Flyers Cup Girls Semifinals

Downingtown West 6 West Chester Henderson 5

Ava Thomas scored two goals and four other players added one goal each as the defending-champion Whippets bested the Warriors Wednesday night at PNY Arena.

Sarah Goodman, Lila Zelesnick, Chloe Bogusch, and Brianna Hinkle all scored for Downingtown West.

Charlotte Perrin, Paige Meutterties, Eva Doyle, Vanenessa Gill, and Megan Wackerman all scored for the Warriors.

Hendersron 1 2 2—5

Downingtown West 3 2 1—6

Avon Grove 10 Conestoga 0

Lily Schindler scored three goals and added four assists for the top-seeded Red Devils Wednesday night at PNY Arena. Skyler Campanile added two goals and four assists.

Maggie Sullivan, Ellie Crawford, Brianna Register, Emmy Sullivan, and Skylar Greene all scored single goals.

Ella Hyduysky earned the shutout on goal.

The game was called with 5:29 remaiing on the third period.

Conestoga 0 0 0—0

Avon Grove 5 2 3—10

The championship game is set for Monday night at PNY Arena with a 6:00 start.

Upcoming Flyers Cup Schedule

Flyers Cup Schedule for Thursday, March 7

Class AA Quarterfinals

Pennridge 5 Downingtown East 2—Five different players scored goals Thursday night as the top-seeded Rams advanced to the semifinals at Hatfield Ice.

Shane Dachowki. Colin Dachowski, Kevin Pico, Trey Mikulich, and Andrew Savona all scored goals.

Parker Nassour and Brody Matthews scored for the ninth-seeded Cougars.

Downingtown East 1 0 1—2

Pennridge 1 2 2—5

Downingtown West 8 Haverford 2

Council Rock South 7 Cherokee 1—Jake Weiner scored three goals and Phil Pepe added two as the second-seeded Golden Hawks advanced to the Class AA semifinals with a 7-1 won over the 10th-seeed Chiefs Thursday night at Hatfield Ice.

Illia Muhkin and  Kevin Koles also scored for South, which built a 5-1 lead after two periods.

Luke Resto scored Cherokees’s only goal, which came in the first period.

Trevor Rakszawski got the win in goal, making 19 saves.

The game was terminated with 7:03 remaining in the third period after the two teams were accessed a total of  118 minutes in penalties, 98 of them to the Chiefs.

Cherokee 1 0 0—1

C.R. South 3 2 2—7

Boyertown 4, Central Bucks South 1—Joey Slobodrian’s goal in the third period was all the sixth-seeded Titans could manage Thursday night against the third-seeded Bears at Ice Line.

Tyan McGuffin scored twice for Boyertown.

Class A Quarterfinals

Unionville 4 West Chester East 3 OT

Marple Newtown 9 Lower Dauphin 4

Garnet Valley 7 Penncrest 6 OT

Hershey 5, Springfield 0

Flyers Cup Schedule for Thursday, March 14

Class AAA Semifinals

Holy Ghost Prep vs. La Salle  TBD Hatfield Ice

St. Joseph’s Prep vs. Malvern Prep  TBD Ice Line

Class AA Semifinals

Sites, times dependent on results of quarterfinal games

Wednesday, March 6

Girls Play In

Conestoga 2 Lower Merion 1 OT

State Championship Schedule

The Pennsylvania Cup championship games are scheduled for Saturday. All three games will be played at the

Robert Morris University Island Sports Center inNeville Township, PA

Here’s the schedule

Class A

West Chester East 8 Kiski 1

Third consecutive state title for West Chester East and fifth overall.

Class AA 2:00 PM

Pennsbury vs. South Fayette

Class 3A    5:00 PM
La Salle vs. Peters Township

Class AAA Flyers Cup Finals Preview

There will be no secrets when La Salle and Holy Ghost Prep collide for the Class AAA Flyers Cup championship Tuesday night (8:30 at Hatfield Ice). Perhaps no two area hockey teams are more familiar with each other than the top-seeded Explorers (14-9-2) and the second-seeded Firebirds (18-7).

Tuesday’s meeting will be their fourth of this season alone; Holy Ghost Prep won the first, La Salle has taken the last two including the APAC championship game on March 1st.

The Explorers have won 12 Flyers Cup titles in their history, most recently in 2019 one of those titles came as a Class AA team. The most recent of the Firebirds’ three championships came in 2017. One of those three came in the Class AA classification

La Salle (14-9-2)

Coach: Wally Muehlbronner

Players to watch: Sr. Aries Carangi (G); Sr. Ryan Warner (D) Sr. Evan Golato (F); Jr; Sr. Ryan Desmond (F)

Holy Ghost Prep (18-7)

Coach: Gump Whiteside

Players to watch: Sr. Colin Mudrick (G); Jr. Michael Holt (D); Sr. Brady Baehser (F); Sr. Kieran Mulholland (F); St. Landon Stout (F)

Previous Meetings

11-9Holy Ghost Prep 6 La Salle 2

2-13 La Salle 6 Holy Ghost Prep 5

3-1 La Salle 7 Holy Ghost Prep 3