Washington Township held its annual opening night ceremony at Hollydell and played an exhibition game against St Joe’s and would skate to a 10-0 win on Wednesday night. As they have been so far during the regular season the offense was paced by Niko and Angelo Durnan who scored two goals each along with Caden Morrell who also scored twice. Also scoring goals were Chris Costello, Aaron McGarvey, Santino Capone and Joe Baselice.

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Jack Ellis scored with 39 seconds left in the game, his second goal of the night as Cherokee tied Washington Township 7-7 in exciting Tier I action in Voorhees. Trailing 6-3 with just over five minutes to play, Washington Township would rally and score four goals over the next three minutes and took a  7-6  lead. Cherokee would pull the goalie and with a furious effort managed to get the tying goal.  Harrison Rauh led the Township offense with two goals. After a scoreless first period, Township would take a 2-0 lead on goals by Santino Capone and a power play goal by Matt Egan in the first four minutes of the second period. Cherokee would counter scoring the next three goals in a four minute span as Brendan Forest, Jack Ellis and Colin Devine gave the Chiefs a 3-2 lead with just over four minutes left in the period. 

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Niko Durnan scored two goals and brother Angelo added one as Washington Township defeated Shawnee 5-1 in a battle of the top 2 teams in JVA. Mike Tussey stopped 22 shots in net and played a strong game for the undefeated Minutemen. Shawnee had a golden opportunity four minutes into the game as they had a two man advantage for a full two minutes. Unfortunately twenty seconds in Shawnee committed a penalty, but still had a power play, but could not get one past Tussey. Township would capitalize on their man advantage as Caden Morrell and Aaron McGarvey broke in 2-on-1 and McGarvey fed a perfect pass to Morrell and he tapped in the pass for a 1-0 lead. Just about six minutes later Christian Ansuini found Niko Durnan down low and he redirected the pass and a 2-0 lead. 

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Moorestown scored four goals in the first period, three coming in a span of just over three minutes and that momentum propelled the Quakes to a 7-4 win over Washington Township. Andrew McGinley led the Township offense scoring three goals. Samuel Byrd-Leitner led Moorestown with two goals. After Michael Guarracino gave Township a 1-0 lead just fifty seconds into the game, Ryan Boyle would get the tying goal at the five minute mark. Goals by Zachary McEvoy and Leitner two minutes apart had Moorestown leading 3-1. McGinley got his first of the night late in the period to cut the lead to 3-2. Kevin Wildish put Moorestown up 4-2 scoring in the final 34 seconds.

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Nico Durnan scored twice as Washington Township JVA defeated Cherokee JVA 7-1 at the Skate Zone in Voorhees on Monday night. The Minutemen scored four goals in the first period to take control of the game. Chris Costello and Mike Bahr scored goals less than one minute apart in the first three minutes of the game to give Township a 2-0 lead. Durnan would get his first of the night with less than five minutes left in the period and Caden Morrell would connect in the final seconds and Township would take a 4-0 lead into the second period. 

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Mike Lieze stopped all twenty-nine shots and Brian Barnett scored twice as Kingsway spoiled the season opener for Washington Township with a 4-0 win at Hollydell. James Messina would get his first of the season at the six minute mark of the opening period to give Kingsway as it would turn out, the only goal they needed, Messina put home a rebound of a shot by Nick Bellapigna. It stood that way until late in the second period when Barnett would get his first of two power play goals with just over five minutes remaining and two minutes later Barnett was down low once again and the lead was 3-0.

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