Baldwin Highlanders - 1975 & 1988 AAA

KITTANNING - Kittanning head coach Jeff Smouse has been tossing and turning in his sleep lately. His Wildcat team proved all the doubters wrong last season by storming to a Penguin Cup Semi-Final berth before losing to Indiana. After his squad won the Kittanning Invitational, coach Smouse knew his squad was ready for a wakeup call if they weren't careful. Moon, on the other hand, has been a work in process for a couple of years now and has made the playoffs the past few seasons. The Tigers seem poised to make some noise this season and head coach Eric Boring has his squad going in the right direction as they faced a big test at the Belmont before a decent early season crowd. The Tigers were off and running at the 8:56 mark as Kodu Underwood gave Moon a 1-0 lead. Kittanning answered a minute and a half later as Joel Underwood took a nice feed from Zach Cain to tie the score on the power play at 7:16. Moon regained the lead as lanky power forward Hendrick Norden fended off a Wildcat defender and slipped a backhander past Adam Toy at 5:40 to make it 2-1. In the second period, the defense tightened and Moon was only able to muster three shots and that was all they would need as they made them all count to break open a tight contest. Norden intercepted an errant clearing attempt and wristed one past Toy at 11:25. Underwood converted a Brad Alayon pass from the slot at 10:47 and Alayon walked down Broadway at 8:33 to give the Tigers a 5-1 lead at the break. Moon's keeper Aaron Russell was stoning Kittanning at the other end stopping 28 of 29 shots on the night. While the Wildcats pressed to make something happen, Moon capitalized on an odd man rush as Underwood completed the hat trick at 9:21 on a beautiful setup by Hendrick Norden to put an exclamation point on a 5-1 Moon win.