Sean Conard and Tristan Tilghman each scored twice and Riverfront used a four goal second period to defeat Middle Township in Olympic playoff action at the Skate Zone. After a scoreless first period Tilghman and Conard scored four minutes apart in the middle stanza to give Riverfront a 2-0 lead. Later in the period goals by Tilghman and Isaac Viereck doubled the lead to 4-0 with Viereck scoring in the final seven seconds.

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Kingsway got two goals each from Matt Smith and Dom Salerno as they defeated Clearview III 5-3 in Olympic playoff action at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. The loss ended the season for Clearview III. The View jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Mike DeFelice in the opening minutes and one by Connor Ennis at the eight minute mark. Kingsway would get goals from Salerno and Smith in the final two minutes to tie the game at 2-2 after one period.

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Christopher Kilcourse scored at the two minute mark of the first overtime as Black Horse defeated HLV 5-4 in the playoff opener for both teams. Black Horse trailed most of the third period until Scott Veneziale scored with twenty seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime. Brandon Graham led the offense with two goals and Sam Belanger netted two for HLV.

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Washington Township opened up the 2014-2015 Playoffs with a 2-0 win over Moorestown, Having gone 4-0 against Moorestown during the regular season, with 2 shutouts, goalie Zachary Burkhardt continued his mastery over the Quakes, but wasn’t really tested until the third period. Township took a 1-0 lead midway through the first period as Riley Griffith connected down low with Chris Cozzan and Brandon Balsama getting the assists. Late in the period Donovan Haslett out-hustled Moorestown goalie Dominic Romeo to the loose puck in the corner and fed Sam Strippoli in front of a wide open net and his goal at the end of the period made it 2-0.

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Travis Tuthill scored three goals in a span of two minutes as Egg Harbor Township rallied from a 4-2 deficit in the final minutes to defeat Clearview III 5-4 in the playoff opener for both team. Jake Sholders had a hat trick for Clearview. The teams exchanged goals in the opening period with Devon Swisher giving EHT a 1-0 lead and less than one minute later Sholders tied the score at 1-1. The View would take a 3-1 lead scoring two goals less than one minute apart in the second period. Sholders connected on the power play as he put home a rebound of a shot by Nat Smith and Smith and Sholders would connect on the same shift for a 3-1 lead.

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Colin Blackley scored three goals and Ryan Hill added two as Lower Cape May breezed by Kingsway 7-1 in the playoff opener for both teams. Jared Sweeten stopped 18 shots and lost his shutout bid in the final three minutes of the game. Justin Tomlin and Hill scored goals in the opening period to give Lower Cape a 2-0 lead. Blackley scored his first of the game just twenty four seconds into the second period for a 3-0 lead. Pete Tomlin and Blackley scored goals forty one seconds apart to make it 5-0 after two periods.

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Top seed Riverfront ran into a hot goalie last night as Steve San Martin stopped 34 shots and Dylan Richardson scored a short-handed goal with six minutes left in the game to give Cinnaminson a 3-2 win over Riverfront. Sean Conard scored the only goal of the first period as Riverfront led 1-0. Cinnaminson would score two goals in a three minute span to take a 2-1 lead on goals by James Lowry and Matty McLane. Riverfront would get the equalizer late in the period as Isaac Viereck connected with just over two minutes remaining.

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Washington Township scored two goals in the first five minutes of the third period to break open a 3-3 game and went on to defeat Cherokee 6-3 in JVA played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees on Sunday night. Joseph Urban paced the offense scoring two goals and Kyle Rink stopped 17 shots in notching his first win of the season. Cherokee led 1-0 as Trevor Ligekis converted on the power play in the opening five minutes. Christian Anderson would get the equalizer about four minutes later with Stefano Sferra getting the assist. Urban would score an unassisted goal about thirty seconds later to give Township a 2-1 lead.

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Chris Cozzan from Washington Township had a hat trick and Sam Amon from EEW added two goals as Team Simmonds defeated Team Giroux 9-5 in the Junior-Senior Showcase game played before a packed house at the Skate Zone in Voorhees last night. Despite out-shooting Team Simmonds by 48-35, Team Giroux could not overcome the five goal first period. Before we were settled in our seats it was 3-0 in the first two minutes. Cozzan, playing on a line with teammate Brandon Balsama, who assisted on all three Cozzan goals, got things going on their first shift, Scott Veneziale, from Black Horse deflected a shot by Shawnee’s Alex Churchill and the lead was 2-0.

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Zachary Burkhardt stopped all 23 shots and Jarret Wharton scored twice as Washington Township defeated Moorestown 5-0 at the Igloo on Wednesday night. With the win Township clinched first place in the American Division and will play Moorestown in the first round of the double elimination tournament starting on February 9th at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Moorestown controlled the opening five minutes and peppered Burkhardt but he stood strong and Township withstood the attack. Riley Griffith would score an unassisted goal at the six minute mark for the 1-0 lead. Chris Cozzan would make it 2-0 scoring a power play goal with less than two minutes left in the period.

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