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2002 Greensburg CC Inv Final ~ Plum / GCC
Posted by Jeff Mauro at Oct 29, 2002 4:00PM PST
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GREENSBURG -
Plum and Greensburg CC squared off in the GCC Invitational finals in a renewal of two old WPIHL AA rivals through the mid 1990's. In fact the last time they played a key game a kid by the name of Umberger was skating for the Mustangs and GCC was coming off a AA State Championship.
Anyway, Plum Head Coach Stu Relnick was looking to see how his young club would respond to a pressure game against a very well balanced Centarian squad with new skipper Joe Dytka.
Plum scored first in the contest at 8:34 as Travis Senchur scored to givethe Mustangs 1-0 lead. Greensburg Central responded on the power play as Colin Ludwig took a Matt Ward feed in between the circles and fired a blast past BJ Schreib to knot the score at one apiece.
In a game with good action and equal scoring opportunities Plum and GCC battled into the second period and the score remained 1-1. Then that combination showed another look as Ludwig cycled off a Ward pass and backhanded a shot upstairs past Schreib to give the Centarians their first lead at 5:04 of the middle frame at 2-1.
On to the third peiod and the Mustangs were pressing for the equalizer outshooting GCC 8-3 . It was Jake Genes who snuffed Plum and held them off the board including a point blank save on John Kalichuk with 3:02 remaining. The Centarians went on to hold on and win their own Invitational and serve notice to Class AA that the will be a factor come playoff time.![image](https://photos-images.active.com/file/1/60/604905/original/96415311-dde4-47bb-ae73-b8a570eee853.gif)
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** 2002-2003 Pa Hockey Pre-Season Coaches Poll **
Posted by Jeff Mauro at Oct 25, 2002 5:00PM PDT
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Pa Hockey's Annual Poll is out ............
The 8th Annual Pre-Season Coaches Poll of Western Pennsylvania. Normally we give notoriety to the top dawg [if you will] in eachclassification the poll.
Pa Hockey is displaying the school's in each classification who have made the biggest jump in the rankings according to the coaches. Click away to see the Pre-Season choices for 2002-2003 !!!
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Mercyhurst pulls out of PIHL Schedule for 2002-2003 !
Posted by Jeff Mauro at Oct 21, 2002 5:00PM PDT
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Sources close to Pa Hockey have informed us that Mercyhurst Prep will not play in the PIHL for the 2002-2003 season. Class A schools have confimred that the Mercyhurst games will not be played.
Mercyhurst joins Seneca Valley, Keystone Oaks, Chartiers Valley, North Catholic, Belle Vernon, and Seton LaSalle to become the 7th school to commit to a Varsity team and not be scheduled.
As reported earlier this year, due to the exorbitant fees associated charged by the league, teams with long standing histories like CV and NC and some newer programs are being forced out of business.
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2002 St Margarets Fall-Face Off Final
Posted by Jeff Mauro at Oct 17, 2002 5:00PM PDT
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HARMARVILLE -
Coach Brian Hershberger's North Allegheny squad waltzed through the last years Fall Face-Off and won the championship
and frankly made it look easy and the question was could they do it again. With tight one goal victories over Plum and Shaler, the Tigers were looking for one more win to repeat.
Franklin Regional, on the other hand was looking to exercise some demons of past St Margarets and North Allegheny. The Panthers reached the finals in 1996 and 1997 only to lose to Fox Chapel both times....well that wasn't happening this time because FR extinguished the Foxes 7-3 in Tuesday's semi finals.
OK ....captain Mike Roth and his linemate Jimmie Daugherty had another reason and it was the double overtime loss to NA in the second round of last years playoffs which they had vowed to not let happen again. Add on the Panther Head Coach Jim Damp was a former Tiger coach, well then there was some real motivation !
.....And it didn't take long to see that motivation as just 3:45 into the opening frame, Daugherty took the puck in the NA zone turned and ripped a slapper past Bobby Daly to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead. At the other end Brandon Stallard was stoning any and all Tiger threats. Late in the period Daugherty beat the NA defense to the puck and slid a beautiful pass to Mike Roth, who made no mistake deking Daly to make it 2-0.
On to the second and Franklin showed its depth as David Hopper snapped one by Daly 3-0. Luke Baughman added another tally midway through the period as Stallard looked like Ken Dryden at the other end in shutting out NA.
In the third, Franklin was looking for some salt to NA's wound and Joe Ferrierro provided it to put Franklin on top 5-0. The Panthers continued pressing and the Tigers were realing.
Then NA's Brandon Lied finally got his team on the board at 11:14 to make it 5-1. The Tigers scored two more goals in the games final minute by Matt Zrebiac and Bill Waldschmidt to attempt a furious rally, but Roth added an empty netter and Franklin won its first St Margarets Championship 6-3.
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