Upper St. Clair Panthers - 1980 - 1987 - 2011 AAA

INDIANA - Two of the 2001 PIHL AA Division champions squared off at the Indiana Ice Center in a rematch of an early season battle won by South Park, who went on the reach the Penguin Cup Semi-Finals. Indiana coach Ron Hellen knew that this Thanksgiving eve game would be huge in the AA playoff picture in March. The first period was sloppy as both teams mounted very little offense. In a harmless two on two sitution South Park's Matt Slogan tried to move a pass cross-ice, the puck glance off a Indiana defenseman's skate and behind Mike Lady to give South Park the opening goal. The period featured some fine goaltending by the Eagles Ian Episcopo, who thwarted several Indian chances. On to the second and while the Eagles maintain a 1-0 lead, Episcipo continued warding off a lot of Indiana opportunities. Then South Park made a mistake, as Corey Schaffer caught the Eagle defenseman pinching, he poked the puck past him and it was off to the races and beat Episcipo and the game was tied at 1-1. Then Bryan Schlemmer scored a goal to give Indiana the lead back on a shorthanded tally with 1:16 remaining. Coach Ron Hellen had rolled the dice by using four forwards to kill of the penalty. The Eagles made Indiana pay for the gamble and tied the game at 2-2 on a powerful snap shot by Justin Juha with just 11 seconds remaining in the 2nd. Early in the third period, both teams had odd man breaks but could not capitalize. Then, a little over half way through the period, Indiana's Aaron Smith made a nifty play forcing the puck off of the stick of the South Park defenseman and right onto the stick of Schlemmer, who whistled a wrist shot past Episcopo to give the Indians the lead 3-2. At the 1:16 mark, impressive freshman Casey Haines took a pinpoint pass from captain Nicko Speilman, and Casey made no mistake burying a wrist shot upstairs to seal the victory for Indiana in front of a festive crowd of over 600 at the 'House of King Samuel'. Indiana outshot South Park 33-21 on the night.

Click to see the CC Invitational Schedule and Results of all games played ! Semi-Finals Central Catholic 8 Upper St Clair 3 Bethel Park 3 Mt Lebanon 1 Final Bethel Park 2 Central Catholic 1 Congratulations to the Bethel Park Blackhawks - 2001 Central Catholic Invitational Champions !

INDIANA - Two of the 2001 PIHL AA Division champions squared off at the Indiana Ice Center in a rematch of an early season battle won by South Park, who went on the reach the Penguin Cup Semi-Finals. Indiana coach Ron Hellen knew that this Thanksgiving eve game would be huge in the AA playoff picture in March. The first period was sloppy as both teams mounted very little offense. In a harmless two on two sitution South Park's Matt Slogan tried to move a pass cross-ice, the puck glance off a Indiana defenseman's skate and behind Mike Lady to give South Park the opening goal. The period featured some fine goaltending by the Eagles Ian Episcopo, who thwarted several Indian chances. On to the second and while the Eagles maintain a 1-0 lead, Episcipo continued warding off a lot of Indiana opportunities. Then South Park made a mistake, as Corey Schaffer caught the Eagle defenseman pinching, he poked the puck past him and it was off to the races and beat Episcipo and the game was tied at 1-1. Then Bryan Schlemmer scored a goal to give Indiana the lead back on a shorthanded tally with 1:16 remaining. Coach Ron Hellen had rolled the dice by using four forwards to kill of the penalty. The Eagles made Indiana pay for the gamble and tied the game at 2-2 on a powerful snap shot by Justin Juha with just 11 seconds remaining in the 2nd. Early in the third period, both teams had odd man breaks but could not capitalize. Then, a little over half way through the period, Indiana's Aaron Smith made a nifty play forcing the puck off of the stick of the South Park defenseman and right onto the stick of Schlemmer, who whistled a wrist shot past Episcopo to give the Indians the lead 3-2. At the 1:16 mark, impressive freshman Casey Haines took a pinpoint pass from captain Nicko Speilman, and Casey made no mistake burying a wrist shot upstairs to seal the victory for Indiana in front of a festive crowd of over 600 at the 'House of King Samuel'. Indiana outshot South Park 33-21 on the night.

Click to see the CC Invitational Schedule and Results of all games played ! Semi-Finals Central Catholic 8 Upper St Clair 3 Bethel Park 3 Mt Lebanon 1 Final Bethel Park 2 Central Catholic 1 Congratulations to the Bethel Park Blackhawks - 2001 Central Catholic Invitational Champions !

CRANBERRY - Cathedral Prep coach Nels White likes his chances with his Rambler squad this season, because of the young talent and depth he has to work with. Seneca Valley was the opponent tonight and improving under 2nd year coach Brian Cersosimo. The Raiders struck quickly in the games first 2:15 as Trevor Kuhlmann and John Zegarelli tallied to give Seneca a 2-0 lead. The Ramblers stormed back with four unanswered goals by Bob Trunasky, Dan Sweeney, Jon Marriott and Justin Duchini to take a 4-2 advantage to the locker room. Duchini added to the Prep lead with 4:05 left in the second and the Ramblers seemed to be in control. The quick strike of Duchini and Jon-Marc LiVorio with a pair closed the gap to 5-4 at the end of two. In the third period, Prep scored three goals by Ryan Stadler, Marriott and Duchini to put the game on ice and give the Ramblers a four goal lead and Prep wnet on to win 8-5.