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NY HOCKEYNY HOCKEYO N L I N EMarch 2014

VOLUME 3 ISSUE 6

HISTORY MADE:NYS Girls Varsity Ice Hockey Has Co-Champions!

Kenmore Takes 3rd WNYGVIH Section VI Championship and 1st League Championship

Lysander Welcomes Home a Soldier/Coach/Hockey Dad!

KENMORE VARSITY #1 IN

LEAGUE AND SECTION VI

POTSDAM SHARES THE 2014 GIRLS VARSITY TITLE

SKANEATELES SHARES THE

2014 GIRLS VARSITY TITLE

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Dear Readers, It’s hard to believe that the 2013-14 season is quicky drawing to a close and that Championship match-ups are being played as we publish this issue. We’ve traveled to the New York State Girls Varsity High School Championship in Clayton; saw a couple pond hockey games as we traveled to and from the rink in Clayton; had an extraordinary invitation to cover the homecoming of a soldier who coaches his son’s team in Lysander and witnessed the Olympic hockey games (via TV of course) and visited a newly reno-vated local arena and the President’s Day Tournament they host. Yourinvitationskeepcomingandwewishthatwecouldfulfilleachone;butwith a small staff of three and a State as large as NY, it’s not possible. But we ap-preciate your invites and urge you to keep sending them and we’ll do our best. If we don’t make your event/tournament, please send us the results. You’ll see some new advertisers in this issue. We welcome World Hockey Centre who offer hockey camps and this year have a special one for girls and especially welcome “The Puck Hog,” books authored by a hockey Mom geared for children. We welcome back KiPo Chevrolet, Buffalo Icemen LaCrosse, New Edge and Rob’s column, Great Skate and the Buffalo Stars. We’re looking at cutting our issues down by one and combining the June/July issue. This is due to vacations, yours and ours. We will return to full monthly is-sues in August with tournament information. So if you want to run tournament ads this fall, August will be the issue. Okay, enjoy this issue which includes lots of photos from the New York State Girl’s Varsity Championship; Lysander’s special day and watch for some we took while traveling around. You never know when your team may end up in a photo!

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In This Issue:

Bison Beat .......................................... 43Buffalo Stars Hockey ................48-50Cazenovia Hockey .......................... 47Central Section ................................ 17Coaching with Gridley .................. 11East Section ...................................... 27Empire State Games .........................4Fenton ................................................ 45Hockey Insight ................................. 14Iroquois Boys Hockey .................... 46Kenmore Girls Hockey ........... 51, 58North Section ................................... 32NYS Girls Varsity .............................5-9NY Spotlight: Collins ...................... 16NY Spotlight: Blais .......................... 18OHL ...................................................... 63Olympics ............................................ 10Putnam Award ................................. 62Section V Hockey ............................ 56Super Sunday ................................... 40Tournaments .................................... 65Tournament Results ....................... 66West Section..................................... 38WNYGVIH ........................................... 59Women’s College Playoffs ............ 68

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The North kept the 2014 Empire State Winter Games Hockey Trophy in Lake Placid after Adiron-dack beat West 4-3 in the Gold Medal Game. New York City took home the bronze.

On opening day Central and New York City went to 7-1 in favor of Central with Goalie Lauren Dahm facing made 40 saves. New York’s Stewart put in their lone goal.

Adirondack shut Hudson Valley out 3-0 in Game 2. Adirondack played game that had balanced scor-ing powered by Farmer, Kilbourne-Hill and Raville. Hudson Valley’s Goalie Sophia Kokkonis was out-standing in net facing 38 shots on goal.

The West opened scoring in game 3 and with less than a minute left, NYCs Stewart got the winning goal past Lauren Orynawka closing the game 3-2.

With no score in the first period, Hudson Valley opened the scoring at 14:46 of the second and Central answered back with two in the second and one in the third to beat Hudson Valley 3-2.

Shawnee Oberholtzer opened the scoring at 7:09 in a 4-0 shutout over Adirondack. Ashley Schneegold made 13 saves for the West and Christina Emery made 17 saves for ADK. The game was closer than the score indicates with both teams having op-portunities and the West keeping Adirondack from scoring.

Adirondack and New York City played to a 4-3 victory for ADK in Game 6. Both goalies played out-standing in a highly paced offensive game resulting with 56 shots on goal in total.NYC’s Leah Danley made 22 saves and ADK’s Christina Emery made 28.

The West prevailed in the seventh game of the series with a 5-2 win over Central. West’s Alyssa Dollen-dorf had two goals and Katie Stack had a goal and an assist. West Goalie Ashley Scheengold made 25 saves with Central splitting the goaltending duties between Hotaling and Dahm, making a total of 19 saves on 24 shots.

New York City went on to beat Hudson Valley 7-1 with Hudson Valley’s Rossi having the single goal, assisted by Longo. NYC had a productive second period with four goals. Stewart and Couzin had 6 points between them and Hudson Valley’s goalten-der Kokkonis saw 52 shots.

Adirondack was up next against Central and beat them 2-1. They opened with a scoreless first period and ADK’s Bero put one in at 1:33 of the second, unassisted to start the scoring. Central answered back and the game-winner was scored by Andrea Kilbourne-Hill at 1:36 sending the North to the gold medal game.

The West beat Hudson Valley 8-0 in order to ad-vance to the Gold Medal round. Lauren Orynawka made 16 saves for the West and Hudson Valley’s goaltenders split duties with Kokkonis facing 25 shots, saving 20 and Haggary facing 7, saving 4.

NYC found themselves facing Central in the Bronze Medal Game on Sunday morning. Central fought back from a two-goal deficet to tie and send the game into overtime. At 1:37 of second overtime Cherie Stewart got one past NYC’s goalie to take the Bronze to the City.

Again in the Gold Medal game it looked like over-time would determine the winner after the West’s Shawnee Oberholtzer, assisted by Katie Stack, tied the game at 3:32. Howevetr at 2:52 Powas put one in the net, assisted by Kilbourne-Hill and ADK took the gold for the second consecutive year.

(I apologize for not having first names, but I didn’t receive full rosters. If anyone has them, I’d love to have a copy for my files)

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NYS Declares Co-Champions in Girl’s Varsity Ice Hockey

CONGRATULATIONSPOTSDAM & SKANEATELES

Game 1Skaneateles vs Beekmantown


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“Co-Champions.” That was the term that blared from the speakers inside the Clay-ton Recreation Park Arena in Clay-ton, NY. Following nearly three hours of end-to-end competition, including four over-time periods, the Skaneateles Lakers and Pots-dam Sandstoners were declared to be co-champions of the 2014 Var-sity Girl’s Ice Hockey State Cham-pionships. Thefinalscoreafter75minutesof play read 2-2. W h o w o u l d have ever t h o u g h t when the day began that these two teams, so opposite of each other, no true cham-pion would be crowned. Fans in attendance that day certainly learned a few lessons. Thefirstbeing“neverjudgeabookby its cover.” To look at the Skaneateles team bench you could easily see that they had more than 20 play-ers, with several of the players forced to stand behind the regular bench. Potsdam had 16 skaters listed, including three goalies. You could easily see Ska-neateles being able to roll out three forward lines as well as three pairs of defensemen. Potsdam would have two lines as well as four de-

fensemen. But as the game wore on you could see that there was a reason Pots-dam was in the championship contest. They had played the style of a short bench for most of their season. Numbers didn’t mean anything to the Sandstoners.

It is a good bet that both teams knew their fate the day be-fore. In the opening round of the play-offs Skaneateles, the Section 3 C h a m p i o n s , faced the heavily favored Beek-m a n -t o w n

Eagles, the Section7Champions. Like Skaneateles, Beekmantown had a large bench and could play the Lakers line for line. In the end, Skaneateles de-feated Beekmantown, 6-2, in what many con-sidered an upset. The Lakers opened up the scoringearlyinthefirstperiodwitha goal by Caroline McGuigan The Eagles would tie it up late in the pe-riod on a goal by Katie Matott. Skaneateles scored the loan goal of the second period, with Madison Singler scoring. Beekmantown would tie up the

score, 2-2, early in the third period on a goal by Kallie Villemaire. Less

than a minute after that goal, the Lakers took the lead for good on a goal by Paige Postalwait. The Lakers would go on to score three more goals in the peri-

o d , including tallies by Riley Donahue, Madison Singler and Sarah Sauda. In the late game Potsdam, the Section 10 champs, faced-off against the Kenmore Bulldogs, Section 6 champions. Like Pots-dam, Kenmore had a short bench of players. In addition the Bulldogs were without their top player and leading scorer, Jill Battista, who was unable to make the trip due to personal

matters. It was the second year in-a-row Ken-

more w a s in the cham-p i o n -s h i p series. The two t e a m s

were scoreless in the firstperiod. Potsdam finally broke thescoreless tie with a goal early in the second stanza by Ally Miller. Miller would come back with another goal, which turned out to be the winner, 10 minutes later in the second period.


Game 2Kenmore vs Potsdam

Kenmore scored a goal late in the third period by Hannah Gallivan, but it would not be enough as Potsdam won, 2-1. Lauren Pray was outstanding in goal for the Bulldogs, especially when her team was outshot in the second period, 14-0. The Championship contest was a nail biter all the way. After a scoreless opening period, Skaneateles opened the scoring early in the second period on a goal by Sarah Sauda. Potsdam would tie the score late in the second on a goal by Ally Miller. The Sandstoners would take the lead, 2-1, with less than four minutes remaining in regulation time, on a goal by Kalie Grant. Butjust25secondslatertheLakerswouldtieituponagoalbyClaire Michel. FollowingfourOTperiods(7:30each)thegamewasdeclaredatiewith co-champions. Many considered it a “Game for the Ages.” “Don’t let that Potsdam bench surprise you,” commented Ska-neateles coach, Michael Major following the championship game. “Those are 10 very talented girls that he was running through that cycle. They are very skilled. “Getting past Beekmantown was huge for us the night before. We had played two other times this year and split with them. “We knew we were in the hunt for this title. And now to come away with the State Champion-ship, we’re very excited.


“In the end the girls were a little frustrated. They wanted to keep go-ing, but the rules are the rules. “In the end we are the State Champs and that is something great to take back home with us.” Potsdam coach, Joe Stark, admitted that things looked a bit “thin” at times for his team. “We were playing two lines and three or four back on defense,” said Stark. “Then at one point we were playing about nine and when we took a couple of penalties, things got a bit thin for us. “We played smart when we had to. We have good balance with our lineup. “We’re just not deep. But all the girls left everything they had on the ice. “We had a great crowd here and a great venue. In the end it was a great weekend for girls hockey.”

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2014 NYS Girls Varsity Ice Hockey

Co-Champions Skaneateles and

Potsdam

After four Overtimes, a tie!

Paralympic Olympics Begin March8

Team USA will take the Ice against Italy on March 8 when the Paralympic games open in Sochi. South Korea is their op-ponent the following day and Russia will face-off against the Americans on March 11. That game will be televised on NBCSN at 3 p.m. The5th-8thplacementgames will be held March 12; semi-finalsMarch13,7thand5thplacegamesMarch14andthe Medal rounds are scheduled forMarch15. The Gold Medal game will be televised on NBC at 1 p.m. In addi-tion,theSemi-finalswillbetelevisedatNBCSNat5a.m.andnoon.Allgames are being played in Shayba Arena. Watch for New York natives Adam Page, Lancaster, and Paul Shaus, Buffalo to be on the ice. Both play for the Buffalo Sabres Sled Hockey Team. Team USA is coached by Jeff Sauer of Wisconsin.

U.S. Women Fall to Canada in Gold-Medal GameBy USAHockey.com

Meghan Duggan (Danvers, Mass.) and Alex Carpenter (North Reading, Mass.) scored

and goaltender Jessie Vetter (Cottage Grove, Wis.) turned away 28 shots, but the U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team fell to Canada, 3-2, in overtime of the gold-medal game at the Olympic Winter Games.

Team USA held an 11-9 shots ad-vantage inaback-and-forthfirstperi-od, but neither team was able to break throughforthegame’sfirstscoreuntilDuggan converted midway through the middle frame. After a turnover in the neutral zone, Jocelyne Lamoureux (Grand Forks, N.D.) wheeled into the zone and tried to drive the puck towards the net, but it was knocked off her stick in the left circle. Duggan swooped in, re-trievedthepuckandfiredahardwris-terthroughtrafficoverCanadiangoal-tender Shannon Szabados’ glove. Carpenter doubled the U.S. lead at2:01ofthethirdstanzawithapow-er-play marker. After gaining posses-sion of the puck and setting up in the offensive zone, Hilary Knight (Sun Val-ley, Idaho) threaded a pass from the far circle to Carpenter sitting on the backdoor. Carpenter one-timed the puck over the left leg of Szabados, off the pipe and in. Kelli Stack (Brooklyn Heights, Ohio) tallied the second as-sist on the play. Team Canada cut the U.S. lead to2-1at16:34oftheperiodwhenBri-anne Jenner slipped to the middle of the ice, shot a puck off an American

defender and past Vetter. Marie-Phillip Poulin knotted the score with 55secondsremaininginregulationbefore winning the game on a pow-erplayat8:10oftheextrasession. The 2014 U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team won its third sil-ver medal in Olympic competition and finished the 2014 OlympicWinter Games with a record of 3-0-1-1 (W-OTW-OTL-L).

Team USA Falls to Finland in Bronze Round

Witha5-0 losstoFinlandTeamUSAreturned home without a medal. With a 1-0 loss to Canada in the semi-finals, they found themselvesup against Finland. With outstanding goaltending by Tuuka Rask and two goals by Teemu Selanne the Fins were on their way. That coupled with several penalities by Team USA the thoughts of the Bronze were defeated. This was Finland’s fourth medal since NHL players took to the ice in the Olympic games.

Notes:

...Four-time Olympian Julie Chu car-ried the United States flag into theFisht Stadium as the representative of the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team to close the Sochi Olympic Winter Games to-night.

