2022-2023 Winter Sports Preview

The following preview includes all Winter Sports who responded to the Knight Crier’s inquiry.

Peyton Stagliano, Staff Writer|December 2, 2022

Molly Agriss

01/31/22 Boys basketball Senior Knight.

Team: North Penn Boys Basketball

Coach: John Conrad- 12th year

Assistant Coaches: Cordell Lord, Steve Norman, Zach Quigley

Last year’s record:

League record: 5-5

Overall Record: 11-11

Notable losses:

Joe Larkins

Milind Pulugura

Tehran Wright

Key returners:

Ryan Deininger (6’2 senior forward)

Mario Sgro (5’9 senior guard)

Ryan Zeltt (6’5 senior center)

Others to Watch:

Norm Gee (5’8 junior guard)

Teddy McAllister (6’0 junior guard)

Corey Meade (6’3 junior forward)

Strengths:

3 returning starters from last year’s team.

Questions Marks:

Size and post presence.

Outlook:

Culture and chemistry will be more important than X’s and O’s for this group. If we play within

our system and play for one another, we can have a successful year.

Games to Watch:

NP vs. Methacton @ PV Holiday Tournament

Team: Wrestling

Coach: Robert Shettsline- 29th year

Assistant coaches: Rich O’Neil, Thomas Michaels

Last year’s record:

Overall: 9-11

League: 3-2

Notable losses:

Will Morrow (wrestling at Bloomsburg 149lbs)

Dylan Verway

Key returners:

Michael Cliver (Junior 145lbs)

William Mayland (Senior 152lbs)

Devon Pickett (Senior heavyweight)

Others to watch:

Quinten Laughlin (Senior 172lbs)

Brayden Shannon (Junior 145lbs)

Question Marks:

We are in a rebuilding year, and hoping to get some quality experience for this year.

Outlook:

A team goal every year is to win our league championship. We are happy to get back into some of our more prestigious tournaments in December! This better prepares our kids for the post-season. We strive to help our wrestlers attain their personal goals.

Team: Ice Hockey

Coach: Kevin Vaitis- 12th year

Assistant Coaches: Steve Galetta, Frank Stumpo, and Matt Stella.

Last year’s record:

1-15

Notable losses:

Justin Yothers

Ben Mostochuk

Nick Ebbinghaus

Alex Cravener

Tony Tuozzo

Nolan O’Toole

Key returners:

Nicholas Crist (Goalie)

Tyler Porubski (Defense)

Sam Mostochuk (Defense)

John Stinson (forward)

Julian Ma (forward)

Joey Silvotti (forward)

Others to watch:

Cole Pluck

Matt Yothers

Chris Seward

Derek Delong

Strengths:

The strength of our team this year is definitely in our defensive play. Our defensemen are very strong and play very sound positionally. I would also say that we have some speed up front that we can use to our benefit.

Question marks:

Probably our consistency and our special teams. We have a young team somewhat so we can come out and play a terrific team game and then the next game make a lot of mistakes. We are learning and hope to be playing our best by February at the end of the season.

Outlook:

This is our first full season since COVID so we have been doing a lot of things that we have done in the past that we have not been able to do in years past because of other regulations. We are excited to be back as a team, and building team chemistry and we can see it with the players on and off the ice together.

Games to Watch:

Thursday 12/22 against Souderton at 8:50 PM at Hatfield Ice (last game before holidays)

Monday 1/23 against CB West at 8:30 PM at Hatfield Ice (Senior Night for our 2023 Seniors)

Friday 2/10 against Bensalem at 7:20 PM at Hatfield Ice (WHITE OUT, everyone who attends gets a White Ice Hockey T-Shirt)

Team: Boys Bowling

Coach: Donald Stadnycki- 11th year

Last year’s record:

53-3 (Division Champs)

Notable Losses:

Lucas Francis

Naman Parikh

Vincent Qian