PIHL Penguins Cup Semifinals Monday Recaps
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Monday, March 19, 2012 | 11:40 PM
The PIHL Penguins Cup Semifinals began Monday night with Class A taking center stage. Mars needed double overtime to advance while Quaker Valley cruises to victory at the Island Sports Complex. Here are recaps from both games.
Quaker Valley Quakers 7 – Kittanning Wildcats 1
By Lee Mohn
Quaker Valley had an easy time Monday night in the semi finals defeating Kittanning 7-1. It was all Quaker Valley all the time. The Quakers scored the first 5 goals and out shot Kittanning 40-15. The Quakers also scored 4 power play goals which was the difference in the game. Jayson Lottes led the way for the Quakers with 3 goals. Ryan Dickson chipped in with 2 goals. Heinz Koster scored his 49th of the season for lone Kittanning goal. Quaker Valley will now go the championship game on Saturday at the Consol.
1st period
7:41 QV Jayson Lottes ( Ryan Lottus)
9:34 QV Jayson Lottes ( Ryan Lottes)
2nd period
8:51 QV Ryan Dickson ( Kevin Kenney)
3rd period
2:02 QV Ryan Dickson ( Clayton Bouchard, Jimmy Perkins)
2:25 QV Otto Schaefer ( Cameron Peterkin)
4:04 Kit Heinz Koster (Elijah Jones)
7:19 QV Jayson Lottes (John Pilewicz)
13:39 QV Clayton Bouchard ( Adam Stanley)
1 2 3 F
Kit 0 0 1 1
QV 2 1 4 7
Shots on goal
1 2 3 Tot
KIT 4 3 8 15
QV 6 25 9 40
Mars Fighting Planets 4 – Hampton Talbots 3 in Double Overtime
By Ken Laird
The Mars Planets will play for a fourth consecutive PIHL Penguins Cup Championship in Class A on Saturday thanks to a Master.
Junior forward Max Master scored off a faceoff 3:09 into overtime at RMU’s Island Sports Center on Monday evening to defeat the Hampton Talbots by a final score of 4-3.
Master, who was on the ice for a number of key late-game faceoffs, won the draw in OT forward to himself on a play Mars Head Coach Steve Myers called a “set play.” Master’s shot then found a hole somewhere on the short side of Talbots’ netminder Cam Raidna, sending the Planets into celebration mode.
Mars built a 3-1 lead through two periods on two power-play goals, one on a point shot by Austin Heakins and one by Ian Houk-Graves on a wrister from the top of the left circle. In between, Heakins made a pretty play to set up Robert Foley in front of the net as the Planets went from down 1-0 early to in control heading into Period 3.
However, Hampton would outshoot Mars in the third period 14-5, getting goals from Joe Vita at the 4:32 mark on a slap shot and then at 6:57 from Luke Leya late on a man-advantage to tie the game at 3-3.
The teams played evenly and fairly conservatively in the first three minutes of the extra session before Master ended the night’s play, giving Mars a chance to play for gold medals once again. Mars will take on Quaker Valley at Consol Energy Center on Saturday for the Class A Penguins Cup Title.
First Niagara Bank Three Stars:
3 – Hampton defenseman Andy Coyle
2 – Mars defenseman Ian Houk-Graves
1 – Mars forward Austin Heakins
Mt. Lebanon Ice Arena Play of the Game:
The Max Masters game-winning goal 3:09 into OT
Period 1
5:10 – Zack Kosic (Luke Leya, Joe Vita) – 1-0 Hampton
6:12 – Austin Heakins [PP] (unassisted) – 1-1
Period 2
4:35 – Robert Foley (Heakins, Reed Salada) – 2-1 Mars
9:49 – Ian Houk-Graves [PP] (Heakins) – 3-1 Mars
Period 3
4:32 – Joe Vita (unassisted) – 3-2 Mars
6:57 – Luke Leya [PP] (Vita, Brian Swain) – 3-3
Overtime
3:09 – Max Masters (unassisted) – 4-3 Mars
Tags: Hampton, Kittanning
