Alumni update Oct. 28

Friday Nights Games
College
1) John Zeiler St. Lawrence 1 goal 1 assist
2) Aaron Slattengren Colorado College 1 goal
3) Dennis Kirstein Mercyhurst 1 assist
4) Kris Mayotte Union 27 Saves

USHL
1) Sergio Somma Green Bay 1 goal

NAHL
1) CJ Severyn USNTDP 1 assist

EJHL
1) Nick Decroo Boston Jr. Bruins 1 goal 1 assist

Malone Paces Pens/ Umberger leads Phantoms

Former Hornet and current Pittsburgh Penguin, Ryan Malone, has 4 goals in 9 games, including a beauty against the Florida Panthers Tuesday. Malone is coming off a rookie season of 22 goals and 21 assists which placed him 4th in overall NHL rookie scoring.

R.J. Umberger has 3 goals and 5 assists through 6 games to lead the AHL Philadelphia Phantoms in scoring. After finishing with the Hornets, R.J. advanced to the USA National Team Developmental Program and then Ohio State.

Battle of the Hornet Alumni Goaltenders !

Tomorrow night, October 28, 2005, the Flying Dutchman of Union College will be hosting the Bentley Falcons, two of the up and coming Division 1 hockey teams in the country. Depending upon the coaching moves, this could turn out to be the Battle of the Hornet Alumni Goaltenders with Senior goaltender Kris Mayotte of Union facing Freshman goaltender Jason Kearney of Bentley. Kris has had an outstanding career with the Dutchman and among other things was selected to the ECACHL All-Rookie Team following the 2002-03 season and Jason, the NAHL MVP last year, is looking to follow Kris’s footsteps in that regard as well. Former Hornets forward Matt Schwartz is also with the Falcons and will be called upon to try and lead the Falcons to victory. Both Kris and Jason are two really great kids that worked hard and deserve every opportunity and recognition in hockey they are now receiving. Congratulations to both Kris Mayotte and Jason Kearney on your outstanding careers and demonstrating once again why the Pittsburgh Hornets (‘The Goaltending Factory”) have a reputation for consistently producing year after year some the top amateur and college goaltenders in the country.

Hornet Statistics as of 10/25/05

2005-06 Midget Major Team-as of 10/24/05
Player Gms G's A's PM pl-m Total Points
Cramer 28 13 23 135 +11 36
Cerutti 28 13 22 53 +14 35
Raymond 28 17 15 61 +13 32
Gaul 28 10 21 22 +18 31
Polidor 28 9 15 43 +15 24
Ozanick 28 6 12 29 +7 18
South 14 8 9 8 +11 17
Spadacene 28 9 7 51 +3 16
Celin 28 3 7 47 +14 10
Blazek 28 6 1 34 -3 7
DellaValle 28 2 4 49 -4 6
Sidle 28 1 3 28 +9 4
McGrath 28 1 3 10 +8 4
Windmuller 28 1 3 6 -5 4
McGinty 28 0 3 37 -9 3
Machel 28 0 3 48 +8 3
Hannan 28 1 1 25 -7 2
Morford 28 1 0 41 -1 1
Madore 28 0 0 0 0 0
Burns 28 0 0 0 0

Penn State features 4 former Hornets

This years Penn St. Nittany Lion Icers, of to a 5-2 start including a win over Division I Robert Morris, feature 4 former Hornets in their lineup:

Luke DeLorenzo (Fr.)(leading scorer)
Justin Depretis (Sr.
Sean Kenney (So.)
Brendan Martin (Sr.)

Penn St. is ranked 2nd in ACHA Div. 1.

Practice and Game Schedule Oct. 25-30, 2005

Tuesday, Oct 25, 7:00-8:20 Collegiate
Wednesday, Oct. 26, 9:00-9:50 Stadium
Thursday, Oct. 27, 8:45-10:15 Collegiate
Saturday, Oct. 29, 8:00 Pm. @ Capitol Center Pride, Lansing, Mi.
Sunday, Oct. 30, 10:00 Am. @ Capitol Center Pride, Lansing, Mi.

Alumni update Monday Oct. 24

It was a full schedule for former Hornets playing Division 1 this past weekend
Matt Clackson picked up his first college assist on Saturday for Western Michigan in a 3-2 loss to Niagara;
Defenseman, Dylan Reese had an assist for Harvard in a 4-3 exhibition loss to McGill,
Defenseman, Grant Lewis, had a pair of assists for Dartmouth in a 5-3 win over McGill.
Matt Schwartz picked up an assist in Saturday’s 5-2 loss to Robert Morris.

Dartmouth's Lewis 3rd star.

Hornet alum. Grant Lewis named 3rd star in Darmouth's 5-1 win over Mcgill University Saturday evening.

Clackson 1st Star in Chicago Steel win.

Hornet alum Chris Clackson leads Chicago Steel to a 5-4 win in Saturday Night USHL action. Shaun Williams backstopped the Steel win over Cedar Rapids.

Shattuck invites the Hornets to prestigious tournament

The Pittsburgh Hornets are one of 6 midget teams from the US invited to the prestigeous Shattuck St. Mary's Invitational Tournament in Faribault, Minnesota. the other invitees are Honeybaked, Victory Honda, Dallas Stars, Chicago Chill, Team Illinois, plus the Host teams.
Shattuck's teams have included NHL Players Zach Parise and Sidney Crosby.

Hornets sweep CYA; 6-4 & 6-0

The Hornets swept the Chicago Young Americans in MWEHL games this weekend at the Robert Morris Island Sports Center. On Saturday, the Hornets overcame a 2-0 defecit behind goals by Chris Morford, Gerry Raymond, Pat Gaul, Mark Polidor (2), Ron Cramer.

In Sunday's fight filled contest, Matt Celin, Chris Cerutti (2), Andrew Blazek, Bill Ozanick, and Ron Cramer scored goals and Ben Burns tossed a shutout in goal.