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Semi - Finals
Fox Chapel 5 North Hills 3
Fox Chapel has had some very good teams over the past few years and has been snakebitten in the St Margaret’s Fall Face Off over the past few years. Jim Damp’s squad was looking to get by the semi final round, which they have failed to do the past three years.
North Hills is still riding the wave from late last season as the Indians won a slew of games down the stretch into the playoffs. Without leading scorer Fred Latini, it would be a tough task for the Indians to reach the finals over the Foxes. Fox Chapel raced to a 3-0 lead through two periods on goals by Kyle Misour, Andrew McCoy and Steven Bartynski, while Eric Thiessen continued pitching shutouts between the pipes stopping all 18 Indians shots.
NH came back in the third and made a game of it as David Hansell, Nick Rostek and Mark Ringeling scored goals to sandwich a Joe Budz goal and make it a 4-3 game into the games final four minutes. Eric Thiessen would be the star of this game with several key saves in the final period and stopping 24 shots on the evening. Steven Bartynski netted and empty netter for a 5-3 final for the Foxes.
Fox Chapel returns to the St Margaret’s Fall Face Off final for the first time since 1997 when the Foxes won two consecutive titles over Franklin Regional.
North Allegheny 7 Plum 1
A rematch of the 2004 and 2004 St Margaret’s Fall Face Off finals both won by the North Allegheny Tigers over the Plum Mustangs, tonight’s semi-final of the 2005 tournament matched two teams who were hit hard by graduation, but both are in the proving stage to their seasons from a year ago in one form or another. Plum is looking to repeat as two time division champions and the Tigers are looking to take the next step in the process of ultimately their ultimate goal of a State Championship.
John Bronder with a few nice stops early on around the 10-minute mark and Plum was the recipient of the games first power play at 9:21 and didn’t score. The second power play would result in the games opening goal at 4:49 as Chad Covol took a beautiful feed from Ben Colosmo and made no mistake beating Max Richards for a 1-0 Plum lead. NA outshot the Mustangs 9-6 in the opening period.
The Tigers came out smoking in the middle period as Chris Simanic scored on a second chance beating a sprawling Bronder to tie the score at 14:43. NA took its first lead just 22 ticks later as Josh Herbert walked out of the corner and beat the Plum goaltender through the 5-hole to make it 2-1. Max Richards made his first big save of the game at 11:54 of the 2nd as he stopped Jon Smith on a clean break after a nifty spin-a-rama to elude two Tiger defensemen and keep North Allegheny on top 2-1. Then at 6:29, the Tigers Chris Gilson undressed the Plum defense and beat Bronder on the backhand to push the lead to 3-1. North Allegheny made the power play count with some very nice puck movement as Chris Simanic finished off a nice cross crease feed from Alan Halapin with a little under 4 minutes to go to make it 4-1.
The Tigers iced the game in the third period with three goals as Josh Herbert, Joe Camut and Dan Gaertner scored for North Allegheny for a 7-1 final and a fifth consecutive trip to the Fall Face Off Finals looking for its 4th championship. NA defeated Plum in 2004 and 2003 and Hampton in 2001, with its only loss to Franklin Regional in 2002. In fact, after further review, the Tigers have been to the finals 7 out of the last nine years.
Consolation Round – October 11, 2005
Pine Richland 7 Franklin Regional 3
Franklin Regional tied the game at 3-3 as John Cecere scored 29 seconds into the 3rd period. Pine Richland showed why many consider them the most explosive team in all of Class AA as the Rams rattled off four consecutive goals in less than ten minutes to defeat the Panthers.
George Saad notched a hat trick and Josh Fodor added a pair of goals, while Steven Adams and Dylan Trombetta scored singles for the Rams. Turner Andritz, Shane Crossey and Cecere scored for the Panthers.
Hampton 5 Shaler 3
Hampton avenged a defeat in the Fall Face Off from a year ago with a 5-3 victory over Shaler. Rick Coyle, Patrick Duffy, Chase Evans, Eric Kelly and Jordan Dellatorre scored for the Talbots, who broke a 3-3 tie with 10:50 remaining in the 3rd period. Brian Ulanowicz scored twice for the Titans, while Grant Duss added a single.
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