHL

National Division/First Round

Pennridge 4 Central Bucks East 1

Central Bucks South 8 Pennsbury 1

ICSHL

Central

Haverford 3 Strath Haven 0

Marple Newtown 6 Conestoga 1

Penncrest 4 Springfield-Delco 3

Garnet Valley 4 Radnor 0

Ches Mont

Kennett 5 West Chester East 4

D-town East 7 Avon Grove 1

Pioneer

Boyertown 5 Perkiomen Valley 0

Spring-Ford 4 Owen J. Roberts 0

Catholic/Prep

Salesianum 10 Shanahan/Coatesville 0

Devon Prep 5 Father Judge 1

Girls National

Avon Grove 5 OJR/Spring-Ford 0

D-town West 10 Kingsway 4

Girls American

Conestoga 6 WC East 0

W C Henderson 9 Radnor 3

Flyers Cup Field Revealed

Forty-one teams in four divisions will comprise the field for the 2025 Flyers Cup tournament. The field was announced during the Flyers Cup Selection Show Sunday night.

First-round games will get underway on Monday, March 3 and action will continue through the middle of the following week.

The Class A field, with 14 teams, will be the largest in the tournament. The Class AA field will include 12 teams, the Class AAA bracket 8, and the girls’ bracket 7.

In years past, the Class A and AA fields have consisted of as many as 16 teams each but with just 37 Cup-eligible teams between the two divisions this season, the committee took a different approach.

Eric Tye is the President of the Flyers Cup Committee.

“We’re not putting everyone in just so everyone can be in,” he said. “There needs to be a cutoff. We came up with 12 (for Class AA). Do we feel bad for teams 13 and 14? I gues so. We feel bad for teams 15 and 16 in {Class A} and 9 and 10 in {Class AAA}.

“People aren’t going to agree with what we did, we know that, but we did what we think’s best.”

Brackets are listed below.

Class AAA (8 teams)

Quarterfinals, March 4 and 6

1 Holy Ghost Prep vs 8 Owen J. Roberts. 3-4; 6:15 at Hatfield Blue

4 Malvern Prep vs 5 Salesianum. 3-6; 6:30 at Ice Line 1

2 La Salle vs 7 Devon Prep. 3-4 6:00; at Hatfield Gray

3 St. Joseph’s Prep vs 6 Father Judge. 3-6; 8:30 at Skatium

Semifinals, Thursday March 13

Monday, March 17 or Wednesday, March 19

Class AA (12 teams)

First Round, March 3 and 4

8 Conestoga vs 9 Boyertown 3-4; 8:30 at Ice Line 1

4 Central Bucks South vs 12 Spring Ford 3-4; 8:30 at Hatfield Blue

7 Pennridge vs 10 Avon Grove 3-4; 8:10 at Hatfield Gray

6 Downingtown West vs 11 Central Bucks East 3-4; 6:15 at Ice Line AAA

Quarterfinals, Thursday, March 6

1 Council Rock South vs Conestoga or Boyertown 6:15 at Hatfield Gray

4 Haverford vs Central Bucks South or Spring Ford 6:30 at Skatium

2 North Penn vs Pennridge or Avon Grove 8:10 at Hatfield Gray

3 Downingtown East vs Downingtown West or C.B. East TBD

Semifinals

March 17 or 19

Finals TBD

Class A (14 teams)

Play In

Monday, Match 3

Play In

12 Moorsetown vs 13 Strath Haven 8:10 at Hatfield Blue

11 Radnor vs 14 Hatboro-Horsham 6:30 at Ice Line 1

First Round

Monday, Match 3

8 Plymouth Whitemarsh vs 9 Springield-Delco 6:00 at Hatfield Blue

7 Marple Newtown vs 10 Palmyra 6:30 at Skatium

Tuesday, March 4

First Round

Moorsetown or Strath Haven vs 5 Kennett

Radnor or Hatboro-Horsham vs 6 Hershey 8:30 at Skatium

Quarterfinals

Thursday, March 6

Plymouth Whitemrsh or Springfield-Delco vs 1 Garnet Valley 6:30 at Ice Works

Moorsetown, Strath-Haven, or Kennet vs 4 WC East at Ice Line

Marple Newtown or Palmyra vs 2 WC Henderson at Ice Line

Radnor, H-H or Hershey at Penncrest 8:30 at Ice Works

Semifinals March 11

Finals March 17

Girls (7 teams)

Monday March 3

Play in

6 West Chester East vs 7 Pennridge 8:30 at Ice Line

Wednesday, Match 5

Quarterfinals

4 West Chester Henderson vs 5 Radnor 7:45 at PNY

West Chester East or Pennridge vs 3 Conestoga 6:00 at PNY

Wednesday March 12

Semifinals

WC Henderson or Radnor vs 1 Avon Grove 6:00 at PNY

WC East, Pennridge, or Conestoga vs 2 Downingtown West 7:45 at PNY

Tuesday, March 18

Finals

6:00 ay PNY

Eric Tye and Rick Woelfel will discuss the tournament on the Hockey Happenings podcast which will drop on Monday, February 24

ICSHL Sets Playoff Brackets

The Inter County Scholastic Hockey League has released its playoff brackets.

Links to each division’s bracket are listed below. Playoff results have no bearing on the selections and seedings for the Flyers Cup tournament.

Central Division

Ches-Mont Division

Pioneer Division

Catholic-Prep Division

Division 2 Bracket

Girls National

Girls American

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