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ERIE - The JMC Arena, formerly known as the Glenwood Zoo, in Erie has been the scene of many historic high school hockey games over the years. The first state final in 1975 which saw the comeback kids from Baldwin defeat Churchill in overtime. A return in of the State Final in 1979,for Churchill to captured the crown over Erie McDowell. And the Upper St Clair victory over McDowell in 1980 to capture its first of three state titles. Steve Daniels must have had karma on the same ice in which his uncles Verne and Brian Shaver, once tallied goals more than 20 years ago because the Gator defenseman moved the puck toward the net and watched as if the puck had eyes on it floated past Trojan goaltender Chris Honard at 8:53 to give Gateway a 1-0 lead. That lead stood as Honard and David Himes kept the puck out of the net until 10:46 of the third as Matt Kopaczynski scored to extend the Gateway lead to 2-0. McDowell coach Marlin Coon had to be scrathing his head and he was looking for answers, when all the sudden his captain Travis Blackman found a loose puck and beat Himes to cut the Gator lead at 8:07. Back came the Gators just 25 sceconds later, as Zach Flora took a beautiful cross ice feed from Kopaczynski and roof it past Honard and the Gators had the two goal lead. McDowell struck another 29 seconds later as Chris McDonald poked a loose puck into the Gateway net to make it 3-2. Then McDowell got into penalty trouble and Matt Capalongo made them pay as he jammed home a rebound with 1:14 left to give Gateway a safe or so it seemed safe 4-2 lead. Not so fast as Sean Stutzman grab a Gator miscue and scored with :43 seconds remaining. Gateway hung on for the victory and outshot the Trojans 36-33.