Pennsbury 9 Souderton 7

It was an evening Dylan Nink is likely to remember for some time.

Nink, a senior and a first-year varsity player scored his first varsity goal for Pennsbury Thursday night. His shot from the left point with 4:54 remaining the third period turned out to be the winning goal as the Falcons bested Souderton 9-7 in a SHSHL National Division shootout at Grundy Arena.

The win was just the second for the Falcons in seven divisional games (2-6 overall). The teams combined for 13 goal in the last two periods including four in the last 7:02 of the third period. Nink said he and his teammates had one thought in mind.

“All we wanted to do was get pucks on net,” he said, “drive the middle and just score. We were in a little bit of a stretch where we’ve been losing [Pennsbury had lost four straight prior to Thursday night], we really needed this.”

Shane Gleisner put the Falcons on his back in the early going, scoring their first four goals. His fourth goal of the night gave his team a 4-3 lead just 1:20 into the second period.

By the time the period ended, the game was tied 5-5. Patrick Callahan had scored twice for Souderton (3-5, 3-4 in the division) and three other players had one goal each.

The game’ defining sequence commenced four-and-a-half minutes into the third period and the game tied 6-6 when the Big Red was presented with a seven-minute power play. The chain of events began when a referee raised his arm to signal a delayed penalty against Gleisner for cross checking. Before the whistle blew, Gleisner delivered a forearm blow to the head of a Souderton player and was given a five-minute major penalty for head contact.

Gleisner’s penalty time started with 12:27 left in regulation; for 25 seconds the Big Red had a five skater-to-three advantage. But more importantly, by rule, he served the major penalty first, so when Matthew Cross scored his second goal of the game for Souderton to give it the lead with 7:08 remaining, the power play concluded.

By that point however, the Big Red who had just 12 skaters available, were running out of energy and the Falcons, first Chris Saver, then Nink, then Sarver once more into an empty net, scored the game’s last three goals.

“We took too many penalties as a team” said Souderton coach Scott Ryon. “That put us down quite a bit in the second period, and ultimately caught up to our legs in the third.”

Ryon lamented not having gotten more out of the extended power play.

“We wanted to put a lot more in the net,” he said. “But, with a short bench plus the penalties, we were gassed even during the seven-minute power play.

Souderton 1 4 2—7

Pennsbury 2 3 4—9

First-period goals: Shane Gleisner (P) from Kevin DeRosa, :20; Patrick Callahan (S) from Cameron Fairweather and Jackson Kelly, 7:13 (pp); Gleisner (P) from Chris Sarver and Jason Fowler, 7:54

Second-period goals: Nick Smith (S) from Fairweather, :52; Gleisner (P) from DeRosa, 1:20; Fairweather (S) from Smith, 1:37; Gleisner (P). from Logan Weed and Shane Hicks, 2:31; Matt Cross (S) from Fairweather and Caden O’Neill, 10:35 (pp); Jacob. Sarver (P) from Chris Sarver and Connor Gray, 16:45; Callahan (S) from Fairweather and Cross, 16:52

Third-period goals: Hicks (P)) from Chris Sarver, :28; Fairweather (S) from Smith, 2:05; Cross (S) from Luca Ferretti, 9:58; Chris Sarver (P) from Brendan Milliken, 10:28; Dylan Nink (P) from Fowler and Jacob Sarver, 12:06; Chriss Sarver (P) from DeRosa and Jacob Sarver, 16:55 (en)

