Peters Twp Indians - 2014 AAA 2002-2003-2005 AA

VALENCIA - Pine Richland 6 West Allegheny 0 A who’s who night of Western Pennsylvania AA Hockey tonight as yours truly and Earl ‘Mr Center Ice’ Bugaile’ headed a star studded cast as Ed ‘Jake’ Jacobs, some ‘Concerned Citizens of Montour’, the Kittanning coaching staff of Jon Yackmack, Lee Grafton and Jamie King, former PR coach Bobby Black, Brian Cole, Quaker Valley assistant Jim Miller, Dave ‘Robin the Boy Wonder’, Joe Avi, Joe Ritchey, Hampton’s Brian Steckel among the Concerned Citizens of Pine Richland and West Allegheny Pine Richland and West Allegheny entered this evening’s game holding down the top 2 spots in Class AA for the upcoming Penguins Cup playoffs and the winner would capture the # 1 seed position. Both teams are looking to keep the playoff edge as the opening round will be contested later this week and WA and PR will await the first round winners for action beginning next week. Norm Cook and Jimmy Black both feel their teams have a great shot at capture their respective schools first ever Penguins Cup at Mellon Arena on March 25th. Pine Richland didn’t take long to strike as a streaking Josh Fodor converted a feed from Jordan Yoklic at 14:32 for a quick 1-0 lead. Kyle Mortimer made the game’s first big save at 10:32, stopping multiple cracks and the 2nd rebound for Jordan Yoklic from point blank range. The Rams made it 2-0 as George Saad walked the puck out of the corner and beat Mortimer squeezing the puck through the 5 hole at 9:12. Pine Richland continued to dominate the opening period and with 1:08 remaining in opening period as Jordan Yoklic tipped a long shot off the stick of Geoff Bagnato. Sweet replaced Mortimer in goal to start the second period. George Saad pounced on a Brian Miller rebound at 10:48 and beat Sweet to make it 4-0. The Rams just kept on coming and at 7:52, they would not be denied as Brian Miller banged home a rebound of linemate George Saad to turn this on into a 5-0 runaway. At 8:19, the Rams lit the lamp again as George Saad completed the hat trick with an assist to Brian Miller and a 6-0 lead. With 4:29 remaining, Stoney Hildreth kept his shutout stopping Jeff Cupelli. Pine Richland earned a convincing 6-0 win over the Indians and has built quite a bit of momentum for the upcoming playoffs and will also be the # 1 seed.

VALENCIA - Pine Richland 6 West Allegheny 0 A who’s who night of Western Pennsylvania AA Hockey tonight as yours truly and Earl ‘Mr Center Ice’ Bugaile’ headed a star studded cast as Ed ‘Jake’ Jacobs, some ‘Concerned Citizens of Montour’, the Kittanning coaching staff of Jon Yackmack, Lee Grafton and Jamie King, former PR coach Bobby Black, Brian Cole, Quaker Valley assistant Jim Miller, Dave ‘Robin the Boy Wonder’, Joe Avi, Joe Ritchey, Hampton’s Brian Steckel among the Concerned Citizens of Pine Richland and West Allegheny Pine Richland and West Allegheny entered this evening’s game holding down the top 2 spots in Class AA for the upcoming Penguins Cup playoffs and the winner would capture the # 1 seed position. Both teams are looking to keep the playoff edge as the opening round will be contested later this week and WA and PR will await the first round winners for action beginning next week. Norm Cook and Jimmy Black both feel their teams have a great shot at capture their respective schools first ever Penguins Cup at Mellon Arena on March 25th. Pine Richland didn’t take long to strike as a streaking Josh Fodor converted a feed from Jordan Yoklic at 14:32 for a quick 1-0 lead. Kyle Mortimer made the game’s first big save at 10:32, stopping multiple cracks and the 2nd rebound for Jordan Yoklic from point blank range. The Rams made it 2-0 as George Saad walked the puck out of the corner and beat Mortimer squeezing the puck through the 5 hole at 9:12. Pine Richland continued to dominate the opening period and with 1:08 remaining in opening period as Jordan Yoklic tipped a long shot off the stick of Geoff Bagnato. Sweet replaced Mortimer in goal to start the second period. George Saad pounced on a Brian Miller rebound at 10:48 and beat Sweet to make it 4-0. The Rams just kept on coming and at 7:52, they would not be denied as Brian Miller banged home a rebound of linemate George Saad to turn this on into a 5-0 runaway. At 8:19, the Rams lit the lamp again as George Saad completed the hat trick with an assist to Brian Miller and a 6-0 lead. With 4:29 remaining, Stoney Hildreth kept his shutout stopping Jeff Cupelli. Pine Richland earned a convincing 6-0 win over the Indians and has built quite a bit of momentum for the upcoming playoffs and will also be the # 1 seed.

