Conor Riley capped off a brilliant career at Eastern scoring a hat trick on the biggest stage so far as Eastern defeated Delaware Military Academy 7-2 in the title game for the NJ/DE Flyers Cup with the game played at the Wells Fargo Center on Sunday morning. Freshman goalie Max Brzozowski was strong in nets for the Vikings as they built a 4-0 lead. Jacob Findley opened the scoring as his shot from behind the net deflected off the goalies skate and into the net for a 1-0.

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Eastern trailed 4-1 early into the second period, but staged a rally and defeated rival Cherokee 6-5 in the semi-final game in the Flyers Cup played at Voorhees. Coach Zuber would probably prefer his team not fall behind early, but it’s how you finish that counts. Just like the first round game against Township where they trailed by 4-0, Eastern kept working. Jeremy Ambrose would give Cherokee a 1-0 lead early in the game and a power play goal by Jake Frankenfield had the lead to 2-0 after one period. Connor Riley put the Vikings on the board early in the second period, but goals by Sam Berger and Dustin Patterson had the lead to 4-1.

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Jeremy Ambrose scored four goals and Jake Frankenfield added three as Cherokee defeated Egg Harbor Township 8-2 in Flyers Cup action played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Sam Libetti assisted on five of the eight goals. It took about eleven minutes for the Chiefs offense to get going, but Ambrose and Libetti would combine on the first goal late in the period. Continuing on the same shift Libetti would once again set-up Ambrose and Cherokee took a 2-0 lead into the second period. Early in the period with the Chiefs on the power play, Frankenfield would go end-to-end and circle around the net and fire a shot that found the long side and a 3-0 lead. 

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Trailing 4-0 midway through the second period, things did not look good for Eastern, but to their credit they kept firing the puck, 42 shots in all and would chip away at the lead and with less than one minute left in overtime Kristopher Zapata would deposit the game winner past Matt Lynch and the Vikings would escape with a 5-4 win in the opening round of the NJ/DE Flyers Cup. Jordan Stein led the Vikings with two goals. Township would build their lead initially taking advantage of the power play, as five minutes into the game Anthony Lonasco working behind the net, found CJ Castorina out front and his quick shot found the net and a 1-0 lead for Township.

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Egg Harbor Township has waited a long time to participate in the Flyers Cup and they made the most of their first time as they defeated Shawnee 6-4 in action played at the Voorhees Skate Zone. William Bahnak led the offense with two goals. Shawnee led 3-1 after the first period on goals by Dave Hoftiezer, Anthony Poppalardo and Babik. EHT would get a power play goal from Ryan Robertson. The second period was all EHT as they would score three goals in a two minute span to take the lead. Blaze Tommi would get them to within 3-2 at the seven minute mark and thirty seconds later Dylan Faulhaber would tie the game at 3-3.

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Brendan Forrest scored one minute into the overtime period to give the Cherokee Chiefs a 3-2 win over Cherry Hill East in the JVA championship game played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. The game was a very tight checking, intense contest where neither team could gain an advantage. Brian Cutler would give Cherry Hill a 1-0 lead in the first but goals by Kameron Katsanos and Connor Ray gave the Chiefs a 2-1 lead late in the second period. Cutler would put home his second of the night late in the period and we were tied at 2-2. 

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St Joe’s defeated Mainland 13-4 to win the JVB Championship in action played at the Skate Zone in Voorhees on Monday night. St Joe’s scored five goals in the first period to take control of the game and never looked back. Varsity forward Deaglan Kelly led the offense scoring six goals, Cooper Root added four goals. Mainland was led by James Murray with two goals. Robert Davis, Zachary Dean and Vincent Sabato also scored for St Joe’s. 

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Brian Cutler’s second goal of the night snapped a 3-3 tie and gave Cherry Hill East a 4-3 win over Eastern in JVA playoff action. East will move on to play Cherokee in the championship. The game was interesting as neither team would score in the opening period. And in the second period they would combine for six goals. Jordan Stein would give Cherry Hill a 1-0 lead in the opening minute of the second period. James Vona and Cutler would score the next two goals as East took a 2-1 lead. 

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Michael Klemm scored with seven minutes left in the third period as Cherokee defeated Moorestown 2-1 and advanced to the JVA Title game. Tony Breen had scored the only goal of the first period to give the Chiefs a 1-0 lead. Moorestown scored the only goal of the second period, as Anthony DeFrancisco scored with less than three minutes left to tie the score at 1-1. Moorestown would have two power play opportunities in the period but failed to take advantage as Jake Stone was strong in nets for the Chiefs. 

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Deaglan Kelly scored with thirteen seconds left in the game as St Joe’s rallied from a 4-2 deficit to win 5-4 and move into the JVB championship. Kelly, who also skates on the varsity team, capped off the rally for St Joe’s. Cherokee had built the 4-2 lead through two periods and seemed in control as we started the third period. Alexandra Mardell, who led St Joes, scored the first goal with less than four minutes left in the opening period. Cherokee responded as Mike Trampe would tie the game just eleven seconds later. Cherokee would take a 2-1 lead as Andre Amezquita scored in the final minute of the period. 

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