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2008 Pennsylvania HIgh School Hockey Championships
The Pennsylvania High School Hockey Championships will be held on Saturday March 29 at the Cambria County War Memorial in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. This is the 34th year of the Pa Hockey title, which was first held in Erie, Pa in 1975 and now has champions crowned at the Class AAA, AA and A levels. Meadville with 8 Pennsylvania State Championships has the most and Bishop McCort and Bethel Park have 5 State Championships each. Western Pennsylvania has captured 59 titles and Eastern Pennsylvania has 25 of the 84 Champions crowned.
Pa Hockey's the Pennsylvania State Championship PREVIEWS are here:
www.eteamz.com/pahockey/files/PACUP08PREVIEW.xls
PENNSYLVANIA CUP FINALS | ||||||||||
A | E | West Chester East | 3 | W | Quaker Valley | 2 | War Memorial | Saturday | 29-Mar | 11:00 AM |
PENNSYLVANIA CUP FINALS | ||||||||||
AA | E | Conestoga | 2 | W | Latrobe | 3 | War Memorial | Saturday | 29-Mar | 1:00 PM |
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AAA | E | LaSalle | 9 | W | Pine Richland | 1 | War Memorial | Saturday | 29-Mar | 3:00 PM |
2008 Penguins Cup Champions - Quaker Valley Quakers
2008 Class A Penguins Cup Champions - Quaker Valley Quakers
Quaker Valley Photo Courtesy Pittsburgh Post Gazette
0 | Zack Taylor |
4 | Scott Pulkowski |
6 | Rob Balotsky |
7 | Colin South |
8 | Dewar Peterkin |
9 | Trey Sterner |
11 | Lee Drake |
16 | Alex Jackson |
18 | Noah Zamagias (C) |
20 | Robert Karvenyn |
23 | Cody Scott |
24 | Ross Watko |
47 | Aaron Kostial |
48 | George Jackson |
56 | Jack Straka |
58 | John Chicots |
76 | Kyle Singleton |
82 | Ian Pegg |
96 | Ben Moidel |
99 | Zach Moisey |
Kevin Quinn | |
Jim Miller | |
Yuri Krivokhija | |
Joanne Chicots |
2008 Pennsylvania and Penguins Cup Champions - Latrobe Wildcats
2008 Class AA Pennsylvania Cup and Penguins Cup Champions - Latrobe Wildcats
1 | Michael McCurdy | |
4 | Brody Aukerman | |
7 | Jeff Rossi | |
8 | Robert Himler | |
10 | Tyler Ridder | |
13 | Isaac Prichard | |
14 | Tommy Ridge | |
15 | Jeffjoe Regula | |
18 | Ryan LaDuke | |
19 | Andrew Ong | |
24 | Alex Stahl | |
25 | Zack LaDuke | |
27 | Jayson Angus | |
33 | Curtis Colaianne | |
45 | Nick Loyacona | |
67 | Josh Harris | |
77 | Logan Dominick | |
82 | Jeff Smail | |
Head Coach: | Ron Makoski | |
Assistant Coach: | Charlie Fajt | |
Assistant Coach: | Greg Wano | |
Team Manager: | Leslie Rossi |
2008 Penguins Cup Champions Pine Richland Rams
2008 Class AAA Penguins Cup Champions Pine Richland Rams
3 | Tyler Deal | ||
7 | Kyle Adams | ||
11 | Eric Febert | ||
16 | Geoffrey Bagnato | ||
17 | Ty Loney | ||
19 | Dylan Trombetta | ||
20 | Toby Nehnevajsa | ||
21 | George Saad | ||
22 | Brandon Saad | ||
26 | Matthew Lohman | ||
27 | Ryan Hanahan | ||
28 | Evan Goetz | ||
29 | Dan Szymanski | ||
34 | Sean Battin | ||
36 | Jared Bagnato | ||
38 | Reed Loney | ||
46 | Colin Schmidt | ||
66 | Brian Cowen | ||
78 | Joe Mahoney | ||
81 | Jordan Shelleby | ||
90 | Bryan Watt | ||
Head Coach: | Bob Kennedy | ||
Assistant Coach: | Troy Loney | ||
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Penguins Cup / Class AA: Latrobe goes overtime to top Franklin Regional
It wasn't all that long ago that Latrobe senior Jeff Rossi couldn't even raise his right arm past his waist.
Last night, however, nothing could have stopped him from extending his arms, stretched to the sky.
In his first full game back after a shoulder injury, Rossi scored the second of his two goals 1:19 into overtime to lead the Wildcats to a 3-2 triumph against Franklin Regional in the PIHL Class AA Penguin Cup championship game at Mellon Arena.
"You dream for it all your life, and when it happens, you can't describe it," Rossi said.
Latrobe (22-3), the top seed, will play in the Pennsylvania Cup state championship game March 29 at the War Memorial Arena in Johnstown against the winner of the Flyers Cup final, which will be played Saturday in Philadelphia.
JeffJoe Regula scored the other goal for the Wildcats, who were playing in the Penguin Cup final for the first time. Eugene Mack and Ryan Crossey scored for Franklin Regional (20-4-1), the No. 3 seed, which was making its first finals appearance since 2003.
After missing all of the Wildcats' 8-1 quarterfinal victory against Indiana and skating only a few shifts of last week's 3-2 overtime conquest of West Allegheny in the semifinals, Rossi felt well enough to take his regular shift last night.
His first goal, which tied the game at 1-1 midway through the first period, was a tap into a mostly open net after a shot by Alex Stahl was wide and bounced off the boards to Rossi just left of the net.
"I would've been hitting myself if I missed that," Rossi said.
He tallied the winning goal after the puck came to him in the low right-wing circle and his initial shot was stopped by Franklin Regional's Anthony Livecchi, who made 27 saves. But the rebound came right back to Rossi, who fired it over Livecchi's glove.
"I put everything I had on it," said Rossi, whose momentum carried him past Livecchi and into the net.
"I just got up and tried to find the first [teammate] to jump on him," Rossi said.
Many of the Wildcats beat Rossi to the punch and jumped on him in celebration first.
"I've been coaching for 20 years and won some other championships [with amateur teams], but nothing feels quite like this," Latrobe coach Ron Makoski said.
Regula gave Latrobe a 2-1 lead nine minutes into the contest and the score stayed that way until Crossey's wrist shot from low in the left circle off a feed from Eugene Mack tied the game with 6:29 to play in the third period.
Both teams had 28 shots in regulation. Latrobe goalie Nick Loyacona made 26 saves.
"I knew both teams were pretty evenly matched, and it more or less played out that way," Franklin Regional coach Jim Daugherty said.