St Joseph's Prep Hawks

ROSTRAVER - Greensburg CC is going through its toughest stretch of their 2002-2003 schedule and with victories over defending Pa State champ Peters Twp 4-3 and Pine Richland 4-3 last week, head coach Joe Dykta had to be pretty confident going on the road to face Thomas Jefferson. The Jaguars are in the midst of an excellent season with only a bump in losing to arch rival Peters Twp two weeks ago. TJ rebounded to score an impressive 6-2 victory over South Park last Friday. Don Powell was looking at GCC as an opportunity to make a statement in Class AA. The first period can be summed up in missed opportunities for Greensburg CC, but more so that Danny Hartman made some big saves on Josh Chiado at 10:28 and Alan Pershing at 4:10 to keep the Centarians off the board. TJ scored the lone goal of the first period as Eric Holzer cut to the slot and too a pass from Barnadon School and beat Jake Genes at 4:49 to give the Jaguars a 1-0 lead. In the second period, Hartman was up to his old tricks as he stoned Matt Ward on the breakaway at 10:36 and Casey Shoub at 6:39. Shoub finally broke the TJ netminder at 6:16 as he beat the Jaguar defense and lofted a shot upstairs to knot the game at 1-1. Thomas Jefferson responded by picking up their game and it paid off as Andrew Olmstead found a loose puck in the slot and buried a wrist shot past Genes to help the Jaguars regain the lead. On to the third and the next goal would be the big one as Olmstead took a pass from Derek Kelly and wheeled on the backhand to give TJ a two goal advantage at 13:48. The Jaguars then played solid defense in front of Hartman and Kelly added an empty net goal to give Thomas Jefferson a big 4-1 victory ovr Class AA's # 1 ranked team.