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Results from Sochi

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We have all watched with delight in recent years as outdoor hockey has

exploded into the mainstream. It started with the NHL’s “Winter Classic” a few years ago and has since expanded with the addi-tion of the new “Stadium Series”. There was even an NHL game played outdoors in Los Angles, California this win-ter. There have also been outdoor AHL and College games. The question is what is our fascination with hockey being played outdoors? If you are a person of a certain age (I will admit that I am 54), you probably had the experience ofplaying hockey on a frozen lake or pond as a kid. I can tell you that I have many fond memories of be-ing dropped off on Saturday mornings at a section of the Erie Canal, not too far from my house. The ice usually was not very good….uneven and rough, with reeds sticking through it in spots. Sometimes we had to shovel the snow off the ice. We would spend a few minutes grooming our “rink”, and then we would drop the puck and play. Maybe it was the fact that we were outside in the sun and fresh air. Maybe it was the fact that we got to make the rules…….and that sometimes there were no rules at all. Maybe it was the fact that we had no

coaches or parents yelling from the sidelines, tell-ing us how best to play our game. Whatever it was, I could not wait to get to the canal on those Saturday mornings. I cherish the memories of playing hockey on the Erie Canal to this very day. Recently, I had the opportunity to bring a sled hockey team that I coach to Clayton, NY for an outdoor event. We were invited to play an exhibition game against the Ft. Drum Wounded Warrior Team. For those who are not familiar, sled hockey is an adapted version of ice hockey played in a sled, which resembles a large skate. You move the sled with sticks, which have picks on the opposite end of the stick blades. Oth-

erwise, the game is the same….it’s hockey! Most of the players have lower body dis-abilities. Some have degenera-tive diseases that affect their lower extremities, others are missing a leg. One thing that all of them have in com-

mon is that they had never played hockey outdoors. There were just no opportunities for a disabled person toplaysledhockeyoutdoors.Sothiswasafirstforallof them. It was a bitter cold night on the shores of the St. Lawrence. The wind was blowing, which brought the temperature down even further, to somewhere around 0. This did not dampen their enthusiasm. The ice was incredible for an outdoor venue…smooth and extremelyfast.Theplayersonbothteamswereflyingup and down the ice with smiles as wide as that river. It made me remember my early days on the Erie Ca-nal, and brought a few frozen tears (the happy kind) to my eyes. The Winter Olympics just ended. While watch-ing the bobsled competition the other night, I started thinking about how much that sport has changed. Pic-tures of the early bobsleds are great. They were really justmodifiedversionsofthesledsweusedtouseaskids to slide down our neighborhood hills.


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As time went on, competing countries hired coaches, who analyzed every movement in the push, the steering, etc. They put their bobsled teams into training programs to get them into the best possible condition for their events. They invested in research to improve the speed of the sleds, which are now so high-tech that they are designed and pro-

duced by the best automobile designers in the world. Med-als are decided by a difference of hundredths of a second. Things have changed dramatically from those early days of thefirstbobsledcompetition.Youcouldnotarguethefactthat the bobsleds of today are much faster than those used when the sport began. But there was something pure and honest about those early sleds and the men that rode them down the hill. Maybe it’s that purity that we crave. Maybe that’s why we enjoy watching those outdoor games. It brings us back, however brief, to a time when it was just the ice, the sun, and a game that we love.

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Not Just For Hockey PlayersChristie Casciano’s

“The Puck Hog” “The Puck Hog”--Sophia’s team wants to be the best in the league, but their biggest challenge is not an opposing team, it’s Eddie, their puck-hogging teammate. Will a pivotal moment on the ice and a trip to a Syracuse Crunch game convince Eddie to change his ways?

“This delightful book for children ages 6 to 9 teaches an important lesson about teamwork. Set in Syra-cuse, where Casciano is a TV News Anchor and mother of two hockey players, the book focuses on a tough hockey team’s struggle with the title character, a dominant scorer who won’t pass the puck. The book presents coping mechanisms for players who find themselves facing teamwork challenges and can start discussions between sports parents and their children.” ...Positive Coaching Alliance

Also available: “The Puck Hog, Volume 2 -- Lake Placid” is a mystery around hockey in the Village of Lake Placid. Just when it looks like victory is within reach, it all falls apart for the team right before the gig game. Now they need a miracle! Can Sophia unlock the mystery in time?

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February. It’s that time of the year in

which teams are in a groove; the consistent repeti-tion, season-long instruction and diligence have im-

printed every player while the results, retention and execution are obviously visible and command nearly every shift. Preparation for important seeding, rivalry gamesandfinaltournamentstakesonincreasedsig-nificance, thewellplanned,precisely-timedcrescen-do underway and gaining momentum. No matter when the season actually began or how long the dogs have been out hunting, no matter age, level of play or even how tall one may be, you can begintoseethefinishlinefromhere.Formany,thisfinal chapter of the season is not only exciting andto be cherished with so many lifetime memories, this ending is also a welcome and well-timed blessing and a natural opportunity to get away from the game and recharge. Looking forward to reading a book, riding a bike and simply being a kid are possibilities. For others, this period clearly offers a rich opportunity to switch gears with brand new challenges from other sports like lacrosse, swimming and baseball. Par-ents and players are able to reconnect with alterna-tive friendship groups while developing additional skill sets. For still others – those who consider hockey a sole investment and another form of oxygen in their blood-stream – this season is simply a momentary and even undesired blip on the radar that leads directly to the spring league and on to year ‘round hockey.

Regardless of the camp you’re in, this particular moment in time inevitably means a look to next year. As a program administrator, it is my time to begin the process to catalog and deconstruct the current sea-son and project a bit moving forward. A major focus forme:coaching.Itshouldbeyours. It is easy to get caught up in the minutiae of this ‘tweenertime:what’sbestfordevelopment,the‘end’game and how to get there, and hopping programs likeratsoffasinkingshipaswellasmanaging(read:fending off) recruitment while others conspire to cre-ate the super stud 6U team to conquer North America and beyond! This is the time of year when past and future begin to meet, when the story of the lessons learned begin to reveal themselves. You’ll recall the famous politi-cal adage, “It’s the economy stupid.” For hockey, it’s all about the coaching. I’ve been toiling on a private dissertationonthesubjectandIcallitinformally:TheCoaching Gap. With nearly three-quarters of regis-tered players leaving the organized game by age 12, my research indicates that instruction, or lack thereof, and the relative quality of those that deliver it, remain responsible for a large portion of that sad attrition rate. But I think things may be looking up. Recently I received a call from an active and en-thusiastic administrator involved with USA Hockey in Colorado. Our conversation was as enjoyable as it was wide-ranging, as we discussed a variety of sub-jects from ADM to marketing, from the development to competitive level, along with sharing fun and anec-dotal stories. I was informed that our Shamrocks program has an outstanding retention rate, not only of our players, but coaching as well. I was asked to what I attributed that positive news.


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Myanswer iseasy: a cultureandproduct that people want to be a part of, shared values and an en-vironment that they contribute to, and a beneficial dividend from amutual investment. What’s differ-ent,however, is thecoaching:ourstaff don’t just coach I added, they coach our mission. All the afore-mentioned are true, and important, but the ‘coaching’ issue then domi-nated the balance of our conversa-tion. Experience at the rink is of course, driven in large part by the coach. Heorshe is truly thefirstline of hockey. But, just like the players themselves, there is wide range of personalities, talents, agendas, attitudes, experience and the results vary just as much. Meet the Coaching Gap. Importantly, this game, as most youth sports, is driven by the volunteers and we cannot, nor should not, ever take them for granted. Coaches must be honored, as the game simply cannot function without the system in place. But the gap between good and not so, is very, very real and unfortunate and, ultimately impact-ful to a commensurate degree. We all have stories. We just need to create more positive ones. Are there solutions? Yes, no doubt and USA Hockey is address-ing much of this and advancing an ever-improving coaching educa-tion component. But there needs tobeanequallysignificant,coordi-nated and active parallel response and participation among the asso-ciations themselves to establish an in-house education element that

dovetails with the national pro-grams. For instance, we believe that our coaching staff not only in-struct and must be the very best they can be on the ice, but are also in-fact outward and purposeful rep-resentatives of our program --and at all times. That means that each of the coaches need be armed with culture-specific education, aclear and concise set of the accu-rate tenets, rules, protocols as well as standards and expectations of the program for which they coach. Continuity and consistency are vi-tal, as well as the belief that rules matter, traditions critical and that the families are the customer. And it all needs to be cultivated every day. Like everything else, it takes a plan, preparation, vision and a clear understanding of who you are as a program, what you what to be, and then… don’t waver. We provide a full season instructors’ program starting with our coaching orientation class prior to each sea-son that incorporates both on-ice and classroom components. We provide the information necessary to enable our staff to be success-ful including CPR, First Aid, our distinct concussion management course and return-to-play proto-cols, often augmented by guest speakers. Importantly, we establish con-cretely and precisely how to move forward as a leadership team com-patibly aligned with our regulations andproceduresthatdefineourdi-rection and objectives and sets the tonefortheseason.Itisasacrificefor excellence. We also meet as a group once a month throughout

the season and end with our es-sential season ‘deconstruction’ meeting. Being well informed and on the same page goes a long way to eliminating those weak links that become those negative new sto-ries and unfortunate experiences. Yes, it is now that time of the year allright. While we now peek just a pinch to next season, it’s also time we look at an important issue and how it impacts our children’s development and overall experi-ence. Is it the jersey color, the rink location, the practice-to-game ra-tio, friends or any number of other commonplace factors that elicit our interest and investment? Likely. However, with so many families enlightened and now looking for fun, perspective, challenge, as well astherightfittofittheirshortandlong term hockey goals and the very best experience for their time and resource investment, it’s clear-ly evident --now more than ever-- that is it more than jersey color or the rink location and practice-to-game and even friends that deter-mines that positive result. Who is leading your child?

Tom Barnett, a native Western New York-er, participated as a player from the youth through collegiate level, and has been in-volved in coaching hockey and program development for more than 30 years. As founder and president of The Buffalo Shamrocks Hockey Club, a USA Hockey program, Tom was recognized by the Na-tional Hockey League as the 2009 recipi-ent of the inaugural Mark Messier Youth Leadership Award.

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When three year starting goaltender Troy Grosenick left Union College a year

early to sign a pro contract, the question all around the ECAC was who would be his replacement in the Dutchmen net? It turns out they didn’t need to look far from home.After playing in a combined 23 gamesoverhisfirsttwoseasonsinrelief of Grosenick, who helped the team reach the Frozen Four in 2010-11 and a second consecutive Cleary Cup and an NCAA appearance last season, junior goalten-der Colin Stevens is enjoying a career year with a 17-4-2 recordwith four games re-maining in the regular season. But he wasn’t just in the back-up role for the past two seasons. Union has been on his radar since he was a kid growing up ten miles away in Niskayuna. The product of Hudson High School attended prep school at Al-bany Academy before leaving town to join the Boston Jr. Bruins in the Eastern Junior League. There he earned Goaltender of the Year hon-ors in 2009-10 and was a league all-star in 2010 and 2011 before joining Union for the 2011-12 campaign as a true-freshman (18 years old). Healsowascalledupbrieflyto the U.S. National Development Under-18 Team in 2009 when start-ing goaltender Jack Campbell was competing in the World Juniors. “The Jr. Bruins organization has a great reputation for sending players into college hockey and be-yond, so when the opportunity pre-

sented itself I jumped on it,” said Ste-vens. The son of Barbara and Arthur Ste-vens had played 13 consecutive games for Union entering the finalweekend in February and 25 totaldespite earlier missing seven games due to injury. “When you play more games,whatI’vebenefittedthemostfrom is being able to get in a rhythm andgainconfidence,”saidStevens.

“MyfirstfewyearsIwasinaback-uprole, but this year I’ve been able to get into a rhythm and it’s helped me a lot. As of February 20th, the 6’2”, 175lb. stood a m o n g the top-20 na-t i o n a l l y in goals a g a i n s t average, t o p - 3 0 in save percent-age and, m o s t imp res -

sively, was second in the country in winning percentage. “He’s been here for three years,” said Union third year head coach Rick Bennett. “He sat for two and he said this summer ‘it’s my net, it’s my turn.’ He put in a good sum-mer, he got hurt and we didn’t have him for a while, but through that ad-versity he really battled through it, kept a good head and took care of himself and he was rewarded for that

and got back to tip-top shape. “I gave him a break the one game in St. Cloud (Decem-ber 13th), but since then he just kind of took over and it’s like here we go and it’s (the job) is his to lose. You don’t want to let the back-up quarter-back in the game and

that’s what Colin is doing right now. It’s his net and he wants it.”

Colin Stevens: Not Far From Home

by Warren Kozireski

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With the winter that Bald-winsville has had this year, adults and kids alike have been able to make a lot of snowballs. But back in Janu-ary members of the Lysander youth hockey team came up with an idea that snowballed into a memorable event. On February 23 the Ly-sander Youth Hockey Asso-ciation’s peewee team wel-comed home 1st Sergeant Greg Blais. They honored him prior to the start of their hockey game at the Greater Baldwinsville Ice Arena.For the past 30 years Blais has servedasahockeyofficial at theyouth, high school and collegiate levels. He’s currently an assistant coach with his son’s youth hockey team at Lysander. Blais is a mem-ber of the Syracuse-based Army Reserve770thEngineerCorps. The First Sergeant recently returned from his fourth deploy-ment since 2003. It was during that last deployment that the idea was hatched to somehow honor Blais upon his return home.

“We began thinking about this back in the middle of January,” said Steve Ficarra, head coach of the Lysander peewee team. “A group of us got together with an idea. “As time went on more and more came aboard and wanted to become involved.” From there the snowball con-tinued to grow. “Greg has been a big part of our organization,” added Michael Carni, president of the Lysander Youth Hockey Association. “He’s been involved in coaching as well as refereeing. “More importantly Greg has

been a good friend to all of us. And this was a chance for us to honor not only Greg but all of the men and women who serve in the mili-tary for our country.” The peewee team wore cam-ouflagejerseysaspartofthecer-emony as well as in their game against the Auburn Icehawks. “The company that we work with that supplies us with our uni-forms really stepped up to the plate and helped defray the cost of

the special uniform for us,” re-marked Glen Chwala, assistant manager of the team. “It was just another case of that snow-balling effect this event had on the community.” As part of the ceremony a U.S. Army Color Guard pre-sentedthecolorsand15year-old Julia Goodwin, a sopho-more singer from C. W. Baker

High School, sang the National Anthem. For Blais, the man of the hour, he was truly humbled by the event. “It was kind of

shocking and unexpected,” stated Blais, who is married to Nancy, and has three children including Sami, Tommy and Gabi. “It was a big emotional for me. “I think it’s great for the kids to be involved with an event like this. It’s something they want to do and I’m thankful for it.” The Massena native, who is an electrical designer for a local engi-neeringfirm,continued. “Hockey is my favorite sport,” saidthe50year-oldBlais,whohasbeen in the Army Reserve for 28 years. (Continued on Page 19)

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“I really enjoy working with thekids,bothasanofficialandasacoach. “To say it’s been fun is an under-statement. You get a lot out of this game when you are working with the kids.” His last deployment was to Af-ghanistan, where he and his unit were stationed with multinational units and regular Afghan units, was from July 2013. Blais and his 30 unit team were collectively known as the “Dirty 30.” Blais had patches made for his unit as well as for his peewee team. Ironically they wore the patch on their uniforms the weekend before his cer-emony, winning the 21st annual Rink Rat Tournament in Albany. “It’s an honor to serve our coun-try,” concluded Blais. “But it’s nice to get back to the kids and hockey as well.”