SHSHL Recap 12-3-24

National Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

C.R. South (6-1) 5 0 0 19 1 0

Cent. Bucks South (5-2) 5 1 0 17 3 0

Pennridge (4-1) 3 1 0 13 0 1

North Penn (4-2) 3 2 0 13 0 1

Souderton (2-3) 2 2 0 8 0 0

Neshaminy (3-2) 2 2 0 8 0 0

C.B. East (2-4) 2 3 0 8 0 0

C.R. North (2-4) 2 4 0 8 0 0

Pennsbury (1-5) 1 4 0 6 0 2

C.B. West (0-6) 0 6 0 0 0 0

American Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

Hatboro-Horsham (3-2) 3 1 0 11 1 0

Plymouth Whitemarsh (3-0) 2 0 0 8 0 0

Wissahickon (2-2) 2 1 0 8 0 0

Springfield (1-3) 1 3 0 5 0 1

Abington (0-3) 0 3 0 0 0 0

National Division Scoring G A Pts

Shane Dachwski Pr 13 10 23

Jackson Accardi CRN 13 8 21

James Rush Pr 8 9 17

Samuel Norton NP 6 10 16

Jake Weiner CRS 11 4 15

Jeremy Rayher 7 8 15

Cole Pluck NP 5 10 15

Ivan Bondra CRN 10 4 14

Zane Sanders CBW 4 10 14

Nolan Shingle(NP) 9 4 13

Anthony Dowd CBW 7 6 13

James Boyle NP 6 7 13

American Division Scoring G A Pts

Victor Wilkins HH 8 2 10

Dan Guller PW 1 8 9

Cooper Kanze PW 7 1 8

Ben Raebiger Wiss 6 2 8

Nathan Nemchinov HH 4 4 8

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SHSHL Update 11-26-24

National Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

C.R. South (5-1) 4 0 0 15 2 0

Cent. Bucks South (4-2) 4 1 0 14 2 0

North Penn (4-1) 3 1 0 12 0 0

Pennridge (3-1) 2 1 0 9 0 1

Souderton (2-2) 2 1 0 8 0 0

C.R. North (2-3) 2 3 0 8 0 0

Pennsbury (1-4) 1 3 0 6 0 2

Neshaminy (2-2) 1 2 0 4 0 0

C.B. East (1-4) 1 3 0 4 0 0

C.B. West (0-5) 0 3 0 0 0 0

American Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

Plymouth Whitemarsh (3-0) 2 0 0 8 0 0

Wissahickon (2-2) 2 1 0 8 0 0

Hatboro-Horsham (2-2) 2 1 0 7 1 0

Springfield (1-2) 1 2 0 5 0 1

Abington (0-3 ) 0 3 0 0 0 0

National Division Scoring G A Pts

Shane Dachwski Pr 11 9 20

Jackson Accardi CRN 12 8 20

Ivan Bondra CRN 10 4 14

James Rush Pr 7 7 14

Cole Pluck NP 3 10 13

Anthony Dowd CBW 7 5 12

Samuel Norton NP 5 7 12

Jake Weiner CRS 9 2 11

Nolan Shingle(NP) 8 3 11

James Boyle NP 6 5 11

American Division Scoring G A Pts

Dan Guller PW 1 8 9

Cooper Kanze PW 7 1 8

Ben Raebiger Wiss 6 2 8

Victor Wilkins HH 6 2 8

Blake Ambler PW 4 3 7

Vincent Graziani HH 4 3 7

Nathan Nemchinov HH 4 3 7

Crossover Countdown

Eleven of the 12 scheduled crossover games between SHSHL and ICSHL teams have been completed. Scores are listed below; the ICSHL leads the series six victiories to five.

