Baldwin Highlanders - 1975 & 1988 AAA

Flyers Cup 2nd Round Class A Second Round Results Springfield High 6 Central Dauphin 2 Highlights: Mike Kelly & Kevin Brawley with a goal & an assist each as Springfield races to 4-1 lead in 1st Period Radnor 6 Lower Merion 1 Highlights: Ed Devine with the hat trick for Radnor, while Colby Cohen picks up a goal & 2 assists for the Raiders Lower Dauphin 8 Marple Newtown 6 Highlights: Bryan Chiavetta scores 2 goals & 2 assists to lead the comeback for Lower Dauphin as the Falcons erase a 4-2 Marple Newtown lead & come back to win Hatboro/Horsham 6 Methacton 3 Highlights: Alex Cohen with 3 goals & an assist, Miles Winter with 2 goals & 2 assists as Hatters score 5 goals in 6:32 to erase 2-1 Methacton lead in the 3rd period. Horsham outshoots Methacton 31-23. Class AA Second Round Results Thursday March 18 Abington Ghosts 4 West Chester Henderson Warriors 0 ***GAME SUMMARY IS NOW AVAILABLE*** Archbishop Carroll Patriots 8 McDevitt Crusaders 4 Highlights: Shane Aldinger with 3 goals & 2 assists and Greg Manz picks up 1 goal & 2 assists as Patriots have a 4-goal and advance to the Flyers Cup Semi-Finals 2nd period Friday March 19 Archbishop Wood Vikings 4 Neshaminy Redskins 2 Central Bucks West Bucks 6 Haverford High Fords 2 Class AAA Second Round Thursday March 18 Malvern Prep Friars 3 Eastern Regional Vikings[NJ] 1 Highlights: Chris Campanale scores a goal & assists on two more as the defending Flyers Cup champs open playoffs with a victory. The win could prove costly as four Malvern players receive Game Misconducts including Warren Byrne, Will Averona and Tim Gehring will sit for a game against Cardinal O'Hara or Holy Ghost Prep. Friday March 19 LaSalle Explorers 7 Downingtown Whippets 4 West Chester East Vikings 5 Germantown Academy Patriots 3 Highlights: Vikings Greg Scherbacki & Jeff Martin tally 2 points as WC East pounds GA with 54 shots to 20 for Germantown Holy Ghost Prep Firebirds 3 Cardinal O'Hara Lions 1

3/22/04 ~ Somerset does it & moves on to Penguins Cup final PITTSBURGH – The Somerset hockey program has taken their lumps over the years with a 73-142-13 record, but hidden in that record is the past four years with a record 59-21-4, including an outstanding 20-2-0 regular season under Cliff Zeigler. Despite all of this, the Eagles had never won a State Playoff game until last week’s 4-0 victory over Sewickley Academy. So anyone who predicted that this team would go a long way in the playoffs, would know a lot more than I would because the playoff experience of three straight losses in three years does not indicate this was a team ready to make a big run. Furthermore, in their two biggest games late in the season, the Eagles fell hard to Bishop McCort 7-3 and blew a 3-0 lead on the season’s final night to Quaker Valley, tonight’s opponent only to lose 5-3 in giving up five goals in the third period. So if Somerset was going to dance at the big dance, it would have to get their big guns Bret Zeigler, Cullen Eddy and Matt Rouch to figure in the scoring and then play solid defense and get some clutch goaltending from Wes Cramer. Quaker Valley opened up the playoffs with an impressive 6-0 victory over Forest Hills, in a game in which Jed Michael stopped 33 shots and big guns Furman South, Sam Hairston and Ben Herring figured in on five of the six Quakers goals. Coach Kevin Quinn’s program compiled a 19-3-0 campaign with five straight winning seasons and five straight Penguins Cup playoff appearances. If there is an achilles heel with QV, it is their inability to move on past the 2nd round of the playoffs, but if there was a year when it could happen this could be a golden opportunity for the Quakers and especially with Ben Herring, who is considered one of the top players in Class A, back in the lineup for full-time duty. Quaker Valley owns