2013 PIHL High School Hockey All-Star Recaps

By: HSSN Staff
Sunday, February 10, 2013 | 3:24 PM

The PIHL held it's annual high school hockey all-star games on Sunday at the Robert Morris University Island Sports Complex on Neville Island. Here are recaps from all four contests heard only here on the MSA Sports Network.

PIHL CLASS AAA All-Star Game:

Southwest Conference 10 – Northeast Conference 1
By Mike Azadian

At the Neville Island Sports Complex at Robert Morris University the PIHL AAA All Star game was expected to be all offense from the Northeast (NE) squad comprised of teams in section three and four of AAA and having Norwin's Daniel Merz with 36 goals on the year and State College's Stefan Horgas with 36 as well.  Both would be held scoreless on the night and the Goaltending of the Southwest (SW) squad ruled the day as the Southwest comprised of teams from sections one and two of AAA would win 10-1. The first period was an evenly matched affair as both teams came out strong on offense, but the SW team scored first on a goal by Ryan Kusmira of Bethel Park, less than a minute later Timmy Palmer of Norwin scored for the SW to tie it at 1-1. One more goal would be scored in the first period and it was Nick Honkala from Mt Lebanon who made it 2-1 Southwest after one period. That  would be the first of 9 unanswered goals thru the end of the first thru the rest of the game as the goalkeepers for the SW team took over. Mike Ambrose of Upper St Clair saved 18 of 19 shots in the first period, Brian Baker of Peters Twp saved 10 of 10 shots in period two, and Tanner Pfeffer of Seneca Valley saved 8 of 8 in the 3rd period. Goal scorers for the Southwest squad were Chris Marziotto from Seneca Valley who had 3 goals, Christian Siak of Bethel Park with two goals, Austin Cassidy from Upper St Clair, Cody Black of North Allegheny, and Stephen Srmac from Mt Lebanon with one each. Marziotto the Jr from Seneca was the number one star with the hat trick of three goals, Siak the Bethel Park Jr was the number two star with 2 goals and 2 assists, and the third star was Mike Ambrose the Upper St Clair goaltender who stopped 18 of 19 first period shots to keep his team in the game.

                  Goals:                     Shots on Goal:

                1st  2nd  3rd           1st   2nd   3rd

Southwest  2  –  5  –  3           11  – 15  –  13  =  39

Northeast   1  –  0   –  0            19  – 11  –   8  =   38

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PIHL Class AA All-Star Game:

NORTHEAST CONFERENCE 7 – SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE 4
By Sam Hall

The Northwest got a pair of goals from Latrobe's Josh Singley and defeated the Southwest 7-4 in the PIHL AA all-start game at RMU Island Sports Complex Sunday afternoon. Trailing 2-1 at the end of the first period the Northeast squad tallied the next five goals to take control of the contest. For his effort Singley was named the number one star of the game. Singley also assisted on Zach Richey's goal that started the five-nil run. The southwest scored a pair of goals in the final five minutes of regulation to pull within 6-4 but Ryan Cole from Pine-Richland stopped all hopes of a comeback for the Southwest team with a backhanded shot to seal the deal for the Northwest with 88 seconds remaining in regulation. The southwest actually dominated for much of the first period in building the 2-1 lead on goals from Canevin's Patrick Large and Char Valley's Cullen McMahon. But Pine-Richland netminder Brendan Bagnato kept the Northeast in the game making a handful of big saves between the pipes, and setting the stage for the Northeast's offensive fireworks. McMahon scored a pair of goals and added an assist for the Southwest and his teammate Anthony Franks collected three assists on the night. The northeast added tallies from Zach Richey (Pine-Richland), Andrew Walters (Plum), Zach Kosick (Hampton) and Joey Randazzo (Plum) for their total of seven. The Southwest's other goal came from Tyler Stevenson of Char Valley.

Score By Periods

Northeast        1  –  2  –  4  –  7

Southwest      2  –  0  –  2  –  4

Shots on Goal by period

Northeast     10  –  17  –  18  –  45

Southwest    16  –  10  –  14  –  40

MSA Three Stars of the Game

*** Northeast Brendan Bagnato GK – Pine-Richland 14 Saves

** Shared By Southwest players Anthony Franks and Cullen McMahon both from Char Valley combined for 2 goals and 4 assists

