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1977 Abington goalie Richardson tops Inquirer’s All-Area hockey team
April 10, 1977 In recognition of hockey’s deserved. reputation as the area’s most rapidly growing sport, The Inquirer today announces its first All-Area hockey team. The players chosen are drawn only from Pennsylvania but include Philadelphia Public and Catholic schools, Inter-Academic League schools, and suburban schools in four surrounding counties. The team composed of six…
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1998 Jaguar sees Flyers Cup firsthand
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…
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1998 LaSalle holds the Flyers Cup thanks to a defenseman’s shot
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.…
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1998 Eagles grapple with disappointment
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…
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1998 Some area hockey teams harboring real title hopes
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…
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1998 Unionville overcomes Conestoga
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…
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1997 Malvern Prep captures Flyers Cup
April 1, 1997 Jared Ingersoll and Matt Matlack each scored twice in a 5-2 victory over Council Rock in Game 3. It was the Friars’ first title since 1990. Malvern Prep hockey coach John Graves, just back from a weekend vacation in Puerto Rico, was sporting a deep tan. After his Friars disposed of Council…
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1997 Conestoga backs up it’s words with Cup title
March 26, 1997 The Pioneers talked a lot in team meetings – and then did something about it in their Flyers Cup final. There were preseason meetings and pregame meetings. Meetings in players’ homes and meetings in the locker room. Meetings with and without coaches, and meetings on and off the ice. They culminated in…
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1997 O’Donnell learned his job in goal the hard way
March 20, 1997 Though 19-0 this season, the Episcopal senior hasn’t forgotten his lopsided losses. The Churchmen opened Flyers Cup play last night against Conestoga at Ice Line, near West Chester. I’m, ecstatic the way things have worked out,” O’Donnell said. “I’ve wanted to be a goalie since I was younger. My family were big…
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1997 Eagles hoping to rebound from loss to Ryan
March 19, 1997 In a tightly contested conclusion to the Lower Bucks County Scholastic Hockey League championship series, Archbishop Ryan edged stubborn Conwell-Egan, 5-4, in double overtime Thursday for a 2-1 series win. Vince Stendardo decided the issue when he slipped a shot past goalie Brian Urban early in the second overtime session. “It was…
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1997 Rock reaches cup finals and keeps GA out
March 26, 1997 Council Rock’s Shaun Young seized the moment of opportunity. When the puck skipped off the stick of Germantown Academy defenseman Danny McDonald, Young snared it near the blue line and headed for a one-on-one duel with goalie Sam Weiner. “I saw the five-hole [between Weiner’s pads] open up,” said Young, who had…
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1997 Championship stick inspires Conestoga
March 21, 1997 Some special stickhandling led to Conestoga High’s first Flyers Cup berth since 1989, and that was before the Pioneers even skated onto the ice. Conestoga qualified for the tournament by beating regular-season champion Unionville, 4-1, last Fri- day in the Inter-County Scholastic Hockey League’s Class AA playoff final at Ice Line. The…
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1996 Upper Darby is all set to skate for a state title
April 3, 1996 The journey to Johnstown will begin Friday for the Upper Darby ice hockey team, which is set to meet Greensburg Central Catholic in Saturday’s Class AA state championship. Game time will be 1:30 p.m. at Johnstown’s War Memorial Arena. It is the second game of a triple-header, coming after the Class AAA…
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1996 La Salle rips GA to sweep series, win Flyers Cup
March 3, 1996 HAVERTOWN The La Salle ice hockey team had qualified for the Class AAA Flyers Cup tournament in each of the last four seasons, only to lose in the opening round each time. This season, the Explorers did more than just put an end to their first-round frustration. Brothers Mike and Bob Farrell…
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1996 GA and La Salle: Fine teams with different styles of play
April 2, 1996 The finalists in the Class AAA Flyers Cup tournament, two-time defending champions Germantown Academy and La Salle, cruised to regular-season championships in their respective leagues. The Patriots of Germantown Academy went 18-0 en route to the Suburban High School Hockey League title, and the Explorers went 16-0 on the way to the…
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1996 Conwell-Egan saving its best for last
March 26, 1996 Maturity, coach Rich Slack says, has been the key to Conwell-Egan’s postseason success in ice hockey. “I’m extremely proud of our guys,” he said. “They’ve really matured over the last couple of months. They’ve put team goals ahead of individual goals.” The Eagles have built on the momentum they gained by sweeping…
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1995 Fall to GA deflates Whippets