a couple of big wins over Somerset, Serra Catholic and Blackhawk during the regular season, which makes them a very appetizing pick to possibly go a long way with clutch scoring, key goaltending and a very disciplined team. Somerset came out in the first period like a team on a mission as freshman Cullen Eddy overpowered Jed Michael with a slapshot for a 1-0 Eagle lead at 12:15. Quaker Valley had some partial breaks, but could not find the handle as Ben Herring just missed tying the game at 12:18. At 8:21 of the first period, Matt Rouch walked the puck off of the far boards and beat Michael down low on the forehand and Somerset held a 2-0 lead. Jed Michael made a huge save on Bret Zeigler from the high slot at 4:35 as the Eagles held a 9-1 shot advantage at this point and a 10-4 edge for the first period. On to the 2nd period and Jed Michael held the Quakers in the hockey game making several key saves early on. The Somerset defense spearheaded by Chad Pritts, Bill Hoffman and Jonathan Davies continued to frustrate the big guns for Quaker Valley by simply clearing the zone and playing solid fundamental defense. Somerset went on the power play at 7:23 and Michael snared a bullet delivered by Bret Zeigler with a great glove save. Somerset took an ill-advised penalty at 5:43, which brought Quaker Valley to life. Herring made a great move beating the Somerset defense and almost backhanded past Cramer but somehow the Eagle goaltender got a piece of it and the Somerset defense cleared the puck from danger with 4:51 left in the 2nd. It was all Quaker Valley late in the period as Sam Hairston walked around a pair of Eagle defenseman, but could not beat Wes Cramer, who made a great leg save at 2:40. With 11 seconds remaining, Ben Herring had another great chance, but it was Cramer again who robbed Quaker Valley. The Quakers showed their frustration pouring 11 shots on the Somerset goal, with nothing to show for it as the game stood 2-0 at the end of two periods. Somerset started the 3rd period on the power play thanks to a very undisciplined penalty by the Qaukers with 1.3 seconds left in the second. Cullen Eddy made them pay as he buried a one-timer past the stick side of Michael off a nice feed from Chad Pritts, who won the battle along the boards for the puck with teammate Bret Zeigler at 13:25 to make it 3-0 Somerset. Wes Cramer and the Eagle defense kept up the frustration on Quaker Valley as the netminder stoned Ben Herring and Sam Hairston at 8:46 on simultaneous chances. With 7:28 remaining in regulation, Brett McBee-Wise shot the puck from the left point which had eyes on it and found its way through traffic and behind Cramer for a huge goal and cut the lead to 3-1. Back came the Eagles and the player who many consider the beast all-around player in Class A Bret Zeigler delivered a crushing blow to Quaker Valley as he scooped up a rebound of a Matt Rouch shot and deposited behind Jed Michael for a 4-1 Somerset lead with 6:33 remaining. Quaker Valley did not quit and Jeppe Boldsen scored on a slapshot after a perfect pass from Ben Herring with 4:19 remaining and enough time to rally. Quaker Valley poured on the pressure and owned the Somerset end, but at 3:34 it would be Wes Cramer who would steal the show as he made a terrific diving save on Ben Herring, who was stationed alone on the back door to keep the lead at Somerset 4 Quaker Valley 2. The Quakers pulled the goalie for the games final minute and it would be Jordon Woy who would send Quaker Valley packing as the quick little Somerset forward calmly gathered the puck at Center Ice and made no mistake putting the puck through the QV defenseman and into an empty net with 1:07 remaining to send the Somerset hockey team to its first ever Penguins Cup Final to face Serra Catholic on Sunday March 28th at the Mellon Arena at high noon.