(continued from Page 10) Chu walked with representatives from the dozens of countries and hundreds of athletes who marched into the stadium to thunderous applause. “I’m completely humbled and kind of in shock; I never imagined that this would happen, especially knowing how strong the U.S. delegation is,” said Chu, who won her third silver medal. “Our team has so many inspiring athletes who I’ve gotten a chance to root for. This is special and I don’t

take it lightly. Thank you for this great honor. ...Phil Kessel was selected by the directorate as the top forward in the 2014 Olympic men’s ice hockey tournament. Kessel was also voted to the media all-star team. He was the only American player honored in both categories. Kessel finished the tournament with five goals andthree assists, to lead all forwards in the tournament. His fivegoalstiedforthemostscoredbyanyplayerinthetour-nament.

Blais Behind the BenchIn Goal on His Dad’s Special Day with everyone’s sticks wrapped in Yellow!

Preparing for the Ceremonial Puck Drop

A TV Interview and one with NYHOL’s Randy Schultz

The Blais family receives their specially-designed jerseys!

BROOME CCC

With five conference winsthrough mid-January, a postseasonberthwasapossibilityfortheHor-nets, but they couldn’t get anotherandsettledfora9-9campaignandmissedthepostseasonbehind10-5-1HudsonValleyCC. FreshmanCoryDellaStua(Pitts-ford) led the squadwith 28pointsand 15 goals with classmate Mi-chaelFerranti (Binghamton)alsoindouble-figureswithtengoals.

COLGATE

TheRaiderssecuredafirstroundplayoff bye and were three pointsfromsecuringsecondplaceoverallwithtwohomegamesremainingintheregularseason. Charlie Finn was rewarded forhis 6-1-1 record in the month ofJanuary as he was named ECACHockey Goalie and Rookie of theMonth. He had a seven-game un-

beatenstreak,asix-game win-ningstreakandearned winsover second-ranked FerrisState, No. 18Vermont and13 t h - r a n k edClarkson dur-ingtherunplusbacks toppedthe Raiders toa 2-2 tie withNo. 1 Minne-

sotaandhelpedtheRaiderswintheshootouttoadvancetotheMariucciClassictitlegame. Sophomore forward Kyle Baunwas named ECAC Player of theWeekfortheperiodendingJanuary26th after he tallied Colgate’s firsthat trickof theseasonandthefirstofhiscareerinawinoverSt.Law-rence. Freshman forward AndrewBlack (Buffalo) was named RookieoftheWeekforthesameperiodasheregisteredthreepointsonagoalandtwoassists. Defenseman Spiro Goulakoswonthesameawardtwoweekslat-erafterhetalliedhisfirstcareerhattrickagainstCornell—thefirstbyadefensemaninthecountrythissea-son. TysonSpinkscoredhisfirstcol-legiate hat trick against PrincetonFebruary22nd.

CORNELL

TheBigRedgotsweptinahomeweekend for thefirst time thissea-son,butbouncedbackwithapairof roadwins andwere two pointsfromclinching fourth lace and thefirstroundplayoffbyethatgoeswithit. Thejuniorclasswasthedrivingforcewith Brian Ferlin leading theteamwith12goalsand24points,defenseman Joakim Ryan makinga bid for ECAC postseason hon-orswith 21 points and Joel LowryandJohnMcCarronalsowith20ormorepoints. Junior defenseman Jacob Mac-Donald scored his first collegiategoalJanuary25thagainstClarkson.FreshmanJeffKubiakfollowedJanu-ary 31st with his first againstYalethathelpedhimearnECACRookieof the Week honors. Senior goal-tenderAndyIlles(Ithaca)wasECACGoaltender of the Week for thesameperiodafterstopping71of74shotsonthetwo-winweekend. FreshmanforwardJakeWeidnernetted his collegiate goal February14th against Union. Freshman de-fensemanClintLewisaddedhisfirstFebruary22ndatPrinceton. Cornell has recorded at leastone shutout in each of the last 18seasons,butwerestillseekingtheirfirst shutout this season. The lasttimetheBigRedwentafullseasonwithoutpostingashutoutcamedur-ing the 1994-95 season under for-mercoachBrianMcCutcheon.


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(Continued from Page 20) The school announcedThe FrozenApple, a NYC based game playedatMadisonSquareGardenandbe-gun in 2012,will continuewith amatchupagainstPennStateUniver-sityonNovember29,2014.

CORTLAND

TheRedDragonsdroppedtheirfirst four games in February andmissedtheSUNYACplayoffsforthesixthconsecutiveyear. JuniorNickZappiahadhisbestseasonashe led the teamwith27pointsandtengoals. TheteamwillneedtoretoolitsoffensewiththedeparturesofseniorsAdam Bevilacqua, Mike HenriciandA.J.Moyer,whofinished2-3-4on the scoring list.Seniordefense-manStephenNardi(Plainedge)plusforwardMackSwartzwillalsoneedto be replaced as will goaltendersLyleRockerandMattBalkwill,whoplayedallbut15minutesinnetthispastseason. Freshman goaltender MichaelStaversky (Penfield) played his firstcollegiateminutesFebruary22ndatPlattsburgh.

ELMIRA

A pair of overtime losses ontheseason’sfinalweekendcostthePioneersashareoftheleaguetitle,buttheirsecondplacefinishmeansafirst roundbyeandhome ice forthe semi-finals. But in 2013, both

topseedslostintheECACWestonegamesemi’s,sonothingisgiven. Alexander Taulien was namedECAC West Rookie of the WeekFebruary3rd.afterrecordinghisfirstcareerhat-trickwhilealsoassistingonanothergoalinanovertimewinoverrankedUtica. Josh Burnell was named ECACWestco-PlayeroftheWeekfortheperiodendingJanuary26thafterhetiedhiscareerhighwithfourpointsand then netted the game-winneronenightlaterastheSoaringEaglesswepttheweekend. Jarryd ten Vaanholt won thesame award February 9th after hescoredthegame’sopeninggoal,as-sistedonthetyinggoalandscoredthe eventual game-winner againstHobart.

HAMILTON

At 4-11-2, the ContinentalswerelockedintoninthplaceintheNESCACknocking themoutof thepostseason. MichaelDiMareledtheteaminscoringwith27pointsandhad93careerwith freshman RobbieMur-denrightbehindat24points—thirdintheconferenceinrookiescoring. DiMare,EvanHaney,DomJan-caterino,andgoaltender JoeQuat-trocchi all completed their colle-giatecareers.

HOBART

A third place regular seasonfinish in the ECACWest gave the

Statesmenafirstroundhomeplay-offgameagainst sixthplaceNaza-reth,ateamtheywere1-1-1againstintheseasonseries. Sophomores Mac Olson, BenGamache and BoWebster all bet-teredtheirfreshmancampaignsandsurpassedthe20-pointmark. Tim Keegan was named ECACWestGoaltenderof theWeekFeb-ruary3rdaftera5-1winoverNaz-areth on 35 of the 36 shots andearnedhisfirstcollegiatevictory.

MOHAWK VALLEY CC

TheHawksfinishedtheregularseason with five wins; just two ofthosecomingagainstacommunitycollege team—County College ofMorrisinNewJersey. Individualplayerstatswerenotmadeavailable.

MORRISVILLE

The Mustangs completed theirseason with a 5-17-2 overall re-cordandjusttwoconferencewins.Freshmen forwards Darren Young,John Doyle and Jordan CarvalhoplussophomoredefensemanMarc-Antoine Chaput finished atop theteamscoringlist. The squad will lose only fourseniorstograduation,buttopgoal-tender ChristopherAzzanowill bemissed. Other seniors were RyanMarcuz,DanielMorello andMikeDolman,butnonewereontheros-terasoftheendofthecampaign. (Continued on Page 22)

Elmira Jackals Youth Hockey: A few notes as we begin to wrap up our 2013-14 season: *Anyone interested in being a coach with EJYH forthe2014-15seasonMUSTcompleteacoachingapplication by Monday, March 10. Click here or go to the home page of our website (www.elmirahock-ey.com), click on ‘Online Forms’ and then click on ‘Coaching Application.’ *Evaluations for this year’s coaches will be posted on the website on Monday, March 3. The deadline for Coach Evaluations will also be Monday, March 10. *Squirt and Peewee Evaluations for 2014-15teams will be held Tuesday, March 11- Thursday, March 13. Evaluation Guidelines will be posted soon. *Because of Evaluations, the March Board of Di-rectors meeting has been changed to Wednesday, March5at6pm. *Good luck to all the Snowbelt teams participating in JAM tournaments this weekend! *Congratulations to our Midget team for winning their JAM Championship last weekend- there are pic-tures on the website!

AroundCentralNewYork:...Valley Hockey’s Pee Wee Travel Team are the 2013-14 Central Champions....In the Central Sectional Finals it was 14U Camil-lusoverSyracuse5-1and12UCamillusoverNewHartford 2-1....The Ithaca Pee Wee Travel teamwon the Presi-dent’s Day Invitational in Wilkes Barre, Pa....Ithaca’s Squirts won the Saratoga Tournament....The Onondaga Thunder Bantam and Pee Wee trav-el teams move on to the State Tournament in Amherst after taking the Central Sectional.



OSWEGO

A third place finish gave the Lakers a first roundhomegameagainstsixthplaceFredoniaintheSUNY-ACplayoffs. The Lakers failed to earn apoint in a conferenceweekendFebruary14-15againstGeneseoandBrock-port. Itmarked thefirst time thathashappenedsincethe2003-04seasonatPlattsburghandPotsdam.Theyalsowereblankedinplayoffweekendsin2005-06and2004-05againstPlattsburgh.ThelosstoBrockportwastheirfirstin11yearsandoneday. Fivedifferentplayershad20ormorepointsledbyMattGalati’s30followedbyMikeMontagna(Fulton),KennyNeil,AlexBottenandBobbyGertsakis KrystianYorkescoredhisfirstcareer-goalFebruary7thagainstMorrisville.

UTICA

The Pioneers clinched their second consecutiveregular season title with a 10-4-1 conference recordandtheyfinishedwitha5-1runafterfourstraightover-timegames. “We’vebeensnake-bitallyearandevenourswinsearly wewere squeaking by,” said head coachGaryHeenan.“It’sthewaytheyearhasbeengoing;theguyswhoscoregoalsaren’tscoringgoals.It’snotgoingourwayandit’sfrustrating.” TrevorHertz,RidgeGarbuttandJonGaffneyallhadmorethan20points. Luc Boby was named ECACWest Rookie of theWeekFebruary9thafterhenettedthreegoals,includ-ingtwogame-winners,tohelpthePioneersdefeatvisit-ingNeumanntwice. HertzwasECACWestPlayeroftheWeekFebruary2ndafternettingtwogoalsandaddingoneassistasthePioneerswent1-1atElmiraCollege.


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...Salmon River Midget Tourna-ment Results included West Car-leton Warriors in first; Fulton insecond....The Binghamton Jr. Senators Bantam B won the Troy Albany Rink Rat Tournament.The Pee Wee B team won the President’s Day Skate and Ski Tournament and the Squirt A won the 2014 President’s Day tourna-ment in Pittston, Pa....Syracuse announced that Jef-ferson beat Syracuse 9-0 in Con-solation Game 1 in the Blazers President’s Day Showdown and Buffalo Regals best Clifton Park, 2-1 in Consolation Game 2. There was no winner listed in the Cham-pionship match-up of Rochester vs Pittsburgh at the time of publication release....The Lysander Lightning Ban-tam Snowbelt team finished infirst place at the conclusion ofthe regular season. Under Coach Boshart are Gehrig Sarosy, Kelan Diaz, Andy George, Jacob Abbey, Matt Galanti, Deric Keyes, Chris Speelman, Carson Church, Parker Lane, Jacob Boshart, Will Molini, Josh Smith, Danny Stehle, Kenney Stehle, Luke Kuchinski and Brad Collier....The Liverpool Warriors Varsity Ice Hockey Team ended with a 12-7-1 record and a #2 seed in theNational Conferece. The following players received All-League hon-ors: Dalton Horton, KodyGaulke,tommy Bianchi, Steven Kozikoski, T. Muolo, Kyle Terzini, Rocco Le-one.

Vaskivuo ECHL Player of Week

Mike Vaskivuo of the Elmira Jackals was named the Sher-Wood Hockey ECHL Player of the Week for Jan. 27-Feb. 1.On be-half of Mike, a case of pucks was donated to EJYH by Sher-Wood Hockey. Since beginning sponsor-ship of the award in 2000-01, Sher-Wood Hockey has donated more than 29,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities. A native of Helsinki, Finland, Vaskivuo is sixth in the ECHL with 42 points (13 goals, 29 as-

sists)in35gameswithFortWayneand Elmira. Since being acquired by the Jackals in a trade on Jan. 6, he has recorded 21 points (8 goals, 13 assists) and a +13 rating in 12 games. Vaskivuohastallied197points(79goals,118assists) in235ca-reer pro games.


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Utica College

Utica defeated SUNY Potsdam 6-4 in the final regular game of the season. With the Pioneers jumping ahead of Potsdam

in the ECAC West Conference stand-ings they earned the hosting rights for the first round of the ECAC West Conference Tournament. The Tour-nament is taking place at press time. The Pioneers will face Potsdam at noon on March 2 at Utica Memorial Auditorium. The Pioneers closed out the regu-lar season with a 16-8-1 overall; 9-6-1 conference record and Megan Myers on the top of the scoreboard with 18 goals and 17 assists for 35 points this season. As the season closes the Seniors Caitlyn Moccaldi, Megan Myers, Van-essa Maines, Alicia DiCenzo, Jennifer Hamel, Kristen Beckman will play their final games in the conference playoffs. Moccaldi is from Clinton and played for the Clinton High Boys team. She is a defenseman majoring

in chemistry. Hamel grad-uated from North-wood School and is a native of Ithaca. She is Utica’s goal-tender and will graduate from the health studies/physical therapy program.

