The SJHSIHL had four teams invited to participate in the 31st Flyers Cup tournament. Cherokee, Cinnaminson, Eastern and Washington Township were selected from the league. Cherokee and Township will actually play each other at Hollydell on Monday March 15th at 7:15. Township the #5 seed overall in the AA division will be the home team. Cherokee, which just knocked out Township in the playoffs, comes in as the 12th seed.

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The Eastern Vikings stormed back from a 5-1 deficit with five goals in the third period, but Jacob Mitchell scored his second goal of the game thirty seconds into overtime as Lenape defeated Eastern 7-6 and eliminated the Vikings from the playoffs. Mitchell and Alec Goldstein exchanged goals eighteen seconds apart early in the first period before Kyle Young put Lenape up 2-1 at the nine minute mark.

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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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Lenape upset Eastern 11-10 as they won the shootout 3-1, in a wild and crazy game at the Skate Zone in Voorhees on Monday night in a first round game in the SJHSIHL double elimination Tournament. In a game where the teams combined for 20 goals and 97 shots in regulation and the two five minute overtimes, we had to go to a shootout to decide a winner, but not without some controversy. More on that later.

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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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Jason Spieker snapped a 4-4 tie with ninety seconds left in the game to give Cherokee a 5-4 win over Eastern. With the victory Alec Zucker completed his regular season at 9-0-4. Zucker, who shares the goaltending duties with freshman Dan Navarra, will be one of the net-minders in this week’s Junior-Senior Showcase at Hollydell on Friday evening. Cherokee jumped out to a 2-0 lead on goals by Anthony Santisi and Anthony Williams. Matt Herbert, who led the Vikings with two goals, finished a 2-on-1 break with Billy Bascou late in the period to cut the lead to 2-1. Zucker had stoned Bascou earlier in the period on a break.

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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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Kevin Mello scored his first career varsity hat trick as Washington Township had little trouble in defeating Eastern 12-2 at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Eddie Sarin also scored three goals as Township remained tied for the lead with Moorestown. Matt Herbert scored both Eastern goals. Township out-shot Eastern 37-12 as defensively the Vikings gave little help to goalie Daisy Mase. After Mello and Herbert exchanged goals in the opening three minutes, Township took the lead for good as Louie DeAngelo scored his 37th of the season down low. Mello made it 3-1 converting a nice pass from Justin Cogbill at the five minute mark and Eric Naccarelli scored the first of his two goals late in the period for a 4-1 advantage through one period.

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Matt Herbert scored two of his three goals in the third period as Eastern rallied from a 7-6 deficit with five goals in the third period and out-scored Williamstown 11-8 in action played at Hollydell. Williamstown was led by Rich Busch and Jacob DiStasio with two goals each. Williamstown led 2-1 heading into the second period, where both teams scored five goals, with Eastern scoring three consecutive goals with Alec Weinberg, Darren Plotkin and Cameron Dougherty doing the honors and the Vikings led 4-2. Williamstown would take its turn scoring three straight goals as Vince Salvadori, Allan Haynes and Jonathan Ruiz put the Braves up 5-4.

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Eastern got goals from Billy Bascou and Darren Plotkin to rally from a two goal deficit in the third period and salvaged a 5-5 tie in action played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. After a scoreless first period in which both net minders, Daisy Mase for Eastern and Kevin Roth for Cinnaminson each stopped all 11 shots they face. The second period the offense arrived, especially for Cinnaminson as they tallied five goals in the period.

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Billy Bascou and Darren Plotkin scored four goals each as Eastern outscored Lenape 13-7 in SJHSIHL action played at Voorhees. Kyle Young led Lenape with three goals. Lenape led 3-2 after the opening period and expanded the lead to 4-2 early in the second period as Scott Kreifels scored a power play goal in the first eight seconds of the period. But the Vikings would erupt for six goals over the next nine minutes to take a commanding 8-4 lead after two. Besides Bascou netting three, also contributing were Joshua

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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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Eddie Sarin had four goals and two assists and Louie DeAngelo added two goals and four assists as Washington Township defeated Eastern 8-4 at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Township jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first period and never looked back. This was a game where Eastern could have made a statement, proving that they are one of the top teams, entering the game averaging over 7 goals a game and the top goal scorer in Billy Bascou. The Vikings never got anything going consistently on offend and Bascou was held to just one assist.

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Billy Bascou scored four goals in leading the Eastern Vikings to a 9-4 win over Shawnee at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. With the win Eastern has moved to within two points of first place Washington Township and trails Moorestown but just one point. After jumping out to a quick 3-0 lead on two goals by Bascou and one by Darren Plotkin, Shawnee cut the lead to 3-2 scoring twice in the final two minutes of the period on goals by Vincent Tascione and Brendan Wainwright.

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The Eastern Vikings continue to be the surprise of the SJHSIHL season so far as they remain undefeated with a 10- 0 win over Williamstown. Billy Bascou scored five goals and Sam Seigledorf added two to lead the Viking attack. Viking goalie Daisey Mase faced 18 shots in the second period and stopped all of them in her most impressive performance so far in this young season. Eastern leads the league in scoring averaging over 8 goals per game.

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Billy Bascou scored six goals and freshman Alec Weinberg scored twice as Eastern defeated Clearview 12-6 at Hollydell ice rink on Friday night. With the win Eastern remains unbeaten on the season. The Vikings are enjoying some early season success, as they went from almost not having a team to 4-0-1 through their first five games. In addition they welcomed Josh and Alec Weinberg to the squad, Alec scored his first two varsity goals and his brother Josh chipped in with five assists.

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Sam Seigledorf scored with four seconds left as Eastern rallied to tie Clearview 5-5 in action played at Hollydell on Friday night. Alex Stewart had just scored with twenty seconds to put Clearview ahead 5-4. The game was back and forth all night as neither team could muster more than a one goal lead. Billy Bascou opened the scoring for Eastern on the power play as he weaved his way from one end of the ice to the other.

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