April 3, 1995 Nothing takes the spirit out of a hockey team like having a five-on-three advantage for nearly two minutes in a tied game in the third period, not scoring, then letting up a goal 21 seconds later. That’s what happened to Downingtown Wednesday night at the Skatium in Havertown, and it not only…
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1995 After slow start, Patriots skate into final round
March 27, 1995 Germantown Academy will face Downingtown for the Flyers Cup. The Pats also want a state title. Defending Flyers Cup champion Germantown Academy played a familiar foe in its semifinal game Thursday night at the Face-Off Circle in Warminster: Suburban High School Hockey League rival Council Rock.The Patriots, who had beaten Council Rock…
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1995 Flyers Cup panel proves a little too kind for Lower Merion
March 22, 1995 After losing in the first round of the Inter-County League playoffs on Feb. 21, Lower Merion has had to wait more than a month to play in the Flyers Cup Championship. And now, the week the Aces finally get to play, turmoil has set in. Lower Merion was originally scheduled to play…
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1995 GA, Council Rock headed to Flyers Cup
March 13, 1995 The Suburban High School Hockey League finals were not a major disappointment to champion Germantown Academy or runner-up Council Rock I. GA and Rock will advance to the postseason Class AAA Flyers Cup tournament, and both played very well in the SHSHL finals. The Patriots, who were unbeaten during the SHSHL regular…
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1994 Brief lapse dooms Fords in tourney
April 7, 1994 Germantown Academy broke open the Flyers Cup final with four goals in the third period. HAVERTOWN – Haverford High’s hockey season ended in disappointment last night as Germantown Academy skated to a 5-2 victory at the Skatium to win the Flyers Cup championship in Tier I. Germantown Academy dominated the third period…
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1994 Patriots avenge their league title defeat
April 4, 1994 Germantown Academy wanted one more shot at Suburban High School Hockey League champion Council Rock. Rock had captured the SHSHL title with a 3-2 overtime victory over GA on March 22, but both the Indians and the Patriots advanced to the postseason Flyers Cup Tournament. Germantown Academy advanced to the Flyers Cup…
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1994 Germantown Ac. sweeps by Tennent
March 14, 1994 Germantown Academy earned a berth in the Flyers Cup Tournament by reaching the Suburban High School Hockey League Class AAA finals against regular-season champion Council Rock. The Patriots were swept by William Tennent in the semifinals last week at the Face-Off Circle in Warminster with a 6-0 win on Tuesday and a…
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1993 L.V. Hockey League Looks to Flyers Cup in 1993-94
March 4, 1993 This year, the Lehigh Valley Scholastic Hockey League is on probation, but it’s not the kind of probation National Hockey League regulars like Bob Probert or Tie Domi earn. The LVSHL is on a one-year probation toward prestige. If the 3-year-old league’s 11 teams play competitively and cleanly (read as no gooning…
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1993 Bonner captures cup again!
April 12, 1993 Germantown Academy made it’s best effort, but the 3-2 lost ended its quest for the Flyers Cup Germantown Academy saved its very best for last despite a 3-2 loss to Monsignor Bonner last Monday night in the Flyers Cup Class AAA championship finals at the Skatium in Havertown. The defeat ended a…
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1993 Brawl, loss end Downingtown season on an ugly note
April 1, 1993 All the frustration Downingtown endured this season against archrival Monsignor Bonner came to an ugly pinnacle Tuesday night when the Whippets lost their Flyers Cup semi-final game to the Friars, 4-1. The Whippets missed a chance to advance to the finals and suffered their fourth loss in six meetings with Bonner this…
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1993 Tennent’s next goal: Flyers Cup
March 22, 1993 Germantown Academy also goes to the tourney despite losing in the Suburban League final. William Tennent and Germantown Academy have reached what their coaches call their “ultimate” destination: the Flyers Cup hockey tournament. Both will compete in the quarterfinal series this week. Tennent won its fourth Suburban High School Hockey League championship…
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1992 Pennsbury will have to wait til next year for another shot
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…
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1992 Tennent falls in the Flyers Cup final
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…
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1992 Bonner routs Unionville in Flyers Cup Semi-Final
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,”…
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1990 Defensive play propels Friars to top
April 17, 1990 Malvern Prep 6 Upper St. Clair 3 PITTSBURGH, PA. Early in the ice hockey season, few people, if any, probably picked Malvern Prep’s young and inexperienced team to win more than dozen games let alone a championship of any kind.But the Friars, who began with a shaky 1-2 start in November before…
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1990 Panthers are derailed in bid to repeat as champs
April 12, 1990 HAVERTOWN, PA. William Tennent coach Joe Paul witnessed “Nightmare on Darby Road” Monday night as his Panthers were slashed, 11-2, by Malvern Prep in the Flyers Cup title game played at the Havertown Skatium.“It was horrifying at times watching,” Paul said. “We just weren’t ready to play, and Mal- vern killed us.…
