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Haverford High Fords 2005 Flyers Cup AA Champions 1 Joe Calderaio - Goalie 3 Alex Caesar - Defense 4 Bob MacLaughlin - Forward 7 Stephen Terra - Forward 9 Ian Finnerty - Forward 18 John Povey - Forward 19 Mark Orlando - Forward 26 Dave Thomas - Goalie 27 Michael Mander - Goalie 29 Shane Coyle - Forward 44 David Baker - Defense 47 Drew Baumester - Forward 50 Dan Reiley - Defense 54 Michael Lowry - Defense 64 Justin Pelligrini - Forward 85 Ari Nugent - Defense 88 Louis Pepe - Defense 91 Chris Campli - Forward 93 T.J. Haeberle - Forward 99 Anthony Fitti - Forward Cleary, Brian Head Coach Walsh, Dave Assistant Coach DiGirolamo, Vinnie Assistant Coach Heston, Doug Assistant Coach

Pa Hockey and Bx Video will bring you LIVE coverage of the 2005 Pennyslvania High School Hockey Championships ! Saturday March 26, 2005 LIVE from the Hersheypark Arena Eastern Pa Hockey's Jeff Nolan meets Pa Hockey's Jeff Mauro of Western Pa [but not Indiana, Pa] in Hershey with an array of Special Guests and Interscholastic Hockey Analysts from across the Commonwealth to bring all of the action from the Hersheypark Arena 11:00 AM - Class A - Bishop McCort vs Penncrest ***CLICK ON THE PA HOCKEY LOGO TO SEE THE CLASS A GAME LIVE !!*** 1:30 PM - Class AA - Haverford High vs Peters Twp ***CLICK ON THE BxVideo Video LOGO TO SEE THE CLASS AA GAME LIVE !!*** 4:00 PM - Class AAA - Malvern Prep vs Bethel Park ***CLICK ON THE Pennsylvania Cup LOGO TO SEE THE CLASS AAA GAME LIVE !!*** Brought to you by the Pa Hockey Network + Bx Video + Heck's Video Productions !

The Technology that PA Hockey brought to Western Pennsylvania first is being used for the 2005 Penguins Cup - LIVE by Bx Video !!! Mellon Arena - Pittsburgh, Pa. March 22, 2005 ~ Class A Penguins Cup - 7:00pm - Serra Catholic vs Bishop McCort March 23, 2005 ~ 7:00pm - Pine Richland vs Peters Township March 23, 2005 9:00pm - North Allegheny vs Bethel Park Check out the 2005 Scholastic Showcase below coverage of the Director's Cup final between North Allegheny and Bethel Park !

