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2002 St Margarets Fall Face-Off - Semi Finals
Posted by Jeff Mauro at Oct 14, 2002 5:00PM PDT
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HARMARVILLE -
North Allegheny 6 Shaler 5 -
A battle of two long time AAA rivals took place in the St Margarets Semi-Finals as Shaler and NA locked horns in a battle of the last two champions of the Fall FaceOff, as the Tigers [defending 2001 champs] and Titans [2000 champs].
The upstart Titans came out smokin in the first period and took advantage of their opportunities with two power play goals from Justin Thomas. NA killed off the third power play and caught Shaler napping as Brian Maloney scored a huge goal with just 23 seconds left to cut the Shaler lead to 2-1.
On to the 2nd period and Thomas completed the hat trick to give the Titans a 3-1 lead. But Shaler got a little sloppy in their own end and Maloney scored two goals in ten seconds to tie the game at 3-3 ten minutes into the middle period. Shaler answered a minute later as Chris Szczpinski drill home a shot from the right circle to give the Titans the lead 4-3.
After the teams traded goals, NA's Tim Ward found Brandon Lied in the slot to tie the game at the 6:28 mark of the third period. Matt Zrebiac put the Tigers on top for the first time on the evening and NA held on for a hard fought 6-5 victory.
Franklin Regional 7 Fox Chapel 3
As rivalries go, another big St Margarets tradition involve Franklin and Fox Chapel, who met in the 1997 and 1998 Fall Face Off finals, with the Foxes coming with the championship both times.
In a back and forth affair, the Panthers and the Foxes battled to a 3-3 tie wehn Pat King scored seven seconds into the third period. Franklin Regional regain the lead as Mike Roth tallied a minute and a half later to give the Panthers a 4-3 lead.
Then a bounce of good fortune off Roths skate at the half way point of the final period found its way past Todd Hendry and FR was now up 5-3. Jimmy Daugherty added a big insurance goal just 24 seconds later as Franklin added an empty netter to march on to the St Margarets final.
The win sets up a final between NA and Franklin Regional, which will be a rematch of the memorable first round double overtime thriller of the 2002 playoffs in March, when the Tigers beat the Panthers. It should be a great matchup.
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2002 St Margarets Fall Face Off ~ 1st Round
Posted by Jeff Mauro at Oct 10, 2002 5:00PM PDT
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First Round
Franklin Regional 5 North Hills 3
The Indians broke out to a 3-0 lead in the first period as Mark Keyser scored the natural hat trick a little over ten minutes into the game. Franklin recieved a huge goal late in th opening period as Scott Dakan poked a puck past Casey Dudt-Mulzet to get the Panthers on the board at 3-1.
FR then scored four unanswered tallies from Mike Roth, Joe Ferriero, Dakan again and Luke Baughman to breeze to a 5-3 win.
The Panthers outshot North Hills 42-20 on the evening.
North Allegheny 2 Plum 1
"What is North Allegheny going to do this year ?" is one of the big questions many are asking after the Tigers graduated a dozen solid players from last years squad. Well if you ask the NA faithful, the answer is keep winning !
Plum's Robbie Tunon broke a scoreless tight checking game at 4:42 of the second period to put the Mustangs on top 1-0. NA's Bill Waldschmidt tied it at 10:41 of the middle frame.
In the third period, Tim Ward scored on a wrist shot past B J Schreib to give North Allegheny a 2-1 lead it would never relinquish.
Fox Chapel 8 Hampton 4
The Foxes broke open a tight 4-3 contest in the third period with four goal outburst to win 8-4. Eight different players scored for Fox Chapel as Todd Hendry turned away 18 Talbot shots including 9 in the third period. Fox Chapel got three point nights from Jason Kreps, Kyle Misour, Paul Puskarich and Matt Quigley leading a balanced attack which could surprise alot of AAA schools this season.
Shaler 6 Pine Richland 3
If the first three minutes were any indication of how this contest would turn out Pine Richland would have been looking for a running clock in the second period. Shaler's Ed Stotts turned away 11 of 12 Ram shots to keep Coach Spike's Titans in the game at 1-1 after the opening frame.
