In keeping with our tradition, SJIceHockey.com is pleased to announce our annual hockey awards given to the players we feel stood out. This year was more difficult than in the past as we had many players in all our categories, but after many discussions here are the selections:

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Cherokee averaged less than five goals a game during the regular season, but in there playoff opener against Rancocas Valley they erupted for eleven as they easily defeated RV 11-1 in action played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Anthony Santisi led Cherokee with three goals, Jason Spieker and Anthony Williams added two goals apiece. Wade Sander had the lone goal for RV. Defensively, Cherokee took away Fleming, never allowing him to get going offensively, and totally throttling the RV offense.

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Andrew Heinz had a hat trick as Rancocas Valley handled the Eastern Vikings 8-4 in SJHSIHL action played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Sean Fleming set the regular season record for points as he added two goals and four assists and finished the season with 110 points, shattering the record set by Sean Sullivan in the 2003-2004 seasons. Fleming now owns the record in all 3 categories, as he set the goals record as well this year with 54, edging former line mate Mike Walsh, who set the mark last year. Coincidentally, Fleming set the assist mark last year with 58.

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With the discussions until the wee hours of the morning, the SJHSIHL Junior-Senior Showcase, to be held at Hollydell on Friday February 5th has been announced. With the teams broken up into two teams, North and South, the following is how the two teams will be divided:

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Sean Fleming had five goals and five assists as Rancocas Valley doubled up Williamstown 12-6 in SJHSIHL action played at Hollydell. Jonathan Ruiz led Williamstown scoring four goals, bringing his season total to 30. Ruiz scored the first two goals of the game in the opening four minutes as Williamstown jumped on RV early and led 2-0. RV would then proceed to score nine of the next ten goals to take a commanding 9-3 advantage. Fleming led the charge, as he usually does, scoring two first period goals and setting up Wade Sander and Andrew Heinz as RV led 4-2 after one.

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Wade Sander and Sean Fleming each had a hat trick as Rancocas Valley defeated Shawnee 9-4 at the Igloo. RV jumped out to an 8-0 lead through two periods and never looked back. Just a sophomore, Sander, playing in just his fifth game, scored the games first two goals, three minutes apart with John Czarnick assisting on both. Fleming made it 3-0 at the five minute mark. In a wild second period, RV broke open the game scoring five times, while Shawnee would spend a majority of the period killing off 10 penalties.

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After a 1-1 first period, Lenape allowed three goals, 15 shots and took eight penalties all in the second period as they fell to Rancocas Valley 6-3 in action played at the Igloo. John Czarnick led RV with two goals. Tied at 1-1 on goals by Czarnick for RV and Tom Burns for Lenape, the second period began with Lenape taking a 2-1 lead on a goal by Scott Kreifels just thirty seconds in, that lead was short-lived as thirty five seconds later Andrew Heinz tied the game at 2-2 on a feed from Sean Fleming. It was here that the game turned as Lenape would commit eight penalties in a span of seven minutes.

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Andrew Heinz scored with less than one minute left in the game as Rancocas Valley rallied to tie Eastern at 6-6 in a game played at the Igloo. Darren Plotkin led Eastern with three goals; Andrew Fleming had a hand on all six goals with five assists and one goal, John Czarnick scored twice for RV. Eastern led 2-1 after the first period on goals by Plotkin and Sam Seigledorf sandwiched around one by Czarnick. The Vikings took a 4-1 lead scoring two goals about ninety seconds apart early in the second period. First, Nicky Bascou scored the first of his two goals on the evening, to make it 3-1 then Plotkin put home his second of the night and the lead was 4-1.

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Sean Fleming scored five times and Clearview surrendered four short-handed goals as Rancocas Valley edged Clearview 8-7 in SJHSIHL play at Hollydell. With the win RV evened its record at 6-6; Clearview is still searching for their first win. Ed Moore led Clearview with three goals. The story of this game was RV’s ability to create scoring opportunities while being a man down, and Clearview unable to generate much offense with the man advantage.

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Pat Tricocci picked the perfect time to score his first goal of the season that came with twenty seven seconds left in the game as Rancocas Valley defeated Holy Cross 5-4 at the Igloo. Andrew Heinz led RV scoring a hat trick; Ryan Badger led Holy Cross with two goals. Holy Cross led throughout much of the game. In the first period Heinz scored twice in the opening five minutes to give RV a 2-0 lead. Holy Cross cut the lead to 2-1 as John Silverio connected for his third of the season at the eight minute mark.

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