SPECIAL REPORT FROM ERIE TIMES NEWS By JASON SNYDER Contributing writer By completing one shutout, McDowell goalie John Cleary earned another. Cleary capped a perfect career against hockey rival Cathedral Prep on Wednesday with the Trojans' 6-0 PIHL West win over the Ramblers at the Mercyhurst Ice Center. It was the senior goaltender's sixth win in six tries against the Ramblers (13-24-1, 8-14-0 PIHL), whose playoff chances are all but gone with eight straight losses to end the season. Behind Cleary's play in net and two goals and an assist by junior Brandon Oathout, the Trojans (19-15-1, 12-7-1 PIHL) put two potentially dangerous games against Prep behind them. "Every time we play them, I seem to get hot," said Cleary, who had 22 saves. "It might just be that Prep-McDowell rivalry that makes you want to give everything you can." For the second straight game, McDowell took a period to get going offensively, leading just 1-0 after the first off a goal by Nick DiSanti. Ryan Adams opened a four-goal second period for the Trojans with an unassisted goal off a blast from outside the blue line. Oathout, who assisted DiSanti's goal, scored on back-to-back breakaways. "(I thought), let's just bury one and put them away," Oathout said. "It was senior night and we wanted to do it for those guys and we came out and did it." Trevor Shaw and Tyler Nolf closed the Trojans' scoring. McDowell outshot Prep 45-22 and killed four Rambler power plays. Prep's biggest scoring opportunity came in the first period when a bouncing puck appeared to be on its way into the net. "Ed Maras basically saved my shutout for me," Cleary said. "He made a great dive across the net to stop the puck, and if it wasn't for that, it could have been a 1-1 game and anything could have happened." McDowell coach Paul Mancini was happy to see Cleary earn the shutout after he missed it with a last-minute goal by the Ramblers last week. "John's a rock for us," Mancini said. "We kind of owed him one after the last game. We wanted to make sure that didn't happen again." McDowell, already a lock for the PIHL postseason, still must face powers Upper St. Clair and Meadville before its playoff seeding is determined. "We're on a bit of a hot streak now,"Oathout said. "We beat Fox Chapel in overtime and now these guys twice, so hopefully we'll carry the momentum on the road."

SPECIAL REPORT FROM ERIE TIMES NEWS By JASON SNYDER Contributing writer By completing one shutout, McDowell goalie John Cleary earned another. Cleary capped a perfect career against hockey rival Cathedral Prep on Wednesday with the Trojans' 6-0 PIHL West win over the Ramblers at the Mercyhurst Ice Center. It was the senior goaltender's sixth win in six tries against the Ramblers (13-24-1, 8-14-0 PIHL), whose playoff chances are all but gone with eight straight losses to end the season. Behind Cleary's play in net and two goals and an assist by junior Brandon Oathout, the Trojans (19-15-1, 12-7-1 PIHL) put two potentially dangerous games against Prep behind them. "Every time we play them, I seem to get hot," said Cleary, who had 22 saves. "It might just be that Prep-McDowell rivalry that makes you want to give everything you can." For the second straight game, McDowell took a period to get going offensively, leading just 1-0 after the first off a goal by Nick DiSanti. Ryan Adams opened a four-goal second period for the Trojans with an unassisted goal off a blast from outside the blue line. Oathout, who assisted DiSanti's goal, scored on back-to-back breakaways. "(I thought), let's just bury one and put them away," Oathout said. "It was senior night and we wanted to do it for those guys and we came out and did it." Trevor Shaw and Tyler Nolf closed the Trojans' scoring. McDowell outshot Prep 45-22 and killed four Rambler power plays. Prep's biggest scoring opportunity came in the first period when a bouncing puck appeared to be on its way into the net. "Ed Maras basically saved my shutout for me," Cleary said. "He made a great dive across the net to stop the puck, and if it wasn't for that, it could have been a 1-1 game and anything could have happened." McDowell coach Paul Mancini was happy to see Cleary earn the shutout after he missed it with a last-minute goal by the Ramblers last week. "John's a rock for us," Mancini said. "We kind of owed him one after the last game. We wanted to make sure that didn't happen again." McDowell, already a lock for the PIHL postseason, still must face powers Upper St. Clair and Meadville before its playoff seeding is determined. "We're on a bit of a hot streak now,"Oathout said. "We beat Fox Chapel in overtime and now these guys twice, so hopefully we'll carry the momentum on the road."

