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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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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Justin Nugent scored twice to help Cinnaminson build a 3-0 lead and then withstood a rally by Lenape to win 4-2 and thus end the season for Lenape. Playing without starting goalie Jackson Burns, who was serving his last game of a 5 game suspension, defenseman Matt Cloud got his second straight playoff start and played tremendous as he faced 38 shots. Cinnaminson took a 1-0 lead at the six minute mark of the first period as defenseman Troy Pawlikowski, who played a strong physical game, made a good play at the point to keep the puck in the zone and slid it to Sean Joyce along the boards and he found Eric Kissinger who’s shot through a screen beat Cloud for a 1-0 lead. Late in the period Nugent scored a short-handed goal to make it 2-0 after one.

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Although we spoke about this throughout the league, we somehow missed posting on our site that Kyle Young set a Lenape team record by scoring six goals in one game as he led his team to a 7-5 win over Shawnee back on January 7th. With his team trailing 4-3 going into the third period, Young netted a hat trick to rally Lenape as he scored two goals in the opening two minutes of the period to give Lenape the lead for good at 5-4. Later in the period he iced the game scoring on the power play with just over three minutes remaining in the contest.

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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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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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Lenape scored four goals in the first period on their way to an 8-0 win over the Eastern Vikings. Seven different players scored for Lenape led by two goals by Zach Spear. Jackson Burns stopped all 21 shots he faced as Lenape won for the fifth time this season. After Jordan Kreifels gave Lenape a 1-0 lead at the four minute mark, Eastern went on the power play at the ten minute mark, with a chance to tie the game, instead they surrendered three short-handed goals over the next two minutes and now trailed 4-0, Scoring for Lenape were, Kyle Young, Chris Popp and Matt Cloud.

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Ben Tice stopped 34 shots, including 16 in the third period as Cherry Hill East held off Lenape 4-3 in action played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Lenape scored the lone goal of the opening period with Dan Blash notching his first of the season. East tied the game at 1-1 at the ten minute mark of the second period with Jake Soloway getting his first varsity goal. Less than three minutes later Tyler Caton gave East the lead for good with Eric Simone getting the assist and after two periods East led 2-1.

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Jonathan Ruiz had a hat trick as Williamstown used a four goal first period to fly by Lenape 8-2 in a game plated at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Matthew Asis got things going for Williamstown just three minutes into the game as he scored his second goal of the season to give Williamstown a 1-0 lead. Ruiz would score the next two goals for the Braves with Mike Quigley getting the assist on one goal and Williamstown was in command at 3-0.

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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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Evan Smith stopped 22 shots, including 11 in the third period as Shawnee defeated Lenape 3-1 in a SJHSIHL game played at the Igloo in Mt. Laurel on Monday night. With the win Shawnee improved to 3-2 on the season. Danny Pagliuso scored the only goal of the first period as Shawnee took a 1-0 lead. Shawnee controlled much of the play in the second period firing 15 shots against Lenape goaltender Jackson Burns, but only one eluded Burns, and that was a power play goal scored by Bryan Etter, his first of the season.

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Eastern had some positives to build on despite a 9-6 loss to Lenape at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Jordan Kreifels and Zach Spear led the balanced Lenape attack with two goals each. For Eastern, offensively they moved the puck better and definitely controlled play for much of the first period. Matt Herbert, who led the Vikings with a hat trick, is a strong offensive threat. Freshman goalie Callan Pyfer, despite surrendering six of the goals, could have used some help from his defense.

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Alec Nicolai scored four goals and Dylan Chesney added two as Moorestown rebounded from an opening night loss to deal Lenape a 9-1 defeat. After surrendering nine goals to Township, Tyler Griffis came back to surrender just one, and that was early in the first period. After Nicolai gave Moorestown a 1-0 advantage just over two minutes into the game, Scott Siracusano tied the score for Lenape at 1-1 with Zach Spear assisting. Moorestown would explode for four goals over the next six minutes to take a commanding 5-1 lead. Chesney would score two goals, sandwiched between one by Nicolai and one by Chris Carnivale.

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