Boomer Miller scored two goals, both short-handed and the Chiefs added three power play goals as they opened up the regular season with a 6-2 win against Black Horse. Zachary Faust scored both Black Horse goals. Faust scored just over one minute into the game to give Black Horse an early 1-0 lead, but Cherokee would bounce back less than one minute later as Miller scored his first short-handed goal to tie the game at 1-1 with Kyle Horner getting the assist. After giving up the early goal, Matt Bidini would settle down and had a solid game in his debut. Anthony Salvatore gave Cherokee a 2-1 lead scoring a power play goal at the ten minute mark and just over one minute later Max Zeligson made it 3-1as he intercepted a clearing pass and went top shelf for the only even strength goal of the night for the Chiefs.

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With the start of the 2015-2016 SJHSHL season on September 25th, the league and its president Mike Pontonio are trying to bring purity back to the league. In hockey terms purity is defined as all the players on your team go to the same school, plain and simple. With the rising costs and some many travel teams available, playing for your high school doesn’t mean as much as it used to. Although for a core group, it still has some meaning. 

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When first entering an exercise facility more often than not, the first thing you will see is the cardio equipment; this may consist of bikes, rowing machines, elliptical machines or even upper body ergo meters, machines of this type are designed to strength your lungs and heart and are good for “warming up” the body in preparation for getting ready to raise your training intensity. These machines are also quite beneficial at burning fat, increasing basal metabolic rates, decreasing your risk for heart disease and increasing your overall sense of well-being. No activity or machine is better than another, the effectiveness is based on how hard, how often, and how long you engine in your chosen activity.

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So now, let’s get back to earning that muscle, the “quickest” and “easiest” way to get faster, stronger and better to give yourself enough time. The mistake a lot of athletes make is waiting to late to start getting ready to compete. I was getting questions from players last year in August about getting ready for the season two weeks before the season started. If they had started preparing in June or July then trying to get ready in two weeks would not have been an issue because they would have been closer to being ready then they were. 

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