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1990 Tennent to face Malvern for title
April 9, 1990 HAVERTOWN, PA. April 9 has been circled in red on William Tennent coach Joe Paul’s calendar ever since the 1989-90 scholastic ice hockey season began. And tonight, at 7:45 at the Skatium in Havertown, will be the game that determines whether William Tennent will be able to retain its Flyers Cup championship.…
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1992 Council Rock puts an end to Malvern’s season
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…
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1991 Tier 1 Flyers Cup eludes Malvern
April 4, 1991 Despite being down, 1-0, to Council Rock in the best-of-three final for the Tier I Flyers Cup championship, Malvern Prep figured to have an advantage in Tuesday night’s second game by returning to its home rink at the Skatium in Havertown with a horde of fans backing the team. But Council Rock…
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1991 Bussetti’s goals propel Council Rock
April 1, 1991 Roman Bussetti scored a hat trick at the Face-Off Circle Thursday night to key Council Rock to a 3-2 victory over defending Flyers Cup champion Malvern Prep in the first game of their best-of-three Flyers Cup Tier I championship series. The series will continue tomorrow with a 7:45 pm. faceoff at the…
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1991 Rock, penalties eliminate GA in title game
March 25, 1991 Penalties and ejections marred the Suburban High School Hockey League championship series between Germantown Academy and Council Rock, which won the title. In two games. “The series should have really been two or three games of excel lent hockey between two excellent hockey teams,” said Germantown Academy coach John loia. “But that…
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1989 Conestoga is beaten in Flyers Cup final
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…
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1989 Tennent vs Conestoga in Flyers Cup Final
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…
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1989 Malvern Prep ousted in Flyers Cup semifinal
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…
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1989 Tennent and Central Bucks advance
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…
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1989 Tennent – Egan match to begin tourney
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…
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1988 – Seasons end for four area teams at playoffs
March 31, 1988 The word meltdown took on a new meaning this week when, in the span of 24 hours, all four area ice hockey teams competing in postseason play suffered losses that put an end to their seasons. The most surprising losses came on successive nights at the Havertown Skatium during the Flyers Cup…
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1988 William Tennent takes President’s Cup, Council Rock eliminates Wood
March 28, 1988 There was good news and bad news out of the Northern Scholastic Hockey League. The bad news was that league champion Archbishop Wood was ousted from the prestigious Flyers Cup tournament at the Havertown Skatium last week. The good news was that the NSHL’s second-place finisher, William Tennent, captured the President’s Cup…
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1988 Council Rock Advances to Flyers Cup Games
March 21, 1988 Council Rock swept a two-game Suburban Hockey League championship series with Central Bucks last week to advance to the 1988 Flyers Cup Scholastic Championship. The Indians will face Northern Scholastic Hockey League champion Archbishop Wood tonight at 9:15, in the second game of a round robin doubleheader at the host site of…
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Coaches from area gearing up for Keystone Games
July 5, 1987 Although John loia stepped down from the coaching position he held for the last four seasons, the Region 1 midget (17 years old and under) ice hockey team still has an area coach at the helm. Craig, the coach of the Junior B Little Flyers team, took over, and his 20-member team…
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1987 Steve Kinsley Flyers Cup MVP
April 9, 1987 Steve Kinsley recalls his freshman year on the hockey team at Malvern Prep. He particularly remembers being impressed by the seniors. “They were real leaders, and I said to myself, ‘When I’m a senior, I’m going to lead like that,” he said. Kinsley is a senior now, and in recent weeks he…
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1987 Malvern Prep wins Flyers Cup
April 3, 1987 Jeff Spencer scored two goals and Steve Kinsley added a goal and two assists to lead Malvern Prep to a 5-3 win over Conestoga for the Flyers Cup Scholastic Ice Hockey Championship last night at the Havertown Skatium. Malvern, which had lost to Conestoga during last year’s championship, came out playing physical…
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1987 Conestoga, Malvern Prep prepare to face off again for Flyers Cup
April 2, 1987 Conestoga and Malvern Prep advanced this week to the championship game of the Flyers Cup scholastic ice hockey tournament. In what could be labeled the Showdown in Havertown II, the game, to be held at 8 tonight at the Skatium, will mark the second straight year the two teams have faced each…
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1987 Malvern Prep romps into Flyers Cup final
