PIHL Notebook – 01/07/2014

By: HSSN Staff
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 | 10:57 AM

Welcome to another edition of “PIHL Notebook,” your weekly companion to “The PIHL Power Play” on the MSA Sports Network. First up, “Melting the Ice” provides your weekly thermometer of streaking teams around the league. Meanwhile, this week’s “Scoreboard Watch” includes a pair of network broadcasts, some overtime action and a trio of section battles in the Open Class. Last but not least, we round things out with a preview of our featured broadcast for this week, another big divisional showdown in the Open Class. So, let’s light the lamp on this edition of “PIHL Notebook.”

MELTING THE ICE (Records listed indicate current unbeaten streak):

Class AAA: Peters Township (8-0-0); Bethel Park (7-0-0); North Allegheny (4-0-1)

Class AA: Bishop Canevin (7-0-0); Plum (3-0-0)

Class A: Mars (11-0-0); Quaker Valley (4-0-0)

Open Class: Indiana (8-0-0); Harbor Creek (6-0-0); Baldwin (6-0-0); Altoona (3-0-0)

SCOREBOARD WATCH:

Class AAA

1/2/14 – Section 1: Bethel Park 2-1-3=6, Upper St. Clair 1-0-0=1 (MSA)

Shots on Goal: BP 46, USC 24

Game-Winner: Spencer Bawcom PP (Tyler Kruszewski, Christian Siak) @ 10:57 of 1st

Three Stars: #3 Zach Davis, BP (23 SV); #2 Bawcom, BP (2 G); #1 Siak, BP (2 G, 3 A)

1/2/14 – Non-Section: Seneca Valley 2-0-0-1=3, Penn-Trafford 2-0-0-0=2 (OT)

Shots on Goal: SV 44, PT 28

Game-Winner: Benjamin Jarrett (Nic Raible, Brendan MacFarlane) @ 1:31 of OT

Three Stars: #3 Tanner Pfeffer, SV (26 SV); #2 Jacob Miller, PT (1 G, 1 A); #1 Eric Phelps, PT (41 SV)

1/3/14 – Non-Section: Shaler 4-4-3=11, Norwin 3-2-1=6

Shots on Goal: SH 42, NO 27

Game-Winner: Austin Martz (Matthew Bour) @ 14:49 of 2nd

Three Stars: #3 Bour, SH (3 A); #2 Dante Youhon, NO (3 G, 1 PS, 1 A); #1 Martz, SH (5 G, 1 PP)

Class AA

1/2/14 – Non-Section: Chartiers Valley 2-3-1=6, Latrobe 0-0-0=0

Shots on Goal: CV 24, LA 24

Game-Winner: Cullen McMahon (Tyler Stevenson, Anthony Franks) @ 6:12 of 1st

Three Stars: #3 McMahon, CV (1 G, 4 A); #2 Franks, CV (3 G, 2 A); #1 Alexander Chabala, CV (24 SV)

1/2/14 – Non-Section: North Hills 1-2-1=4, West Allegheny 0-2-1=3

Shots on Goal: WA 37, NH 19

Game-Winner: Tiernan McGrath PP (Jarod Rodney, Sam Urbanek) @ 11:01 of 3rd

Three Stars: #3 Hunter Ross, WA (1 G, 1 A); #2 Brett Berner, NH (1 G, 2 A); #1 Trenton Pelligreno, NH (34 SV)

1/3/14 – Non-Section: Bishop Canevin 5-1-1=7, Armstrong 0-1-0=1 (MSA)

Shots on Goal: BC 43, AR 36

Game-Winner: Blaine Adams (Alec Bosnic) @ 1:25 of 1st

Three Stars: #3 Garrett Godlewski, BC (2 G, 1 A); #2 Nikita Meskin, BC (35 SV); #1 Randy Unger, BC (4 A)

