Central Bucks South, PW and Archbishop Wood were winners on Wednesday. To view photos of the CB South/Pennridge and PW/LC games, please visit the Photo Gallery.
ARCHBISHOP WOOD 9, WISSAHICKON 7
By Mike Prince
Defense has been noticeably scarce in the Suburban High School Hockey League this season, as have Archbishop Wood victories after six games this year.
While a defensive effort was still completely absent on Wednesday night, the Vikings were able to figure out a way to get past first-place Wissahickon, winning 9-7 in an American Conference matchup at Bucks County Ice Sports Center.
Wissahickon’s Luke Honorowski tallied five goals, but Archbishop Wood was able to get the victory thanks to goals from eight different players, including the game-winner from Jonathan Rosica.
“That was a very big win,” Rosica said. “We had lost our goalie to injury, but now that he’s back, we can get back to our old ways like last year and just start winning hockey games. We had to play more defense and not be an offense-based team.”
The offense was certainly on display on Wednesday, as the two teams went back and forth from the very beginning, with very little defense showing on either side of the ice.
“We can put that many goals in, but you have to learn to play better defense to win hockey games,” Wissahickon coach Mike Wolf said. “They’re a good team, but we’re a better team than we showed tonight and when we get our guys back, it will be a different story.”
Wood started the scoring when Jonathan Pfugfelder took a pass from Matt Mandes and buried it past Wissahickon goalie Noah Katz less than five minutes into the contest to put the Vikings up 1-0. The two teams went back and forth for the remainder of the period, finishing in a 3-3 tie before the break.
The second period belonged to the Vikings, as Troy Potts, Nick Patton, Mandes and Brett Katzianer all scored goals to help Wood to a 7-4 lead late in the stanza. Honorowski scored his third goal of the game to get Wissahickon to within two before the second intermission.
The Trojans mounted a comeback in the third period, as Honorowski scored his fourth and fifth goals of the night, but the Vikings answered, as Rosica and Brett Katzianer scored just over a minute apart to help Wood to go back up 9-7 late in the game.
“This win definitely gives us something to look back on,” Rosica said. “We can look at what we did to a first-place team as almost a last-place team, and it should definitely help us moving forward.”
“They’re a good hockey team,” Wolf said of the Vikings. “We didn’t play defense and they did. They possessed the puck and we didn’t. They scored more goals on second and third opportunities and while we had some nice goals, you can’t win them all.”
Despite the loss, Honorowski’s play was exceptional, as the forward tallied five goals on the night to give him a season total of 20 goals and 29 points in just seven games this season.
“Luke is a hard, hard worker,” Wolf said. “He’s a very, very hard worker.”
Dustin Rabinowitz tallied one goal and three assists for Wissahickon in the losing effort. Honorowski recorded a power play and a shorthanded goal in his big night, while Matt Vervlied finished with a game-high four assists for the Trojans. Jacob Segelbaum also scored once for Wissahickon, which had won three games in a row before Wednesday.
Rabinowitz now has nine goals and 12 assists on the season to put him in second place on the Trojans in points.
The Vikings were led by Matt Mandes, who finished with two goals and two assists. Patrick Cavanaugh scored once and added two assists, while Nick DeRosa earned the win in net.
Archbishop Wood 3 4 2-9
Wissahickon 3 2 2-7
Scoring Summary
Period 1
AW – Jonathan Pflugfelder (Matt Mandes) 4:38
W – Luke Honorowski (Dustin Rabinowitz, Jeff Karro) 5:19
AW – Patrick Cavanaugh (unassisted) 6:14
W – Luke Honorowski (power play) (Brandon Rosoff, Dustin Rabinowitz) 11:10
W – Dustin Rabinowitz (Matt Vervlied, Adriano Palatano) 13:34
AW – Matt Mandes (unassisted) 15:15
Period 2
AW – Troy Potts (Nick Patton, Tim Cordero) 3:08
AW – Nick Patton (Patrick Cavanaugh) 4:02
W – Jacob Segelbaum (Dustin Rabinowitz) 5:58
AW – Matt Mandes (Troy Potts) 8:18
AW – Brett Katzianer (Tim Cordero, Matt Mandes) 9:17
W – Luke Honorowski (Matt Vervlied) 13:39
Period 3
W – Kyle Wolf (Luke Honorowski, Matt Vervlied) 1:38
W – Luke Honorowski (shorthanded) (Matt Vervlied) 2:03
AW – Jonathan Rosica (Patrick Cavanaugh, Nick Patton) 5:21
AW – Brett Katzianer (Tim Cordero, Ryan Meinke) 6:27
Shots
Archbishop Wood 12 19 12-43
Wissahickon 9 10 5-24
Goalie Saves
Nick DeRosa (AW) 17; Noah Katz (W) 34.
