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Class 2A Quarterfinals
C.B. South 4, Neshaminy 0—Neshaminy goaltender Steven Glik makes 58 saves
North Penn 12, Council Rock North 6—Andrew Galetta 5 goals for the Knights
C.B. West 3, Council Rock South 2 OT¸—Jake Lang scores the game winner
Pennridge 4, C.B.East 1
Wednesday semifinals
C.B. South vs. North Penn, 7:00 at Warwick
Pennridge vs. C.B. West, 7:10 at Hatfield
Pennridge defeated Council Rock South 5-4 Friday night to earn the second seed in the Suburban High School Hockey League Class 2A Playoffs.
With that, here are the matchups for the four quarterfinal games set for Monday.
4. North Penn vs 5. CR North 7:30 at Hatfield
2. Pennridge vs. 7. C.B. East 9:10 at Hatfield
3. Council Rick South vs 6. CB West 7:55 at Revolution Ice Gardens
The upper bracket semifinal will be Wednesday at Revolution Ice Gardens at 7:00
The lower bracket semifinal will be Wednesday at Hatfield at 7:10
Championship game will be Thursday at Hatfield at 7:10
The Class A semifinals will be played Wednesday as follows
Wissahickon vs. Hatboro-Horsham 8:50 at Hatfield
Abington vs. Lower Moreland. 8:45 at Revolution Ice Gardens
Championship game will be Thursday at Hatfield at 8:50
A reminder: The SHSHL playoffs have no bearing on the Flyers Cup seedings.
Those will be announced tomorrow.
Hope some of you stayed up to watch the women’s gold medal game between the U.S. and Canada last night…. It was worth it.
The Suburban High School Hockey League concludes its regular season Friday night.
Here’s an overview of how the standings look.
BTW: The Miracle on Ice, the U.S. win over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics, occurred 38 years ago today. For the high-school players who may not have done so yet; find this game on You Tube and watch it.
Class 2A W L T Pts
Central Bucks South 10 0 0 20
Council Rock South 8 1 1 17
Pennridge 8 1 1 17
North Penn 8 2 1 17
Council Rock North 6 4 1 13
Central Bucks West 5 5 0 10
Central Bucks East 4 6 1 9
Neshaminy 3 7 1 7
Thursday
Central Bucks South vs. Central Bucks West 8:45 at Rev. Ice Gardens
Friday
Council Rock South vs. Pennridge 7:10 at Hatfield
The eight playoff teams in Class 2A are set.
Central Bucks South will be the top seed. The result of the Council Rock South-Pennridge game
will determine seeds two and three. North Penn is locked into fourth place via the tiebreaker system. Thanks to Kenny Haas for the late update….
Seeds five through eight are set.
Quarterfinal Games
Class 1A W L T Pts
Wissahickon 13 1 0 26
Lower Moreland 10 4 0 20
Abington 9 3 1 19
Hatboro-Horsham 9 4 0 18
Friday
Abington vs. Hatboro-Horsham 8:50 at Hatfield
The four playoff teams are set. The result of the Hatboro-Horsham-Abington game will determine the final order of finish.
There is also a key Class 3A game set for tomorrow as Holy Ghost Prep faces Malvern Prep at Ice Line (8:45). The Firebirds are in line for the #1 seed in the Class 3A Flyer Cup tournament
Playoffs begin next Monday
Prep Division Standings W L T Its
Holy Ghost Prep 6 1 0 12
St. Joseph’s Prep 5 3 0 10
Malvern Prep 4 3 0 8
LaSalle 3 4 0. 6
Salesianum 0 7 0 0
Teams in bold have completed their regular-season schedules.
Neshaminy 10, Truman 7
North Penn 11, Souderton 1
Pennsbury 3, C.B. East 3
Luke Aquaro scored a goal and added three assists to lead Holy Ghost Prep to a 6-0 Suburban High School Hockey League Prep Red Division win Tuesday night at Grundy Arena.
