Hershey 5 Unionville 1

Tyler Lucas and Blake Umberger scored first-period goals in a three-minute span and Hershey went on to defeat Unionville 5-1 Wednesday night in the Class A Flyers Cup final at Ice Line.

It marks the first time a team from the Central Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League has won a Flyers Cup championship. The Trojans were finalists last season but fell to West Chester East in the championship game. They’ve reached the finals on three other occasions.

Ryan Dhawan and Brady Cox added third-period goals for the Trojans (21-4) who advance to Saturday’s state championship game.

Lucas opened the scoring for third-seeded Hershey 8:46 into the opening period. Umberger followed with a power-play goal at the 11:20 mark.

Ryan Dhawan, who assisted in Umberger’s goal, added one of his own 3:01 into the third period.

Alex Tomasewicz got ninth-seeded Unionville (10-12) on the scoreboard with 9:48 left in the game before Cox added an insurance goal with 5:17 remaining.

Tucker Valoczki scored am empty-net goal with five seconds remaining.

Unionville 0 0—1

Hershey 2 0 3—5

Second-period goals: Tyler Lucas (H) from Kyle Koss, 8:46; Blake Umberger (H) from Ryan Dhawan and Matt Dalkiewicz, 11:40;

Third-period goals: Dhawn (H) from Umberger and David Maishm 3:01; Alex Tomasewicz (U) unassisted, 7:12; Brady Cox (G) from Dhawan and Dalkiewicz, 11:43; Tucker Valoczki (H) unassisted, 16:55

Shots: Unionville 29, Hershey 23; Saves: Zach Tomaszewicz (U) 18, Alexander Placeres  28