Class A

1/3/14 – Non-Section: Mars 0-0-0-1=1, Westmont Hilltop 0-0-0-0=0 (OT)

Shots on Goal: MA 43, WH 27

Game-Winner: Ian Houk-Graves (Unassisted) @ 1:12 of OT

Three Stars: #3 Houk-Graves, MA (GWG); #2 Sebastian Ragno, WH (42 SV); #1 Tyler Spreng, MA (27 SV)

1/3/14 –Section 1: Thomas Jefferson 6-3-3=12, South Park 1-1-1=3

Shots on Goal: TJ 42, SP 23

Game-Winner: Tommy Kimmick (Brendan Mason, Jason Ceccarelli) @ 7:55 of 1st

Three Stars: #3 Nicholas Tamburi, TJ (2 G, 2 A); #2 Mason, TJ (2 G, 3 A); #1 Kimmick, TJ (3 G, 3 A)

1/3/14 – Non-Section: Deer Lakes 3-5-4=12, South Fayette 0-1-0=1

Shots on Goal: DL 43, SF 12

Game-Winner: Thomas Lisowski (Unassisted) @ 10:33 of 1st

Three Stars: #3 Jonathan Merlo, DL (2 G, 1 A); #2 Zachary Luniewski, DL (4 G, 1 PP, 1 SH); #1 Lisowski, DL (3 G, 1 PP, 3 A)

Open Class

1/2/14 – Section 3: Hempfield 2-2-2=6, Greensburg Salem 1-0-0=1

Shots on Goal: HE 24, GS 21

Game-Winner: Conor Cortazzo (Unassisted) @ 10:34 of 1st

Three Stars: #3 Jacob Bartus, HE (2 G); #2 Garrett Ciaramella, HE (20 SV); #1 Cortazzo, HE (2 G, 2 A)

1/2/14 – Section 4: Carrick 3-1-2=6, Ringgold 0-2-1=3

Shots on Goal: CA 33, RI 32

Game-Winner: Anthony Manuel (Jacob Speicher) @ 7:21 of 2nd

Three Stars: #3 Alex Nageli, RI (PPG, 1 A); #2 Manuel, CA (2 G); #1 Nathan Norkevicus, CA (29 SV)

1/3/14 – Section 3: Gateway 2-1-2=5, Greensburg C.C. 1-2-1=4

Shots on Goal: GA 32, GC 22

Game-Winner: Matthew Doman PP (Luke Fossati, Tanner Davis) @ 7:32 of 3rd

Three Stars: #3 Davis, GA (1 G, 2 A); #2 Nicholas Benjamin, GC (2 G, 1 A); #1 Doman, GA (2 G, 1 A)

UPCOMING MSA BROADCASTS

1/9/14 – Open Class –Section 2: Harbor Creek Huskies (11-1-0) vs. Blackhawk Cougars (7-4-0) AT Beaver County Ice Arena at 6:45pm (Mike Azadian and Lee Mohn) … The Huskies have won six straight while the Cougars are 3-2-0 in their last five. Blackhawk did win the previous meeting by a 6-3 count on November 25 thanks in part to a five-point performance by Robert Swinderman (2 G, 3 A). Harbor Creek owes much of its hot streak to the play of scoring machine Logan Conboy (25 G, 42 PTS) and iron man goaltender Tyler Manna (11-1-0, 1.83 GAA, 0.913 SV %, 3 SO). Meanwhile, Kyle Schaefer again leads the Cougars in scoring (17 G, 3 SH, 17 A).

That wraps up this edition of “PIHL Notebook,” but check back every Monday through March for more news from around the league. In the meantime, Adam Hoerner and Josh Rowntree host another episode of “The PIHL Power Play” this Wednesday night at 8:00. Joining us this week will be Deer Lakes forward Zach Luniewski, Butler head coach Mike Guentner and Altoona bench boss Donald Burgmeier. Your home for the 2014 Penguins Cup Playoffs is the MSA Sports Network!