April 2, 1998 When he was a freshman, Garnet Valley’s Mike Pacitti knew nothing about it. Now, he has won it. For all Mike Pacitti knew, the Flyers Cup could have been what Bob Clarke used for his morning coffee. “When I was a freshman, I didn’t even know about the Flyers Cup, ” Pacitti said. A senior at Garnet Valley, Pacitti has become well-acquainted with the Flyers Cup. The Jaguars, who are in their fourth year of existence as an official ice hockey team, won the Flyers Cup Class A championship on Sunday at the CoreStates Spectrum. Garnet Valley turned back Pennsbury, 4-2, as Pacitti produced two goals and two assists. The senior forward was named the MVP of the tournament, which brings together the best teams from the six scholastic hockey leagues in the Philadelphia area as well as central Pennsylvania. Before the season began back in October, […]

March 31, 1998 Wally Muehlbronner, the first-year head coach of La Salle’s ice hockey team, worked this season on developing senior Mike Mauriello into a stay-at-home sort of defenseman While Mauriello did concentrate more on his defensive assignments, he still found time to cross the blue line and be part of the Explorers’ dangerous attack. And, as it turns out, Muehlbronner is happy Mauriello did. The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Mauriello scored the game-winning goal with 25 seconds remaining in regulation and La Salle nipped Germantown Academy, 4-3, Sunday night at the CoreStates Spectrum in the championship game of the Class AAA Flyers Cup. Mauriello one-timed a shot from the left point past sophomore goalie Dan Angeline to break a 3-3 tie and give the Explorers their second Flyers Cup championship in the last three years. They swept GA, 2-0, in the best-of-three finals (the old format) in 1996. “Mike’s been very […]

March 19, 1998 Much was expected of the Conwell-Egan ice hockey team in this year’s Class AAA Flyers Cup tournament.The Eagles entered Monday’s first-round matchup against Washington Township as the champion of the Lower Bucks County Scholastic Hockey League. They had dominated LBCSHL foes during the regular season, outscoring them by 189-48 and posting a 22-0-2 mark. After defeating Archbishop Ryan in the playoff semifinals and Bensalem in the championship series, Rich Slack’s squad seemed to have the goaltending, offensive firepower, and defensive muscle to make a run at its first Class AAA title. But Washington Township, the second-seeded team from the South Jersey Scholastic Ice Hockey League (SJSIHL), put a sooner-than-anticipated end to the Eagles’ otherwise successful season. The Minuteman had about eight minutes remaining in the third period and upset Conwell-Egan, 4-3, at the Grundy Recreation Center in Bristol Borough to advance to the quarterfinals. scored with “What […]

March 16, 1998 La Salle, GA, Conwell-Egan, Wood, and Pennsbury all could make noise in the Flyers Cup competition. The 19th annual Flyers Cup tournament begins tonight, and several area teams have legitimate shots at being around when the championship games of the three divisions are played on March 29 at the Core-States Spectrum. La Salle is considered by many the favorite in Class AAA, but Germantown Academy and Conwell-Egan have the talent and firepower to challenge the Explorers. Archbishop Wood, from the Suburban High School Hockey League (SHSHL), will vie for the Class AA title, and Pennsbury, from the Lower Bucks County Scholastic Hockey League (LBCSHL), could I make a run at the Class A crown. Here is a closer look at the Flyers Cup. Class AAA. La Salle, which went 14- 1-1 en route to winning the Division AAA title in the Inter-County Scholastic Hockey League (ICSHL), has […]

March 2, 1998 Gerbron’s hat trick and pep talk helped his team clinch a Flyers Cup spot. WEST CHESTER – An overflow crowd at Ice Line witnessed Unionville’s 6-2 win over Conestoga on Friday evening. Not even the Indians coaches sawthe events in the locker room before the game, events that helped result in Unionville winning the In- ter-County League Class AA championship and gaining a berth in the Flyers Cup. Senior captain and forward Charlie Gerbron compiled a hat trick against the Pioneers, but his words and actions lifted the Indians before they even took the ice. The Unionville coaches were asked to leave the locker room before the game. Upon their exit Ger- bron asked his teammates to close their eyes and to seize the day. For extra emphasis, Gerbron had taken black tape and written the Latin phrase carpe diem (“seize the day”) above the door, and […]