Syracuse

Congratulations goes to Head Coach Paul Flanagan on his 319th win over Lindenwood making him the ninth-winningest coach in women’s col-lege hockey history at Syracuse. He is currently the sixth-winninget active coach behind Bill Mandigo (Middle-bury DIII), Michael Sisti (Mercyhurst), Shannon Milley (Minnesota-Duluth), Mike Carroll (Gustavus Adolphus, DIII) and Mark Johnson (Wisconsin). Last season Flanagan became the 10th coach in Syracuse’s women’s his-tory to reach 300 wins, that was also

against Lindenwood. The win was his 70th at the helm of the Orange. Jessica Sibley was named the CHA Rookie of the Month for Janu-ary. She recorded 7 points in eight games in January helping the Or-ange to a 6-2 record during the month. Both goals game during the first three-point game of her career, a 5-4 win over RIT. She has 19 points in 27 games and the second-most goals and third-most goals on the team and ranks tenth in the nation in rookie scoring. On February 17 Larissa Martnyiuk earned the CHA Rookie of the Week honor after scoring a team-high three points that weekend. Senior Forward Cara Johnson was named Syracuse Athlete of the Week for February 24. Johnson scored 3 goals and an assist over six games, the most goals scored by a SU player in that span. Included were her first game-winner and her assist was on a game-winning goal. Margot Scharfe (pictured below/Syracuse Photo) scored the only Syra-cuse goal in a 3-1 loss to RIT; but that goal made her Syracuse’s All-Time Leading Scorer with 40 in her ca-

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Syracuse Class of 2014(Alphabetically) Kallie Billadeau, Jenesica Drinkwater, Akane Hosovamada, Cara Johnson, Brittney Krebs, Caitlin Roach, Margot Scharfe, Sadie St. Germain (Syracuse Photo)



reer. Syracuse had an Olympic con-nection with alumnae Stefanie Mar-ty competing in her third Olympic games for the Swiss National Team.

Colgate Among Jocelyn Simpson’s long list of accomplishments in her four years at Colgate she can now add “nominated for the 2014 Hockey Hu-manitarian Award” to it. As an education major and as-sistant team captain, Simpson has dedicated much time to community service working closely with autis-tic children. She began working at a camp called “Stepping Stones” which works with special needs children and later joined “Project Oz,” a pro-gram that uses drama, music and recreation programs to help children navigate social situations. For four years she has organized the team’s annual Autism Awareness game/fun-draiser, raising more than $38,000 for Autism Speaks. Her latest program is a Learn to Skate program for autistic children. The recipient of the award will

be named at the 2014 Men’s Frozen Four. Rookie Hannah Rastrick tallied her first career goal in a 1-0 win over Princeton. Colgate Seniors played in their fi-nal regular season game in a 3-0 loss to #9/10 Quinnipiac. Graduating are Stephanie Giannopoulos, Caroline Potolicchio, Simpson, Taylor Volpe, Rachel Walsh and Meghan Wickens.

The Raiders ended their regular season with a 10-22-2 overall and 7-15-0 ECAC conference record.

Elmira Ashley Ryan was named to the ECAC West Weekly Honor Roll (Feb. 4) after helping Elmira remain perfect in the ECAC West. The junior recorded four points in two games and two assists bringing her points per game average to 1.74. She had the game-winning goal in a win over Buffalo and her second game-winning goal of the season. On February 7 the Soaring Eagles Pinked the Rink with funds raised go-ing to the Susan G. Komen Founda-tion. Goalie Lisa Marsall was named Elmira’s Athlete of the Week for Feb-ruary 10 after she had one of the best weekends of her career, spliting a pair of games with #1 Plattsburgh. The Senior recorded a then career-best 37 saves for a 2-0 vic-tory. She continued the next day shat-

tering her career-high from the pre-vious day by recording 56 saves in over 63 minutes in goal. Plattsburgh put the game-winner past her late in overtime. On February 15 Tanis Lamou-reux hit her 100th career point with 29 seconds remaining in the open-ing period against Cortland. She re-ceived EC Athlete of the Week honors after a three-point weekend that led her to her century mark. The Soaring Eagles Class of 2014 ended their regular season paly with a 4-1 victory over Neumann Univer-sity. That clinched their share of the ECAC West regular season crown for the first time since 2008-09. Seniors Briana Saltstone had her second multi-goal game in two days with four goals; Lamoureux had two assists bringing her career points to 103; Marshall made 29 saves to se-cure her 15th victory of the season; Ella Stewart put the Soaring Eagles on the scoreboard first in the second game against Neumann. The Soaring Eagles now turn their attention to the post-season ECAC West Tournament. They ended the regular season with a 20-4-1 overall;

Colgate Class of 2014(Alphabetically) Stephanie Giannopoulous, Caroline Potolicchio, Jocelyn Simpson, Rachel Walsh, Megan Wickens, Taylor Volpe (Colgate Photo)

Elmira’s Class of 2014(Alphabetically) Katie Gaskin, Jocelynne Hudgins, Tanis Lamou-reux, Lisa Marshall, Briana Saltstone, Ella Stewart,



15-1-0 conference record. Elmira is seeded second with Plattsburgh in the #1 position for the playoffs begining March 8.

Oswego Laker Melissa Seamont received ECAC honors as the West Player of the Week and Bridget Smith earned the Goaltender of the Week honor for Feb-

ruary 16. Both had pivotal roles in a weekend sweep of Utica College and putting them in third seed. They wrapped up their season on February 22 with a 2-0 loss to #1 Plattsburgh and a 16-8-1 overall and 10-5-1 conference record. Oswego hosts the ECAC West Championship first round against #6 Buffalo. Goaltender Tori Trovato set a career-high 40 saves in the game against Plattsburgh. Following the game Oswego recognized its graduat-ing class which includes Olivia Boersen, Jocelyn St. Clair, Mady Paul, Melissa Seamont, Emma Smetaniuk, Megan Hagg, Leslie Jarvis, Chelsea Hunt and Catherine Cote. Hunt is a native of Buffalo and played hockey with the Buffalo Bisons.

Cortland Graduating from the Red Dragons are Gina Tomei and Caralie Fennessey. The Red Dragons ended the season with a 4-19-2 overall and 3-12-1 conference re-cord.

Niamh O’Connor had six goals and six assists for 12 points on the season followed by Katie Gili with 4 goals/5 assists.

Cornell Goaltender Lauren Slebodnick was named ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week for February 4. This was her 7th career ECAC Weekly honor. Slebodnick made 20 saves and didn’t allow any goals in picking

up her 63rd and 64th career wins, mostly for the Big Red. She is also second in the record books for goals-against average at 1.55 and in shutouts with 17. Junior Forward Jillian Saulnier was named ECAC Play-er of the Week for February 11 after scoring 2 goals and 2 assists, including a last-minute overtime goal to beat Col-gate. Saulnier is fifth in the nation for goals per game at .72 and points per game with 1.52. The Big Red end their season 20-5-4 overall and 14-4-3 in the ECAC which now pits them against Princeton in a best of three playoff in the ECAC Quarterfinals February 28-March 1. Cornell’s alumni made history with the Olympic Team Canada as they took the 2014 Gold Medal in Sochi. Bri-anne Jenner started an epic comeback for Team Canada with a goal with 3:29 to go in regulation. Marie-Phillip Poulin tied the game with a pass from Rebecca Johnston with 56 seconds to play and the game-winner came from an assist from Laura Fortino.

Hamilton In their final game at Russell Sage Rink, Hamilton Se-niors led the Continentals past Bowdoin College 4-1. They then went to Colby where they wrapped up their season in the NESCAC with a 2-1 loss. Hamilton will lose seven players to graduation includ-ing Tori Bogen, Julia Williams, Stephanie Lang, Hannah Jaiven, Gigi Fraser, Jillian Tokarczyk and Nikki Haskins. Tokarczyk is from North Tonawanda and played for the Buffalo Bi-sons. The Conti-nentals close out the season with a 8-14-2 overall and 2-12-2 NES-CAC record.

Hamilton’s Senior Class(Alphabetically) Tori Bogen, Gigi Fraser, Nikki Haskins, Hannah Jaiven, Stephanie Lang, Jillian Tokarczyk, Julia Williams (Hamilton Photo)

East Hockey

ARMY

The Black Knights finished lastinthe12-teamAtlanticConferenceandwereheadedtotheroadforthefirstroundoftheplayoffs.Theywillplaythefifthplaceteaminthefirstroundaftersnappingtheir13gamewinless streak with a road win atUConn to provide a littlemomen-tumheadingtothefinalweekendoftheregularseason. Freshman forward C.J. Reus-chleinledallArmyplayerswithfourpointsontwogoalsandasmanyas-sists, including a career-best threepointgame,andwasrewardedwithAtlanticHockeyAssociationRook-ieoftheWeekhonorsfortheweekendingFebruary16th.Hewaslead-ingtheteaminscoringandwasvy-ingforaspotontheAHAAll-Rookieteam. “Ourguysareworkingandwehave a lot of guys getting a lot ofexperience,” said head coach Bri-anRiley.“Eachgametheplanistohopefullygetbetterandbeplayingour best hockey at the end of the

year.” Withan injury to startinggoal-tenderRobTadazak,freshmanPark-erGahagen(Buffalo)steppedinandmade 42 saves to pick up his firstcollegiatewinintheUConngame.

HUDSON VALLEY CC

The Vikings ended the regularseason10-6-1andseededfourthfortheNJCCAnationalchampionshipsthey hosted before falling to top-seedMonroeCC10-0inthesemi-finals. GoaltenderRickyPiperfinishedthe regular season second in thenationingoalsagainstandthirdinsave percentage while Willie Hu-ber (Hopewell) and JamesMurphy(Long Island) each surpassed the20-point mark in their final juniorcollegecampaigns.

MANHATTANVILLE

TheValiantswonthelastgameof the regular season to squeezeinto fourth place and earn home

iceforafirstroundplayoff game withNeumann. Theywere 1-0-1 head-to-head this pastseason. Senior Luc

VanNatterfinishedwith30points—the first time he reached that pla-teau inhis collegecareer—to leadapackofsixupperclassmenontheteamscoringchart,includingLouisBalzano(StatenIsland),whohad35points in71careergamesheadingintothepostseason.

R.P.I.

With one weekend remain-ing in the regularseason, the Engi-neers could finishanywhere fromfifth toninth.Fifththrough eighthwould secure

home ice for a first round playoffbest-of-threeseries. RyanHaggertystoodthirdinthenationingoalsandtop-teninpointspergamewhileseniorBrockHiggsbeat his three-year combined goaltotalof13withhis14thofthesea-sonatCornell. “The last four or five weeks Ithink we’ve been playing prettygood,” said head coach Seth Ap-pert. “We had a good start, butweweren’tplaying thatgood.Fiveweeksagowejustfocusedontryingtobeagoodplayoffteam.Everydayin practice and every game sincewewantedtoinchalittlecloser.Ifwewant to getwherewewant togo,we’regoingtohavetogoontheroadat somepointandbeat somegoodteams.” Scott Diebold (Buffalo) wasnamed ECAC Goaltender of theWeekfortheperiodendingJanuary26thafterheposteda2-0-0recordwith a 1.50 goals-against averageand a .946 save percentage andmade53saveson56shotsagainsttwoECACHockeyopponents. (Continuedonnextpage)

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Union Unionsaidgoodbyetofiveseniorsincluding Elsa Bruestel, Mac Purvis, Stephanie Thomson and Co-Captains Ashley Johnston and Maddy Norton. They closed out the season by forcing an overtime with Clarkson, ending with a 2-1 loss. The Dutchwomen finished theseason with a 9-24-1 overall and 4-18-0 conference record. Coach Claudia Asano Barcomb became the win-ningest coach in program history and Senior Stefanie Thomson finishedsecond in program history with eight career power play goals.

RPI TheEngineerslosttheirfinalgameto St. Lawrence giving them a 10-20-3 overall and 6-14-2 ECAC record.

RPI will loose Seniors Madi-son Marzario, Missy Mankey, Toni Sanders, Jordan Smelker and Nona Le-tuilgasenoa to graduation.

Manhattanville Manhattanville ended it’s regular season with their second consecutive overtime game this season as they tied the Beacons of UMass Boston 1-1. Freshman Emma Rucinski scored her firstcollegiate goal giving the Val-iants their only goal on the day. For the seventh consecutive season, the Valiants host the ECAC Quarterfinal game. TheyfinishedfourthintheECACEastwitha8-13-4recordand6-7-3inthe conference. Seeded fourth they were elim-inated from the Tournament af-

tering a 3-0 loss to fifth-seedUMassBoston. Despite a rough season this year the Valiants return all but one player. Senior Caitlyn Beauvais had her col-lege career end with the loss. Sydney Asselstine was selected to the ECAC East First-Team All-Confer-ence. She leads the Valiants with 29 points on the season and was select-edasaforward.Shefinishedtheregu-lar season in the ECAC East second in goals scored and third in points per game, averaging 1.16.


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Jerry Knightley’65 was inducted intoRensselaer’s Ring ofHonor February 7thbecoming the seventh

memberintheprestigiousclub. TheEngineerswereshutoutbyClarkson January 31st—the firstwhitewash of Rensselaer by theKnightsin17years.

UNION

TheDutchmen captured theirthird Cleary Cup—given to theECACregularseasonchampions—andafirstroundbyefortheECACplayoffs.Senior forward Daniel Carr be-came Union’s all-time leadingDivision I scorer with his 132ndcareer point after netting a third-period goal January 31st againstSt.Lawrence.HemovedaheadofCraig Ferero for fourth in Unionscoring at all levels with 141points and two games remainingintheregularseason. Shayne Gostisbehere rankedfirstinHobeyBakerfanballoting,collecting19,673votesasofFeb-ruary23rdleadingafieldofJohnnyGaudreau of Boston College andRyan Faragher of St. Cloud State.Phase one of fan balloting runsthroughMarch9,butitcountsforlessthan1%ofthetotal.SophomoreTheoDiPaulinotchedhis first collegiate goal February8thagainstYale.

