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Rick Woelfel and North Penn coach Kevin Vaitis discuss the Athletes Helping Athletes hockey showcase .
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Also, catch our conversation with former Hatboro-Horsham High and Princeton standout and current NWHL all-star Kelsey Koelzer at the same link.
The scholastic hockey season kicks off Wednesday with the Athletes Helping Athletes tournament’s opening-night doubleheader.
Revolution Ice Gardens will serve as the venue as North Penn faces Souderton in the 7:20 opener, followed by a 9:05 matchup between Central Bucks East and 2018 Flyers Cup finalist Central Bucks South.
The Wednesday’s games and the tournament itself figure to be competitive, tournament organizer Eric Tye says results are secondary to a greater cause.
“Hockey is the last thing the coaches and myself worry about,” he said. “It’s taking care of special-needs athletes. We have honorary captains for every game. The teams take the kids into the locker room, it’s just an awesome sight.”
Tye, who has only one hand, has had a decades-long stint in hockey as a player, coach, and administrator. He conceived the idea of the tournament, which, with the support of AHA founder Rick Leonetti, is now in its fifth year.
“We started in Year One with four teams,” Tye said. “In Year Two we went to six teams and now we’re at eight teams. I think last year we raised almost $17,000.
The tournament will feature 16 games between Wednesday and October 26. All will be played at Revolution Ice Gardens.
On Friday, October 12, the Flyers Alumni will take the ice against Team AHA which will feature local coaches.
The Class 3A Flyers Cup title game between Holy Ghost Prep and St. Joseph’s Prep will now be played Tuesday night, March 20 at Grundy Arena.
Game time will be 7 p.m. THE GAME IS STILL ON!!!!!
Bishop McCourt won the Class A Penguins Cup Monday night, defeating Meadville 3-2 in overtime.
The Class 2A and 3A Penguins Cup finals are scheduled for Tuesday at UPMC Lemieux. The Class 2A game at 5:30 will match Armstrong against Quaker Valley.
The Class 3A game at 8:30 matches defending Penguins Cup and state champion Peters Township against Seneca Valley.
The state championship games are scheduled for Saturday at Ice Line in West Chester beginning at 11 AM
Our thanks to the administration and staff at Holy Ghost Prep for their support.
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 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.
The 39th Flyers Cup tournament resumes on Monday with semifinal games in Class A and Class 3A
Class A
Bayard Rustin 6, Hershey 2
West Chester East 5, Strath Haven 3
Championship game on Wednesday, 6:30 at Ice Line
Class 3A
Holy Ghost Prep 6, Cardinal O’Hara 5—Luke Aquaro provides a hat trick as the top-seeded Firebirds advance to the championship game. Liam McCanney four goals and an assist for the Lions.
Check our our game story at www.buckscountycouriertimes.com
St, Joseph’s Prep 5, Malvern Prep 3—Mark Colavita two goals and an assist for the Hawks, who will be looking to win their first-ever Flyers Cup
Championship game Monday, 3-19 at Hatfield
Tuesday will feature the semifinals in the Class 2A and Girls Divisions
Class 2A
1 Central Bucks South vs 5 Council Rock South 7:45 at Hatfield
2 Downingtown East vs 3 Conestoga 6:30 at Ice Line
Championship Game Thursday at Hatfield. 7:00
Girls
2 West Chester East vs 3 Radnor, 8:30 at Ice Line
Winner will play 1 Unionville for the Flyers Cup Thursday at 6:30 at Ice Line
Class 2A Scoring Leaders G A Pts
Michael Cameron Conestoga 5 4 9
Jason Sison Conestoga 4 5 9
Joe DeLaurentis C.B. South 3 4 7
Justin Cohn Downingtown East 4 3 7
Today’s the day area hockey teams find out if they’ve made the field for the 39th Flyers Cup. The selection show starts at noon at the Brickhouse Tavern, located on Route 611 in Horsham.
It can be viewed live via the SFBN portal.
https://portal.stretchinternet.com/sfbn/
Good luck to all.
Our thanks to the administration and staff at Holy Ghost Prep for their support.
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 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.
If you didn’t make it to 2 AM, Olympic Athletes from Russia defeated German 4-3 in overtime to with the golf medal in Olympic men’s hockey.
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