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Western Pennsylvania ALL-STAR Games Saturday January 28th 2006 Valley Sports Complex - New Kensington Class A - Southwest Conference A 9 Northeast Conference A 2 HIGHLIGHTS: Freeport's Patrick Spangler scores the hat trick and Sewickley's Scott Limbach adds 4 assists in a rout. Freeport's Beau Zack with two goals and Serra's Steven Gruhalla, Quaker Valley's Breton McNamara and Mars Mike Kenitz also score for the SW. Forest Hills Andrew Judy and Conemaugh Valley's Craig Yingling score for the NE. Class AA - Southwest Conference AA 6 Northeast Conference AA 5 HIGHLIGHTS: Moon's Chris Simoni scores a pair and Montour's Zach Perry, South Park's Matt Nichol and Matt Miley and Peters Township's Dustin Roux score for the SW. Kittanning's Justin Kovatch, GCC's Alfosno Arevalo, Latrobe's Miles Ritenour and Pine Richland's JOsh Fodor and Jordan Yoklic score for the NE Class AAA - Northeast Conference AAA 1 Southwest Conference AAA 1 (OT) HIGHLIGHTS: Penn Trafford's Joel Sterniak, FC's Eric Thiessen and Shaler's Nick Bennardo combine to stop 47 of 48 shots in a 1-1 tie game. Mt Lebanon's Tyler 'the Terminator' Murovich and Norwin's Mike Ulicny trade goals in the opening period. Class Open - 6:30 PM - Northeast Conference Open 4 Southwest Conference Open 1 HIGHLIGHTS: Penn Hills Anthony Battista, State College's Kurt Collins, Kiski's Adam Bowman and Bishop Guilfoyle's Steffan Langguth score as the NE defeats the SW. This is an opportunity to see the Top 25 Players as selected by PA Hockey strut their stuff with 160 of the top players in Western Pennsylvania. The unfortunate part of these All-Star games is the the Penguins Hornets WILL NOT BE PARTICIPATING and again robbing these players an opportunity to represent their school for this High School event. While that continues to happen, a great story came out of these All-Star Games thanks to John 'Just call me Chief O'Hara' Eddy of Somerset and Mary Sullivan of Woodland Hills after numerous attempts with the Villans to work out a time change with the Joker Commissioner [who has changed over 100 games in the Regular Season Schedule] would not budge on the times of the All-Star Games to accomodate several Junior B and Junior C players who were selected and ARE NOW PARTICIPATING. The Amateur Penguins Organization, who I'll call 'Luke Warm' High School Friendly changed the times of their games at Harmarville to Saturday Night to make this a reality. When are people in Western Pennsylvania going to learn that there once was co-operation bewteen High School and Amateur......back when R.J. Umberger of Plum [Philadelphia Flyers], Ryan Malone of Upper St Clair [Pittsburgh Penguins], Martin Wilde of Forest Hills [Hershey Bears], J.B. Bittner of Seton LaSalle [Johnstown Chiefs], John Zeiler of Thomas Jefferson [St Lawrence], Kris Mayotte of Central Catholic [Union College], Bernie Chmiel of Central Catholic [Sacred Heaart], Mike Handza of Shaler [Denver University] And Louie Garritan of Seton LaSalle [Bemidji State] among many others, all played High School including All-Star Games and for the Midget AAA or Junior B teams. The result is that these players were able to use this competition and environment to excel and move on to play Division 1 hockey. Today's dilemma is a death struggle over kids cause by people, who frankly care more about lining their pockets rather than helping student athletes advance to the next level and reach higher educational and leadership roles. I know I sound like a broken record people, It's time for change......................the promises in April have just gotten worse and programs are dying ! UP NEXT: MY SOLUTION TO SAVE HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INCLUDING THE WOEFUL CLASS A AND OPEN DIVISION.......STAY TUNED.........SAME BAT TIME ....SAME BAT CHANNEL