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...Freeport Arrows Hockey Pee Wee and Bantam Major teams are joining the Midget 18U team as members of the AAA Division of the Eastern Junior Elite Prospects League for hte 2014-15season. This move exposes players to junior style showcases, games and off-ice conditioning. The 18U,Bantams, PeeWees EJEPL team will continue to compete in the Long Island Amateur Hockey League’s Tier 2 AA conference and will compete in a full season for States and Nation-als. For more information contact Chris Hogan at [email protected] Kovalev has joined the Westchester Ex-press AAA travel team as a Coach. He will head up the 2004 Squirt Major Express, bringing a wealth of knowledge and coaching experience. Kovalev won the 1994 Stanley Cup as an NHL player....The Lady Bulldogs are gearing up for the post season after completing their 12th season in an exciting fashion. The 14U, 16U and 19U teams will be heading off the to NYS Championships....The Bedford Bears will hold their Spring Clinic beginning March 24. These are eight, one-hour ice sessions led by Coaches Halewicz, Scavelli and Mendohlson. Go to https//bedfordbearshock-ey.sportngin.com/register/form/761401021...The Green Machine Icecat Amateur Hockey Club is fielding aMidget Major 18U team nextseason. For more information email [email protected]’s Midget U16 team won the Hudson Valley Hockey League Championship with a 3-1 win over Palisades. The Pee Wee TB team also won with a thrilling 4-3 overtime win over Pali-sades. The Pee Wee Midget team is also heading off to the States Tier III Tournament in Amherst....Greater New York City Ice Hockey’s Stars Ban-tam AA and Midget 16U teams will compete at the States. The Squirt AA, Bantam AA and Midget

teamstookfirstplaceintheLongIslandAmateurHockey League. ...The Long Island Gulls 2003’s defended their LI-AHL title beating theWestchester Express 5-4.The 2004 Gulls won the LIAHL by defeating the Long IslandRoyals5-3and the16U teambeatValley Forge in a two-game set. Gull’s Simon Butala has committed to the Uni-versity of Maine for the Fall 2016 season. He is a member of the Midget U16 team. The Gull’s had an outstanding show at the High Performance Hockey League Showcase in Michi-gan defeating the Rocky Mountain RoughRiders 8-2 and the Wilkes Barre Scranton Knights 3-2. Their only loss came at the hands of the Chicago YoungAmericans,5-2....Millbrook Youth Hockey is forming a Girls U12 team for the 2014-15 season. If enough girlscomeouttheymayalsofieldU10andU14teams.For information email Shertzog44@yahoo.com...TheNYBobcatsfinished23-15-1intheEmpireHockey League, placing #5 in the playoffs andnowwillplay#12BostonJuniorRangers....The NY Cyclones Squirt AA team won the Con-gressional Cup at the Ashburn Ice House in Vir-ginia on President’s Day. They beat the Quakers 5-2forthewin....Mariner’s Squirt Minors beat the Palisades Predators 4-1 for a playoff spot....Westchester Vipers Bantam 99 team won the Patroits Day Tournament at Niagara University (Niagara Junior Purple Eagles). They then won the East Sectional to move on to the States....The Palisades Predators Squirts won the Hud-son Valley Tournament and the Pee Wee, Ban-tams and Midgets are heading for the State Tour-nament....Pelham’s Squirts played in the Empire State Games and ended with a 2-1 record for a Bronze Medal. They beat Tri-County of Brockport after a 3-3 tied game with a goal in overtime for the 4-2 win. The team included forwards Ethan Cohen,



Jack Dougherty, Christopher Gaine, Peter Gal-lucci, Michael Mitrione, Ben Rosenberg, Henry Smith, Tyler Staropoli, Luke Walsh, defense-men Myles DiFrisco, Johnny Heaney, Jordan Hurd, Marco Miceli, Sammy Ross, Maddie Samaan, and goalies Josh Lebowitz and Ben Madden.

Brewster Hockey Joining New League Building on the tremendous success during the 2013-2014 season, the Brewster Hockey Associtation, with the 2000 Westchester Ex-press Elite AAA team and the Brewster Ice Are-na will be hosting for the second season the Brewster AC Team for the U14 (2000 birth year) BantamMajorfortheupcomingthe2014-2015hockey season and adding Bantam Minor 2001 and Pee Wee Major 2002. The team will play a highly competitive schedule including league games with both Eastern Junior Elite Prospects League (www.ejepl.com) and the Long Island Hockey League (www.liahl.com) in addition to a very competi-tive non-league schedule against top teams in the Northeast and Mid-Atantic areas in both tour-nament and non tournament play. Returning veteran coach Tim Henning will serve as the head coach for his second season of the U14 club. Coach Henning has played for over 40yearsupthroughthecollegiatelevel,over25years coaching / leadership experience at various levels, has achieved numerous competitive mile-stones as both a coach and player at various lev-elsandisalevel4certifiedUSAHockeycoach. In addition, veteran coach and player Ray Pa-dilla, will return to the coaching staff. The team will be working closely with the Express Coaching Staff and Jeff Devenney, Director of Player De-velopment and Coaching Coordinator, on and off

the ice for skill, team, player and organizational development throughout the season. The 2001’s will be coached by Joe Lunny. Joe hasbeenwiththeBrewsterStaffforover5yearsand brings years of professional playing experi-ence after being Holy Cross’ all time leading scor-er. The Pee Wee Major 2002’s will also partici-pate in the new venture.


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CLARKSON

The Golden Knights were stumbling down the stretch with just two wins and a tie between January 24th and Febru-

ary22nd.Theyhadclinchedafirstroundplayoffhomeseries,butwereholdingouthopefourthplacefinishandafirstroundbye;threepointsoutwithfourpointsoutstanding. Clarkson has played in an NCAA-high 22 one-goal games,going13-7-2inthosecontestsasofFebruary27th. Senior Allan McPherson was atop the team scor-ingchartandjustfivepointsfromreachingthecenturymark and one from his 40th goal in his career. TheKnights shutoutRPI January31st—the firstwhitewashofRensselaerbytheKnightsin17years. Sophomore forward T.J. Moor left the team after 17games.

PLATTSBURGH

The Cardinals secured second place in SUNYAC andafirstroundbyefortheSUNYACplayoffs. Thirteen players have accumulated ten or more pointsledbyAlexJensen(27)andDillanFox(23). Senior defenseman Barry Roytman (Staten Is-land) reached the 100 career games played mark February 21st against Cortland and celebrated with a

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POTSDAM

A late season fivegame unbeaten streak was not enough to make up for a one winfirsthalfastheBearswere

eliminatedfromtheSUNYACplayoffsforthefirsttimein three years. Billy Pascalli (Deer Park) was named the SUNY-AC Player of the Week for the week ending February 9thwithafive-pointweekendincludingthegame-ty-ing goals in both contests. Tommy Telesca (Selden) connected for his firstcollegiate goal February 1st at Geneseo. The Bears will need to replace the offense of top scorers and senior Mike Arnold and Adam Place. The only other seniors are defenseman Nick Avgerinos and Kevin Carpenter.

ST. LAWRENCE

The Saints were one point away from hosting a first roundECAC playoff serieswith two games re-maining. Otherwise they head to the road where they are5-3-3inconference. Senior Greg Carey leads the country in assists per game and was second in points per game. He was one point shy of 180 career. St. Lawrence boasts far-and-away the nation’s top power-playunitat28.5%(43-151),butwereslumpinga bit of late. 40 percent of the Saints’ goal total this season has come with the man-advantage. Gavin Bayreuther and Matt Weninger were named Rookie and Goaltender of the Week respectively for the period ending February 9th. Bayreuther assisted on four goals in the Princeton game and scored his seventh of the year at Quinnipiac. Weninger stopped 24of25shotsina7-1winoverPrincetonandcameback with 31 saves on 33 shots in a 3-2 win over third-ranked Quinnipiac. RookiedefensemanMikeGrahamscoredhisfirstcareer goal—a game winner against Union January 31st.

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Potsdam February started out with the Bears holding off Buffalo State for a two-game sweep and earning them their third straight playoff

berth and fourth in the last five seasons. Rochester native Jordan Ott (Rochester Edge) contin-ued to excel in her freshman year with the club as she earned ECAC Rookie of the Week honors several times (7 in 14 weeks). She had 2 goals/3 assists in the sweep over Buffalo; she leads the team in scoring with 27 points in 18 games. Along with Ott (pictured, Potsdam Photo) on Febru-ary 17, Amanda Lucky was named to the ECAC East Honor Roll. Lucky had seven points against Canton. She scored a goal and an assist in the first-game loss and then had a hat trick and two assists in the Bears 5-2 win over Canton. The five-point day was a person-al best for the Assistant Captain. On February 22 the Bears faced Utica and each time the Pioneers took the lead, the Bears responded. Utica had 1-0, 2-1, 3-2 and 4-3 leads but a Potsdam goal always followed. “The stubbornness of each team is fitting

in that the teams have asured that they will face each other in an ECAC West first found playoff game in a No. 4 and No. 5 seed matchup,” said a Potsdam press release. Well it has come, Potsdam will face Utica in the first round of the Quarterfinals in Utica. Potsdam closed out the regular season with a 12-9-4 overall and 7-5-4 ECACW record.

Clarkson The Golden Knights enter the ECAC DI playoffs as the top seed and host 8th seed Dartmouth in a best-out-of-three series. The Knights closed out their season with a 25-4-5 overall and 16-2-4 ECAC record. They clinched the regu-lar season title for the first time in the program’s 11-year history, ending Cornell’s four-year reign a the top of the Conference. “Our coaching staff is extremely proud of our team on their accomplishment,” said Co-Head Coach Matt Desro-siers.


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Clarkson Class of 2014(Alphabetically) Vanessa Gagnon, Eric Howe, Carley Mercer, Shelby Nisbet, Vanessa Plante, Jamie Lee Rattray, Brittany Styner (Clarkson Photo)


“They have worked hard through-out the entire season to put them-selves in the position to challenge and ultimately win the ECAC regular season championship. “We couldn’t be happier for each individual in that locker room,” he concluded. Erica Howe and Genevieve Ban-non were recognized by ECAC Hock-ey for their efforts in leading the Golden Knights to a weekend sweep on the road in league play. Howe was named ECAC Goaltender of the Week and Banon was named Rookie of the Week for February 19. Graduating from the program are Brittany Styner, Vanessa Plante, Shelby Nisbet, Carly Mercer, Vanessa Gagnon, Jamie Lee Rattray and Erica Howe.

Plattsburgh The Cardinals recognized their graduating play-ers at Senior Night on February 1. Six

players will play their final games in the playoffs including Jenny Kistner, Allison, Era, Chelsea VanGlahn, Jor-dan Caldwell, Sydney Aveson and Ali Vakos. Shannon Stewart and Katelyn Turk were named ECAC West Player and Rookie of the Week, respectively, for February 4. Stewart put in one of 10 goals in a win over Potsdam and then tallied 3 assists. She capped off the evening with her team-leading 14th goal of the season with 2:32 left in the second period. Turk contributed 2 goals and an assist in a 10-0 victory over Potsdam. Sydney Aveson has been se-

lected as one of six amateur athletes featured in the February 10 issue of Sports Illlustrated’s Faces in the Crowd. She is in the midst of a career year as the Cardinals senior goalten-der posting a 15-1-1 record. She has a D III-best 0.41 goals-against average and a .978 save percentage. Aveson has allowed seven goals on 324 shots as 11 of her 15 victories have come in the form of a shutout. With the remarkable numbers she has put up this season, Aveson continues to rewrite record books. Earlier she became the all-time pro-gram leader in shutouts before set-ting the new Division III career shut-out mark on January 25. She had 28 career shuts before the article which is more than any other DIII men or women’s goaltender. Aveson is a two-time First Team All Amerian and has been named The ECAC Women’s West Goaltender of the Year twice. With a 2-0 win over Oswego, the Cardinals finished the regular sea-odsn 23-1-1 overall and 15-1-0 in conference play. They received a first-round bye in the ECAC West playoffs.

St. Lawrence Witha 3-2 win over RPI the Saints finish the regular season 13-17-3 overall and 12-7-3 in conference play. Kailee Heidersbach had her third goal in a four-point weekend for the Saints. Honored following the game

were seniors Mel Desro-chers, Rylee Smith and Dayle Wilkinson. The Saints finished fifth in the ECAC Hockey

standings and travel to Quinnipiac for the best-of-three playoff series.

Canton The Roos celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day by inviting local girls and young women to their women’s hockey game. The 2014 theme for NGWSD is “Passing the Torch, Blazing the Trail!”“This is a great opportunity for our women to serve as role models and share the love of sports and exercise with our youth,” said Head Coach Me-lissa Lomanto. Canton’s Jessica Kistabish was selected as one of the Roos of the Week. She had a hat trick, including the game-winner, in a 4-3 overtime win at Potsdam on February 15. The freshman netted her first score of the night on a power play with 34 sec-onds left in the first period, tieing the game. She had her 15th goal of the season at 12:29 of the third giving the Roos a 3-2 lead and then came through in the clutch at 1:25 into overtime to net her second power play goal for a 4-3 victory. This was the Roos first season competing against a complete NCAA schedule. They closed their season with a 8-14-3 record, matching their win total from last season. With no seniors on the team, the Roos will come back in full force in 2014-15.


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These Seniors have been members of the Federation since its inception four years ago. Madeline Grisko--The Amherst student plans to play hock-ey at the collegiate level and is looking at RIT, Miami of Ohio and Oswego. Missy Mallon--This Amherst student will be attending Buf-falo State Colleege in psychology or criminal justice and is look-ing for a spot on the Bengals hockey team. Brianna Stressinger--Coming from Sweet Home she will study early childhood education at a college to be determined. Katelyn Koester--Also from Sweet Home Katelyn will be at-tending RIT. Madison Kather--In her fourth season she was unable to play due to an injury. Madison was found supporting the Katz from the bench. She is going on to Clarkson to study physics and math. Joining the team this season were Rachel Ruback, Jenna Battaglia and Emily Bitka. These girls also played hockey for the first time this season. Rachel will be studying environmental science at a college yet to be named. Jenna will be attending Colorado Mountain College and Emily will be found on the lacrosse team at Syracuse University.