Tristan Devine stopped 32 shots as the Firebirds push their record to 17-5 (6-1 in the division) and gained the inside lane in the race for the top seed in the Class 3A Flyers Cup.
The Firebirds and the Friars will have a rematch Friday at Ice Line to conclude the regular season. Seedings for the Flyers Cup will be announced on Sunday.
HATFIELD—Two of the area’s best hockey teams shared the ice in Hatfield Friday night, bringing with them arguably the area’s two best goaltenders who between them produced a masterpiece.
Holy Ghost Prep got goals from Luke Aquaro and Shane Stevens to post a 2-1 win over LaSalle in a Suburban High School Hockey League Class 3A matchup. But the brightest stars of the night were in goal.
The Firebirds’ Tristan Devine stopped 28 of the 29 shots he saw. The Explorers’ William Affel turned aside 24 of 26 shots.
Devine did his best work in the third period when he made 17 saves while protecting a one-goal lead. “He just battled,” Firebird coach Gump Whiteside said of his netminder, “and our players feed off of that. He works incredibly hard at practice and it carries over to the game.
“He does a great job. He stays focused; if he gets beat he doesn’t let it bother him.”
The Firebirds (12-4, 2-0 SHSHL Class 3A) took a 1-0 lead 3:39 into the first period when Luke Aquaro made a rush up the center of the ice, forced his way between two opponents, and beat Affel low and inside the right post. Stevens made it a 2-0 game 5:42 into the second period with a wrestler from midway between the two faceoff circles.
LaSalle answered back with a goal from freshman Jan Olenginski who scored a goal too commemorate his first LaSalle-Holy Ghost Prep game. He put in a a rebound of Sam Lipkin’s original shot.
The penalty box was crowded during the first two periods. There was plenty of hitting and the officials kept a tight rein on the goings on by calling 15 penalties in the first 32 minutes, eight to the Firebirds, seven to the Explorers. At the end of the second frame the officials huddled with Aquaro and LaSalle captain John McCuen and things simmered down after that; just one penalty was called each way in the final period.
A major portion of the third frame was played at the Firebirds’ end of the ice. Devine was often under duress but was equal to the challenge. “You’re under a lot of pressure,” he said. “But we stepped it up really big. We had a lot of heart at the end, blocking shorts left and right.”
Affel was just as good at the other end of the ice. “They had some great opportunities that Will made great saves on,” said LaSalle coach Wally Muehlbronner. “It could have been a lot worse early on.”
By evening’s end, LaSalle (12-6-1, 2-3) had a 29-26 edge in shots.
“We came out not quite with the energy they did,” Muelbronner said, “but I think we got it going in the second and third. It was a typical Ghost-LaSalle game toward the end there.”
Holy Ghost Prep 1 1 0—2
LaSalle 0 1 0—1
First-period goal: Luke Aquaro (HGP) from Max Massari, 3:39.
Second-period goals: Shane Stevens (HGP) from Colin Costello and Andrew Serafin, 5:42; Jan Olenginski (L) from Sam Lipkin and Daniel Sambuco, 7:00.
Shots: Holy Ghost Prep 26, LaSalle 29; Saves: Tristan Devine (H) 28, William Affel (L) 24.
Records: Holy Ghost Prep (12-4, 2-0 SHSHL Class 3A Division); LaSalle (12-6-1, 2-3).
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HATFIELD— The Hill School generated an abundance of scoring chances Wednesday afternoon. La Salle did not. The result was a 2-0 win for the Blues in a Mid-Atlantic Prep League game at Hatfield Ice. C.J. Duval scored both goals, one into an empty net. as Hill School improved to 14-5-2 overall and 5-0 in the MAPL.
The Blues limited the Explorers (11-6-1, 3-2) to 14 shots in the 54-minute game and successfully killed off seven penalties.
‘At this point in the season we want to be a team that can win different ways,” said winning coach Chris Bala, “and tonight we were opportunistic when we needed to be.”
