With another season come and gone, thought I’d reflect back on some issues we discussed at the end of last season and the beginning of this year. At the end of last season Cherokee was thinking of replacing head coach Mike Sullivan, but at the last minute decided not to make a change. And not only was it the right move, Cherokee went on to win the league championship and made the semi-finals of the Flyers Cup. As Mike would tell you, he’s got a good staff with Scott McKay and Steve Monaghan, and the kids bought into the system. There can’t be any grumblings from the board on this season, good job coaches!!

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Brian Clegg netted a hat trick and Patrick Rizzo added two goals as Holy Cross defeated Clearview 5-3 and won the JVB Title in action played at Hollydell on Thursday night. Coming into the game Clearview had won the division and suffered only one loss all season, that to Holy Cross as well.

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Cole Zucker recorded his second varsity hat trick, both during this playoff run, as Cherokee defeated Clearview 6-3 at the Skate Zone on Monday night and ended the season for the Pioneers. Cherokee moves on and will face Moorestown next Monday night at 7:10 at Voorhees. Cherokee wasted little time as they scored two goals in the first two minutes of the game. Jason Spieker opened the scoring with a blast from the right circle just one minute into the game. Just about one minute later Zucker broke in and after his shot was kicked aside, Pat Mohnacs was there to put home the rebound and before you could settle into your seat it was 2-0.

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Once again SJIceHockey.com is pleased to announce our annual award recipients. This year there seemed to be more balance throughout the league and with the playoffs upon us we could be in for a few surprises. Listed below are the 2010-2011 winners:

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Eddie Sarin scored three goals and Ryan McCusker stopped 26 shots as Washington Township rallied to defeat Clearview 6-4 at the Skate Zone in Voorhees on Friday night. Township now moves on to the winner bracket final and will face Shawnee on Monday February 21st. The winner of that contest goes into the championship game. Sarin gave Township a 1-0 lead as he won a face-off in the offensive zone and after getting the puck back from Shane Moffatt, ripped home a shot from the top of the circle. Clearview came right back about one minute later as Bob Campbell put home a rebound of a shot by Josh Gonzalez and we were tied at 1-1.

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Taylor Olson had a natural hat rick as Clearview beat Moorestown 3-2 in action played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees on Friday night. Alex Nicolai had both goals for Moorestown. Olson opened the scoring in the first two minutes of the game scoring an unassisted goal. Nicolai tied the score at 1-1 midway through the period with Eric Schwartz and Michael Katz getting the assists.

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With the second season upon us the SJHSIHL begins it’s double elimination tournament on Monday so we thought we would break down to see exactly who is peaking and who is struggling. Let’s begin with the Eastern Vikings. Tough year for Mike Pontonio to come out of retirement having coached teams in the past to multiple championships, the Vikings did not win a game this season, but in speaking to Coach Pontonio it was not for lack of effort. Don’t see Eastern advancing.

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In the third annual Junior-Senior Showcase game in the SJHSIHL held at the Skate Zone in Voorhees the North came back from a 3-0 deficit and beat the South 9-5. Vincent Tascione led the North with a goal and four assists and Tyler Pedersen added two goals. Jonathan Ruiz and Jared Hand led the South with two goals each. Tascione was voted the MVP for the game.

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The SJHSIHL has released the roster for the Junior-Senior Showcase game to be played on Friday, January 28th at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Game time is 8:05PM. North Squad will be the home team and wear white and coached by Mike Sullivan of Cherokee. The South will be in the dark jerseys and coached by Mike Glick of Washington Township. We congratulate this year’s selection and look forward to another exciting contest. Here are the nominees for the North and South All-Stars...

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Taylor Olson scored a natural hat trick and Bob Campbell broke a 3-3 tie in the games final two minutes as Clearview defeated Holy Cross 4-3 at Hollydell. Clearview never led until Campbell’s goal as Holly Cross played them tough throughout the game. Steven Petitte led Holy Cross with two goals. Holy Cross led 1-0 just six minutes into the game as Charles Quigley scored his sixth goal of the season. Olson tied the score at 1-1 later in the period.

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The SJHSIHL has released the nominees for the Junior-Senior Showcase game to be played on Friday, January 28th at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Each team was asked to nominate 3-4 players with a minimum of 2 players selected from every team. Here are the nominees for the North and South All-Stars…

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Taylor Olson scored twice as Clearview defeated Shawnee 4-2 in SJHSIHL action played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Dan Flaherty made 36 saves as Clearview improved to 7-9-2. Vince Tascione scored the only goal of the first period as Shawnee led 1-0. Olson tied the score early in the second period scoring a power play goal with Joe Paul getting the assist.

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The rivalry between Washington Township and Clearview was renewed on Friday night as the team met at Hollydell in front of a capacity crowd and around 14 policemen. Township came back from a two goal deficit to win 5-4. Kevin Mello paced the Township attack with two goals. Ed Moore and Taylor Olson led Clearview with two goals each. Clearview jumped out early as they capitalized on the power play just over one minute into the game with Moore burying a nice feed from Eric Mitchell. Later in the period Clearview made it 2-0 as Olson scored his fifth goal of the season. It was at this point that the game changed, Township Coach Glick called a timeout and reminded his team of the game plan, immediately after the timeout, Mello scored his first of two goals to cut the lead to 2-1.