Enter Chris Szczypinski, the Shaler captain, who scored three unanswered goals to thwart Shaler to a 4-1 lead. The teams exchanged goals in the third period as the Titans rolled to a 6-3 victory before a wild Shaler home crowd at Harmarville. ![image](https://photos-images.active.com/file/1/60/604905/original/33beec31-772d-4dab-ad2d-9b8c4f310ae6.gif)
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2002 Greensburg CC Invitational ~ Plum /FC + GCC / SP
Posted by Jeff Mauro at Oct 10, 2002 5:00PM PDT
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Greensburg ~
SEMI-FINALS ~ Plum 4 Fox Chapel 1
Fox Chapel's Keith Kearney and Plum's Stu Relnick have similar concerns heading into the upcoming 2002-2003 season. Both will look above them in the standings and see a bright future for their young hockey clubs respectively.
The Mustangs expect to battle Gateway and Franklin and retain their division crown from a year ago while the Foxes vow to challenge Central Catholic for the North title. Both schools have playoff aspirations for the upcoming season.
After a scoreless first period, Plum broke out on top as Aaron Arnold scooped up a rebound and beat Todd Hendry at 10:48 to give the Mustangs a 1-0 lead. At the 5:34 mark, the Foxes Chris Wehrle beat B.J. Schreib on the wrist shot upstairs to knot the game at 1-1. Plum came right back at 3:40 as freshman Johnathon Smith banged home a Travis Senchur rebound past Hendry to give
Plum a 2-1 lead heading to the break.
Senchur and John Kalichuk added insurance goals in the final period and the Mustangs marched on to their 2nd consecutive GCC Invitational final as they outshot FC 23-13 including 7-1 in the last period.
SEMI-FINALS ~ Greensburg CC 3 South Park 2
So its only October and a game between South Park and Greensburg CC in a battle of two potential contenders in Class AA for the
2002-2003 season. A good time to give the younger players an opportunity to see what they can do.
The Centarians coach Joe Dytka started Kent Weaver, while # 1 goalie Jake Genes was paricipting in an overtime playoff soccer match for GCC. And while all that was going on.....Bob Juha's South Park Eagles were in Kittanning defeating Latrobe 6-4 in the opener of this weekends tourney. Pre-Season is all about fun.
Well GCC found out in the first period that South Park never took their skates off as the Eagles swarmed the Centarians with 18 shots while only surrendering one. Weaver looked like a young Tom Barrasso as he thwarted several opportunities early on.
The Eagles Bobby Cagna fired home a rebound at 10:44 to open the scoring. Then, South Parks towering Matt Slogan would not be denied with just :04 left as he picked up a rebound from the point and deposited it to give his squad a 2-0 lead.
The second period was a little different story as Greensburg CC carried the play to South Park outshooting them 10-3. The Centarians could not buy a goal as Ian Artim kept them off the board.
On to the third as the Eagles were looking for the knock out punch as they outshot GCC 11-3 through the middle of the final period, but Weaver kept the Centarians alive making several key saves. Finally, with 4:09 remaining Matt Ward took a beautiful cross ice pass from Colin Ludwig and GCC was on the board at 2-1.
They weren't done yet as Josh Chiado blistered a shot through a screen on the far upper corner past Artim and all the sudden the game was tied at 2-2 with 3:24 left. Greensburg CC completed the improbable comeback just 24 seconds later as John Kennedy crashed the net and poked a rebound past Artim to give his team a 3-2 victory and a spot in the finals against Plum. South Park outshot GCC 36-18. ![image](https://photos-images.active.com/file/1/60/604905/original/e882b01d-5f50-4bf1-9919-38c19ec4d05b.gif)
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2002 Kittanning Invitational - Finals ~ KITT / SP
Posted by Jeff Mauro at Oct 10, 2002 5:00PM PDT
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Follow all the action this weekend from Kittanning ........
Kittanning 3 South Park 0
Former Meadville Goaltender now in Maple Leafs System !
Posted by Jeff Mauro at Sep 15, 2002 5:00PM PDT
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Former Meadville Bulldog goaltender Vladimir Kulikov has landed in the Toronto Maple Leafs farm system. He has an outstanding chance of moving on in professional hockey after playing for Kitchener of the OHL. ![image](https://photos-images.active.com/file/1/60/604905/original/d40d6804-5a5b-4b3c-b3ec-ab91711e5808.gif)
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