Friday 11-8 Strath Haven 3 Wissahickon 1

Friday 11-8 Downingtown East 6 C.B. South 1

Wednesday 11-13 Pennridge 6 Boyertown 3

Thursday 11-14 Marple-Newtown 7 Hatboro-Horsham 4

Thursday 11-14 Neshaminy 2 Conestoga 0

Friday 11-15 North Penn 6 Downingtown West 2

Friday 11-15 Spring-Ford 8 Pennsbury 7

Friday 11-15 Avon Grove 7 C.B. East 0

Wednesday 11-20 Lower Merion 5 Souderton 4

Thursday 11-21 Plymouth Whitemarsh 4 Radnor 2

Thursday 11-21 C.R. South 2 Haverford 1 OT

Thursday 12-5 Abington at Harriton 8:00 at Skatium

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SHSHL Update 11-19-24

National Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

North Penn (4-0) 3 0 0 12 0 0

C.R. South (3-0) 3 0 0 11 1 0

Souderton (2-1) 2 1 0 8 0 0

Cent. Bucks South (2-1) 2 1 0 7 1 0

Pennridge (2-1) 1 1 0 5 0 1

Pennsbury (1-3) 1 2 0 5 0 1

C.R. North (1-2) 1 2 0 4 0 0

C.B. East (1-3) 1 2 0 4 0 0

Neshaminy (!-2) 0 2 0 0 0 0

C.B. West (0-3) 0 3 0 0 0 0

American Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

Plymouth Whitemarsh (2-0) 2 0 0 8 0 0

Springfield (1-1) 1 1 0 5 0 1

Wissahickon (1-2) 1 1 0 4 0 0

Hatboro-Horsham (1-2) 1 1 0 3 1 0

Abington (0-2 ) 0 2 0 0 0 0

Teams receive 4 points for a regulation win

3 points for an overtime win

2 points for a tie

1 point for an overtime loss

0 points for a regulation loss

National Division Scoring G A Pts

Shane Dachwski Pr 9 5 14

Jackson Accardi CRN 7 5 12

Samuel Norton NP 5 7 12

Cole Pluck NP 3 9 12

James Boyle NP 6 4 10

Nolan Shingle(NP) 7 3 10

Jacob Sarver Pb 4 5 9

James Rush Pr 4 5 9

Shane Hicks Pb 3 6 9

Jake Weiner CRS

American Division Scoring G A Pts

Cooper Kanze PW 7 1 8

Blake Ambler PW 4 3 7

Dan Guller PW 1 6 7

Vincent Graziani HH 3 2 5

Nathan Nemchinov HH 3 2 5

North Penn 6 Downingtown West 2

EAST GOSHEN TOWNSHIP—It was the sort of game one would expect to see during the second week of March as opposed to the third week of November. North Penn and Downingtown West demonstrated why they expect to be taken seriously in the weeks and months to come.

For the record, the Knights prevailed 6-2 in the SHSHL-ICSHL crossover matchup Friday night at Ice Line but the affair was much more closely contested than the score would indicate; it was a one-goal game until the closing minutes of the third period.

It was an evening the Knights celebrated their fourth consecutive victory of the young season, but North Penn coach Kevin Vaitis was quick to point out it was most of all an occasion to celebrate high-school hockey.

“I’m so glad we started doing the crossover games this year,” he said. “Downingtown East and C.B. South played last week, Boyertown-Pennridge and us and Downingtown West tonight.

“Heretofore, you don’t see these teams until March. It gives you an opportunity to play them and build high-school hockey in this area.”

Downingtown West coach Brett Mackel, who saw his team drop to 2-2 on the season, echoed those sentiments.

“I like that they added the crossover games this year,” he said. “Especially teams that we usually wouldn’t see until the Flyers Cup. It’s great having different teams come in, especially teams we’re not used to seeing.”

Sam Norton scored two goals for North Penn. Nolan Shingle was also credited with two goals while James Boyle produced a goal and an assist.

Goals from Bryce Schuler and Ryder Jones gave the Whippets a 2-1 lead 7:54 into the second period. Norton tied the game for North Penn with 2:18 left in the period and Boyle’s power-play goal 77 seconds later gave his team the lead for good at 3-2.

“I thought we came out a little flat,” Boyle said, “but then we picked it right back up. Then we got back on them.”

Shingle extended North Penn’s lead on a shot from the deep right wing with 6:29 left in regulation. His second goal was a power-play effort with 4:46 left after the Whippets were accessed a bench minor.

Norton added his second goal of the evening with two minutes to play when he lofted the puck from his own blue line into an empty net.

Aidan Quigley earned the win in goal with 26 saves, many of them achieved with heavy traffic in his field of view.

Mackel felt his team performed well in some areas but was lacking in others.

