ADAMS TWP — Beau Heakins made it clear after the Mars hockey team won the Class A Penguins Cup at Consol Energy Center last Saturday the Planets had bigger goals in mind.

Mars was focused on winning the Pennsylvania Cup.

The Planets will have that opportunity at 11 a.m. Saturday, where they will meet a familiar foe, Bayard Rustin, at Pegula Ice Arena in State College.

Mars also met the Golden Knights for the Crown in 2009 and 2010.

“It’s not enough for us,” Heakins said. “We want to go to states and get a ring.”

Bayard Rustin, which opened in 2006, has appeared in the finals four times, winning twice.

The Golden Knights beat Mars 5-0 in 2009 and knocked off Quaker Valley last season.

The Planets beat Bayard Rustin in 2010, 4-1.

“It seems like it’s always Quaker Valley or Mars, which is a complement to the programs,” Golden Knights coach Nick Russo said. “Mars always seems to be there.”

Bayard Rustin won the Flyers Cup by beating West Chester Henderson 7-1 Monday.

The Golden Knights are 19-3-4 and captured the Chesmont Conference title.

Bayard Rustin has found success with offensive balance.

Forward Brett Christie led the team with 37 regular-season points, including 21 goals and 16 assists.

Forward Tommy Sloan (17 goals) and defenseman Michael Grande (14 goals) also showed scoring punch for the Golden Knights.

“We get contributions from a lot of different people, which is good,” Russo said. “If you play offense, you have to play defense together.”

Mars (20-4-1) entered the playoffs as the third seed and started clicking.

For the first time, the Planets had all their players with club commitments back.

That allowed Mars, which last won a Pens Cup and state title in 2011, to stop rival Quaker Valley’s string of three straight crowns.

Heakins, who was second on the team with 22 regular-season goals, missed six games.

Paul Maust, who topped the team with 29 regular-season goals and scored three in the Pens Cup final, missed four games. Ian Houk-Graves, one of the Planets top defenseman, only played in 13 games.

Planets coach Steve Meyers felt all season they could compete once they got everyone back.

“We weren’t having guys at games, but we had everyone at practice,” said Meyers after last Saturday’s game. “When everyone’s at practice, you can see it. We’d play a game Tuesday in February, you’re not going to have everybody. We see everybody at practice and know what we have is the biggest thing.”

With players going in and out of the lineup, scouting for the state finals can be difficult.

Russo said he won’t be sure for what they’re into until the end of the first period.

“You’re pretty much going into it blind,” Russo said. “You might have a game film here or some reports there, and I’m sure Mars has people in the east they know through club connections. ... The first period is a punching match to figure it out, see what they got and go from there.”

Heakins believes Mars can win its third Pennsylvania Cup.

With everyone together, this group communicates well.

“We all pretty much get along as a team, we have a lot of leaders on the team,” Heakins said. “We don’t hold back. We all say what we need to say and our motivated all the time.”