Duval gave Hill School a 1-0 lead when he scored off a feed from David Hill 9:40 into the opening period. The Blues had an 11-4 edge in shoots in the first frame but netminder William Affel kept the opposition at bay.
The key point in the game came late in the second period when back-to-back penalties left the Blues two men short for 1 minute, 47 seconds. LaSalle failed to generate a single shot on goal during the two-man advantage.
“(Killing penalties) has been a strength for us all year,” Bala said. “I think we’ve got some players who are really reliable, and rugged, and willing to do the dirty jobs. And our PK was really good.”
Bala noted that his goaltender, Dalton Jerzak, was sharp as well. It starts with any team with the goaltender,” he said. Dalton made the saves when he needed to.
Affel was sharp in the LaSalle net before Duval scored into an empty net with 29 seconds left in the third period. But the Explorers didn’t generate a lot of offense, a circumstance which frustrated their coach, Wally Muehlbronner.
“It was a tough game,” he said. “We’ve got to compete harder. It’s that simple. If you don’t compete hard you’re not going to get many opportunities.
LaSalle will face Holy Ghost Prep Friday night at 7:10 at Hatfield Ice.
Hill School 1 0 1—2
LaSalle 0 0 0—0
First-period goal: C.J. Duval (H) from David Hill and Alex Kiviniemi, 9:40.
Third-period goal: Duval (H) from Kiviniemi and Walpole, 17:31(en).
Shots: Hill School 27, LaSalle 14; Saves: Dalton Jerzak (H) 14, William Affel (L) 25.
Records: Hill School (14-5-2); LaSalle (11-6-1)
Our thanks to the administration and staff at Holy Ghost Prep for their support of this web site.
Holy Ghost Prep is a private, Catholic, all-boys school located in Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Located adjacent to the busy I-95 corridor in metropolitan Philadelphia, Holy Ghost Prep attracts students from more than 100 elementary feeder schools from throughout metropolitan Philadelphia counties and New Jersey
Today it is is a vibrant community of nearly 500 young men preparing for college and adult life through a challenging program which stresses the cultivation of students’ unique gifts and talents, academic excellence, and generous service to the poor. We continue to be mindful of our founding history as a seminary as we seek to form young men morally, intellectually, and spiritually in the Spiritan tradition.
1-17-18
It was a hockey game that lived up to expectations. Central Bucks South rallied from a 3-1 second-period deficit to down Pennridge 8-6 Wednesday at Revolution Ice Gardens in the only regular-season matchup of the two premier teams in the Suburban High School Hockey League’s Class 2A Division, one that pitted Pennridge coach Tom Coyne against the team he led to two Flyers Cup and state championships.
The Titans scored five straight goals to break the game open and record their 11th victory in 12 starts this season (6-0 in the division).
Matt Stoll delivered a hat trick and added an assist to highlight the winners’ Senior Night.
“It was pretty weird,” Stoll said, “I’m not going to lie. It was pretty different being on the ice against Tom Coyne. Certainly a lot of emotion. I’m just glad we got the win.”
The Rams (9-2, 5-1) came out sharp and scored the only goal of the first period when Eric Slater beat Tim White from long range from the left wing just 1:26 after the opening faceoff. Michael Walker made it a 2-0 game 6:3 into the second period before Frank Carter got the Titans on the board with a rocket from the high slot during a power play at the 8:13 mark. When Dylan Lowery responded for Pennridge 62 seconds later the Rams had a 3-1 lead prompting South coach Shaun McGinty to use his time out.
“I’m not a big time out fan,” he said. “I like to keep momentum going … I don’t like holding the game up. But it was needed.”
The Titans responded by getting a goal from James Schuller and two from Stoll, all in a span of 2 minutes, 33 seconds to take a 4-3 lead.
