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St. Josephs Articles 2016-2017
While the new season does not start until Monday, October 9th, here are a few items that we know. There will be two divisions, Tier I and Tier II. This year Tier I will consist of the following teams: Cherokee, Eastern, Moorestown and Washington Township in one conference and Shawnee, Kingsway, Williamstown, Egg Harbor and Lower Cape May in the other. Black Horse has dropped out of the league citing not enough players to fill a team.
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Down 4-2 with thirty six seconds left, Coach D’Amato still felt he had a chance to win as he has four or five skaters that he depends on and miraculously two guys came through as they rallied to beat St Joe’s in overtime 5-4 and win the SJHSHL Tier II B title at the Igloo. Sean Conard and Ryan McCormick each scored two goals to pace the offense. St Joe’s led 2-0 on goals by Dom Capella and Kevin Troy and with a chance on the power play to go up three goals, Conard picked off a pass and scored short-handed to cut the deficit to 2-1. Early in the second period Riverfront would tie the game on the power play as Daniel Taylor would deflect a shot by Conard.
Kevin Troy scored four goals as St Joe’s defeated Riverfront 5-3 and forced a deciding game in the Tier II championship. The teams will meet this Friday at the Igloo. Troy and Sean Conard traded first period goals one minute apart as we ended at 1-1. Early in the second period Troy scored an unassisted power play goal to give St Joe’s the 2-1 lead, Riverfront would tie the score at 2-2 at the eight minute mark with Gavin Dierkhising getting the equalizer. Troy would strike again late in the period again unassisted and St Joe’s led 3-2 after two.
The teams have been announced for the NJ/Delaware Flyers cup and soon it will begin its 4th Annual tournament the second week of March. This year there has been an increase in the number of teams participating. Here is the schedule for the Pond in Delaware with Salesianum playing Kingsway and Delaware Military Academy playing Township on Monday March 6th. Cherokee will host Moorestown and Eastern will host Appoquinmink at Voorhees also on March 6th. Semi-finals on Wednesday, March 8th with the Championship on Friday March 10th. Here's the full list and seeding for this year's Flyers Cup.
Colin Rogers stopped all 25 shots and Kevin Troy scored twice as St Joe’s defeated Cinnaminson 5-0 in Tier II playoff action at Pennsauken. Troy scored the only goal of the first period with under two minutes remaining with Kevin Glass getting the assist. Glass scored an unassisted goal early in the second period to put St Joe’s up 2-0. With Cinnaminson whistled for a five minute major, St Joe’s capitalized scoring two power play goals, with Troy and Dylan Gattone getting the goals and a 4-0 lead after two periods. Rogers would be tested late in the period as Cinnaminson went on the power play but could not get one past him.
Kevin Troy and Seth Zolda scored two goals each as St Joe’s defeated Mainland 6-4 and eliminated Mainland from the tournament and ended their season. St Joe’s jumped out to a 2-0 first period lead on goals by Troy and Kevin Glass. Troy scored a power play goal early in the second period for a 3-0 advantage. Gage Grist would put Mainland on the board with the first of his two goals on the night, scoring short-handed at the eight minute mark to make it 3-1.
Each year, we are pleased with the league allowing us to recognize several players and a coach and their outstanding contributions they have made for their team. With at least two to three players considered for each category, we have finalized our decision. In the continuing tradition here at SJIceHockey we honor players we feel stood out during the regular season and here are the players we selected and are pleased to announce the 2016-2017 award winners:
Cinnaminson built a 6-2 lead after two periods and held off a hard charging St Joes team to win 6-5 in playoff action at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Mark Kordes led the offense with two goals. After St Joe’s scored the first two goals of the game, one by Matt Sasher and one by Kevin Troy, the first of his three on the night, Cinnaminson would score the next six. Connor Farkas and Liam Mcgurrin scored four minutes apart to tie the game at 2-2. Goals by Mike Quattrone and Gino Sambucci sixteen seconds apart in the last minute of the period gave the Pirates a 4-2 lead after one.
Mike Moss broke a 2-2 game with ten minutes left in the game as Team Simmonds edged Team Giroux 3-2 in last night’s Junior/Senior Showcase game at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. Having participated in the last few drafts Coach McKay has never won in this format, and while he wouldn’t admit that it bothered him, I got to believe that the success he has enjoyed over the last 8 years, not winning this game was probably bothering him to a degree. Trailing 2-0 on goals by Kevin Troy of St Joe’s and Zachary Faust of Black Horse, Team Simmonds would get a late goal in the period as Cody Charyk from Shawnee would score with Moss and Vinny Salerno getting the assists.
Cherry Hill East had four different players score as they defeated St Joe’s 4-1 on senior night for both clubs. Jack Amon opened the scoring late in the period scoring from down low, his seventh of the season and East led 1-0 after one period, a period they dominated but could only get one by Colin Rogers, who faced 44 shots on the night and kept his team in the game. East again worked late as they score two goals near the end of the period, one by John Pearson on the power play, his team high 16th on the season and Callum Scott would notch his second of the season and a 3-0 lead after two.