Baldwin Highlanders - 1975 & 1988 AAA

HARMARVILLE - Special Report to Pa Hockey provided by Mt Lebanon Hockey ! # 1 Central Catholic faced off # 2 Mt Lebanon faced off in an early season battle for the top spot in Class AAA. Lebo struck first as Mike Jordan scored an early a power play goal putting in the rebound off a Tony Valerino shot from the slot to give Lebo a 1-0 lead. Pgh CC came right back with a PP goal of their own as Mike McGurk blasted one through traffic from the point to tie the game at 1-1. With :31 seconds left in the 1st period Eric Sloan took a perfect pass from Dan Wilen who was behind the net and beat Bryan Adamczak on the short side to give Lebo a 2-1 after 1 period. With 5 minutes to go in the 2nd Tony Valerino broke down the right side and slipped one past Adamczak to regain Lebo's 2 goal lead at 3-1 but CC came back again less than a minute later as Bill Freyvogel beat Matt Vaughan through the legs due to the hard work behind the net of Ryan Gerber and CC was back in it after 2 periods trailing 3-2. The all important 'next goal' was scored midway through the 3rd as Chad Uddstrom took a pass from Eric Sloan and beat Adamczak on a wrap around to give Lebo a 4-2. With CC pressing in the Lebo zone Matt Capalonga was called for a penalty and Ed Martin was given a misconduct and a game misconduct. Lebo then put the game away as Chad Uddstrom buried a Bill Leckenby rebound to give Lebo a 5-2 victory. Final shots on goal were Lebo = 23 CC = 14