“We had a lot of penalty kills that we ended up killing off,” he said. We gave up two power-play goals, but other than that our kill was good.

Our goaltender [Justin Adams] gave up two power-play goals but he played pretty well.

“Negatives. We didn’t shoot the puck as much as we needed to tonight. Our defensive zone was pretty sloppy.”

North Penn 1 2 3—6

D-Town West 0 2 0—2

First-period goal: Gabriel Dunn (NP) from Aidan Quigley, 2:48

Second-period goals: Bryce Schuler (DW) from Ryder Jones, :44; Jones (DW) from Reed Surak, 7:54; Sam Norton (NP) from Chase Kelly Del Ricci, 14:42; James Boyle (NP) from Norton and Luke Haftel. 15:59

Third-period goals: Nolan Shingle (MP) from Cole Pluck, 10:31; Shingle (NP) from Boyle and Pluck, 12:16 (pp); Norton (NP) unassisted, 15:00 (en)

Shots: North Penn 35, Downingtown West 28; Saves: Aidan Quigley (NP) 26, Justin Adams (DW) 29

SHSHL Update 11-12-24

National Division W L T PTS OTW OTL

North Penn (2-0) 2 0 0 8 0 0

Cent. Bucks South (2-1) 2 0 0 7 1 0

C.R. South (2-0) 2 0 0 7 1 0

Pennridge (1-1) 1 1 0 5 0 1

Pennsbury (1-2) 1 2 0 5 0 1

Souderton (1-1) 1 1 0 4 0 1

C.R. South (1-1) 1 1 0 4 0 0

C.B. East (1-2) 1 2 0 4 0 0

Neshaminy (0-2) 0 2 0 0 0 0

C.B. West (0-2) 0 2 0 0 0 0

American Division W L T PTS OTW ORL

Plymouth Whitemarsh 1 0 0 4 0 0

Wissahickon (1-1) 1 0 0 4 0 0

Hatboro-Horsham (1-1) 1 1 0 3 1 0

Springfield 0 0 1 0 0 1

Abington (0-1) 0 1 0 0 0 0

Scoring G A Pts

Jackson Accardi CRN 5 4 9

Shane Dachwski Pr 7 2 9

Shane Hicks Pb 3 6 9

Dan McGlathin CRN 5 2 7

Jeff Kvecher CBS 2 4 6

Peter Perberow CRS 1 5 6

James Rush Pr 1 5 6

SHSHL and ICSHL to Stage Interleague Series

Tonight marks the start of a new partnership between the Suburban High Hockey League and the Inter County Scholastic Hockey League; the first two in a series of 12 interleague games between the two leagues as part of the regular-season schedule that will be played between tonight and December 5.

Tonight, Wissahickon from the SHSHL will face Strath-Haven from the ICSHL at Ice Works in Aston and Downingtown West from the ICSHL will host Central Bucks South from the SHSHL at Ice Line (the full schedule is listed below).

The two leagues square off against each other annually in the Flyers Cup tournament and regular-season interleague games are not new. This year’s series of games however, have more significance because the results will be considered by the Flyers Cup Committee when evaluating potential invitees.

Beyond the Flyers Cup tournament however, the series shines a spotlight on high-school hockey. Pennridge coach Jeff Montagna is looking forward to the crossover games.

“We go into the Flyers Cup every year blind [against the Inter County League teams] and how we match up,” he said. I know they’ve talked about it for a couple years and the coaches were all on board. It’s something I think is long overdue.

“I think for both leagues, to get a chance to see teams from the other league and it breaks up the monotony of the season and it gives you a different look altogether. It’s really cool thing they’re doing.”

Montagna likes playing interleague games as a change of pace,

“We maybe go down to Ice Line and whoever we’re playing brings a lot of fans in for a regular-season game,” he said. “It’s a playoff atmosphere you don’t always get when we’re playing teams two or three times a year.”

Haverford High coach John Povey says the series will be a boost for the high-school version of the sport.

