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

Thank you for the contributions to this report from Hempfield Hockey Hempfield coach Bruce Cameron has to be pleased with the start for his Spartan club, which sits at 4-2-0 behind Franklin Regional in the East Division. A win over Penn Trafford would tie Hempfield for the Division lead, which has been a rarity for the Spartans for the past few years. Hempfield goaltender Julian Yakubisin has lead Hempfield with some fine goaltending over the past few games. Penn Trafford coach Todd Purvis knows his team is a playoff contender because the Warriors have been to the playoffs the past two season with a very young squads and are looking to mature to make some noise in Class AAA. At 1-5-0, PT desperately needed a win to get back into the division race and would need some of its big guns to produce, including the swift Chris Cerutti, who has led the Warriors in scoring from the outset this season. One look at the schedule for Penn Trafford in November will tell you that this team has played Class AAA’s elite in losses to Bethel Park, Franklin Regional, Plum and Upper St. Clair, so the worst stretch of the schedule may be behind the Warriors. Hempfield wasted no time jumping on Penn Trafford as John Zurenski buried a backhand upstairs past Joel Sterniak just 30 seconds into the first period. Julian Yakubisin made a couple of stops on a nice flurry by the PT offense at 12:43. Dave Brammel got Penn Trafford on the board at 9:14 takinga beautiful pass from Anthony Scarpo to tie the game. Joel Sterniak preserved the PT lead stopping a wrist shot from Jeff Robinson at 4:53. Chris Cerutti scored a clutch goal after that as he buried a shot upstairs over Yakubisin to give the Warriors the lead at 3:24. The second period was penalty filled and pretty chippy and Penn Trafford dominated play outshooting Hempfield 22-14 through the first two periods. Chris Cerutti scored a huge insurance goal on the power play with 6:46 remaining and Penn Trafford took a 3-1 lead to the final period. At 10:50 of third John Zurenski scored on a rebound on the power play goal to get Hempfield back in it at 3-2. PT came back picking the Hempfield defense’s pocket as Cerutti went on the breakaway and deeked to lower right side of Yakubison at 8:43 of the third to make it 4-2. PT then made it 5-2 with 5:42 left when Anthony Scarpo came down the left side and fired a slapshot to the upper right corner over Yakubishin's glove and seal the victory for the Warriors.

HARMARVILLE ~ Special Report to Pa Hockey courtesy of Central Catholic Hockey Club Central Catholic scored 10 goals in the first period, 4 in the second and 5 in the third to defeat Allderdice. Central was led by four goals each from Eddie Martin and Joe Coulter and 3 from Matt Urso. Josh Martin, Bryan Dietz, and Billy Connelly each scored twice as Michael McGurk and Matt Capalongo picked up 5 assists each. CC outshot the Dice 74 - 3 (1st 30-1, 2nd 20-2, 3rd 24-0) and Bryan Adamczak picked up the shutout. The win marked the 400th Regular Season victory of the Central Catholic Viking Hockey club marking the 3rd school in Western Pennsylvania history to do so along with Kittanning / Armstrong and Upper St Clair. The Vikings began play in 1972 and are competing in their 32nd consecutive season of Varsity hockey. The next program to achieve this elite company appears to be Mt Lebanon, who now has 377 wins as off Thursday night, Congratulations to Central Catholic !