Team Pittsburgh Head Coach Paul Taibi of Mt Lebanon has been selected to guide Team Pittsburgh at the 2006 Chicago Showcase. Coach Taibi has led the Blue Devils to a perfect 22-0-0 regular season in Class AAA heading into the 2006 Penguins Cup playoffs and 2006 Pennsylvania High School Hockey Championships at RMU Island Sports Center on April 8th. The 22nd Chicago Showcase will be held on April 19 - 23, 2006 at the Edge Ice Arena in Bensenville, Illinois. The tournament features teams from all over the United States and Team Pittsburgh will compete TOP A Bracket [J.J. O'Conner] with the likes of Minnesota, New York , and California and others. A year ago Team Pittsburgh went on a near magical run losing in the Semi-Finals to Team Minnesota. This tournament is a great opportunity to be seen by Junior A, Division 1 and NCAA Collegiate and ACHA Division 1 scouts and an opportunity to further a players high school career into a higher education and also continue playing hockey. Tryout information will be posted as soon as it becomes available. ***THE 2006 Team is posted*** Wednesday April 19, 2006 Team Pittsburgh 7 Team New York 1 HIGHLIGHTS: Pittsburgh breaks open a 2-1 game in the third period with five unanswered goals. Chris Urso scores a pair and Shane Ferguson adds a goal and 3 assists and Josh Mandic and Josh Fodor notch a goal and two assists each. Brendan Conlon also scores a 3rd period tally. Team Philadelphia 12 Team Kentucky/West Virginia 3 HIGHLIGHTS: Ian DeLong scores four goals and Kent Kovalsky adds three assists as Philly gives Kentucky/WV a rude welcome to the Chicago Showcase. Thursday April 20, 2006 Team South 10 Team Kentucky/West Virginia 4 Team Connecticut 4 Team Philadelphia 1 HIGHLIGHTS: Ian DeLong breaks Connecticut's shutout bid in the thrid period Team Pittsburgh 5 Team California 1 ****GAME SUMMARIES**** Friday April 21, 2006 Team Philadelphia 5 Team South 2 HIGHLIGHTS: Philly gets the hat trick from Kevin Burke and singles from Ian DeLong and Trey Milstead to win 2nd game of the tournament. Team Pittsburgh 4 Minnesota 3 ****GAME SUMMARIES**** Saturday April 22, 2006 Consolation Round Team Philadelphia 5 Team Ohio 5 HIGHLIGHTS: Colin Henny, Chris Gaunt, Ben Souders, Trey Milstead, Trey and Daniel Altland score as Philly goes 2-1-1 in the 2006 Showcase Quarter-Finals Pittsburgh 4 Tri-State 3 ***GAME SUMMARIES*** New Jersey 5 Northern New England 4 [OT] Minnesota 6 Illinois 5 [OT] North Dakota 4 Wisconsin 2 Sunday April 23, 2006 Semi-Finals Team New Jersey 6 Team Minnesota 5 [OT] Team North Dakota 5 Team Pittsburgh 4 ****GAME SUMMARIES**** Finals New Jersey 3 North Dakota 2 Follow all of the actions of the 2006 Chicago Showcase with Pa Hockey and look for a complete recap Monday on Pa Hockey