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Ed Moore scored five goals as Clearview routed Eastern 12-2 in a SJHSIHL game played at Hollydell on Friday night. Eastern, still looking for that first win, only had eight skaters make the trip and actually led 1-0 just under four minutes into the game as Khan BaderKareem notched his first goal of the season. Clearview would respond scoring six goals over the next ten minutes to break open the game.

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Cole Zucker scored with three minutes left in the game as Cherokee rallied to tie Clearview 4-4 in SJHSIHL action at Hollydell. Since starting the season with just one win in their first seven games, Clearview has gone 3-1-2 in their last six. Goaltending and defense has been the main turn around, after surrendering over 5 goals a game in the first seven, head coach Joe Walters has seen his team rebound in the last six games and just allow over 3 goals per game.

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It was a tale of two halves, Clearview won the first half 3-0 and Cinnaminson won the second half, as the teams battled to a 3-3 tie in SJHSIHL action played at Hollydell on Friday night. Alex Stewart put Clearview on top just over four minutes into the game and that lead became 2-0 as David Hall scored on a breakaway with just over five minutes left in the opening period.

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Clearview battled Cherokee most of the game but two third period goals allowed Cherokee to pull away to a 5-2 victory over the hard charging Pioneers. Kelly Farinella stopped 23 shots while improving her record to 5-0. Balanced scoring was once again the key for Cherokee as five different players scored goals. Mike Vulpio gave Clearview a 1-0 lead early in the game scoring on the power play with Eric Mitchell and David Hall assisting.

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Eric Mitchell and Alex Stewart each had a hat trick as Clearview defeated Eastern 9-3 at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. The win was the third in a row for the View, the Vikings fell to 0-9. Stewart got things going early for Clearview as he scored just two minutes into the contest. Ross Mintzer would tie the game for Eastern seconds later as he scored his first goal of the season. Clearview would then score five consecutive goals over the next twelve minutes, two in the last six minutes of the first period, with Mike Vulpio putting Clearview ahead for good at 2-1 and David Hall getting his first goal of the season for a 3-1 lead after one period.

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Ed Moore scored two goals as Clearview built a 4-1 lead and withstood a late flurry by Williamstown and hung on to upset the Braves 5-4 in SJHSIHL action played at Hollydell on Friday night. After getting off to a slow start this season, Clearview has played well in there last 3 games, going 2-1 and the loss was by one goal to defending champ Moorestown.

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Clearview scored four goals in the second period and went on to defeat Lenape 6-3 at Hollydell ice arena on Friday night. Ed Moore led Clearview with two goals. The win snapped a three game losing streak for Clearview. This was by far the best performance for Clearview as they played a full 45 minutes and helped out defensively in limiting Lenape to not many second chance rebounds.

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Eric Simone had a goal and three assists and Jared Hand scored twice as Cherry Hill East defeated Clearview 4-2 at the Skate Zone in Voorhees on Monday evening. After a scoreless first period, Kyle Montgomery scored an early goal in the second period to give Clearview a 1-0 lead. Less than two minutes later Simone tied the score at 1-1 with Tyler Caton getting the assist.

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Pat Nugent had a hat trick and Kevin Rafferty added two goals as Cinnaminson defeated Clearview 6-2 at Voorhees on Monday night. Joe Paul scored both Clearview goals. After spotting Clearview a 1-0 just two minutes into the game, Cinnaminson would score three goals in a span of four minutes, with Garrett McLaverty tying the score at 1-1 at the four minute mark and Nugent scoring goals on consecutive shifts to put Cinnaminson up 3-1.

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Eric Mitchell put home a rebound of a shot by Ed Moore with less than four minutes remaining in the game to snap a 1-1 game as Clearview beat Holy Cross 2-1 in a game played at Hollydell. Coming off a tough year last season where the View won just 2 games, and did not win there first until game eighteen, they got a solid performance from net minder Dan Flaherty and the defense limited Holy Cross to second chances.

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Jonathan Ruiz scored four goals and Jacob Distasio added three as Williamstown scored six goals in the opening period and breezed by Clearview 13-3 in SJHSIHL action played at Hollydell. Ed Moore led Clearview with two goals. It started out good for Clearview as Moore gave them a quick 1-0 lead just under one minute into the game. Williamstown would score the next six goals of the game to take control. After Distasio tied the score at 1-1, Chris Brown scored his first of two goals to give Williamstown the lead for good at 2-1.

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Ben Tice stopped all 32 shots and Eric Simone scored two goals as Cherry Hill East got their first win of the season in defeating Clearview 5-0. East jumped out early as Sam Kaufman converted on a feed from Simone just three minutes into the game, scoring from down low on the short side. Clearview had a chance to tie the game late in the period as they were on the power play, but Tyler Caton, set-up behind the net found Simone in front and his shot went through the five-hole and East led 2-0 heading into the second period.

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