2005 Penguins Cup A ~ Mellon Arena Serra Catholic Eagles vs Bishop McCort Crimson Crushers The 2005 Penguins Cup is an annual picnic between Serra Catholic and Bishop McCort as the Eagles and Crimson Crushers take to the big stage at the Mellon Arena. So while the television cameras were rolling and the music playing and jumbotron makes noise, the reality takes us back to mid-February to the Johnstown War Memorial, when the Crimson Crushers defeated Serra 6-3 to spoil an undefeated season and if anything set up an interesting debate of whether McCort can break through the hex that has been the Eagles since 1999. What has to still be in back of the Crimson Crusher’s mind is the 2000 Penguins Cup in favor of Serra 4-1 in Erie or the 2001 Penguins Cup final in favor of Serra 6-3 in Johnstown or the 2002 Penguins Cup in favor of Serra 3-0 at the Melleon Arena or possibly the latest ending of the Crushers season in the 2003 & 2004 Penguins Cup Semi-finals, 4-1 and 5-2, respectively. History has been cruel to a program, which has notched five Pennsylvania Cups Class A championships in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999. The last championship was won in Eastern Pennsylvania at the Grundy Ice Complex, when nearly 1200 Crusher faithful traveled from Johnstown in the early morning hours to Bristol with painted faces and milk shakers filled with pennies to cheer their team on to an 8-3 thrashing of Archbishop Ryan. It has been now 6 long years of disappointment for coach John Bradley and the main obstacle has been Serra. If Bishop McCort expects Serra to not be hungry, they have another thing coming as the Eagles have rebounded nicely since dropping two games at the end of the season to McCort and Quaker Valley. Tom Mooney has been around long enough Interscholastic Hockey to know how to motivate his team with two words….Bishop McCort. But lets go back to 1994, when Tom Mooney and his brother John took on the task of rebuilding the program and it all began at the now defunct Golden Mile Ice Rink in Monroeville and having the practice subsequent to it, I can personally tell you that John and Tom were looking for some warm bodies and they took their time and built a powerhouse. A powerhouse that won three straight Pennsylvania State Championships in 2000 over Pennsbury 4-1 at the Civic Arena, 2001 in a memorable comeback victory over Springfield 5-4 at Haverford Skatium and a gut-wrenching comeback 5-4 win over powerful Radnor at the Rostraver Ice Garden. The past two years though have ended in disappointment for the Eagles losing to Westmont Hilltop 4-3 in the Penguins Cup final at Neville Island Sports Center and then a 5-2 loss to two-time Pennsylvania State champion at the same venue. So the Eagles will be hungry which makes two teams in search of State Title. So after all of the ceremonial gingerbread of the puck drops and intros, the battle for Class A supremacy began. Off a faceoff win at 12:32, Marc Domonkos gathered the puck and beat the Serra defense and goaltender Jeffrey Smaracheck with a snapshot on the stick side for a 1-0 Crusher lead. Back came Serra and after several nice stops by Ron Stenger, at 8:59 Aaron Nolte pounced on a rebound and buried it to tie the game at one apiece. Serra found the magic again at 7:43, as Joey Manning picked up a loose puck in the slot and backhanded it past Stenger to give the Eagles a 2-1 lead. The Eagles went on the power play at 5:08, with a chance to go up by two, but McCort killed it. Then a break and boy did McCort need one of those against their nemesis Serra with 1:19, as Marc Domonkos threw the puck to the net and it appeared to glance off the skate of Aaron Thomas and bounced past Jeffrey Smaracheck to knot the game at 2-2. On to the 2nd period, and the Crushers went on the man advantage and at 10:50, McCort took the lead on a slapshot low on the ice through the 5-hole of Jeffrey Smaracheck by Cory Mock giving Bishop McCort a 3-2 lead. Serra took a bad penalty in the offensive zone with :10 left in the middle period, given McCort an opportunity on the power play to take a two goal lead and the Eagles were able to kill and they went on the power play at 5:42. which was also unsuccessful and the teams headed to the ice cut with the Crimson Crushers holding a slim 3-2 lead. The hex of Serra Catholic & the mastery over Bishop McCort was at hand. What would be the outcome of the 2005 Penguins Cup? And who would move on to the State Finals this Saturday in Hershey? At 13:15, Serra would go on the power play and a chance to tie, but the Crimson Crushers hung in there and killed it off. Now there have been big plays over the past five years in the McCort-Serra picnic, but at 10:53 McCort gained a man advantage and could take a real big step in the process, but it was Serra who almost tied it at 9:45 as Joey Manning and Aaron Nolte had a two on one to no avail. At 8:01, the great chance came and went as Marc Domonkos was in on the breakaway and Smaracheck stopped him. On the very next faceoff, Chad James took the puck at 7:55 and walked in and beat the Serra goalie for a 4-2 lead and one valuable step closer. With 7:00 to go Serra faced an uphill climb down two and maybe looking a little winded. But a non-call on Serra and very costly retaliation penalty was taken by Bishop McCort with 5:49 left, putting Serra on the power play and a chance to creep back in. Would Serra have the magic to come back? The penalty was killed and then another McCort mistake, with too many men on the ice and Eagle opportunity. Raymond Gillies rung one off the crossbar with 3:16 left. Time was on McCort’s side and Serra’s magic was running out as was their patience and with 2:09 left and an ill advised 5:00 major could be the nail in the Eagle coffin. Coach John Bradley huddled his guys by the bench to tell them to keep their cool in the final two minutes to play another day and possibly should we say it…..Hershey and the 2005 Pennsylvania State High School Hockey Championships. An empty net and six years of frustration lifted when with 1:18 left Aaron Thomas told the boys from Johnstown to load the bus for Hershey and a place where Bishop McCort has never lost in five trips. 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and the 2005 Penguins Cup Champions are the Bishop McCort Crimson Crushers and the McCort fans showered the ice with Hershey’s kisses because how sweet it is for the Crushers a 5-2 victor over Serra and the hex is now broken! A great display of sportsmanship as the Serra players came individually and congratulated the Crusher team and I am sure wished them luck in the Finals on Saturday.

2005 Flyers Cup AA Championship Special Report to Pa Hockey provided by Mr Eastern Pa Hockey HAVERFORD - Haverford High captured the 1992 Flyers Cup A championship and set out to add the second crown to the Fords trophy case. Haverford showed why they were the # 1 seed in the Class AA bracket by defeating the cinderella Council Rock South Hawks, who were the # 15 seed in the tournament. Dan Reilly gave the Fords the lead in the opening period, but CR South tied the game as Michael Binns scored in the first. Haverford added two goals in the 2nd period as Ari Nugent scored on a power play and Flyers Cup AA MVP John Povey added a 2nd power play tally to give HH a 3-1 lead. The Fords sewed it up in the third with two goals by Mark Orlando on a tap in and T.J. Haberle to close it out and send Haverford High to their first State Final since 1992, when the Fords defeated Greensnurg CC.