PLYMOUTH WHITEMARSH 8, LANSDALE CATHOLIC 5
The Colonials scored five straight goals to open the third period to break a 3-3 tie and seize control of Wednesday’s game. Ryan Reed led a balanced attack with two goals and one assist.
The teams exchanged goals in the first two periods. The Crusaders had the early edge, turning a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 lead at the end of one period thanks to goals from Helen Cooney and Alex Slowik. Chris Rinaldi accounted for PW’s lone goal.
A goal by Christopher Zawislak less than a minute into the second period knotted the score. LC’s Andrew Hart and Reed exchanged goals to send the teams into the final period deadlocked. Zawislak scored a power play goal early in the third period. That opened the floodgates for goals by Reed, Brad Keller, Adam Brock and Jonathan Isely as PW went on top 8-3 before Hart and John Volpe scored to close out the period.
Plymouth Whitemarsh1 2 5-8
Lansdale Catholic 2 1 2-5
Scoring Summary
Period 1
PW – Chris Rinaldi (Kevin Lawrence) 1:28
LC – Helen Cooney (Bill Pezzutti) 14:20
LC – Alex Slowik (unassisted) 15:22
Period 2
PW – Christopher Zawislak (Jared Aiello) 0:57
LC – Andrew Hart (unassisted) 5:41
PW – Ryan Reed (Jacob Laudenbach, Bo Flint) 7:53
Period 3
PW – Christopher Zawislak (powerplay) (Jake Butler) 0:32
PW – Ryan Reed (Jonathan Isely) 0:32
PW – Brad Keller (Chris Rinaldi, Adam Brock) 3:26
PW – Adam Brock (unassisted) 7:02
PW – Jonathan Isely (Bo Flint, Ryan Reed) 11:17
LC – Andrew Hart (unassisted) 13:30
LC – John Volpe (Bill Pezzutti) 13:39
Shots
Plymouth Whitemarsh13 8 11-32
Lansdale Catholic 13 10 15-38
Goalie Saves
Jim Smith (PW) 33; Domenic Volpe (LC) 24
CENTRAL BUCKS SOUTH 10, PENNRIDGE 0
Domonic Bova and Kevin Casey both led the Titans with five-point nights, both contributing two goals and three assists while Jake Bauer and Mike Pilla each had four-point games with two goals and two assists.
Goals by Pilla and Casey gave the Titans a 2-0 lead at the end of one period. The Titans exploded for seven goals in the second period and closed it out with a single goal in the third period.
South goalie Jeff Peklowski was forced to make just four saves in the shutout – all in the fourth period - in a contest that saw the Titans hold a 37-4 advantage in shots.
Central Bucks South 2 7 1-10
Pennrdige 0 0 0-0
Scoring Summary
Period 1
CBS – Mike Pilla (Thomas Liberta) 10:05
CBS – Kevin Casey (Jake Bauer, Dominic Bova) 12:34
Period 2
CBS – Kevin Casey (powerplay) (Dominic Bova, Jared Conroy) 0:18
CBS – Jake Bauer (Kevin Casey) 2:48
CBS – Damon Delaurentis (Leo Flick, Mike Pilla) 5:08
CBS – Jake Bauer (Dominic Bova, Kevin Casey) 8:33
CBS – Mike Pilla (Connor Matsinger) 9:53
CBS – Dominic Bova (Jake Bauer) 11:36
CBS – Thomas Liberta (Mike Pilla, Leo Flick) 14:51
Period 3
CBS – Dominic Bova (Kevin Casey, David Cochran)
Shots
Central Bucks South 2 7 28-37
Pennridge 0 0 4-4
Goalie Saves
Jeff Pekowski (CBS) 4; Michael Weaver (P) 27.
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