April 11, 1989 William Tennent goaltender Scott Shaw said he had butterflies before the Flyers Cup Championship final against Conestoga on Monday night. What he didn’t know was that the Pioneers had their own butterflies, knowing that if they couldn’t find a way to beat the Panthers’ goalie, their chances of winning were slim. In the end, Shaw must have resembled a butterfly net. Very little escaped him as he turned away 40 shots and helped his team to a 3-1 win for Tennent’s first Flyers Cup title. Shaw, the tournament’s most valuable player, was both brilliant and infallible in front of Conestoga’s steady onslaught of shots and the 693 fans who witnessed the game at the Skatium. “I played like I knew I could, and after the Central Bucks game I knew there was nowhere to go but up,” he said, referring to an opening round loss in which […]

April 10, 1989 The written word was about to become an unwanted addition to William Tennent head coach Joe Paul’s diet as the Panthers met touted Malvern Prep in the Flyers Cup semifinal game Monday at the Skatium in Havertown. “From the very beginning of the season, I was saying that we weren’t going to be happy just being in the Flyers Cup, we wanted to win the Flyers Cup,” Paul said, “but when Malvern went ahead, 2-0, early in the game, I thought I was going to have to eat my words.” Fortunately for Paul and the Panthers, Tennent (20-1-1), the Northern Scholastic League champions, kept the coach on a no-letter diet by rallying to defeat the Eastern League champion Friars, 5-3, to advance to the Flyers Cup championship game. The title game will be played tonight against the surprising Conestoga Pioneers (22-1-1) at the Skatium with a 7:45 […]

April 6, 1989 The results of last week’s opening round-robin format of the Flyers Cup Championship at the Skatium established Malvern Prep and Central Bucks as the favorites to meet in the finals of the tournament. So much for early returns. On Monday, Malvern was ousted from the tournament when it was dealt a 5-3 semifinal loss by William Tennent, and the following night, Central Bucks was derailed by Conestoga, 4-3, in overtime in the other semifinal. “It shows you can come in here with all the firepower and just not make it on any given night,” said Malvern coach Bob Martin, whose team also lost last year in the semifinals. For Conestoga, meanwhile, it was a history reversing itself. Last season the Pioneers were knocked out in the tournament’s semifinals, and in overtime no less. But Tuesday, the Pioneers eventually made the best of their efforts, rallying with 3 […]

April 3, 1989 Central Bucks, William Tennent, Malvern Prep and Conestoga all advanced to the Final Four of the Flyers Cup, which will continue tonight and tomorrow with 7:45 p.m. faceoffs at the Havertown Skatium. William Tennent, Northern Scholastic Hockey League champion, will meet Malvern Prep, Eastern Hockey League champion, tonight. Central Bucks, Suburban Hockey League champ, will meet Inter-County Hockey League champion Conestoga tomorrow. Central Bucks and William Tennent advanced out of the Orange Division of the Flyers Cup and ousted the Lower Bucks Hockey League champion, Bishop Egan. Central Bucks, the Orange Division No. 1 seed, beat Tennent (8-5) on Tuesday and Egan (9-4) on Wednesday in the round robin quarterfinals. Tennent, the Orange Division No. 2 seed, lost to the Blazers but defeated Egan (7- 2) Monday to advance. Malvern Prep and Conestoga advanced out of the Black Division and delivered the knockout blow to Council Rock, […]

March 27, 1989 The scholastic ice hockey version of March Madness will begin tonight at 8 with the opening game of the Flyers Cup between William Tennent and Bishop Egan at the Face Off Circle in Warminster. Tennent, the Northern Scholastic Hockey League champion, and Egan, the Lower Bucks Hockey League champion, are two of the three teams in the Orange Division of the Flyers Cup. Central Bucks, the Suburban Hockey League champion, is the third team in that bracket. All Orange Division games will be played at the Face Off Circle beginning tonight with Tennent-Egan, continuing tomorrow with Tennent-Central Bucks, and ending on Wednesday with Central Bucks-Egan. The Black Division has Inter-County Hockey League champion Conestoga along with Eastern Hockey League champion Malvern Prep. The third team is Council Rock, from the Suburban Hockey League, which won a mini- series of league second-place finishers that included Monsignor Bonner (Eastern), […]