Shaler Titans

CRANBERRY - If there are two clubs in Class AAA who have been on a roller coaster ride this early season, it has been North Hills and Shaler. Rich Michalowski's young Titans are gearing for a late season run for Shaler with a good mix of young talent with some veteran players. As for John Daley's North Hills squad you just have wonder which team is gonna show up. The Indians ended Bethel Park's 47 game regular season streak two weeks ago with a 1-0 victory, but have a loss to improved but young Penn Trafford club on the resume. The pre-game chant by NH took place in the runway prior to the Shaler match up and carried right into the opening of the game as Matt Rombach scpored at 14:10 to give the Indians a 1-0 lead. The with 9:48 remaining, Tyler Cummings followed up his own rebound and beat Eddie Stotts to extend the NH lead to 2-0. Shaler woke up in the second period as Justin Thomas took a beautiful pass from Chris Sczypinski and beat Casey Dudt-Mulzet to cut the lead to 2-1 at 14:27 on the power play. North Hills came right back at 10:24 as Mark Keyser extended the Indian lead to 3-1. Thomas made a great move on Dudt Mulzet at 7:20 to make it 3-2 and pull Shaler within one goal. On to the third period and Mark Adams beat Stotts on the backhand at 12:00 to give North Hills a two goal advantage. It didn't last long as Justin Thomas took the ensuing faceoff and beat Dudt-Mulzet upstairs on the short side to complete the hat trick to make it 4-3. The Indians Rombach put the game on ice at 2:58 with a wrist shot between the 5-hole and North Hills added an empty netter at the buzzer to coast to a 6-3 victory.