* Northeast Josh Singley Greater Latrobe 2 goals 1 assist

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PIHL Class A All-Star Game

Southwest Conference 7 – Northeast Conference 4
By Mike Sackley

A high-flying Southwest Conference All-Star team was too much Sunday afternoon for the Northeast Conference's squad, winning the PIHL Class A All-Star Game 7-4 at the Robert Morris Island Sports Center at Neville Island. Adam Pilewicz (Quaker Valley) was the star of Sunday afternoon's game, scoring three goals with two of them as answers to two Northeast power play goals in the 2nd period. Pilewicz's 2nd goal with 1:07 left in the 2nd period would not only prove to be the game-winner, but also took the life out of a Northeast team trying to come back from its 2nd period deficit. It was the Northeast that got out of the gates first as Zak Nedwreski (Westmont-Hilltop) tallied the first goal of the game midway through the first period. The next three goals would come from Mars players. Ed Schwadron (Mars) tied the game in the first. Max Master (Mars) and Ian Houk-Graves (Mars) would tally scores in the 2nd period to make it 3-1 in favor of the Southwest. For the Northeast, Christian Miller (Kittanning) was the star, scoring two goals on the afternoon. The first came on the power play to bring the Northeast within one before Pilewicz answered. Miller would then assist on another Northeast power play goal scored by Ryan Siwy (Bishop McCort) before Pilewicz would answer again to close out the 2nd period. Pilewicz would get the hat trick in the 3rd with a bullet of a shot from the right circle to make it 6-3. Miller would make it 6-4 late in the 3rd period but after a missed opportunity on the power play, the Northeast pulled goaltender William Potter (Greensburg Central Catholic) and the Southwest made them pay right away as Ryan Schultz (South Fayette) tallied the empty-netter from neutral ice. There was plenty of offense on both sides but the playmakers on the Southwest eventually took over and notched the win in Sunday's All-Star game.

1st period

NE: Zak Nedwreski (JJ Cavrak) 8:18

SW:  Ed Schwadron (Craig Mazzotta, Max Master) 6:21

2nd period

SW: Master (Mazzotta) 16:32

SW: Ian Houk-Graves (unassisted) 8:19

NE: Christian Miller (Hunter Grafton) 6:06 PP

SW: Adam Pilewicz (Ryan Dickson, Cam Sabatini) 5:45

NE: Ryan Siwy (Miller, Grafton) 2:28 PP

SW: Pilewicz (Dickson, Bill Walker) 1:07

3rd period

SW: Pilewicz (unassisted) 11:35

NE: Miller (unassisted) 3:50

SW: Schultz (unassisted) 1:17 EN

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PIHL Open Class All-Star Game:

NORTHEAST CONFERENCE 4 – SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE 2
By Steve Nagler

For the second straight year, the Northeast Conference All- Stars doubled up the Southwest Conference in the Open Class PIHL All-Star game. Hollidaysburg's Macky Power led the way for the Northeast with two goals en route to the 4-2 win. Power, who leads the Open Class in goals (50) and points (84), scored what would ultimately be the game-winning goal at 12:39 of the 2nd period on a great pass from Ford City's Jess Valasek. That goal was the only goal scored in the middle period after the Northeast took a 2-1 after one period..  Indiana's Austin Jasper got the scoring started for the Northeast less than five minutes into the game. Northeast added to their lead when Anthony Alaimo (Baldwin) scored at the 12:09 mark. Southwest's Porter Knollinger (Wheeling Park) cut the Northeast lead in half only :32 after the Aliamo goal as he scored on a wrist shot from the high slot on an odd-man rush. The Southwest squad got to within one goal with a Nicco Catalano (Wheeling Park) goal just 1:37 into the 3rd period but Macky Power clinched the Northwest victory with a breakaway goal with less than 5:00 in the game. Power beat Southwest goaltender Tara Treloar (Beaver) on the backhand. All of the goaltenders played well for both times but Northeast goaltender Ryan Beerman (Baldwin) and Southwest goaltender John McFarland (Wheeling Central) stole the show.  Beerman stopped all 10 Southwest shots he faced in the 2nd period and McFarland, who faced a peppering 28 shots in the first period, stopped all but two Northeast shots.

OPEN CLASS BOX SCORE:

1st Period

NE Austin Jasper (Cody Austad), 4:11

NE Anthony Alaimo (Eric Lindey), 12:09

SW Porter Knollinger (Michael Grove, Ian McArdle), 12:41

2nd Period

NE Macky Power (Jesse Valasek)

3rd Period

SW Nicco Catalano (McArdle), 1:37

NE Power (Brandon Ritchey), 12:05

Shots On Goal
Northeast:    28 – 10 – 10 = 48
Southwest:   10 –   8 – 10 = 28