C.B. South’s Tim White makes a save against Pennridge Wednesday night as teammate Joe DeLaurentis and the Rams’ Michael Walker close in
(Photo by Dara Nappen King)
It was still a one-goal game entering the third period but Ryan Gingras scored for South at the 1:47 mark before Stoll completed his hat trick with a shorthanded effort at 4:12 and essentially settled the issue, although Walker scored the last two goals of the game for Pennridge to claim a hat trick of his own.
“We got a little bit away from what we really started out doing,” Coyne said. “I thought we were really effective in the first period but then again we were fresher in the first period.
I just grounded 10 guys into the ground tonight. I just thought we could give them our best punch. We got away, we got caught running around.”
The Titans kept their shifts short, which Stoll said worked to their advantage. “It helped a lot that we were all on the same page,” he said. We all got off at a decent time and kept fresh legs on the ice. That really helped.”
The Titans enjoyed a 41-29 edge in shots … Ten South seniors were recognized prior to game time.
Pennridge 1 2 3—6
C.B. South 0 4 4—8
First-period goal: Eric Slater (P) unassisted, 1:24.
Second-period goals: Michael Walker (P) unassisted, 6:23; Frank Carter (CBS) from Joe DeLaurentis and Matt Stoll, 8:13 (pp); Dylan Lowery (P) unassisted, 9:15; James Schuler (CBS) from Jake Parlow, 9:44; Stoll (CBS) from Reis Braccio and DeLaurentis, 9:59; Stoll (CBS) from DeLaurentis, 12:17.
Third-period goals: Ryan Gingras (CBS) from Braccio and DeLaurentis, 1:47; Stoll (CBS) from DeLaurentis, 4:12 (sh); Slater (P) unassisted, 5:23; Drew Kirilorf (CBS) from Colin Abbonizio and Schuler, 6:10; Matt Milanesi (CBS) from Dominick Pattrone and Abbonizio, 11:06; Walker (P) from Patrick McGinley, 14:28; Walker (P) from Slater, 15:58.
Shots: Pennridge 29, C.B. South 41; Saves: Luke Stranik (P) 33, Tom White (CBS) 23.
Records: Pennridge (9-2, 5-1 in SHSHL Class 2A Division); Central Bucks South (11-1 6-0)
Our thanks to the administration at Holy Ghost Prep for their support.
1-12-18
Hatboro-Horsham was primed for Senior Night. And it showed early on. The Hatters scored goals on the first three shots of the game and went on to a 7-2 win over Upper Moreland in Suburban High School Hockey League action at Revolution Ice Gardens.
The Hatters (7-2 overall and in the SHSHL’s Class A Division) recognized the five seniors on their roster prior to the opening faceoff and their level of energy remained high after the puck was dropped. Jacob Mueller one of the five, scored just 12 seconds into the game when a puck deflected past Upper Moreland goaltender Michael Denardo.
Dylan McClure another senior, followed with two quick goals of his own to put Hatboro-Horsham up 3-0 after just 69 seconds of playing time. “I think we played pretty good,” he said. ”We came in and did what we needed to do.”
The possibility of blowout loomed at that point but Denardo stepped up and kept the Hatters at bay for the balance of the period.
The Golden Bears (0-8, 0-7 in the division got on the scoreboard at the 7:01 mark of the middle period when Noah Goodson, one of eight freshmen on the Upper Moreland roster, scored a power-play goal. Kyle Mullen and Aidan Esack scored goals for the Hatters to extend their lead; Aiden’s goal came with 1:04 left in the period.
Prior to the ensuing faceoff Upper Moreland lost Goodson with a minor penalty plus a misconduct for a mouthpiece violation and by the third period the Golden Bears, who have just 13 players on their roster, were running low on energy reserves. Ben Heywood scored for the Hatters at the 10:50 mark at the final frame before Hatboro-Horsham’s Nathan Reilly and Goodson traded goals in the final minute.
Through it all, Denardo continued to excel in the Upper Moreland net. He finished with 50 saves. Hatboro-Horsham had a 57-15 edge in shots.
