Perkiomen Valley Vikings

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.