April 11, 1983 The highest-scoring player in Southeastern Pennsylvania and the best goaltending prospect to play in this region highlight The Inquirer’s 1983 all-area hockey team. Vince McNamee, who scored 112 goals for George Washington this year, and goalie Michael Richter, who led Germantown Academy to the Flyers Cup for the second straight year while only a sophomore, headline the six-player first team. Defensemen Doug Bowman of West Chester and Joe Modersky of Episcopal Academy, and forwards Bob Lawrence of Bishop Egan and Mike McGregor of Germantown Academy complete the squad. Named to the second team were goalie Jim Rolston of Conestoga; defensemen Jeff Cook of Cherry Hill East and Rob Schlegel of Germantown Academy, and forwards Brian Rhodes of West Chester, Steve Galizio of Egan and Nick Vasiledes of Haverford. McNamee’s total of 112 goals is recognized as a record for the area. although no official records are kept. […]

March 31, 1983 Bob Brody won his second straight Bobby Clarke Award last night, and Germantown Academy won its second straight Flyers Cup. The two are inextricably intertwined. Brody scored the key goal last night and GA defeated Bishop Egan, 9-5, before 1,471 fans in the University City Center. The win broke Egan’s 24-game winning streak and denied the Eagles a perfect season. More important, from GA’s standpoint, it capped a comeback from a one-game deficit created on March 21 when Egan won the first-round game between the two, 5-4, in overtime. Germantown Academy (25-3-1) will meet Baldwin of suburban Pittsburgh in the Pennsylvania Cup at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Johnstown. “I don’t know what it is with us.” said Brody, who scored nine goals in the four games. “I think we need to have our backs to the wall.” Germantown Academy never had its back more against the wall […]

March 21, 1983 The fourth Flyers Cup opens tonight with two games in Penn’s Class of 1923 Rink, with the team that may be the best in the area not included. The reason? Cherry Hill East, champion of the powerful Suburban League, is on the wrong side of the Delaware River. Cherry Hill East and Bishop Eustace Prep of Pennsauken, N.J., were admitted to the Suburban League this winter, the first-time non-Pennsylvania teams were not full-fledged members of any of the four area leagues that send their champions to the Flyers Cup. The leagues voted, 3-1, not to permit non-Pennsylvania teams in the Flyers Cup, and at the time no one thought much about it. After all, powerful Germantown Academy, the defending cup champion, was expected to breeze to the Suburban League title. But Cherry Hill East served notice on Southeastern Pennsylvania when the Cougars tied GA in the season […]

March 24, 1983 Bishop Egan rallied from an early two-goal deficit to defeat Malvern Prep, 4-3, in overtime last night in second-round Flyers Cup play at the University City Center rink on Penn’s campus. The Eagles’ second straight victory sends them into Wednesday’s finale of the “win three” format, where they will meet the survivor of Monday’s Malvern-Germantown Academy semifinal game. Defenseman Mike Fanning knocked home a rebound at the 4:22 mark of OT to lift the Lower Bucks County Scholastic Hockey League champs into the title game. His wrist shot beat goalie John Ettore to the glove side, capping a comeback that saw Egan outshoot the Friars in the OT, 7-2, for an overall 37-19 edge. Malvern jumped on top quickly as Scott McHugh scored 12 seconds into the game on a breakaway. Teammate John Kratzinger made it 2-0 at 5:42 of the first period with a power-play goal, […]

March 7, 1983 Germantown Academy has broken the ice in getting high school hockey noticed. Most high school ice hockey programs get the same respect as, say, a bunch of kids in street clothes playing a pickup basketball game against the varsity. It’s easy to visualize a scenario in which a school’s hockey captain, wearing a few fresh bruises, enters the athletic director’s office with a blow-by-blow description of the team’s victory the night before. “That’s nice, Stash,” replies the director, who pats the boy on the head and gives him a pretzel before shooing him away. How can an athletic director, or anyone else for that matter, take ice hockey seriously when the sport has not been recognized by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) as a varsity sport? How can the players get any respect when they have to form clubs to compete? (Club teams must fend for […]