Butler Toronadoes

HARMARVILLE - Franklin Regional coach Jim Damp knew his team had a little confidence after its Director's Cup final appearance in the Scholastic Showcase earlier this week and why not ? ....two overtime come from behind overtime victories and all without a full lineup. Well, coach Damp would have to go after it again without forwards Jimmy Daugherty and Luke Baughman, who watched from the stands. Keith Kearney's knows all about less than full line-ups, you see two of his top forwards Lorenz and Baker where at a conveniently scheduled 9:00 PM on a school night Junior B non-sense practice, which has been a common distraction for high school teams in this area. So the Foxes were a little shorthanded as well. Franklin Regional's Luke DeLorenzo opened up the scoring with two goals in the games first five minutes to give the Panthers a 2-0 lead at 10:03. Dakota Drew scored at 8:54 and the Panthers were off and running with a 3-0 lead. Seemed safe enough until FC's Pat King threw a puck to the net off the far boards, which fooled Brandon Stallard and ended up behind him and the Foxes where on the board 3-1. At 10:45 of the second, Fox Chapel went on the 5 on 3 power play and Franklin was able to kill it and maintain its lead. At 6:34, FC freshman sensation Matt Quigley beat three Franklin defenders after going coast to coast on an outlet pass by goaltender Todd Hendry and beat Stallard on the stickside to cut the lead to 3-2. DeLorenzo completed the hat trick at 5:59 as he slipped the puck through the FC center on the faceoff and roofed one upstairs to make it 4-2 Panthers. Quigley came right back at 2:51 on the power play with a wicked wrist shot and the Foxes were within one heading to the third period 4-3. Fox Chapel's fortunes looked good early in the third as Hendry stopped Michael Roth on the breakaway at 13:24, but Franklin Regional kept on coming in waves as DeLorenzo added his fourth [11:21] and fifth [7:29] goals of the evening and Louis Levine and Michael Roth added two more to pace the Panthers to an impressive 8-3 victory.