Into the PIHL Playoffs

| Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016, TRIB-LIVE

The Fox Chapel hockey team hosted Hempfield on Feb. 16 for Senior Night, and the Foxes and Spartans went into overtime before Fox Chapel prevailed by a 5-4 score on Jasper Uricchio’s unassisted goal at the 3:10 mark.

The Foxes (11-10) scored twice in the first period on goals by Jonny Rice and Mikke Kakela. Uricchio and Ben Friedland assisted on both goals. In the second period, Friedland scored an unassisted goal, and Shane Krhovsky scored with an assist from Ted Uminski.

With under three minutes left in the game and the Foxes trailing 4-3, Krhovsky scored on a power play with assists going to Uricchio and Sam Stites. This set the stage for Uricchio’s game-winner. Chad Veltri stopped 32 shots as the Foxes finished in fifth place and qualified for the PIHL playoffs.

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