3/22/04 ~ Serra Eagles do it again… over who else but McCort PITTSBURGH – The year 1999 was only 5 years ago, must seem like eternity for Bishop McCort head coach John Bradley. You see, that was the year that the Crimson Crushers defeated Archbishop Ryan 9-3 at the Grundy Arena in Bristol, Pa. As over 1000 fans traveled over 5 hours by bus to witness the first # 8 seed in playoff history win the Pennsylvania High School Hockey Class A Championship. McCort has 13 straight playoff appearances including 5 State Championships, a 306 – 124 – 15 record over 19 seasons and probably the most staggering statistic is that the Crimson Crushers have been to the Penguins Cup semi-final round 12 out of 13 years and the Penguins Cup finals nine of those years. For most Interscholastic Hockey programs, these figure are in another planet, but for the Red, Gold and White from Johnstown, their measurement is justified in one way and that is the last game of the season is the one they want the most and for Bishop McCort, the last four years have been in the form of a loss to the Serra Catholic Eagles. It all started back in the 1995-96 season, as John and Tom Mooney took the reigns at Serra and played in the WPIHL East Division and took a beating at the hands of the Johnstown teams for a 6-13-0 record. The move to the SHIHL in 1996-97 brought new life to the Serra program as the team moved from the Golden Mile to the Rostraver Ice Garden and a great improvement to 10-10-2. It was the 1998-99 year that the Eagles first started to make their move in Class A with a close battle with defending State Class A champions Seton LaSalle for the SHIHL title and their first playoff appearance in six years. The next season would start one of the most prolific runs in State playoff history as the Eagles would go all the way beating defending State Champions Bishop McCort in the 2000 Penguins Cup finals at the Erie Civic Center and then Flyers Cup champion Pennsbury 3-1 at the Civic Arena for their first Pennsylvania Class A championship. In 2001, Serra defeated Bishop McCort at the War Memorial in a wild affair before over 1500 fans 6-3 and went on to win the State Championship over Springfield, with a 5-4 comeback victory and a coming out of sorts for a freshman goaltender named Timmy Johnson. In 2002, Johnson shut out the Crimson Crushers again at the Mellon Arena 3-0 and then the Eagles defeated a very good Radnor team in my opinion the best Class A finals ever 5-4 at the Rostraver Ice Garden on a late goal by Devon Kane and another outstanding performance by Timmy Johnson, who held Radnor off the board with several spectacular saves. In 2003, Serra made it four years in a row over McCort in the Penguins Cup semi-finals, but fell to Westmont-Hilltop 4-3 in the Class Penguins Cup at Neville Island. So like we haven’t had enough, here we are back again for round 5 of the Serra – Bishop McCort playoff saga. The Crimson Crushers came out stormin in the first period with a 6-0 shot advantage. Serra went on the power play, but McCort’s Joe Delic stripped the Eagle defenseman of the puck and proceeded to move in and beat Timmy Johnson between the legs for a 1-0 Crusher lead at 7:20. The Eagles got their first shot on goal at 6:42 and then Justin Lubasch took advantage of a non-call in the McCort zone, as a Crusher was hauled down, and beat Ron Stenger with a blistering wrist shot high to the glove side to tie the game at one apiece. Serra apparently scored at 5:50 but the goal was waved off due to the net being dislodged as Tony Duco’s goal would not count. On the next shift, Serra would take the lead as Ray Gillis scored on the backhand after some great work down low by Joey Manning and Lubasch at 5:11. The Crimson Crushers would come back at the one- minute mark on the power play as Joe Delic got his own rebound and beat a sprawling Johnson to tie the game at 2-2. On to the second period and McCort had a golden opportunity to take the lead but Ryan Noone made an all-world defensive play knocking the puck off of Chris Grady’s stick at 11:26, who had a wide open net after a great pass from Delic. The teams were jockeying for territorial position and the Crimson Crushers looked to be finding their game. One thing we need to remember is that the Eagles always find a way when it come to Bishop McCort and Timmy Johnson would stop all eight Crusher shots in the second and Justin Lubasch would provide the killer goal. McCort got a little sloppy in their defensive coverage and Lubasch made them pay as he found a loose puck on the doorstep and roofed it up over a fallen Ron Stenger at 6:47 and Serra had the lead 3-2. On the next shift and 13 seconds later it would be a great play by last weeks hero Philip Ivkovich to keep the puck in the zone on a bad Crusher clearing attempt, a great presence by Tony Duco to throw the puck toward the net and a streaking Steve Gruhalla to deposit a shot into the empty net for a 4-2 Serra lead and sending Bishop McCort to the locker room and possibly to the bus back to Johnstown. The third period was an exercise of Serra just holding off McCort, getting the puck deep and frustrating the Crimson Crushers. Although McCort had 10 shots all of the frustration would end at 3:27 when a Crusher shot trickled past Timmy Johnson and laid on the goal line for what seemed like five years probably to the McCort players, fans and head coach John Bradley. ‘No Goal’ said goal judge Paul Plinta, ‘No Goal’ said Referee Dave Donatelli, ‘No Goal’ said PA announcer Bob Sebastian as the McCort players could just sit and watch and Serra and Timmy Johnson just said ‘No Goal’ in a big way and when Joey Manning buried a wrist shot 14 seconds later to make it 5-2 at 3:13, it was a time to celebrate as Serra was off to its 5th consecutive Penguins Cup sending the Crimson Crushers packing for the 5th year in a row. When seldom used players Alex Bulischeck and Matt Radovic hit the ice for Serra in the games final minute, Timmy Johnson took a little victory lap around the Mellon Arena ice and bang his stick on the ice to let McCort know that Serra Catholic will go on to meet Somerset in the 2004 Penguins Cup final on March 28 at noon at the Mellon Arena.

