#1 North Penn (24-1-0; 16-0-0) welcomed in #8 Owen J. Roberts (12-7-0; 10-7-0) for a quarterfinal matchup in the AA Flyers Cup tournament late Thursday night. Despite the Knights going scoreless in the first it was a second period surge that helped them leave the rink in the win column at the end of the night, with the final score 6-3.<\/span><\/p>\n The game started very slow offensively for both teams. No goals, no penalties, and not many shots on goal for a little over the first 10 minutes. As the puck moved up and down the ice the tension grew as both teams fought for the first goal, but the only thing that was shown on the scoreboard in the first was the clock ticking in the penalty box.<\/span><\/p>\n The action finally picked up when Wildcats junior Colin Costello was escorted to the box for a tripping\/clipping\/leg checking minor penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n Just under 2 minutes later,Wildcats sophomore Colin Daugherty shared the box with his teammate for a brief 8 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n The Knights with the advantage for what felt like forever just couldn\u2019t put the puck in the net. The only thing they could get going were some penalties of their own.<\/span><\/p>\n Junior Chris Silvotti was the one to warm up the box for the Knights tonight when he was caught for a holding minor and punished with 2 minutes away from the play. Similar to the Knights, the Wildcats did not take advantage of the power play and eventually the numbers evened out again.<\/span><\/p>\n Nearing the end of the first period both teams continuously grew frustrated with themselves due to the slow offensive start. Knights sophomore Derek Lugara was the one to make that known tonight when he was handed multiple penalties, one boarding misconduct and one boarding minor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Luagara served the minor as his grademate sophomore Ismael Cabrales, who was playing through a minor hamstring issue, served the misconduct for him. The first period finally came to an end and the scoreboard still read 0-0.<\/span><\/p>\n North Penn\u2019s offense has been the story of their success all season, so going scoreless in the first is something they don\u2019t feel very often.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI think we were doing a lot of good things, getting a lot of offensive chances. The one thing we talked about a little bit was just moving the puck a little bit in the offensive zone and getting the d involved a little bit,\u201d said Knights head coach Kevin Vaitis.<\/span><\/p>\n The slow offensive play continued to start the second period as there was no action the first 6 and a half minutes. Similar to the first, Silvotti picked up the first penalty of the period for the Knights, this time for an interference minor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Despite being down a man on the ice, North Penn finally broke the ice on the scoring side of the puck. As the offense moved up towards the net, the senior assistant captain Nolan Shingle passed it off to junior assistant captain Sam Norton. Norton then quickly flicked it over the middle to senior James Boyle who took it up right on the goalie and snuck it right into the back of the net and put the Knights up 1-0 on the short handed goal.<\/span><\/p>\n It felt like that goal was the momentum the Knights had been searching for all night as the offense really started clicking on all cylinders shortly after that.<\/span><\/p>\n With about six and a half to go in the second period, Wildcats senior Maximillian Connell was handed two minor penalties at once, a holding and an unsportsmanlike conduct.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 4 minutes in the box wasn\u2019t ideal after falling behind, but what was even less ideal was Connell\u2019s teammate senior Quinn Rafter joining him about halfway through his time served.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Knights with the 5 on 3 advantage had the physical and mental advantage and they used it perfectly. Fresh off the Wildcats second consecutive penalty, Norton won the faceoff, flicking it right to Boyle who fired a bullet top shelf and doubled the Knights lead 2-0.<\/span><\/p>\n That wouldn\u2019t be the only goal on this advantage for the Knights as just over a minute later the puck movement became too much for the 3 boys in red. Norton swung it to sophomore Ismael Cabrales who would swing it to Shingle who finished the job and added another one on the board for the Knights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe had a 4 minute power play to start. We ended up getting another penalty to go 5 on 3. We called timeout, and then scored on that. They got another penalty which set up another 5 on 3, and we scored on that again,\u201d Vaitis explained.<\/span><\/p>\n After the goal was scored, the frustration for Wildcats junior Jaxton Majcher would boil over and he made it known. Getting in one opponents face and shoving another resulted in him being given 22 minutes worth of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, and essentially being ejected from the game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Once again due to the ejection, 2 Wildcats players were thrown in the box to serve Majcher\u2019s time, this time being Costello and sophomore Tobin Engle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Just like earlier in the period, the Knights took advantage of the power play and this time Shingle was the one assisting Silvotti with a goal to lift the Knights lead to 4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After the goal, the clock ran out, where we thought intermission would begin with no problems, but Knights senior Danial Cabrales had other plans. Words were exchanged which resulted in Cabrales throwing punches. The referees had to break it all up, and in the end Cabrales was also ejected from the game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_0254-300x189.jpeg\")
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