March 31, 1987 Chick Kelly scored three goals and assisted on three others to propel Malvern Prep to a 10-3 victory over William Tennent and into the final of the Flyers Cup scholastic ice hockey championship. After falling behind 3-1 in the first period, Malvern came back to score nine straight goals. Malvern held Tennent…
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1987 Wins advance Pioneers, Friars in Flyers Cup
March 30, 1987 The Main Line may see a final round shootout in the Flyers Cup scholastic ice hockey championship between Conestoga and Malvern Prep as both teams advanced into the semifinal round last week with wins over Bishop Egan. The two teams won the Orange Division of the round-robin playoff for a berth in…
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1987 Friars and Pioneers skate into final six
March 23, 1987 Conestoga and Malvern Prep breezed into the Flyers Cup championship last week by sweeping the final- round playoffs of their respective leagues. Malvern drubbed Haverford High 8-2 in Monday’s second game of their best of three series of the Eastern High School Hockey League to take the title. Conestoga, meanwhile, beat Downingtown…
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1987 Playoff action begins in quest of Flyers Cup
March 2, 1987 The regular season is over in area scholastic ice hockey, and playoff action in quest of the coveted Flyers Cup has begun. Malvern Prep ended its regular season in the Eastern High School Hockey League with a 17-0 record to capture first place. The Friars ended the regular season with an 8-5…
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1986 Conestoga wins second state crown in a row
April 14, 1986 The pressure was on the Conestoga ice hockey team this year. The team was the defending state champion, and its 1985-86 roster included many of the key players from last year’s squad. As it turned out, the Conestoga skaters did everything expected of them and more. Saturday night, they brought down the…
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1986 Panthers meet clone in AAA hockey title
April 10, 1986 His hockey team had just been summoned off the Mt. Lebanon Recreation Center ice, another concession to the Rec Center’s always cramped schedule. But as Upper St. Clair High School Coach Dave Hornack drinks in the atmosphere of the final days of this most successful season, he allows himself a second to…
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1986 Conestoga finally captures big one
April 7, 1986 When Conestoga faced off against Malvern Prep in the championship game of the Flyers Cup last Thursday night at the Skatium, it was an all-or-nothing situation. The Conestoga boys had a 28-0 record entering the game, but not one of those wins would have meant a thing had they gone belly up…
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1986 Conestoga sweeps through 1st round in Flyers Cup play
March 31, 1985 The opening round of the 1986 Flyers Cup has been completed, and, not surprisingly, Conestoga swept through the two game round without a loss. What was a little surprising was the ease with which the Pioneer skaters disposed of their opponents The six teams in the tournament were divided into two divisions.…
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1986 Six teams are in place for Flyers Cup competition
March 24, 1985 Competition in the 1986 Flyers Cup begins tonight at the Skatium in Havertown, and players and officials are brimming with excitement. “Playing in the Flyers Cup is something that every high school hockey player in the area dreams about,” said Flyers Cup chairman Joe Moderski. “The Flyers Cup has continued to grow,…
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1985 Canevin, Mt Lebanon lose finals
April 7, 1985 NEW HOPE, Pa. The score board at Face-Off Circle Ice Rink indicated Pennsbury had beaten Canevin, 3-1, in Class AA and Conestoga had beaten Mt. Lebanon, 6-4, in Class AAA for the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League championships yesterday. Canevin, however, did not lose, according to first-year Coach Larry Koch. “There were two…
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1985 Mt. Lebanon ends with slow start
April 11, 1985 It is rare that the Mt. Lebanon hockey team gets behind early in a game. Throughout the 1984-85 season, the Blue Devils either got off to an explosive start or kept it close throughout the game before either pulling away or falling flat on their skates. In the state high school championship…
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1985 Conestoga’s wagon rolls over Lebos in final
April 11, 1985 The reason for Mt. Lebanon’s 6-4 loss to Conestoga in the Class AAA state hockey final last Saturday at Warminster’s Face-Off Circle rink was simple, according to Lebos’ goaltender Hank Horn. “We just got beat by a better team,” Horn said. “I think we played real well and I think we tried…
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1985 Horn, Polomskys lead Mt. Lebanon to AAA Final
April 4, 1985 For most high school hockey players, it would have been the game of their lives. But the way Mt. Lebanon goalie Hank Horn and forwards Mike and Phil Polomsky have been playing, last Thursday’s 5-0 victory over Upper St. Clair in the Class AAA Western Regional final was just another night at…
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1985 ‘Stoga rebounds, wins state title
April 8, 1985 It has been said that all’s well that ends well, and right now, all’s well with the Conestoga ice hockey team. On Saturday night, the Pioneers ended a banner season by knocking off Mount Lebanon, 6-4, to win the 1985 Pennsylvania state championship. Winning the title helped the Conestoga skaters ease the…