Team Pittsburgh and Team Philadelphia will participate in the 2004 Chicago Showcase celebrating its 20th year. The Showcase will be played April 14-18, 2004 in Chiacgo, Illinois. Team Pittsburgh [ A Pool] Schedule Wed 4/14 ~ North Dakota 4 Pittsburgh 2 Highlights: Peters Twp Chris Clackson and Shady Side's John Mortimer score as Team Pgh loses close one with ENG. Meadville's Danny O'Sharuk stops 31 of 34 North Dakota shots. Thurs 4/15 ~ Minnesota 9 Pittsburgh 2 Highlights: Quaker Valley's Ben Herring & SHady Side's John Mortimer score as Team Pittsburgh falls to Minnesota Fri 4/16 ~ Pittsburgh 11 Indiana 1 Highlights: Team Pittsburgh scores five power play goals as Penn Hill's Ryan Jones, Mt Lebanon's Bill Leckenby, TJ's Luke Wawrzeniak, and Steel Valley's Anthony Bonacorsco each score two goals. Peter's Chris Clackson adds 3 assists and Timmy Johnson stops 19 of 20 shots. North Hill's Tyler Cummings, Central's Eddie Martin and Andrew Wroblewski also score. Sat 4/17 ~ Colorado 7 Pittsburgh 2 Highlights: Ryan Jones and Chad Uddstrom score as Pittsburgh finishes Chicago Showcase 1-3-0 for the first time since 1996 Team Philadelphia [C Pool] Schedule Wed 4/14 ~ Connecticut 8 Philadelphia 2 Highlights: Boyertown's Greg Herneisen and Hempfield's Steve Stack as team Philadelphia drops Game 1 Thurs 4/15 ~ Florida 5 Philadelphia 1 Highlights: Abington's Eric Tufman scores lone Philly goal in loss to Florida Fri 4/16 ~ Philadelphia 10 Team Northwest 0 Highlights: James Santacroce of North Penn turns back 22 shots and Abington's Eric Tufman has a goal and 5 assists in a rout of Northwest. Ian Windle of Downingtown and Christopher Brogan of Hershey add a pair of goals apiece, while Sean Guenther, C.J. Schneider, Stephen Klenk, Tom Mergen and Matt Koelzer add single scores. Sat 4/17 ~ Philadelphia 4 Team South 3 Highlights: Team Philly rallies from 3-1 deficit in the 3rd period as Downingtown's Ian Windle scores at 13:37, Abington's Eric Tufman ties it with 4:44 left and Abington's Justin Schorr scores the game winner with 2:23 left. Tufman assisted on the 2nd goal and the game winner.

In 2004-2005, Robert Morris University will bring the FIRST NCAA Division 1 Hockey program to Western Pennsylvania. Earlier this year, the University purchased the Island Sports Center on Neville Island. The Colonials have joined the NCAA Division 1 CHL. Robert Morris University Head Coach Derek Schooley brings plenty of experience and has made a great committment to development of players from right here in Western Pa.....so we need to show our support for the Robert Morris program by having a big turnout for this event ! Other Junior A and NCAA Collegiate programs attendings will be: Niagara University (CHUMS), UMASS-Lowell (Hockey East), Mercyhurst(Atlantic Hockey), SUNY-Brockport (Division 3), Sioux Falls Stampede (USHL), Youngstown Phantoms (NAHL), Toledo Icediggers (NAHL), Penn State (ACHA Division 1 National Champions) and of course, Robert Morris University. This is a great opportunity for ALL players in Western Pennsylvania to experience an opportunity to see what it takes to advance to a higher level in Junior A or Collegiate Hockey. So don't miss out on this opportunity and click on the Robert Morris logo to see the attached brochure [BY CLICK ON TITLE ABOVE] or contact Derek Schooley at Robert Morris University at 412-269-4477!