“It’s something we’ve been trying to do for some time now,” he said. We just think it’s great for high-school hockey. When you get teams from each league, you’re going to get good hockey games and all that does promote the league promote the sport.

“It’s something we’ve been trying to do for a while and being able to make it happen this year is really good and it’s good for high-school hockey.”

Povey is no stranger to interleague games.
“We’ve been doing preseason games with each other for the last 10-plus years,” he says. “This is just a little bit different because it’s going to have a lot more meaning to it.”

When Shaun McGinty was playing high-school hockey at Council Rock High in the mid-1990s under legendary coach Paul Gilligan the Indians competed regularly against teams from throughout the area, including Delaware and Chester Counties.

McGinty notes that Gilligan wanted his teams to face the strongest opposition available.

“His mindset was to compete with the best to be the best.” McGinty said. “He always pushed his program and us as players.”

As a head coach himself, McGinty has regularly sought out top-flight non-league opposition.

“I’ve done it here from the time I was here with [former coach Tom Coyne},” said, “and since Tom’s left I’ve kept it going with Haverford and Father Judge. I’ve played Ghost and La Salle and those teams are great.

We’ve played Haverford and we’ve played Conestoga. It’s good that the leagues are doing it again. It’s great for the kids and good for the coaches to see what others leagues have.”

McGinty notes that games like the one his team will play Friday night against Downingtown East are tutorials of sorts for younger players who aspire to compete at the school varsity level.

“We try to sell our middle school here,” he said. When we’re in playoffs, we try to get the middle school kids come out to see the big boys play and promote the idea that ‘This is where I’ve got to get too, this is where I have to work to to get to this level of play. You’re going to see some talent. It’s a great way to promote the game and I think it’s huge.”

Crossover Schedule

Friday 11-8 Strath Haven 3 Wissahickon 1 at Ice Works

Friday 11-8 Downingtown East 6 C.B. South 1 at Ice Line

Wednesday 11-13 Prnnridge 6 Boyertown 3 at Hatfield

Thursday 11-14 Marple-Newtown at Hatboro-Horsham 7:10 at Hatfield

Thursday 11-14 Conestoga at Neshaminy 7:20 at Grundy

Friday 11-15 North Penn at Downingtown West 7:50 at Ice Line

Friday 11-15 Pennsbury at Spring-Ford 7:15 at Oaks

Friday 11-15 Central Bucks East at Avon Grove 8:00 at Ice Line

Wednesday 11-20 Lower Merion at Souderton 7:20 at Hatfield

Thursday 11-21 Radnor at Plymouth Whitemarsh 7:10 at Hatfield

Thursday 11-21 Haverford at Council Rock South 7:20 at Grundy

Thursday 12-5 Abington at Harriton 8:00 at Skatium

C.B. South 5 Pennridge 4 OT

HATFIELD—For drama, this one was hard to top. J.D. Crouch scored on a shorthanded breakaway just before the overtime-ending buzzer to give Central Bucks South a stunning 5-4 win over Pennridge Thursday night in a SHSHL National Division meeting at Hatfield Ice Arena.

The Titans overcame a 3-0 second-period deficit to post their second consecutive win of the young season. The Rams (1-1) saw a four-point effort from Shane Dachowski go unrewarded; the senior delivered three goals and an assist. And Pennridge goaltender Jacob Winton was credited with 57 saves in the losing effort.

Dachowski was at the forefront of the game’s penultimate sequence; he had a clear path to the net when he was taken down by the Titans’ Sean Cutter, who was called for tripping with 9.6 seconds remaining in the five-minute overtime. allowing the Rams to put an extra skater on the ice. Pennridge coach Jeff Montagna’s lobbying effort for a penalty shot was unsuccessful.

Crouch got control of the puck off the ensuing offensive right-circle faceoff and headed for the other end of the ice, hoping to win the race against time.