For Upper Moreland coach Mike Denardo, Friday’s game was another step in the process of building a program. “Three of them had never played hockey before,” he said, “so that was parents and friends asking kids to come out and give it a try.”
Denardo notes his newcomers work to get ice time to improve their skating skills. “They go out and skate on their own,” he said, “which is a plus because we only have one split practice a week. So they go out and play open hockey, they skate on the ponds. They’re trying. They’re putting the work in.”
Hatboro-Horsham 3 2 2—7
Upper Moreland 0 1 1—2
First-period goals: Jacob Mueller (HH) unassisted, :12; Dylan McClure (HH) from Mueller, :32; McClure (HH) from Nathan Reilly, 1:09.
Second-period goals: Noah Goodson (UM) from Brad Helsinger, 7:01 (pp); Kyle Mullen (HH) from McClure and Mueller, 13:30; Aidan Esack (HH) unassisted, 14:56.
Third period goals: Ben Heywood (HH) from Mullen and McClure, 10:50; Reilly (HH) from Shane Mergen, 15:07; Noah Goodson (UM) unassisted, 15:18.
Shots: Hatboro-Horsham 57, Upper Moreland 15; Saves: Ryan Bell (HH) 13, Michael Denardo (UM) 50.
Records: Hatboro-Horsham (7-2 overall and in SHSHL Class A Division); Upper Moreland (0-8, 0-7 in the division)
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Wins have been tough to come by for the New Hope-Solebury hockey team this season. The Lions took the ice against Plymouth Whitemarsh Wednesday night having won just twice in six starts (1-4 in the SHSHL’s Class A Division).
They had just 10 skaters in uniform plus goaltender Devin Brock. And once again they came out on the short end. Dean Keller’s hat trick propelled the Colonials to an 8-6 win at Hatfield Ice.
“The challenge for us is that we’re a small school,” says New Hope-Solebury coach Jeff Garvin. “We have a limited amount of players, a small roster. In my mind, for us to really compete you need three full lines and in a lot of games we’re playing with 10 players. By the third period, our team usually runs out of gas.
But our kids always put in a good effort and play hard, and at the end of the day, I’m glad they’re having fun.”
Garvin’s coaching background includes a stint as an assistant at LaSalle High. About half his players play club hockey. Brock is a virtual novice and had never played in goal prior to this fall.
“Without him, we wouldn’t have a team,” Garvin says.
Brock played a bit of hockey when he was in elementary school but essentially gave up the game at age 10. Today his primary sport is lacrosse; he’s an attackman.
But he grew up idolizing Hall of Famer goaltender3 Martin Brodeur and one thing led to another.
“I loved (Brodeur),” Brock says. “I loved the Devils and watching him growing up was really awesome.”
When he stepped on the ice for the Lions this season, Brock found that his expectations of what his job entailed didn’t always match reality. “(Playing in goal) is so much harder than I thought,” he says “It’s really hard to get used to moving around, but I’m not scared of the puck. It’s not as scary as you think. A lot of people are scared. But it’s a really difficult position to play.”
New Hope-Solebury’s future on the ice is uncertain. There are five seniors on this year’s squad, including Brock and while at one time there was a middle-school team, there were no replacements available when the middle schoolers (who are now freshmen and sophomores) stepped up to the varsity level.
But the players on this year’s roster, 14 in all, have made history.
“I don’t know if we’re going to have enough guys to replace them,” Garvin says. “I’d love to see us have a team next year, but it might be one and done for now.”
The Colonials scored three times on their first six shots and led 4-1 after the first period. Chris Braun and Michael Janora scored twice each for the Lions.
Keller has scored 23 goals for the Colonials this season. He was tied for third in the Class A Division in goals heading into Wednesday night.
Plymouth Whitemarsh is now 2-8 and 2-7 in the division.
New Hope-Solebury 1 2 3—6
Plymouth Whitemarsh 4 2 2—8
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