Announcement
2009 Penguins Cup Semi-Finals
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Class A – Mars 4 Quaker Valley 0
Mars (23-1-0) completely dominated this contest from start to finish defeating Quaker Valley (15-7-1) 4-0. Jake Robasch opened the scoring at 10:06 of the 2nd period following his own rebound off the post and beating Zach Taylor to give the Planets a 1-0 lead. Tyler Whiteford scored from in close on the power play with 5:02 remaining in the 2nd period to make it 2-0. Derek Sitterly and Steven Tracy added goals in the final period as Mars outshot the Quakers 40-7 as Tyler Stepke earned a shutout.
Class AA – Latrobe 5 Franklin Regional 3
Latrobe (23-0-0) was ripe for the taking in this contest as Franklin scored first on a Pete Ellis goal at 8:43 of the opening period to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead. Latrobe got a huge goal late in the period as Tyler Berger got a rebound on the backhand to knot the score at one apiece. Latrobe took advantage of sloppy FR play in the 2nd and mounted a big attack outshooting the Panthers 17-5 and scoring three goals to take a 3-1 lead. Cody Ray tapped in a Chris Karnes pass at 12:44 after a bad clearing attempt, Tyler Baloh tapped in a Cody Ray rebound after James Orr juggled the puck and the backbreaker was JeffJoe Regula’s terrific effort to find a loose puck amongst two Panthers and slam in home with just ten seconds remaining in the period. Matt Batis converted a Regula pass to make it 5-1 early in the 3rd period. Franklin mounted a comeback that was too little too late as Eugene Mack scored a pair of goals in the second half of the third period to make the final 5-3 in favor of Latrobe.
Class AAA – Shaler 6 Mt Lebanon 1
Shaler (21-2-0) showed why it was the number one seed in the playoffs with a convincing 6-1 shredding of Mt Lebanon (12-8-5). Zac Lynch and Sean McCue scored in the opening period to give the Titans a 2-0 lead, but Brooks Behling scored on a long slapshot from just inside the blue line with 44 seconds to play. The turning point of the hockey game was when with 12:17 to go in the 2nd period, Billy Dobson intercepted a Travis Lisowski clearing attempt and had a gimme goal to make it 3-1 in favor of Shaler. Patrick Schaefer, Brian Stein and a 2nd goal by Zac Lynch sealed Shaler’s first ever trip to the Penguins Cup in 34 years with a 6-1 victory. Steven Weilersbacher was terrific in goal for the Titans stopping 24 of 25 shots as the Blue Devils outshot Shaler 25-22.
