North Catholic downs Pennsbury JVA in non league action

The non-league game today featuring the North Catholic hockey club against the JVA Pennsbury Falcons turned out to be the Falcons most exciting game of the season if anything. There was a pretty good attendance and with a limited roster the Falcons played very well. They lost 2-0, but off a series of bad officiating and bad luck. Although they were outshot 38-`0, that doesn't mean outPLAYEd. The Falcons played very well dispute early struggles. Early in the first period, the Falcons found themselves in their own zone most of the first 10 minutes before they got it going. Sean Costello played exellent all game in both zones. He got the nod to play center for the first time and he performed very well. Costello won 9 out of 11 faceoffs for an 81% succession rate. This should be something the coaches should use to their advantage in future games. Costello played great all game, he had great penalty killing, dangled around players to create chances and kept the power play in line. Forward Liana Eyre had her best game of the season, with quite a few scoring chance and almost had a goal in front but her backhand in front of the net barely missed beating the North Catholic netminder. The whole team played well together, it was the first real game all season they passed really well, Eric Micheal, Kyle Boltersdorf, Hank Kauffman and John Gindhart, who got some forward playing time all played very well. Gindhart was boarded in the second period but nothing was called. The refs were brutal all game, honestly, I question how the let people who lack such knowlege of the game take the ice. Derek Faro got into some action at the end of the second period when he got in a scrum w ith a few North Catholic players. They were all a bunch of punks, who thought they were tough beating on a roster featuring about 10 Pennsbury players. Eric Michael SHOULD HAVE had a goal set up by Sean Costello in the first period, which would have given the Falcons a 1-0 lead but it was waived off. Although, it clearly hit the back bar and came back out. Then, North Catholic's second goal came when a player ran goaltender Alan Galisewski, who played for the Falcons for the day. The puck went in and the refs, instead of calling a penalty awared North Catholic a goal. Galisewski played great all game, displaying his great glove and had 36 saves on the afternoon. Chris Lefbvre looked good all around game, as he led some offensive rushes into the zone before getting called a 10 minute misconduct for boarding and he left the game early when the refs missed a knee on knee call. The Falcons showed life in the third and never gave up, Sean Costello deked around three guys and hit shot barely missed the top right corner and Derek Faro almost hit the rebound home but the shot was blocked. All in all, a good team effort, hopefully when coach Millen returns he realizes Costello is good at the center position and recognizes how well the team can play if you have the right line comos with Michael, Kaufmann, Eyre and Boltersdorf.