Fairview Tigers - 1977 - 1981 - 1982 AA

MOON TWP - The Blackhawk season ended in a series of tiebreakers last season after the Cougars dropped their season finale to Center and missed out on a trip to the playoffs by percentage points. Quaker Valley on the other and saw its West Division title fold in the Belmont Arena in a stinging playoff loss to Freeport. Quaker head coach Kevin Quinn and the Cougars Dave Stepanian are looking to rebound this season and improve their respective finishes from a year ago. QV broke out on top in the first period at 9:35 as Jesse Taylor slipped a great pass by the Blackhawk defender to a streaking Ben Herring, who was bursting down the slot and beat goaltender Jason Brognano to make it 1-0. Herring tallied at the 6:43 mark on a no look pass from a QV teammate to make it 2-0, which the Quakers took to the break. In the second period, Cougar freshman Jake Polas scored a shorthanded tally on the ice past Jed Michael to cut the lead to 2-1 at 9:49. Then Polas played give and go with linemate Chris Fisher, who made a nice cross ice feed to the back door to tie the game at 2-2. Quaker Valley regained the lead as Sam Hairston walked off the boards and snapped a shot upstairs to give the Quakers a 3-2 lead at 3:54 on the power play. Then while killing a disadvantage, it was Hairston again as he picked up a loose puck in the slot and swung around Brognano and lofted the puck past the fallen Cougar goaltender at 2:40 to make the score 4-2. Hairston completed the natural hat trick as he blasted a shot off the faceoff behind the Blackhawk keeper and all the sudden the Quakers broke the game open at 5-2. On to the final period and Chris Fisher redirected a shot past Jed Michael just 11 seconds into the third to cut the lead to 5-3. Then at 8:02, Mike Wylie found brother Matt Wylie with a nice feed and Wylie beat Michael to cut the lead to one. Now the game was tight and it was Hairston who caught Bagnano off the post and tucked a wraparound inside the post and regained a two goal cushion at 6:59 and 6-4. The Quakers killed off the remaining Cougar threats and earned a 6-4 victory.