Announcement
2008 Penguins Cup Semi-Finals A
Quaker Valley 6 Serra Catholic 5
PITTSBURGH –
Quaker Valley (21-2-0) and Serra Catholic (19-2-1) played a game in October won by the Eagles 4-2 at Rostraver Ice Garden. That must have seemed light years ago for both teams and Head Coach Brian Boehm of Serra and Kevin Quinn of Quaker Valley.
The Quakers and Eagles are vying for a date with Mars, a 3-1 winner over Bishop McCort last night. The Quakers are looking to return to the Penguins Cup from a year ago to redeem themselves for the loss to Freeport and get a shot at winning two State Championships in three years. Meanwhile, Serra Catholic, who perennially competes at the top of Class A is looking to return to the prominence of three Pennsylvania Class A championships earned earlier in this decade.
The Quakers came out with purpose and fire in the opening 15 minutes, but the most bizarre goal I have seen in many years gave them the lead as Cody Scott’s deflected shot from the point went straight up in the air and came down behind Serra goalteder Steven Derewonko to give QV a 1-0 lead at 10:10. The Quakers made it 2-0 as Aaron Kostial scored on a rebound after Derewonko made a great save on Colin South. With 5:00 to go Robert Karvinen scored ona pass from Colin South to make it 3-0. It was all QV in th efirst period as Colin South scored on a breakway with 2:39 to play to make it 4-0 as the Quakers outshot Serra 12-4 in the first period.
QV had a chance to make it 5-0 as Tery Sterner was stopped by Derewonko to start the climb back for Serra. The Eagle goaltender made several key saves to keep the score 4-0. Serra got on the board at 4:38 of the period as Josh Werner scored on a rebound to make it 4-1. Then Serra cut the margin to two as Jay Leppo buried a rebound aafter a missed chance with 227 to go and it was now 4-2. But Quaker Valley answered as George Jackson sent Colin South on the breakaway who gae QV a 5-2 lead heading to the ice cut.
Serra cut the lead again on a delayed penalty call with 6:47 to play as Cory Beam’s shot trickled past Zach Taylor to make it 5-3. Colin South scored less than a minute later on a breakaway for the hat trick with 5:45 to go to make it 6-3. Back came the Eagles with 3:42 to play as they never quit and Erik Manetta scored to make it 6-4. The Eagles would have a great chance on the power play a little over 3 minutes to play to cut ito the QV lead on the power play. With 1:35 to play Serra played to the whistle and the red light went on after several Eagles jammed away at the puck and all the sudden with 1:35 to play the game was now 6-5 as Erik Manetta scored his 2nd goal of the game and a very important one. Quaker Valley was now in panic mode and Serra was scrambling to get chances in the QV end as QV continued to ice the puck with the goalie pulled. Quaker Valley was able to hold on for a 6-5 win as Serra outshot QV 14 –3, but was unable to get the equalizer.
