2017-2018 News
Two Tigers On Championship Team At America’s Showcase Event
Team Pittsburgh won the 2018 America’s Showcase high school ice hockey tournament and two North Allegheny Tigers were members of the championship team. Team Pittsburgh defeated Team Illinois, 4-3, in St. Louis. The tournament was held from April 19-23.
The Team Pittsburgh roster featured 20 local players from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic High School Hockey League, including juniors Tyler Duderstadt (pictured above) and Vincenzo Mazur.
Congratulations to Team Pittsburgh and our North Allegheny representatives, Tyler Duderstadt and Vincenzo Mazur.
PIHL Class AAA Semifinal Preview: NA vs. Peters Township
For the third straight season the North Allegheny Tigers and Peters Township Indians will meet in the semifinals of the PIHL Class AAA Penguins Cup playoffs.
Tonight will be the rubber match with the teams splitting their two previous playoff contests. The Tigers earned an exciting 4-3 overtime win in 2016 thanks to a game-winning goal by Cameron Zahn to send NA to the PIHL title game. (Click here to relive Zahn’s game-winning goal in overtime from 2016).
Last season, it was Peters Township who claimed a dominating 7-0 triumph over NA in the semifinals en route to its sixth Penguins Cup and fifth Pennsylvania Cup championship. The Indians put together an improbable run to claim the state crown as the No. 6 seed in the PIHL playoffs and rode the hot play of then-freshman goalie Alex Wilbert to the title.
Tonight will also be the rubber match of the 2017-2018 season series with both teams splitting their regular season meetings. On Nov. 7, Peters Township blanked NA 3-0 as Wilbert posted the shutout. The Tigers got even on Jan. 11 with a 5-1 home victory at the Baierl Ice Complex. In that contest, Aaron Miller and Will Parreaguirre scored two goals each and goalie Richard Karapandi made 33 saves for the win.
North Allegheny, the fourth seed in Class AAA, is coming off a convincing 8-3 win against Butler in the quarterfinal round last week, receiving a hat trick from Miller to spark the effort. Miller was the Tigers top goal scorer in the regular season as well with a team-best 17 goals.
The top-seeded Indians had a much tougher time in the quarterfinals with No. 8 Plum in a narrow 2-1 victory. Torrey Schwartz and Connor Gielarowski tallied PT’s two goals to wrangle the Mustangs. Both all-stars, Schwartz and Gielarwoski are the Indians top two point getters with 24 points each in the regular season.
This evening’s PIHL Class AAA semifinal contest between North Allegheny and Peters Township is slated for 7:15 p.m. at the RMU Island Sports Center. The game will be video streamed live by the North Allegheny Sports Network and Trib Live High School Sports network and can be viewed by clicking here.
(Photo courtesy of Brian Mitchell and Pittsburgh Hockey Digest)
Five Tigers Participate In PIHL All-Star Game
The PIHL Class AAA All-Star game was held last week and North Allegheny had five representatives at the classic, in addition to head coach Mike Bagnato who helped coach Team Blue. As pictured above, junior defenseman Tyler Duderstadt, senior Aaron Miller, senior goalie Ryan Heil, senior defenseman Bernardo Vieira and junior forward Haden Shimko were all selected to the all-star event.
Congratulations to the North Allegheny all stars and good luck in the upcoming PIHL playoffs.
NA Ice Hockey Team Building Event A Success
After a couple of weeks of intense tryouts, the teams have been selected for 2017-2018 season and all of the players participated in the annual team-building weekend. A scavenger hunt, wiffle ball, volleyball, water balloons…all fun and games, until someone got wet! The day included a family picnic, in the rain, but nonetheless was a good time! We look forward to a great season together.
