Butler Toronadoes

CASTLE SHANNON - The South Park Eagles were riding high coming into this years playoffs after an unbelievable upset of Peters Twp to end the regular season. Keystone Oaks has been arguably the hottest team in Class AA, losing only once in its last ten games. A standing room only crows at the Ice Castle was on hand as the 'KO Crazies' were back in playoff form. The home tem came out smokin in the first period as they outshot South Park 12-5, but Ian Episcopo had the hot hand he showed against Peters. At 4:24 of the opening period, Bobby Dipippa wheeled around in the SP zone and found a wide open Jim Fuhs, who deked the Eagle goaltender and gave KO a 1-0 lead. In the second, KO's Dylan Wyrostek took a great cross ice pass from Fuhs and buried and the KO Crazies were in hysteria and the score was 2-0. Then Fuhs wound it up in his own end and skated through the South Park defenders, unleashed a shot and DiPippa banged home the rebound for a 3-0 advantage at 7:57. On to the third, South Park went on a 5 on 3 and just couldn't capitalize, the best chance coming as Justin Juha banked a wide open scoring opportunity off the post. Keystone Oaks went on to a 3-0 victory as Adam Beck got the shutout for the Golden Eagles.