Fairview Tigers - 1977 - 1981 - 1982 AA

CORAOPOLIS - Quigley and Quaker Valley is quickly becoming one of the best rivalries in Class A and the entire PIHL for that matter. Add the fact that Quaker goaltender Nick Signet transferred back to QV and was playing against his former teammates and that some significant playoff positioning was on the line, then you have the makings of a classic. What was to be a duel of goaltending between Signet and Quigley's Luke Belsky quickly turned into something a little different before a pack house at the Airport Arena. The Spartans Ken Lytle opened the scoring at 13:28 on the games first shot beating Signet through the five hole. Quaker Valleys Michael Pederson then scored on a long slapshot just 22 seconds later to knot the game at 1-1. The Quakers Ben Herring turn outside the blueline after stripping the Quigley defense of the puck and raced in to beat Belsky and give QV a 2-1 lead at 9:54. Signet failed to control a rebound at 8:07 and Ken Lytle scooped up the puck and deposited it to tie the score again at 2-2. Then at 2:43 of the first, QV's Sam Hairston caught the Quigley D sleeping and got a breakaway to deke Belsky to put the Quakers ahead 3-2. The second period brought more of the same as Adam Kostial put a rebound upstairs to extend the QV lead to 4-2 at 10:00. The goal that turned Quigley's fortune came at 9:23 as Mike Haney scored through the 5-hole again to cut the lead to 4-3. Quaker Valley regained the two goal advantage, as Kostial scored again on a rebound bang bang play at 8:22. Quigley now started to pressure and the line of Haney, Lytle and Chris Cummings was doing the damage. Lytle redirected a Mike Haney pass at 6:38 past Signet to cut the lead to 5-4 at the break. Quigley's Jason DiVito made a great play, when he kept the puck alive in the Quaker zone and fed Chris Cummings who backhanded home the tying goal at 9:30 of the final period and the score was now 5-5. At the other end, Luke Belsky regained his Team Pittsburgh form and was stoning QV on several chances. Then a mental mistake by Quaker Valley, a too many men on the ice call put the Spartans on the power play with just 5:13 left. Off the faceoff, DiVito lofted a wrist shot through traffic which Signet never saw and sailed over his shoulder to give Quigley the 6-5 lead at 5:10. Quaker Valley could not get the equalizer and Quigley won a huge game to give itself a home game for the first round of the upcoming playoffs.