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MONROEVILLE - While the Woodland Hills community is get ready for a trip to Hershey for a possible 1st ever football state championship, its ice hockey team is looking for win # 1 on the 2002-2003 campaign. Thats seems a little odd for Allderdice to be saying the same thing, especially since they are two years removed from the Penguin Cup final appearance. When your leading scorer is goaltender Ben Levine, then you can understand why the Dragons are winless. Ian Jackson put the Wolverines on tp early in the first period 1-0. Steven Wedner tied the game at one apiece as the teams stood at 1-1 after the opening period. On to the second period and Wedner gave the Dragons the lead for the first time at 7:07 as his wrist shot beat Jared White through a screen. The Dice's Steve Devereaux scored with :37 left in the 2nd to extend the Dragons lead to 3-1 at the end of two. Devereaux scored his 2nd goal of the night at 12:23 of the final period to give Alldrdice a comfortable 4-1 lead. The Wolverines came back a minute later as Terry Barnhart beat Ben Levine through traffic to cut the lead to 4-2. Coach Tim Wilt pulled his goalie in favor of the extra attacker and Ryan Kocak scored with just :20 seconds left to make it 4-3. Woodland Hills pressed to tie but could not beat Levine and Allderdice hung on to win 4-3.

VALENCIA - What a difference ten days makes in a season......On 11/21...Jeff Smouse's Kittanning club scored an exciting 3-2 overtime victory over powerful South Park, which confirmed the Wildcats comeback streak of three in a row after an 0-2 start. On the same night, Hampton moved to 2-1 and into first place in the PIHL AA North with a convincing 4-1 victory over arch-rival Pine Richland. For Hampton head coach Craig Clontz, he was looking ahead at the schedule after the PR game and saw Greensburg CC and Kittanning as big tests for his young team and after the thumping the Centarians put on Hampton, he was looking for a better effort against Kittanning. The first period see-sawed as both teams jabbed in a tennis match through the first 7 1/2 minutes. Kittanning had the first opportunity on the power play and Zach Cain scored at the 6:41 mark to give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead. Then with 3:10 remaining, Hampton's Brian Troiano made a spectacular save on Dustin Kellner, but Joel Shriver pounced on the rebound and buried it to give the Wildcats a 2-0 lead after one. Coach Clontz tried to rally his troops early in the second, but an undisciplined penalty behind the play put Kittanning on the power play and at 12:54 Brandon Beatty's shot from the point deflected off a Talbot defenseman in front and behind Troiano for a huge goal and a 3-0 lead for Kittanning. The flood gates opened late in the middle period as Lee Heilman [4:05] and Shriver [3:01] score to give the Wildcats a commanding 5-0 lead. Pat Schneidier and Luke Heller added third period goals and Adam Toy stopped everything the Talbot threw at him to coast to a 7-0 victory at the Ice Connection.

VALENCIA - What a difference ten days makes in a season......On 11/21...Jeff Smouse's Kittanning club scored an exciting 3-2 overtime victory over powerful South Park, which confirmed the Wildcats comeback streak of three in a row after an 0-2 start. On the same night, Hampton moved to 2-1 and into first place in the PIHL AA North with a convincing 4-1 victory over arch-rival Pine Richland. For Hampton head coach Craig Clontz, he was looking ahead at the schedule after the PR game and saw Greensburg CC and Kittanning as big tests for his young team and after the thumping the Centarians put on Hampton, he was looking for a better effort against Kittanning. The first period see-sawed as both teams jabbed in a tennis match through the first 7 1/2 minutes. Kittanning had the first opportunity on the power play and Zach Cain scored at the 6:41 mark to give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead. Then with 3:10 remaining, Hampton's Brian Troiano made a spectacular save on Dustin Kellner, but Joel Shriver pounced on the rebound and buried it to give the Wildcats a 2-0 lead after one. Coach Clontz tried to rally his troops early in the second, but an undisciplined penalty behind the play put Kittanning on the power play and at 12:54 Brandon Beatty's shot from the point deflected off a Talbot defenseman in front and behind Troiano for a huge goal and a 3-0 lead for Kittanning. The flood gates opened late in the middle period as Lee Heilman [4:05] and Shriver [3:01] score to give the Wildcats a commanding 5-0 lead. Pat Schneidier and Luke Heller added third period goals and Adam Toy stopped everything the Talbot threw at him to coast to a 7-0 victory at the Ice Connection.

Each year the top 25 players are chosen and each year our esteemed Website chooses the top 5 "Fans of the League".....above is some of the favorite cartoon characters of Western Pa Hockey and Eastern Pa Hockey ...... After much lobbying and anguish and phone calls and games and trips to Johnstown and Erie and even Golden Mile and e-mails and phone calls to our Philly fanatics .........it is finally here....on Pa Hockey's > Top 25 Players in Eastern and Western Pa > Top 5 Coaching performances and Top 5 Freshman flashes in Western Pa > and the coveted top 5 'Fans of the League' Also included is the Top 25 from 2002 and 2001 which you can access by selecting the tabs of our spreadsheet The All Star game will be held on Febrary 9th at the Kirk Nevin Arena in Greensburg beginning at 1:00 PM........check out who made the all-stars by clicking on the logo below !

Each year the top 25 players are chosen and each year our esteemed Website chooses the top 5 "Fans of the League".....above is some of the favorite cartoon characters of Western Pa Hockey and Eastern Pa Hockey ...... After much lobbying and anguish and phone calls and games and trips to Johnstown and Erie and even Golden Mile and e-mails and phone calls to our Philly fanatics .........it is finally here....on Pa Hockey's > Top 25 Players in Eastern and Western Pa > Top 5 Coaching performances and Top 5 Freshman flashes in Western Pa > and the coveted top 5 'Fans of the League' Also included is the Top 25 from 2002 and 2001 which you can access by selecting the tabs of our spreadsheet The All Star game will be held on Febrary 9th at the Kirk Nevin Arena in Greensburg beginning at 1:00 PM........check out who made the all-stars by clicking on the logo below !