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1985 Flyers Cup is off to an exciting start
March 24, 1985 What a wild and exciting time it was in the world of area scholastic ice hockey last week. The week, which started with the end of the various leagues’ playoffs and ended with the start of the Flyers Cup, featured the crowning of three league playoff champions. The Eastern High School Hockey…
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1985 Cherry Hill East rally ices first Flyers Cup for So. Jersey
April 2, 1985 HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Cherry Hill East High School ice hockey team became the first South Jersey team to capture the Flyers Cup last night when it rallied in the final minute to post a 3-2 victory over Conestoga in the title game. After Conestoga battled back to knot the contest at…
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1985 It’s Conestoga vs. Cherry Hill for Flyers Cup
April 1, 1985 In one of his on-screen narratives, German filmmaker Werner Herzog remarked, “Everyday life is just an illusion beyond which lies the reality of dreams.” The players of the Conestoga ice hockey team can relate to that quote right about now. Tonight, at the Skatium in Havertown, the Conestoga boys will be looking…
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1985 East bidding for Flyers Cup
March 30, 1985It has been a long climb to the top for the Cherry Hill East hockey team. The Cougars have survived such drawbacks as no available practice facility, an hour drive to the nearest rink for games, the anonymity that comes from being a club and not a varsity team, and such indignities as…
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1988 Flyers Cup awards
Each member of the Flyers Cup Championship team was awarded a gold medal, and a pair of Bauer Supreme 1000 ice skates.
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1984 Rankel’s soft touch aids Council Rock
March 27, 1984 INDIANS TRIM BONNER IN FLYERS CUPJohn Rankel is trying his best to dispel the notion that he’s just another one of those dime-a-dozen scoring machines who seem to dominate hockey at the scholastic level. Most good teams possess one. You know the type a Marcel Dionne clone, somebody who can turn on…
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1984 Ryan wins by hard work – on and off the ice
April 1, 1984 The coach is a city police officer who has been patrolling the streets for 18 years. The team’s vice president has been a mummer for 27 years, so if you need directions along Broad Street, Joe Quattrone is a good person to ask. There is a club made up largely of players’…
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1984 Ryan brings home Flyers Cup with 5-4 victory over Council Rock
March 28, 1984 It was a matchup between a team. that hinges its success on the lunch- pail work ethic and one that kills softly with speed and finesse. Chalk one up for the lunch-pail kids. Archbishop Ryan last night became the first school within the city limits to bring home the Flyers Cup with…
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1984 Ryan Tops Council Rock in opener of Flyers Cup
March 20, 1984 Ray Matz scored two goals and sparked Archbishop Ryan High’s comeback from a two-goal deficit to a 5-3 victory over Council Rock in the opening round of the fifth annual Flyers Cup hockey tournament last night at the Havertown Skatium. Council Rock, the champion of the Suburban League, grabbed a 2-0 lead…
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1984 Flyers Cup is a wide-open playoff
March 19, 1984 The participants use the term “Super Bowl” to describe the Flyers Cup. That’s no exaggeration of the effect the Flyers Cup has had on the area’s scholastic hockey players, even if the terminology comes from another sport. “It’s the ultimate experience in high school hockey,” said Malvern Prep coach Bill Galli.…
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1984 The fifth annual Flyers Cup Tournament will begin tomorrow at Havertown Skatium
March 18, 1984 Mike Cardonick scored two goals as Council Rock High jolted Cherry Hill East last week, 3-1, and won the Suburban Ice Hockey League championship series at the Face-Off Circle in Warminster, two games to one. Council Rock (18-7-1), which finished third in the Liberty Division during the regular season – East…
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1984 Flyers reaffirm support for youth series
March 8, 1984 Flyer’s president Jay Snider made no bones about his goal for the Flyers Cup “That’s here to stay,” Snider said of the cup, which brings together the winners of the four area scholastic leagues, in what amounts to a regional playoff. “We’d like to see the Flyers Cup be 50 years old.”…
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1983 All-Area hockey team features young goalie and record scorer
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…
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1983 Germantown Academy Patriots win the Pennsylvania Cup
April 7, 1983 There are people who will say that in 1983, Germantown Academy won a tainted state scholastic hockey championship. But as far as the Patriots are concerned, people can say what they want — the Pats have proven they go best with ice. Germantown Academy, fresh off its second consecutive Flyers Cup championship,…
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1983 Germantown Captures Flyers Cup
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…
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1983 Team that’s absent adds intrigue to Flyers Cup
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…