Kenmore Three members of the Kenmore squad will say good-bye. Jill Battista has played since her freshman year. She was the first and only girl from Kenmore to be a member of the Inaugu-ral Team four years ago. She played her youth hockey with the Buffalo Bisons and also went o to play junior hockey in Cana-da. Academically, Jill has been an honor student throughout her career. She plans to play college hockey and is looking at Plattsburgh, Oswego, Elmira, RPI and Merrimack College. She will major in physical therapy. Kaeli Mathais has played hockey for 14 years including with the Niagara Purple Eagles, Buffalo Hornets, West Seneca

Wings and currently with the Cazenovia Chiefs. She is a three-sport athlete who has earned honors in field hockey, ice hockey and track. She is an honors student and is part of the Interna-tional Baccalaureate Programme at Kenmore West. She will continue her success at Williams College majoring in science. Kaeli is the person who scored the first Kenmore girl’s hockey goal in her first game in her freshman year and has been on the team that won the Section VI Championship three years and now the League; plus had the opportunity to travel to the NYS Girls Varsity Championships for the past two years. Brianne Mathias has also played hockey for 14 years and has been a teammate of Kaeli’s in the same organizations over the years. She is also an outstanding field hockey player earn-ing All WNY Honors. Her academic average is a weighted aver-age of over 100 as part of the International Baccalaureate Pro-gramme at Kenmore West. She is looking at Middlebury and Kings Colleges focusing on bio chemistry.

Lancaster/Iroquois Caitlin Horvatits took to the ice at four years old and hasn’t stopped. She played with the boys in the Buffalo Regals orga-nization and then moved to the Regals girl’s travel program. Af-ter two seasons she moved to the Buffalo Bisons, going to the Nationals in San Jose and placing third. This season she played with Lancaster/Iroquois, Buffalo Bisons 17U NTB and the Ca-zenovia Chiefs 19U travel team. She will study biomedical en-gineering and is looking to RIT, Gannon and the University of Buffalo. She hopes to continue playing hockey. Kara Orlowski is a senior at Lancaster and plans to attend-ing college with a focus on physical therapy. She currently plays for the Cazenovia travel team, on their way to a state tourna-ment. Kimberly Corrie comes from Lancaster HIgh and has played center and right wing for 7 1/2 years. She has been with the Buf-falo Regals for four years and has also played in the Hamburg Hawks and Niagara County Coyote organizations. Her plans are to attend Oswego to study psychology in hopes of becoming a


child psychiatrist. Kimberly is looking at playing collegiate club hockey. Meghan Fonfara learned how to skate at two years old in her native Canada. She played on a team at age four with her brother. Meghan has played mainly boys hockey up until her junior year of high school. She has played for the Niagara Falls Rapids, St. Catharines CYO Chaos, and the Buffalo Bisons. She has made a verbal commitment to Elmira to study nursing and continue her hockey career.

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Senior Forward Kayle Madej graduates from Nardin Acad-emy and heads off to Daemen College to pursue a degree in Physical Therapy. She will be spending her spare time as a vol-unteer fire fighter.

Senior Defenseman and Forward Marielle Buffamonte comes from Mount Mercy Academy and has narrowed her col-lege choices to John Carroll University or Ithaca College to pur-sue a career in communications. She plans on playing lacrosse. Assistant Captain and Defenseman Shannon Moran is also graduating from Mount St. Mercy Academy. She hasn’t made a college choice but plans to study Human Resource Manage-ment at either Kings College, Marist College or John Carroll Uni-versity. Shannon, Kayle and Marielle are inaugural members of the Monsignor Martin team and the WNYGVIH Federation. Power Forward and Team Captain Rachel Lenard joined the team when she transferred to Nardin Academy as a sophomore. She has committed to Oswego State University where she will pursue a degree in criminal justice/minor in psychology. She will be playing for the Lakers under North Tonawanda native and Coach Diane Dillion. Watch for #21 next season!

Nichols The Nichols team joined the league this season but these girls are not unfamiliar with hockey as they are members of the Nichols Prep School B Team. This year’s senior class include: Margaret Janiga, goalie, who has committed to Lourdes University to play lacrosse and study education. Marissa Janiga, forward, is undecided about her college but hopes to study physical therapy. Kathryn Darling has committed to play ice hockey at Sa-cred Heart and study physical therapy. Emily Certo will attend the University of New England, play soccer and enroll in Pre-Med. Jennifer Sauter will study physical therapy at a college yet to be determined. Nicolette Tomani will be attending Mercyhurst and in their Intelligence Studies/Homeland Security program.

West Seneca In four years of West Seneca Central Schools Girl’s Varsity Ice Hockey Team this girl has stood out. Erin Gehen has been the backbone of the team since she stepped on the ice as the smallest player four years ago. Her play has grown and she has become a prolific scorer including the honor of being the first to score 100 goals in a career. She holds every other scoring record possible in the 8-team league. Erin has 108 goals, 69 assists for 177 points in just 72 games. According to Coach Brian Hillery Erin’s “attitude, effort, skill and determination to be great has really helped the other girls become more interested in the game.” “She has left an incredible mark on not only the West Sen-eca Central School’s team, but also on all of local girl’s hockey,” concluded Hillery. Erin plans to attend Buffalo State College and play for the Bengals.



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SUPER SUNDAY 2014: DAY ONE City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara had an amazing comeback at First Niagara Center on SundayBy Alex Pagliano - Digital Con-tent Intern

Day one of the 30th Annual Super Sun-day High School

Hockey Championships is in the books, and it ended with one ofthemostexcitingfinishesinre-cent history. The action concluded on Mon-day with three more champion-ship games at First Niagara Cen-ter:MonsignorMartinAssociation,Federation Small School Champi-onship and the Federation Large School Championship.

St. Joe’s 4 - Canisius 1 St. Joe’s Thomas Heyden scored the game-winning-goal 17seconds into the third period for the school’s first WNYHSCHL LargeSchool Championship since 1994, as the Marauders defeated rival Canisius 4-1 on Sunday at First Ni-agara Center. “We’ve been stressing to get back here,” St. Joe’s head coach Sean Elliot said. “It’s great to get out back ahead here and get the win.” After two periods, St. Joe’s led

Canisius 1-0. Championship MVP Brendan Hurley beat Canisius goaltender Tyler Sekuterski under-neath the glove with just over one minute remaining in the opening periodforthegame’sfirstgoal. Seven seconds into the third period, Ian Fitzgerald launched a puck that bounced past St. Joe’s goaltender Trevor Krzemien from center ice to even the score. Just 10 seconds later, Heyden deked from the right of Sekuterski to add the decisive score. “It’s about how you respond,” Elliott said. “The puck took an un-fortunate bounce. But, our team picked up (Krzemien) right away, and that’s exactly how you want to respond.” Jacob Donn placed a rebound past Sekuterski on the power play to expand the Marauders lead to 3-1with 5:37 remaining.Canisiuspulled Sekuterski with the man ad-vantage late, but the Crusaders wereunabletofindthebackofthe

net. Peter Masters added an empty net goal with seven secondslefttoetchthefinalinto the record books.

Cheektowaga 4 - Starpoint 3 (OT) Championship MVP Michael Swacha scored his second goal ofthegame5:45intoovertime, as Cheek-towaga rallied back to defeat Starpoint 4-3 on Sunday at First Niaga-ra Center. Swacha and teammate Jordan Po-

cobello each recorded two goals to capture Cheektowaga’s 10th WNYHSCHL Small School Cham-pionship. “The kids never quit,” Cheek-towaga head coach Steve Ferrenti-no said. “We got a lucky goal to get us into overtime and then Michael (Swacha) put it away for us.” Cheektowaga trailed 3-2 with under 80 seconds to play, but Po-cobello found the back of the net for the second time to even the score. Pocobello launched a point shot that trickled through a crowd of players and ultimately past Star-point goaltender Garrett Varisco to send the game into overtime. As the overtime clock dwin-dled, Cheektowaga turned up the pressure. With 2:45 remaining,Swacha buried a rebound past an outstretched Varisco for the win.“The goal was great,” Swacha said.

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“This is a special moment for us. The whole team contributed and earned a team victory.” Pocobello opened the scor-ingforCheektowaga4:34intotheopening period when he beat Va-riscofive-holeunassistedfromtheslot. Starpoint would match before the end of the period, as Jordan Parrish outworked two Cheektow-aga defensemen for the puck just outside of the crease to even the score. Parrish recorded the lone score of the second period. Teammate Andrew Murchison centered the puck Parrish who wristed the shot past Cheektowaga goaltender Jor-dan Meyer. Trailing 2-1 entering the third period, Cheektowaga would tie things up. Varisco stopped the original shot from Anthony Cybul-ski, but was unable to stop the re-bound by Swacha. Starpoint would regainthe leadat10:32asJacobWildt redirected a point shot on the power play. The Senators were unable to hold the lead, as Pocobello and Swacha scored consecutive goals at the end of the third period and in overtime to end the game.

City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara 7 - Olean 4 Headed into the second in-termission, City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara (CHCOH) trailed Olean

4-0. Cam Brickey had scored three goalsoverthefirst21:21ofactionand the Eagles had controlled the flowofthegame.Butthethirdpe-riod would change everything. City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara scored seven unanswered goals over the duration of the third period on Sunday to capture the WNYH-SCHL Mixed School Champion-shipoverOleanbyascoreof7-4.John Liberti led CHCOH with six points on four goals and two as-sists. Sophomore goaltender Ra-chael Farmer held Olean scoreless forthefinal29:39ofregulation. “I thought we were dead in the water,” CHCOH head coach John Dunn said. “I read them the riot act [after two periods]. I don’t do that very often. I knew that we could pull this off. It was just unbeliev-able.” “We knew our players had skill,” Dunn said. “It was a tall or-der, but we knew that we could do it.”CHCOH scored two goals in the first 49 seconds of the third pe-riod. Liberti beat Olean goaltender Brady Zambanini on the backhand from just inside the right faceoff circle. Defenseman Sam Hamlett tucked a point shot past Zambanini 27secondslatertocuttheleadinhalf. Liberti scored consecutive goals to erase the deficit midwaythrough the third period. Liberti

beat Zam-banini high-glove from the slot on the power playat3:15and deked

to beat the sprawling goaltender with under 11 minutes to play. “I worked hard,” Liberti said. “I was able to put the puck in the net. There’s not much more I can say. It’s just an amazing moment.”Liberti found teammate Collin Rampado for the game-winning-goal. Liberti and Rampado worked the two-on-one to perfection, as Rampado converted the right-hand wrist shot from the slot. Nick Kindzia expanded the CHCOHleadtotwogoalsat4:51.Kindzia went coast-to-coast and deked Zambanini for the insurance goal. Liberti added his fourth goal with the empty net to cap off the unprecedented run.The Hawks carry their momentum to the state competition next week-end in Long Island, N.Y.

SUPER SUNDAY 2014: DAY TWO Niagara-Wheatfield’s third con-secutive championship highlighted Monday’s gamesBy Joe Ray - Digital Content Intern Niagara-Wheatfield’sthirdconsec-utive league title highlighted Mon-day’s three championship games at day two of the 30th annual Su-per Sunday High School Hockey Championships.

St. Joe’s 4 – Bishop Timon-St. Jude 2 After a shaky start to the season led to a 6-10 record, head coach Rich Crozier rallied his St. Joe’s squad in the face of adver-sity. Their journey back to the top of the Monsignor Martin Association concluded with a gritty, hard-fought 4-2 victory over Bishop Timon-St.


Jude. St. Joe’s goaltender and cham-pionship MVP Peter Chopra was phenomenal in net for the Maraud-ers, stopping 29 of 31 Timon shots in the win. Dominic Perna led all scorers in the game with two goals and an assist. Connor McKenna and Nicholas Zenger also scored as St. Joe’s beat Timon for the sec-ond straight year in the Monsignor Martin championship. “This one’s a little bit different from last year,” Crozier said. “Ob-viously we’re playing some great hockey at the right time. There was certainly a lot of pressure last year to win it. This year, we felt that we needed to peak at the right time, and thankfully for our sake that happened.” Jack Robinson and Justin Blake scored for the Tigers in the loss. Most notably, St. Joe’s was able to keep Section VI’s lead-ing scorer, Timon forward Connor Fields, off the scoresheet.“They’re a great team,” Crozier said in reference to Timon. “We needed to change some things up. I’m just proud of these boys that they bought into it. As a couple of coaches alluded to, we’ve been fortunate enough over the last year or two that we’ve been able to just putasystemtogetherandflexourmuscles. “The plan was to stop certain players on their team, and the fact

that after 15 minutes they hadn’tscored on us, that was a relief and certainly it started to build even more momentum for us to believe we could do this.” Chopra’s play in net led the way for the Marauders, and the goal-tender was awarded the team’s hard hat after the game for the ef-fort exerted in limiting the Timon attack. Crozier was quick to credit Chopra for keeping the team in the game. “Here’s a kid that had a devas-tating loss last year in the champi-onship, 3-2 in overtime. It’s a tough way to lose a game, and you know he had something to prove. Peter’s been fantastic; he was outstanding againstCanisius[inthesemifinals],and then today as well. He was the MVP, in my opinion.” Having senior leadership from players like Perna was a huge boon for Crozier’s squad as they turned their season around. “Dom’s a unique talent, and we’re very fortunate to have him. I would agree that we leaned on our senior leadership, and then a couple of those younger guys that were here last year.”St. Joe’s will now travel to Long Island to compete in the NY State Catholic high school hockey cham-pionship. The Marauders will take on St. Anthony’s at Nassau Coli-seumonMarch1at6:15p.m.

Williamsville East 3 – Kenmore East 2 For the third time in four seasons, the Williamsville East Flames and Kenmore East Bull-dogs met in the Federation small school championship. After win-

ning in 2011 and losing in 2012, Williamsville East found the per-severance to defeat the Kenmore East Bulldogs this time around by a score of 3-2.Senior captain Jason Cohen led the Flames with two points in the game, including the game-winning goal in the third period. “Coach [Mike Torrillo] always just says get it to the net, we do that all the time in practice. I just saw it there, I actually tried to get it to my buddy [Alex] Finley up in front, but the puck was just laying there. I was having a pretty bad game, so I just redeemed myself and kept going at it, and it crossed the line. It was the best feeling in the world.” Cohen has been a member of all of the last four Williamsville East teams to appear in the champion-ship game. This win was his sec-ond with the Flames, the other be-ing a win over Kenmore East back in 2011. Cohen and the Flames lost to Kenmore East and West Seneca West in 2012 and 2013, respectively. “First year we won, it was the best year of my life. Second year we came back against these guys, and they took it to us pretty hard [Kenmore East won that game by a score of 9-2].

