Hockey Happenings for 1-29-18

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Firebirds Get Big Win

Holy Ghost Prep picked up its biggest win of the season last Friday with a 2-1 win over LaSalle in. Suburban High School Hockey League Class 3A encounter at Hatfield Ice. Luke Aquaro and Shane Stevens scored the goals for the defending Flyers Cup Class 3A champions.

I was just really happy with our team,” said Holy Ghost Prep coach Gump Whiteside. “I told them after the game, ‘That’s a total team effort. You’re playing a great team down the hallway there.’

“We needed everybody to step up and we did. We just worked for three periods and I can’t be more prouder for our guys.”

Last Friday’s game was a wonderful advertisement for high-school hockey. The goaltenders were superb. Tristan Devine made 28 saves for the Firebirds his LaSalle counterpart, Will Affel, made 24.

The two teams will have a rematch on February 7 at Grundy Arena.

Truman and Pennsbury Set to Meet in Cancer Benefit

Truman and Pennsbury will met in the annual Lois Daley benefit game on Friday, February 9 at Grundy Arena. The game is a benefits the WINK4PINK organization at Pennsbury High which provides support to cancer patients in Lower Bucks County, assisting them with issues that are not covered by insurance.

The game is played in honor of the late Lois Daley, a driving force behind the Pennsbury hockey program since its inception before she lost her battle with cancer. Her son Ryan is now part of the Pennsbury coaching staff.

A middle-school game between Truman and Neshaminy will kick off the evening at 6:00 before the puck drops for the varsity game at 7:30.

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.

SHSHL Class 2A Scoring G A Pts

Eric Slater Pennridge 22 16 38

Matt Stoll C.B. South 20 15 35

Joe DeLaurentis C.B. South 21 13 34

Zac Herman C.R. North 17 13 30

Michael Walker Pennridge 16 13 29

Andrew Galetta North Penn 15 8 23

Matt Meli C.R. South 18 5 23

Nathan Oh North Penn 8 14 22

Daniel Guest C.R. North 11 9 20

SHSHL Class 1A Scoring G A Pts

Bryan Gary Wiss 37 21 58

Ari Nordlinger UD 34 11 45

Dean Keller PW 29 6 35

Jacob Mueller HH 15 13 28

Oran Serafin UD 18 9 27

SHSHL Class 2A Standings W L T Pts

*C.B. South 9 0 0 18

* Council Rock South 6 2 1 13

Pennridge 5 1 1 11

North Penn 5 1 1 11

Central Bucks West 5 3 0 10

Council Rock North 4 3 1 9

Central Bucks East 3 4 0 6

William Tennent 1 6 2 4

Souderton 2 4 0 4

Neshaminy 1 6 1 3

Truman 0 4 1 1

Truman 0 7 0 0

Clinched SHSHL playoff spot

Class A Standings W L T Pts

Wissahickon 10 0 0 20

Hatboro-Horsham 7 3 0 14

Upper Dublin 7 5 0 14

Abington 6 3 0 12

Lower Moreland 6 4 0 12

New Hope Solebury 2 7 0 4

Plymouth Whitemarsh 2 9 0 4

Upper Moreland 0 9 0 0

Results include divisional games reported through Friday, January 27.

League season consists of 11 games in Class 2A, 14 in Class 1A

Ches-Mont League W L T OTL Pts

WC Rustin 6 0 1 2 15

Downingtown West 5 3 1 0 11

West Chester East 5 3 1 0 11

Avon Grove 4 3 1 0 9

Downingtown East 4 2 0 0 8

Unionville 4 6 0 0 8

WC Henderson 1 8 1 0 3

League Games Through 1-27-18

Central League North W L T OTL Pts

Conestoga 7 2 0 0 14

Haverford 6 1 0 2 14

Lower Merion 6 2 1 0 13

Radnor 3 6 0 0 6

Harriton 1 8 0 0 2 2

Marple Newtown 1 10 0 0 2

Central League South W L T OTL Pts

Springfield=Delco 12 0 0 0 24

Strath Haven 7 2 0 1 15

Ridley 6 2 1 2 15

Penncrest 4 6 0 1 11

Garnet Valley 3 9 0 1 7

League games through 1-27

A Reminder

Seedings and pairings for the 39^th Fyers Cup will be announced on Sunday, February 25.

Holy Ghost Prep 2, LaSalle 1

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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Holy Ghost Prep is a private, Catholic, all-boys school located in Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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.

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Holy Ghost Prep 9, CR South 1 12-13-17

Two of the most respected figured in Philadelphia area scholastic hockey circles were behind the benches Wednesday night when Holy Ghost Prep and Council Rock South squared off at Grundy Arena.

The Firebirds’ Gump Whiteside and the Golden Hawks’ Joe Houk have seen an abundance of high-quality hockey over the years and the teams they’ve coached have had considerable success; including collecting four Flyers Cup titles between them.

On this night, the Firebirds, the defending Class 3A Flyers Cup champions, dominated, scoring six goals in the second period and going on to a 9-1 win over a depleted South squad in a Suburban High School Hockey League non-league matchup. Max Massari scored twice for the winners (7-3) while seven other players scored one goal each.

Houk was without six of his regulars, including Dylan Feoli and Matt Owens, who have been out all season with injuries, and Matt Meli, who is leading the team in scoring.

“We’re a short bench to begin with,” Houk said. “we’ve only got 11 rostered guys, we bring up five guys from (the junior varsity) every game).”

The Firebirds led just 1-0 after the first period on a goal by Shane Stevens at the 10:53 mark. South goaltender Mason Procz kept his team in the game by making 15 saves in the opening period.

It was a 3-0 game with five minutes left in the session when the Firebirds broke the game open by exploding for four goals, including two by Massari, in a span of 3:37.

South avoided the shutout when Jared Wagenmann scored with 56 seconds left in the game off Sean Joyce, the Firebirds’ backup goaltender who came on in the third period to spell Tristan Devine who had little to do; his team outshot the Golden Hawks (4-2-1) 57-10.

Whiteside was concerned about his team’s slow start. “We had a really slow start,” he said, “just a lack of focus. We responded really well in the second and third periods.

“We still have a lot of work to do. This is a veteran team but we still have lot of work to do. I wasn’t happy with their focus in the first period at all.”

Council Rock South 0 0 1 —1

Holy Ghost Prep 1 6 2—9

First-period goal: Shane Stevens (HGP) from Andrew Serafin, 10:53.

Second-period goals: Evan Midrick (HGP) from Eric Pohl and Beau Brusius 1:15; Luke Aquaro (HGP) from Byran Hartley, 6:34; Max Massari (HGP) from Thomas McNulty, 10:53; Colin Costello (HGP) assist unavailable, 13:18; Massari (HGP) from Casey Buck, 13;53 (sh); Alex D’Angelo (HGP) unassisted, 14:30 (sh).

Third-period goals: Serafin (HGP) from Hartley, 8:47; Pohl (HGP) from D’Angelo, 11;59; Jared Wagenmann (CRS) unassisted, 15:04.

Shots: Council Rock South 10, Holy Ghost Prep 57.

Records: Council Rock South (4-2-1); Holy Ghost Prep (7-3)