April 6, 1992 Pennsbury was eliminated from the Tier III state series when the Falcons dropped a 7-3 contest to Haverford High School on Tuesday at the Face-Off Circle in Warminster.”I only had two goals for this team to meet, and they met them both,” said Pennsbury coach Jack O’Donnell. “I wanted them to win the first game of the season and I wanted them to make the league playoffs.” The Falcons won that first game of the Lower Bucks Hockey League season with a 10-3 romp over Bishop Neumann, and they finished third behind Archbishop Ryan and Father Judge with a record of 10-4-4. “This is a very young team, and to advance as far as we did in the Tier III competition was ahead of schedule,” said O’Donnell. “This is a team that should be very good next season.” O’Donnell cited the play of sophomores Beau Orbin, Jeff […]

April 6, 1992 William Tennent’s hopes for a trip to the state ice hockey championship vanished when junior Mike Petrangelo crumbled to the ice with seven minutes left in the second period of the second game of the Flyers Cup final. Monsignor Bonner went on to win, 6-1 Wednesday at the Skatium in Havertown to complete a two-game sweep and capture the Flyers Cup. With the victory, Bonner earned the right to play the Penguins Cup champion, Meadville, for the state title.“When Mike went out of the game, Bonner was winning (3-1), but we were putting a lot of pressure on them,” said William Tennent coach Joe Paul. “It was clear to almost everyone that Mike was the most dominant player in the entire Flyers Cup series and was virtually unstoppable. When he went down it was a big loss for us.” Tennent did not get a goal in the […]

March 30, 1992 To Unionville coach Mac McGarry, facing Monsignor Bonner in Thursday night’s semifinal of the Flyers Cup Championship was like trying to run from an oncoming tidal wave. “Every line of theirs looked the same, all pressure, all giving 100 percent, and you couldn’t tell the difference from one line to the next,” McGarry said. Unionville never got out of the way of the wave, as Bonner submerged the Indians, 7-1, to advance to the best-of-three finals of the Flyers Cup. Bonner, now 21-0-2, will face William Tennent, a 7-2 winner over Archbishop Ryan in the other semifinal. Despite Thursday’s lopsided outcome, Friars coach Ted Dolan wasn’t overly pleased with his team’s performance. Unionville went up, 1-0, just 3 minutes, 45 seconds into the contest on a Dave Donato goal, and Bonner had to scramble most of the period before taking a 2-1 lead on goals 48 seconds […]

April 4, 1992 Keith Grimley, Malvern Prep’s star forward, leaned against the concrete wall outside his team’s locker room. With his jersey already off and the runner-up trophy in hand, he tried to figure out where things went wrong with the Friars’ 1991-92 season. After Malvern battled back Tuesday to tie its best-of-three series with Council Rock for the Presidents Cup portion of the Flyers Cup championship, the Friars suffered a major lapse Thursday night and were beaten by the Indians, 9-1, at the Grundy Rink. The outcome gave the trip to Pittsburgh for the Tier II state championship to Council Rock, and the Friars had little recourse but to ponder a defeat that epitomized their season. “It pretty much sums up the season,” Grimley said. “Whenever we needed it, we couldn’t do it. We had the talent to do it this year, but we couldn’t put it together.” Friars […]