“It was kind of just a lucky bounce,” he said. “I chipped it of the wall and the [defensemen] stepped and gave me all the time. There was not much time on the clock so I just had to shoot it. I heard my teammates on the bench yelling to shoot it, so I just ripped it.”

After a scoreless first period, it was the Rams, who took command in the second frame with a goal from Shane Venner followed by a pair from Dachowski to build a three-goal advantage. But Dominic Gibson and Joey Slobodrian scored goals for the Titans 51 seconds apart to make it a one-goal game with 3:41 left in the period.

Dachowski and Slobodrian traded goals before the second period ended; Gibson tied the game with 6:19 left in regulation.

Pennridge started the overtime with a four-skaters-to-three advantage after the Titans’ Logan Hood was flagged for interference with 42 seconds left in regulation but the Rams couldn’t take advantage.

South coach Shaun McGinty celebrated his team’s comeback.

“That’s a never-give-up attitude,” said. “That’s a team effort. [62] shots to 36, obviously, we’re getting the shots and controlling that end of the game. But [Winton] is an unbelievable goaltender. They obviously have guys that are going to do damage when they have the puck.

“Dachowski is a phenomenal player and he’s just going to do what he does.”

Montagna credited his team for its effort, Winton in particular.

“Jacob was obviously unbelievable in net,” he said. “I can’t say enough good things about our team tonight. They played a phenomenal game. I’m proud of them, I really am.

C.B. South 0 3 1 1—5

Pennridge 0 4 0 0—4

Second-period goals: Shane Venner (P) from Kaden Gunning, 2:00; Shane Dachowski (P) unassisted, 4:42; Dachowski (P) from James Rush, 11:02; Dominic Gibson (CBS) from Jeff Kvecher and Sean Cutter, 12:28 (pp); Joey Slobodrian (CBS) from Cutter, 13:19; Dachowski (P) from Rush, 14:43; Slobodrian (CBS) from Logan Hood and Jake Stepp, 16:02

Third-period goal: Gibson (CBS) from Slobodrian, 10:41

Overtime goal: J.D. Crouch (CBS) unassisted, 0:00

Shots: C.B. South 62, Pennridge 36; Saves: Nate Neapolitan (CBS) 32, Jacob Winton (P) 57

Flyers Cup Schedule Thursday 3-14

Thursday, March 14

Class AAA Semifinals

La Salle 5 Holy Ghost Prep 2

Malvern Prep 3 St. Joseph’s Prep 1—Teague Murray and James Young scored first-period goals and the second-seeded Friars went on to beat the third-seeded Hawks Thursday night in a Class AAA Flyers Cup semifinal at Ice Line.

Henry Tesoriero also scored for Malvern Prep (11-8) which will meet La Salle in the final.

Tristan Winata scored for St. Joseph’ Prep (16-7)

St. Joseph’s Prep 0 0 1—1

Malvern Prep 2 0 1—3

First-period goals: Teague Murray (MP) from Jeremy Jacobs and Jonathan Holt, 12:11 (pp); James Young (MP) from Logan Love, 13:47

Third-period goals: Henry Tesoriero (MP) unassisted, 15:25 (en); Tristan Winata (SJP) unassisted. 16:09

Shots: St. Joseph’s Prep 36, Malvern Prep 35; Saves: Jacob Aranda (SJP) 32; Matt Crawford (MP) 35

Class AA Semifinals

Penneidge 10, Downingtown West 1—

The top-seeded Rams scored six goals in the first period and rolled to the win over the fourth-seeded Whippets in a Class AA semifinal Thursday night at Hatfield Ice.

Shane Dachowswki scored four goals for Pennridge (21-2-2) and added an assist. Nolan Shaw provided two goals. Kevin Pico, Josh Kelly, Tyler Manto, and Andrew Savona all scored goals.

Joseph Butter scored for Downingtown West (18-5)

Downingtown West 0 1 0

Pennridge 6 2 2

Council Rock South 3 Boyertown 1

Championship games will be played Tuesday, and Wednesday, March 19, and 20.