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Buffalo Bison 12U GIRLS News(Submitted by the Buffalo Bisons) TheBuffaloBison12UTier1girl’steamparticipatedintheOctober“FireonIce”tournamentinRochester,NYandplayedagainstsomeofthetopcompetitionfromtheUSAandSouthernOntario.DrawingaroundrobinschedulethatincludedtheNo.4rankedTier1USAteamEastCoastWizards(Major1)andtheNo.6rankedCanadaTier1teamBellevilleBearcats,theteamcompetedwell,butfellshortofadvancingtotheplayoffroundafterfourgames. JanuaryfindstheBisonsfinishinguptheirLowerLakesFemaleHockeyleagueregularseasonandinpursuitofaplayoffspotinthePeeweeAdivision.Theystartedthemonthwitha3-3tieatKitchener,andwilllooktogainafewmorepointstoadvancetotheplayoffs. TheteamwillalsobeplayingagainstanotherhighlyrankedUSATier1teaminFebruarytoprepareforstates,withgamesscheduledagainsttheNo.11ratedTier1USANewJerseyColonials. AfteraweekendtournamentatTorontoLeasideinearlyMarch,themostly11yearoldteamwilllookforwardtocompetingintheNewYorkState12UTier1tournamentagainsttheSyracuseNationalsinRochester,NY.Afteranearlyseason3-1losstoSyracuse,theBisonswilllooktoavengetheirlossandrepeatasStateChampions. TheBuffaloBison12UteamiscurrentlyrankedNo.21intheMyHockeyrankingsforUSATier1Teams.

MOHL Hockey

TheBantamMOHLTeam(CoachTonyCori-gliano)wontheirDivisionattheClevelandRocknRollTournamentthispastWeekend. Aftera5-5TieintheFirstGame(blowinga4-1Leadwith8minutesleft),theTeamclampeddownandallowedonly3TotalGoalsinthefollowing4Games,winning3-0intheFinal.TheycompetedagainstaTeamfromPittsburgh,2TeamsfromOhioandaLeagueTeamfromCheektowaga.PatrickSabatowasawardedTournamentMVP.

Pee Wee MOHL D Cleveland Tournament results for the Rock N Roll Cup in Cleveland this past weekend. TheBisonHockeyPeeWeeMOHLDteambattledsometoughcompetitionfromRochester,SouthtownsandPittsburgh.TheywenttotheChampionshipGameintheirDivisionandlostatoughbattletotheArcticFoxes.Theboysplayedhardanddeservealittleshoutout!Notes:...ThePeeWeeMajorteam,coachedbyBobMaulucci,defeatedClarence4-1towinaberthintheNYSChampion-ship.

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Amherst Youth HockeyAnnounces

AYH House Programs are completely open to non-residents.

The Tier I, Tier II and Girls Travel Programs are also open to non-residents, but on a limited basis.

Complete details on this can be found on the AYH website under the Association tab.

www.amherstyouthhockey.org. Try-outs for the upcoming 2014-2015 Travel season will March and April. The specif-

ics on date, times, and levels can be found on the AYH website!

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NYHOL’s Schultz Recognized (Above Bill Pavone presents Janet with the Dr. James Rusin Award)

Janet Schultz, women’s columnist, photographer and designer for New York Hockey Online Magazine was recognized by the WNYGVIH Federation for her sup-

port. She was given the Dr. James Rusin Award for her “Honoring Dedication and commitment To Girls Varsity Ice Hockey in WNY.” Last year’s recipient, Kenmore’s Bill Pavone, made the presentation at the WNYGVIH Championships. “Janet was there from the beginning attending meetings with the parents group, covering the showcase games and being the one true media constant throughout the whole process,” said Pavone. “She attends as many games as she can and has made girl’s and women’s hockey one of her priorities. “Without the efforts and support of people like Janet, we wouldn’t have the opportunity to see our young women represent their high schools playing ice hockey.” “Dr. Rusin would be proud!” Pavone concluded. Janet has covered hockey for over 25 years, along with her husband Randy, a well-known hockey reporter in

the WNY area and beyond. She retired from her position as a public relations assistant at Niagara County Community College after 38 years. Janet now works on the NY magazine as well as WNY Hockey Report.

Around the West Section

...Amherst will be the site of the NYS Championships for Tier I on March 7-9....Volunteers are needed for the Girl’s Tier II Nationals to be held at the Northtowns Center in Amherst on March 2-6. If you’re interested contact Renae Gattozzi, [email protected] Amherst Knights Squirt Major Select team won the President’s Day tournament in Tonawanda....The Depew Saints have awarded Thomas Parinili the Eric Christopher Ness Award for the first time of the hon-or. Ryan Stefaniak was the recipient of the Miller Award and Tim Setteducati, the Swiech Award....Monroe County Youth Hockey’s South Pee Wee A team had an overtime 2-1 victory over Perinton in the Empire Championship. They end the season with a 4-11-1 record.The MCYH Squirt B team won the EAHC Championship with a 3-1 win over Perinton and close out with a 15-3-2 record. The Monroe Bantam Minor Tier I team won the President’s Power Play Tournament with a 5-0-0 record....The Rochester Monarch’s 16U team qualified for the NYS Tier I 16U Tournament March 14-16 in Amherst....Perinton’s Pee Wee B team won EAHC championship in a shoot-out....Rochester’s Squirt Mixed Team took the President’s Power Play Championship....The Tri County Shamrock Tournament originally sched-uled for March 14-16 has been cancelled....West Seneca’s Bantam Tier II team won the Mid-Winter Classic in Jamestown defeating Butler Valley 3-2. ...West Seneca’s Mite team is featured in a Basil commeri-cal. Watch for them on TV....

West News and Notes

Fenton Having All-American Season

The last 12 months have been a dramatic change for Lawson Fenton. Fenton went from playing for the Stars (Buffalo) to developing into a star for

the Rochester Junior Americans Empire team. He has transformedfromhavingtofindawaytokeepthesportfun while suffering through a very disappointing season to enjoying his new surroundings while preparing for a playoff run in the USPHL. “We knew we had something special when we signed Lawson,” states head coach Jeff Kolcon. “We played the Buffalo Stars several times last year. We would put 20 or 30 shots on Lawson before we could break through. He

was tough. What Lawson saw in one period last year in shots is equivalent to a whole game for most other teams.” Lawson posted a record of 0-16 for the Stars with a 6.43 goals against average. Despite those stats, Rochester did not hesitate to sign Fenton as soon as he was available. “Most coaches would stop any discussion about a player after looking at those numbers,” says Kolcon. “If we would not have watched him perform so strongly against our team, we would have laughed him off.” Thisyear,theonlyonelaughingisFenton.HefinishedtheregularseasonwithanEmpireDivisionbest25-2-0-1re-cord,alongwithagoalsagainstaverageof2.71anda.910save percentage, both solidly among the top ten overall. His solid play in net helped lead the Junior Americans to the Em-pire Northern Conference title with a 36-3-0-1 record. Last year,Fenton’steamwasanearlyexactoppositewitha3-35record. Associate head coach Tom McDonald thinks Fenton has played even stronger than his numbers would suggest. “We have played our entire roster in many games. Some of our younger players are still developing and that has af-fected some of Lawson’s numbers,” says McDonald. “But when you look at his performances against the top teams like Florida, Syracuse, and Boston, his stats are incredible.” Fenton and the Junior Americans have found great suc-cess this season despite having played the toughest sched-ule in the Empire Division. Only two of their games have been against non-playoff teams while nineteen games have been played against top six ranked teams in the division. The Junior Americans will be counting on Fenton to continue his strong play in the USPHL playoffs.

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Iroquois Chiefs ReportJV Lose in OT

In truly heartbreaking and gut wrenching fashion the JV Iroquois lost in overtime 4-3 on Friday, February 21 to league

champions West Seneca West. The JV Chiefs played their hearts out and regardless of score the team played brilliantly. Playing any team with seven more players is difficult and the Chiefsplayed aggressively through their fatigue. Alex Held lead the way with two high-lightworthygoals.Hisfirstgoalwasona2on 1 opportunity where he knocked his own rebound out of the air to score and his sec-ond goal was just a pretty as his quick hands beat the West goalie clean on a breakaway. Continuing his great play was 8th grader Cam Ellis. His greasy slick moves against a stoutdefensivepairingallowedhimtofindtimeandspaceto beat the WSW Indians over the left glove. Freshman, Jamie Bonn, centered the defensively sound second line and frustrated the Indians top line all night. The defensive corp of Garret Miller, Patrick Marrone, OwenCreighton and James Garvey played big minutes and were sensational even while exhaustated. Not to be for-gotten and getting special notice from the opposing coach was goaltender Colton DeGrace. He unbeatable for most of the night. In the end the Chiefs may have lost on the scoresheet but in the minds of their opponents and fans they were winners.

Chiefs End Playoff Run

TheVarsityChiefsplayedthreegamesFeb.14and15.ThefinaltwoplayoffgameswereagainstStarpointinback to back meetings on Friday and Saturday night.

ThefinallocalgameoftheseasonwasonMonday.Bothofthe Starpoint games were highly physical, littered with pen-alties,andnon-stopaction.TheChiefsfinishedtheirplayoffrunwitha3-1winonFridayandlost7-1onSaturday. Friday’s game brought a strong defensive battle from the Chiefs, and enough offense to secure the win. Steve Kaufmann provided the offense with 2 goals and an assist with Ryan Marshall adding the third. Strong defensive per-formances were shown by Richard Karalus, Andrew Wil-

son and Aiden Abraszek in the 3rd period to minimize a Starpoint comeback. Maverick Blachowicz was stellar in net making many point blank saves throughout the game to keep the Chiefs in the lead. Saturdaybroughta7-1losstotheChiefswhocouldn’tpull out the win. The lone goal of the night was scored by Mark Morganti off an assist by Kaufmann. The Chiefs played their last game before their state tournament on Monday night versus Southwest/Maple-grove. The Chiefs came out with a poor start going down 3-0 early beforeAidenAbraszek netted the first goal tocutthedeficittotwo.AndrewWilsonaddedthesecondtobring the Chiefs within one but Southwest would add a late second period goal to lead 4-2 after two periods. South-westwouldadda5thearlyinthe3rd,butthengoalieRobBauer shut the door for good. Richard Karalus scored the 3rd Chiefs goal on the power play, assisted by AJ Takac and Aiden Abraszek. A minute later Iroquois struck again, making thescore5-4onagoalbyAbraszekassistedbyRyan Marshall. Andrew Wilson tied the game off assists by Marshall and Abraszek. The two teams headed to overtime tiedat5,whereMarkMorgantinettedthegamewinner,offanassistbyAidenAbraszek,takingthegame6-5.


Chiefs End Regular Season With Win Against LancasterTheIroquoisChiefsBoysHockeyteamfinishedtheregularseasononSundaynightwitha5-4winagainstLancaster.

Chief’s defenseman Andrew Wilson set the tone with strongphysicalplayinthefirstminutesofthefirstperiod.Iroquois gave up the lead three times in a jam-packed first period, but answered each time with goals by Aid-en Abraszek (assisted by Steven Kaufmann), Steven Kaufmann (assisted by Aiden Abraszek), and A.J. Takac (with the assist by Andrew Wilson).

Heading into the second period, solid offensive performanc-es were shown by Pat Stenzel and Jonathan Lavis, their ef-fortsleadingtotwoChiefgoals.Thefirstoftwosecondpe-riod goals was shot by Steven Kaufmann (assisted by Ryan Marshall and Aiden Abraszek), and the other, an unassisted goal by A.J. Takac (his second of the night). Stenzel, Lavis and Danny Taggert each created opportunities throughout theperiod.Thescorewas5-3attheendofthesecond.

The Chiefs had a strong defensive third period, maintaining the lead until the last minute of the game, when Lancaster added one more to the board. That would not be enough, asIroquoissecuredthewinagainstLancaster5-4.

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Cazenovia Girls Claim Success This Season

The Cazenovia 19u Lady Chiefs have taken home their sec-ondandthirdfirstplacetrophiesoftheseasonstartingwithafivegameundefeatedseriesattheAdirondackNorthtstars

Winter Classic. The girls beat teams from Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Rochester to take home the banner. The goalies took home 4 out of5shutouts; thedefensiveteamkeptallbut3goalsfromslip-ping by. The power forwards outscored their opponents 19-3. The finalgamevs.theConnecticutNorthernStarswentallthewaytoa shootout, where forwards Erin Gehen and Caitie Horvatits each popped one in the net for the win. TheLadyChiefstookhometheirthirdfirstplacetrophyattheSarahBackstromTournamentinErie,PAthefirstweekendinFeb-ruary. The girls had a fascinating undefeated run, beating teams from Pennsylvania, Toronto, Barrie and Chicago. They outscored their opponents 16 -2; their goalies once again recording 2 out of 4 shutouts; their strong defense only allowing 2 goals to get by them. The forwards were outstanding, keeping the pressure on and playing most of the series in their opponent’s defensive zone. The Cazenovia 19u Lady Chiefs are currently listed as the #3team in the nation. (My Hockey Rankings)(TopPhoto:AdirondackWinterClassicWinners;Bottom:SarahBackstrom winners)

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A.J. Takac gets ready to faceoff against Lan-caster during Sunday night’s game. Takac netted two goals for the night. (Iroquois Photo)



Stars’ Players Honored

Buffalo Stars Youth Spotlight Player

February 2Trevor Rice

Pee Wee Major Team

The Clarence seventh grader en-joys technology with an interest in a career in Engineering. His favorite NHL player is Daniel Briere and his favorite NHL team is the Buffalo Sabres. He enjoys sports, neighbor-hood activities and reading. His favorite music is rock and his favorite food is mexican/tacos. At12yearsold,the5”2”hockey player plans to have fun and improve on his positions this season. Trevor also plays football and baseball.

February Student Athlete of the Month

Dylan FolgerU15 Midget Team

Dylan is on the high honor roll at North Tonawanda High School with an grade point average of 98. He is a winger for the Stars and has been a member of the Stars for three seasons. He also plays junior varsity hockey for North Tonawanda High School and travel soccer for NWAA and varsity soccer for NT. He has competed at the Olympic Train-ing Facility in Ohio in soccer. The ninth grader enjoys math and science and plans a career inthesciencefield. His favorite NHL player is Nathan Gerbe and his favorite college team is Michigan State. He enjoys video games and reading and his favorite food is pizza.

His goal this season is to become a better player.

