Montour Spartans

Former Fox Chapel star Billy Thomas has become the 3rd player from Western Pennsylvania to play in the National Hockey League with the Phoenix Coyotes. Thomas, who played for the Foxes in the late 1990's, played in the Amatuer Penguins organization before moving on the Cleveland. Prior to joining the collegiate ranks, Thomas played for the Tri-City Storm of the United States Hockey League (USHL). He led the team in scoring in 2003-04, collecting 31-38-69 in 60 games. Thomas played in USHL All-Star Game and earned Tri-City’s team MVP award. He also led the entire USHL in playoff scoring that season with 8-6-14 in 9 games leading Tri-City into that USHL championship. He led the entire nation in scoring among freshman and earned the CCHA Rookie of the Year and became the leading scorer for in the NCAA at the University of Nebraska-Omaha of the CCHA and earned CCHA First Team All-Conference honors. Congratulations to Billy Thomas and the Thomas family on this great accomplishment ! Once again...we at Pa Hockey have looked far and wide over the rosters of Major Junior A and NCAA Division 1 Colleges across the United States and in Canada and came up with the players from the State of Pennsylvania playing at that level. Keep in mind that this list does not include ACHA Division 1 or NCAA Division 3. Now we know that when this list gets combed over that we may have omitted a player or two......so if you know of someone playing at that level, please let us know.......the list for 2005-2006 is coming to Pa Hockey soon !

Penncrest Lions 2005 Pennsylvania Cup Class A Champions - ICSHL Central Division 2006 Flyers Cup Champions Uniform # Player Name Position Grade 4 Sakers, Dave Defense 12th 6 Gekoski, Matt Forward 10th 7 Muetterties, Corbin Forward 9th 8 Griffin, Scott Forward 11th 10 Bixler, Dave Forward 12th 11 Maser, Mike Forward 11th 16 Kusturiss, Nick Forward 12th 17 Kusturiss, Tom Forward 9th 19 Naselli, Fran Forward 11th 21 LoPiccolo, Sal Forward 12th 22 Lutz, Eric Defense 10th 24 Naselli, Joe Defense 10th 25 Tull, Chris Forward 12th 27 Paulson, Tim Defense 10th 40 McElhenney, Ryan Goalie 12th 41 Chacosky, Bryan Defense 12th 61 Farnschlader, Paul Defense 12th 88 Griffith, Bill Forward 12th Head Coach: Steve Mescanti Assistant Coach: Eric Wolf Assistant Coach: Kraig Kaufield Team Manager: Steve Mescanti

2006 Flyers Cup AAA Champions Cardinal O'Hara Lions Eastern High School Hockey League Bill Swahl Head Coach Dave Taylor Assistant Coach Dave Peruto Assistant Coach Pat McEllhenny Assistant Coach 4 Matt Izzi Forward 7 Frank Cross Forward 8 Kevin Hagan Forward 9 Tom Newman Defense 11 Mike Cenisio Forward 12 Ryan Mahoney Forward 15 Mike Cauley Forward 17 Ed Banes 19 Kevin Burke Forward 20 Rocco Carzo Forward 21 Mac Winchester Defense 23 Sean Coll Forward 24 Chris Henderson Defense 31 Brandon Provenzano Goalie 32 Ryan Klingensmith Goalie 56 Matt Houtmann Defense 61 Jaime Lasher Forward 71 Kevin Murray Forward 91 Dan Devine Defense 97 John McGroary Defense

2006 Pennsylvania AAA Champions 2006 Penguins Cup AAA Champions Mt Lebanon Blue Devils ~ PIHL 5 - Lou Argentieri 12 - Matthew Bartkowski 35 - Rob Behling 20 - Rick Beuke 19 - James Cichra 7 - Brandon Dornish 15 - Shane Ferguson 14 - Mitch Ferrero 13 - Mike Gallaway 6 - Mike Gallawry 16 - Josh Mandic 8 - Sean Mcdermott 21 - Steve Millhouse 48 - Parker Milner 10 - Tyler Murovich 32 - Ben Rascoe 4 - Mike Roman 22 - Jesse Root 24 - Luke Sebastian 2 - Drew Taucher 44 - Matt Vaughan 9 - Jon Wilen Head Coach ~ Paul Taibi Assistant Coach ~ Dave Dorsey Assistant Coach ~ Bob Montana

and Penguins Cup AA Champions Pine Richland Rams ~ PIHL 71 - Kyle Adams 7 - Stephen Adams 16 - Geoffrey Bagnato 36 - Jared Bagnato 4 - Joseph Christman 67 - Brendan Conlon 3 - Tyler Deak 5 - Philip Didonato 17 - Joshua Fodor 77 - Stephen Gates 38 - Evan Goetz 30 - Andrew Hildreth 21 - Ryan Kight 28 - Andrew Lilly 24 - Brian Miller 99 - George Saad 19 - Dylan Trombetta 29 - Philip Trombetta 9 - Jordan Yoklic 37 - David Zajac Head Coach ~ Jimmy Black Assistant Coach ~ Rich Conlon Team Manager ~ Jim Adams