Baldwin Highlanders - 1975 & 1988 AAA

Westmont Hilltop's Art McQuillan is nearing his 40oth overall victory and can capture it this Thursday Night against Center. Effectionately known as 'King Arthur' will now be know as 'King Arthur McArthur of the Mighty Hilltoppers' McQuillan, who took over the Hilltop program early in the 1987-88 season and has guided the Hilltoppers to 16 appearances in the Penguins Cup playoffs and 17 winning campaigns. On behalf of Pa Hockey, we would like to congrulate Art McQuillan on his years of service to the Westmont Hilltop Hockey Program and hockey in Western Pennsylvania ! Read the article of Mike Mastovich of the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat UPDATE 1/11/07 - Westmont Hilltop 8 Center 3 and coach Art McQuillan captures his 400th All-Time victory

Where are they now ? Onward and Upward 2006-2007 Once again...we at Pa Hockey have looked far and wide over the rosters of Major Junior A and NCAA Division 1 Colleges across the United States and in Canada and came up with the players from the State of Pennsylvania playing at that level. Keep in mind that this list does not include ACHA Division 1 or NCAA Division 3 [Does include Division 3 for Eastern Pa]. Now we know that when this list gets combed over that we may have omitted a player or two......so if you know of someone playing at that level, please let us know ! Here is the unoffical count: Players playing in Division 1 Hockey Total = 52 (Western Pa = 24 Eastern Pa = 28) Players playing in Junior A Hockey in USHL+NAHL+EJHL Total = 55 (Western Pa = 32 Eastern Pa = 23) That puts Pa Hockey over 100............Congratulations to all of the players and families for their continued dedication to making Pa Hockey # 1. And continued success for all of those players who strive to further their hockey careers and seek higher education ! Thank you to Matt Sacks of Breakaway Magazine for his contribution to this report

Bethel Park 2 Mt Lebanon 0 Bethel Park – A Who’s Who night with Bobby Montana, Bob ‘Dr Denton’ Behling, King Tut Bob Sebastian, John McKelvey, Lebo legendary coach Mickey McDermott, members of the Championship Blue Devils Matt Vaughn & Josh Mandic, Jack Bleik, Dave ‘the Milk Man’ Dorsey, Jamie Cummings among the notables of the always entertaining Mt Lebanon – Bethel Park rivalry, that is slated as a doubleheader for tonight and next Monday at the Mt Lebanon Rec Center, which is a great way to showcase two of the areas top programs, who both admittedly would rather have the dates spread out with two months in between, so the league with their wit and quick thinking moved the game up from 8:20 PM to 7:00 PM to extend the distance between games. Bethel Park is off to a terrific start this season at 10-0-0 on the regular season and is ranked # 1 in Class AAA in the Western Pa Hockey Elite 8. Head Coach Jim McVay’s club has yielded just nine goals in their opening ten games and appears to be a cut above the Class AAA competition for this year’s Penguins Cup. The Hawks have wins over Meadville, North Allegheny and Central Catholic during the regular season and have defending State Champions Mt Lebanon in between them and an undefeated campaign. Mt Lebanon surely misses their departed class from a year ago and maybe what coach Paul Taibi really would like to happen is for his team to pick up the scoring pace because the Blue Devils have played solid defense in front of very consistent goaltending through the first half of the season only yielding 14 goals. Lebo still struggles in the big games scoring as evidenced by the Central Catholic and McDowell losses and a narrow win over North Allegheny. The Blue Devils are a team that could mature into a playoff contender by season’s end and remain one of the top 5 Class AAA schools going into the season’s second half. A typical Lebo – Bethel game took a familiar tone in the opening period with Defense being the theme early on. At 8:39, Kenny Lehman picked up a third rebound attempt and deposited it to the stick side of Robbie Behling to give the Hawks a 1-0 lead. At 5:03, Bethel went on the power play with an opportunity to up their lead to two but the Blue Devils stiffened. The shots in the opening period were 12-8 in favor of BP. Bethel went back on the power play with 7:28 to go in the second period and although they did not score continued to press the attack and forechecking on Mt Lebanon. The Hawks continued to frustrate Lebo efforts to clear their own zone and get pressure in the Bethel zone. When Bethel’s apparent 2nd goal was waived off at 2:49 of the second period, many wondered if that just wasn’t the break Lebo would need to change the momentum of the hockey games. On to the third period we went and while Mt Lebanon did get the puck in the Bethel zone, the scoring chances were few and far between. Bethel continued to press the attack on Mt Lebanon, almost daring the Blue Devils to mount some sort of attack. The dagger in the Mt Lebanon faithful’s heart came with 6:06 remaining in regulation time as Tyler Trocano’s shot from a weird angle bounced off Robbie Behling’s shoulder and somehow snuck into the net giving Bethel a huge insurance tally and more importantly a 2-0 lead. BP was able to keep the threat of Mt Lebanon scoring to a minimum and shut them down the rest of the way for a 2-0 victory at Bethel BladeRunners. Stay Tuned for the re-matchup less than 72 hours away at the Mt Lebanon Rec Center.

Bethel Park Hockey Association Annual Martian Luther King Tournament January 12 - 14, 2007 Bethel Park Bladerunners FRIDAY January 12th Thomas Jefferson 3 Upper St Clair 3 Bethel Park 5 Central Catholic 2 Shaftsbury 11 Shaler 2 SATURDAY January 13th Bethel Park 6 Thomas Jefferson 2 Upper St Clair 5 Shaftsbury 3 Shaler 0 Central Catholic 5 Shaftsbury 3 Bethel Park 3 Thomas Jefferson 9 Shaler4 Central Catholic 7 Upper St Clair 4 SUNDAY January 14th Semi-Finals Bethel Park 4 Upper St Clair 1 Central Catholic 3 Shaftsbury 2 Finals 2006 Bethel Park MLK Invitational Championship Bethel Park 7 Central Catholic 0 Congratulations to Bethel Park Blackhawks - 2006 MLK Champions Check out the link to the Bethel Park Website !

Cleveland St Edwards Holiday Classic Tournament Schedule Padua 3 Mt. Lebanon (PA) 1 Meadville (PA) 5 St Edwards 1 Gilmour 1 Fenwick (IL) 1 Meadville (PA) 3 Gilmour 3 Fenwick (IL) 5 Padua 5 St. Edward 4 Mt. Lebanon (PA)0 Mt. Lebanon (PA) 2 Gilmour 1 Fenwick 8 St. Edward 4 Padua 4 Meadville (PA) 3 HIGHLIGHTS: Meadville's Brian Noonan scores with 27 seconds to go in the game and Padua scores with :07 left to win it Championship Fenwick 6 Padua 2