Moon Tigers

Beaver - Senior night at Brady's Run Park and the defending Pennsylvania AA Champion Beaver Bobcats were in the celebrating mode. Doug Rheam's upstart Big Macs were not interested because a win would put CM in a tie with the Bobcats for the division lead. After a scoreless first period, Eric Rheam took a pass in stride and could not beat Beaver goaltender Rob Dappenbrook at 13:58. Then Beaver's Ryan Morgan found a loose puck in the slot and scored to make it 1-0. Then with the Bobcats on the power play, Aaron Veydt picked up a rebound goal shorthanded to tie the game at 1-1 at 6:49. Then it was Beaver's Doug Miller pulling the puck between the defenseman's legs and around another defender and deposited a backhanded through the five hole of Watkinson to give Beaver a 2-1 lead at 5:36. The Big Macs knotted the score again as Tom Hunt blistered a long shot past the Beaver goaltender and we were tied again at 2-2. Then at 11:01 of the final period, Veydt wristed one past Dappenbrook to give Canon McMillan its first lead. The Big Macs had a chance to extend the lead on the power play, but could not score. Then Beaver's Adam Krupp took a Morgan pass and buried it with 3:07 remaining. The game went into overtime and Ryan Morgan streaked down the right side and blasted a slapshot by Watkinson with only :08 remaining in OT and Beaver captured its third straight PIHL West Division championship. To secure the future of Beaver Hockey, the faithful freshman players were routing on their leaders. From the Bobcat Freshman team C.J Sheveryn, Andrew Scott, Colby Hawkey, Chris Juba, Alex Bodrie and Brenden Finn were on hand hoping for Bobcat miracle and it was delivered by Captain Morgan.