St Joseph's Prep Hawks

By MIKE MASTOVICH The Tribune-Democrat Bishop McCort’s hockey team gradually has reached full strength, and it shows. The Crimson Crushers beat Sewickley Academy 7-1 on Friday night at Cambria County War Memorial Arena for McCort’s third straight win. Coach John Bradley’s team is 3-3-1 after opening without a victory in the first four games. The Crushers began the season minus soccer players Zac Seidel and Justin Delic, football players Matt McIntyre, Dane Domonkos and Anthony Pioli, and the injured Chad James. Members of that group accounted for four goals and eight points on Friday. “Early on we had an opportunity to get some guys in the lineup and we were in all the games,” said Bradley, who had only nine players on his roster for one outing. “We lost a game in OT. They were all one-goal games. We’ve got a lot of talent, a lot of skill and a lot of guys that have the desire to play. “I don’t say it too often, but these guys – when they’re on, they’re going to be tough to beat. We’re letting some teams know we were down early because we didn’t have everybody. Some of the guys stepped up then and played well.” Six Crushers scored goals on Friday. Seidel had two goals and three points. Shawn James, Chad James, Todd Thomas, Jordan Jaco and Delic each hit the net as McCort outshot winless Sewickley Academy 31-10. “Now that we’ve got all of our players back we can set our lines up,” Seidel said. “It showed tonight that it helps having all of our guys back. We came in here thinking we just have to keep winning, keep our play up. We’re real excited and we’re going to keep building as we go on.” McCort posted a 9-0 advantage in shots on goal in the first period and had a 16-5 edge in the middle period. “We still try to take care of our zone,” Bradley said. McCort goalie Danny Mock stopped nine of 10 shots. Sewickley’s Steve Tehovnik was outstanding despite allowing seven goals. He turned aside a Jaco breakaway and a tight one-on-one challenge from Domonkos in the first period, and made a sweeping glove save on a Thomas shot from the slot in the second. “We easily could have had a lot more than seven goals,” Bradley said. “Their goalie played a great game and made six or seven sensational saves. Some guys had opportunities to put the puck in the net, but the kid made real nice point-blank saves on us.”