DELMONT ~ North Hills has been an enigma ever since its Penguin Cup Semi-Final appearance in 2001 and coach Dave Ciotti has been called upon to right the ship. The Indians have left of 2003-2004 where they ended 2002-2003, losing a couple close games against Bethel Park, and then winning an overtime contest against a much improved Connellsville club, what I am sure the coach scratching his head are the wipe outs against Fox Chapel 7-0 and Plum 4-0, which have put NH in the middle of the pack, striving for some consistency. Gateway, on the other hand, has a very young team with a sprinkling of veterans from a team who has a very bright future and may happen in the middle to late in this season. Coach Lou Biancanello has a hard working club, which is still adjusting to the Varsity level, but when they do, this could be a team that will pull off some upsets and sneak into the playoff picture. North Hills dominated the first period outshooting the Gators 7-2 as Jeremy Kubit opened the scoring to give the Indians a 1-0 lead. Gateway just kept on coming and Corey ‘Rudy’ Tucek banged home a rebound at 11:01 to tie the score. It didn’t take long for the Gators and Tucek to gain the lead as the Gateway forward found the net again just 46 seconds later for a 2-1 lead at 10:15. This would be the Gators night as Brendan Miles fired a slap shot from the right point that caromed off Matt ‘Little Scotty’ Scottbehind Casey Dudt-Mulzet, for Scotty’s first ever Varsity goal and a 3-1 Gateway lead. The Gators held a 13-8 shot advantage in the second period and would move onto the third with a 3-1 lead. On to the third period, and when Gateway failed to score on a 5 on 3 power play, North Hills had new life and capitalized as Dave Hansell’s shot from a weird again found its way past J.D. Domenick and cut the lead to 3-2 at 9:57. North Hills called on Casey Dudt-Mulzet to keep it a one goal game as he stoned Scott Lyons and Craig Leith at 8:45. North Hills took a bad penalty with 3:22 to play, but killed it and stormed the Gateway zone with under a minute to play and the goalie pulled. Domenick made a couple of great saves and Leith found a loose puck and sent it 150 into an empty net giving the Gators a hard fought 4-2 victory at Center Ice.

Thank you for the contributions to this report from Hempfield Hockey Hempfield coach Bruce Cameron has to be pleased with the start for his Spartan club, which sits at 4-2-0 behind Franklin Regional in the East Division. A win over Penn Trafford would tie Hempfield for the Division lead, which has been a rarity for the Spartans for the past few years. Hempfield goaltender Julian Yakubisin has lead Hempfield with some fine goaltending over the past few games. Penn Trafford coach Todd Purvis knows his team is a playoff contender because the Warriors have been to the playoffs the past two season with a very young squads and are looking to mature to make some noise in Class AAA. At 1-5-0, PT desperately needed a win to get back into the division race and would need some of its big guns to produce, including the swift Chris Cerutti, who has led the Warriors in scoring from the outset this season. One look at the schedule for Penn Trafford in November will tell you that this team has played Class AAA’s elite in losses to Bethel Park, Franklin Regional, Plum and Upper St. Clair, so the worst stretch of the schedule may be behind the Warriors. Hempfield wasted no time jumping on Penn Trafford as John Zurenski buried a backhand upstairs past Joel Sterniak just 30 seconds into the first period. Julian Yakubisin made a couple of stops on a nice flurry by the PT offense at 12:43. Dave Brammel got Penn Trafford on the board at 9:14 takinga beautiful pass from Anthony Scarpo to tie the game. Joel Sterniak preserved the PT lead stopping a wrist shot from Jeff Robinson at 4:53. Chris Cerutti scored a clutch goal after that as he buried a shot upstairs over Yakubisin to give the Warriors the lead at 3:24. The second period was penalty filled and pretty chippy and Penn Trafford dominated play outshooting Hempfield 22-14 through the first two periods. Chris Cerutti scored a huge insurance goal on the power play with 6:46 remaining and Penn Trafford took a 3-1 lead to the final period. At 10:50 of third John Zurenski scored on a rebound on the power play goal to get Hempfield back in it at 3-2. PT came back picking the Hempfield defense’s pocket as Cerutti went on the breakaway and deeked to lower right side of Yakubison at 8:43 of the third to make it 4-2. PT then made it 5-2 with 5:42 left when Anthony Scarpo came down the left side and fired a slapshot to the upper right corner over Yakubishin's glove and seal the victory for the Warriors.

HARMARVILLE ~ Special Report to Pa Hockey courtesy of Central Catholic Hockey Club Central Catholic scored 10 goals in the first period, 4 in the second and 5 in the third to defeat Allderdice. Central was led by four goals each from Eddie Martin and Joe Coulter and 3 from Matt Urso. Josh Martin, Bryan Dietz, and Billy Connelly each scored twice as Michael McGurk and Matt Capalongo picked up 5 assists each. CC outshot the Dice 74 - 3 (1st 30-1, 2nd 20-2, 3rd 24-0) and Bryan Adamczak picked up the shutout. The win marked the 400th Regular Season victory of the Central Catholic Viking Hockey club marking the 3rd school in Western Pennsylvania history to do so along with Kittanning / Armstrong and Upper St Clair. The Vikings began play in 1972 and are competing in their 32nd consecutive season of Varsity hockey. The next program to achieve this elite company appears to be Mt Lebanon, who now has 377 wins as off Thursday night, Congratulations to Central Catholic !