Youth Spotlight Player for February 9

Breyden DixonPee Wee Major Team

Breyden is 11 years old and plays forward for the Stars. He is in sixth grade and his favorite subject is science. He plans on being an entrepreneur. His favorite NHL player is Sid-ney Crosby and his favorite NHL team is the Pittsburgh Penguins. Breyden also enjoys roller hockey, golf and running. HIs favorite food is chinese. Breyden’s goal for this season is to score more goals and more assists.

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Squirts Place Second in Three Rivers Cup Tour-nament The Buffalo Stars Squirt Mixed team had another successful weekend, this time in Pittsburgh from the 14th to the 16th. The Stars had their entire roster ready to go, except for center Kenny Fox, who was on a family vacation. The team knew missing one of their key centers would mean everyone needed to step up, and that they did. The Stars first game was on Friday afternoon against the Arctic Foxes. With most of the team coming straight from a 4-hour car ride into the rink, nobody would have been blamed for thinking this would be a rough game for the Stars. How-ever, strong plays in all three zones lead to a 3-2 victory. Goals came form Ian Schrader, Bobby Rydzewski and Dylan Klodzin-ski, with assists from Sam Staerker and Crosby Juliano. Klodz-inski’s goal came with just 25 seconds left in the game, and capped off a strong third period that included two penalty kills. The second game of the tournament was to be played at 7am Saturday morning, and, because of a 50 minute drive, the squirts and their families would have to hit the road shortly after 5am. Knowing this, Coach Justin Mullen asked the play-ers to stay out of the pool and be in their rooms by 9pm Friday night. While other teams could be heard running through the halls of the hotel until after midnight, the Stars listened to their coach and found themselves well rested the next morning. The team was so rested, in fact, that they played what might have been their best game all year and won 7-1. Each of the first 5 goals came from different players, including Cameron Smith, Logan Schwartz, Kirk Mohawk, Dylan Klodzin-ski and Nolan Smith. Mohawk went on to score another, and Klodzinski added another goal and three assists for a 5-point game. Bobby Rydzewski earned the teams second playmaker. Other assists game from Sam Staerker, Ian Schrader, Paul Ry-dzynski, Nolan Smith and Cameron Smith. Goaltender Noah

Kuras didn’t face too many shots, but made key saves on some early chances that would have given the opposing Pittsburgh Aviators hope. Several parents commented that they could see the Stars putting all of the pieces together in this game; chipping the puck to get it out, dumping the puck when pres-sured, and playing their positions in the defensive zone – all points that the coaching staff has stressed this year. After watching Team USA beat Russia in a shootout back at the hotel, the Stars returned to the rink for a Saturday afternoon matchup against the Lawrence County Lightning. The Lightning would prove to be a tough opponent, twice coming back from 2-goal leads the Stars had built up. The Stars couldn’t hold on for the win, giving up two goals in the final 5 minutes of the game, but held strong defensively in the final minute to keep the game at a 4-4 tie. Goals again came from Rydzewski, Klodzinski and Schrader, and forward Crosby Juliano added the fourth goal in the third period. Staerker earned another assist for points in 3-straight games, and Mo-hawk added two assists for his third and fourth tournament points. The tie would ensure that the Stars would be the only undefeated team going into the next round. Later that eve-ning, as scores from other games came in, the Stars learned their efforts landed them in first place and gave them a bye directly into the 2pm championship game on Sunday. Sunday’s championship game appearance meant the Stars were guaranteed hardware yet again, making them 2 for 2 earning trophies in tournaments this year. The coaching staff mentioned that they had never seen the team so ready to go like they were for this game; the players ran their own pre-game warmup and had time in the locker room to talk to each other. Unfortunately, there comes a time for every team when they are just missing that spark needed to push them, and that came for the Stars in this game. (Continued on Pg. 50)




Spotlight Player of the Week for February 16

Alex AugustineMidget U15 Team

Alex has been with the Stars for one year on defense. He is a sophomore at Alden School and is on the Merit Roll. Alex also plays JV Hockey, Basketball and is a member of the Track team during his Split Sea-son of hockey. He enjoys math and plans on being a CPA. His favorite NHL’er is Thomas Vanek and his favorite hockey team is Michigan State. Alex’s hobbies include four-wheeling and boating and he also enjoys pasta and country music. His family are his role models because “they are awesome.” His Uncle Dave is his personal hero because “he is really funny.” This season Alex plans to become a better hockey player.

Youth Spotlight Player for February 23

Connor RobinsonPee Wee Major Team

Connor is 11 years old and plays defense. He is a seventh grader and his favorite subject is science. Connor plans to become an FBI Agent or enter law enforcement. His favorite NHL player is Anze Kopitar and his favorite team, the Los Angeles Kings. He enjoys playing all sports and his favorite food is spaghetti. Connor’s role model is his Dad because he teaches him all kinds of things that he will use in life. Police officers are his per-sonal heros because of their dangerous job. Connor also plays lacrosse, baseball and runs track. His goals this season are to become a better player and have a successful season.


From the beginning it was clear that the boys were drained from their weekend, but they fought on regard-less and even scored the first goal of the game – something that did in every game of the tournament. Rydzewski scored that lone goal, with Mohawk and Klodzinski adding to their assist totals. The opposing South Hills Panthers came back with three unanswered goals, despite some great saves in between from goaltender Noah Kuras. The game was not a total loss, however, as the Stars were able to kill off a 5 on 3 situation late in the 2nd period, and kept the Panthers off the scoreboard for the entire second half of the game. The Stars even had the chance to pull their goaltender for an extra attacker, and generated some quick chances in the final minutes of the game. They showed through their efforts that they were more than worthy of their silver medals and the accompanying team trophy. Although not everyone officially contributed on the score sheet, this team knows that when one person scores “we all score.” Andrew Allen, Nick Botzenhart and Joshua Cooper made great defensive plays all week-end, and Garrett Brown came up big, especially with a few excellent shot blocks as he charged the opposing defensemen. The coaches of this team couldn’t be more proud of how these players have grown over the past season. They know the benefits of keeping a group of kids together so they can learn from and about each other and this game, and this season has shown the change that can bring. Being a mixed team, not all of these players will be mov-ing up to Pee Wee, but the memories and knowledge gained this year will follow all of these players in the years to come. “Thank you for bringing us together as a team!”



The KenmoreVarsity Girls Ice HockeyTeam were one of the first teamsto join theWNYGVIHFederation

fouryearsago.TheyhavemadetheirmarkbytakingtheSectionVICham-pionship three times and now theyhave secured the League Champi-onshipforthefirsttime. Following a weekend trip toClayton, NY to play in the NewYork StateVarsityGirls IceHockeyChampionships,theyreturnedhomeforaMondaynightstarttotheLeagueplayoffs. Theplayoffsbeganat4:30p.m.with#6Frontier/OrchardParkplaying#3Mon-signorMartin (the reigning champion). Likemost of the games during the season, awinnercouldn’thavebeenpredicted.MonsignorMartingotonthe scoreboard in the firstwith a shot by MadelineStoklosa and again in thesecond by Captain RachelLenard. However Frontier/Orchard Park answered inthe third on a power playgoal by Karley Baker, as-sisted by Frangelica BautzandMeghanRoche.andahintofOTflewaroundthearena.However,itwasnottobe andMonsignorMar-tinmoved on to the semi-finals by taking the game2-1. Game 2 found four-time last place Lancaster/Iroquoisonthewinningsidewitha4-0winoverfirst-year Nichols. Scoring were Meghan Fonfara, CaitlinHorvatis, Jenelle Piatt and Brianna Colucci. Horvatisalso had an assist. Lancaster/Iroquois headed to thesemi-finalsforthefirsttime. Scorelessgoingintothesecondperiodofthethirdmatch-up, Amherst/Sweet Home put three on theboardsinthesecondandWilliamsvilleansweredbackwithtwointhethird,whichagainmadeeveryonethink“overtime.”HoweverthatwasnotthescenarioastheKatz beatWilliamsville 3-2 and headed to the semi-finals. The final game of the night would be KenmoreagainstWestSeneca.Anotherscorelessfirstperiodandthenat11:30ofthesecondKenmore’sEmilyKingputonepasttheWestSenecagoalie.Fivegoalscameinthe

thirdperiod,3byKenmoreand2byWestSeneca giving Kenmore a 4-2 win andplaceinthesemi-finalround. Kenmore and Amherst/SweetHomehadthefirstgameofadouble-headerintheSemi-Finals.Kenmoregot on the scoreboard with twogoalsinthefirstperiod,anotherinthesecondandanemptynetterinthethirdtosecurea4-0shutout.IngoalforKenmorewasLaurenPray. Monsignor Martin’s chance tohead to thefinalsendedwitha4-1losstoLancaster/Iroquoisinthesemi-

final game. Lancaster scored two inthe first period, a shorthanded goal in

thesecondandthendroppedthethirdinat9:25ofthesecond.MonsignorMartin’sMarielle

Buffamonescoredat13:05ofthethirdforMonsignorMartin’slonegoal.Kenmore, at the top oftheheapforthefirstfouryears and Lancaster/Iroquois at the bottomallfouryearsmetintheChampionship. Valen-tine’sDaywillbeadayto remember for bothteams as the game getsstarted with Lancaster/Iroquois scoring in thefirstperiodonashotbyFonfara. Second periodgoes scoreless and itsstill 1-0 Lancaster/Iro-quois.(Continued on Page 58)

Kenmore Takes It All!

By Janet [email protected]

BROCKPORT

11 years and one day.That was the period betweenwins for the Golden EaglesagainstOswegountiltheir3-2winFebruary15thontheroad

aspartoftheirfour-gameseason-endingwinningstreakthat launched them intofifthplaceintheSUNYAC.They played Buffalo Statein the first round of theplayoffs. Theteamfoundoffensein the second half of theconference schedule aver-aging 3.6 goal per game.Sophomore Chase Nieu-wendyk ledwith a career-best 24 pointswith seniorChris Cangro, sophomoredefenseman Chris Luker(NewHartford/Jr.Sabres)andfreshmanJakeTayloralsoat20pointsorbetter. Thefourgamewinningstreakwastheirfirstsincethe 2009-10 season, but their first against all confer-enceopponentsinover15seasons.

BUFFALO STATE

The Bengals 6-6-4 conferencerecord landed them in fourth placeandafirstroundhomeplayoffgameagainstBrockport.Thetwoteamsslittheseasonseries.

JuniorDanTurgeon(MonroeCC)ledtheteamwith25 points in hisDivision III seasonwith seniorMikeZanella (Ithaca) and freshmanTaylor Pryce right be-hind. “Pryceisaverypowerfulskaterwhonotonlywhenhehitsguys,butwhenhegetsthepuckonhisstickhehastheabilitytobeatguyswide;he’sscoredsomebiggoalsforus,”saidheadcoachNickCarriere. Their .500 season was their worst in-conferencesincethetwowin2009-10campaign.

CANISIUS

The Griffs locked up afirstroundhomeplayoffse-ries, but hadwon just twoof their last seven gamesheadingintothefinalweek-endoftheregularseason. In two-game seriesagainst Atlantic Hockey

foes this season, theGriffs are now6-3-1 in the firstgamebutjust3-5-2inthefinale.

Senior goaltender Tony Capobianco (picturedabove)recordedhissixthcareershutoutFebruary14thagainstAirForcetyinghimforthemostintheprogram’sDivisionIhistorywithBryanWorosz(2001-05)andAn-drewLoewen(2006-10). Freshman defenseman Geoff Fortman scored hisfirstcollegiateJanuary25thagainstMercyhurst.

ERIE CC

The Kats finished the regular season 15-10 andseededthirdfortheNJCCAnationalchampionshipsinHudsonValleywhere theywere shutout in the semi-finalsbynumber-twoWillistonState. FreshmanJacobMacchioni(Blasdell)finishedfifthin thenationwith31goalswhileheand sophomoreteammateBradFerrell(EastAmherst)were4-5inpointswith31and30pointsrespectively.


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FREDONIA

The Blue Devils won just oneregular season game in February,butwith twoties,earnedenoughpointstofinishinthesixthandfi-

nalplayoffposition.TheyheadedtoOswegoforafirstroundgame. “We’vehad some success there in thepast,” saidhead coach JeffMerideth. “To go on the road in theplayoffsisactuallynotabadthing.Inaone-shotdeal,thereisalotofpressureontheteamthatishomeandwe’reasix-seed;whocaresaboutus?Andyougotoamid-weekgame,evenwiththemostfaithfuloffollow-ers,anditwillbehalffull.I’dratherbeontheroadhalffullthanathomehalffullhonestly.” StephenCastriota(Bellport)andJaredWyniaweretheonlytwowithtenormoregoalswhileseniorMattOwczarczak(Buffalo)anddefensemanRyanWilkinsonwereindouble-figuresinassists.

GENESEO

Earning their first regular season SUNYAC sincethe1989-90seasonandtheirfirst20-winseasonsince1990-91 (23-4-3), the Knights have home-ice advan-tagefortheSUNYACplayoffs. “Iwasinhighschool,’saideighth-yearheadcoachChris Schultzwhenaskedwherehewas in1989-90.“Iwas anRIT fan and itwasn’t toomany years afterthatthatIwasrecruitedbyDuff(formerGeneseoheadcoachPaulDuffy)toplayhere,soIwasyoung. “It’s tough toget to the top,and it justmakesmerespectwhatPlattsburghandOswegohavedoneinter-changingchampionshipsforsomanyyears.Itissoin-crediblyhardtoplayconsistentlyallyearandnotgiveupgamestoteamsyoushouldbeatandthehardpartnextyearisstayingthere.” Justin Scharfe (Webster) led thesquadinscoringwhileseniorZacharyVit completed his stellar career witha17goalcampaignandreached120careerpoints.

MONROE CC

Afteradvancingtothefinalswitha10-0winoverhostHudsonValleyCC, theTribunes lost in the finalforthesecondconsecutiveyeartoWillistonState2-0.Thegamemarkedthefinaloneinprogramhistoryasitwasannouncedpriortotheseasonthattheschoolwasdroppingthesport.

NAZARETH

Seven of the team’s season to-talofeightwinscameduring the2014portionof thescheduleand

theGoldenFlyersfinishedlast,butjustonepointoutoffifthinthetightECACWest.TheytraveledtothirdplaceHobartforafirstroundplayoffgame. The Golden Flyers swept the ECACWest weeklyawards for theperiodending January26thwithScottDawsonwinningPlayerof theWeekafterscoringthegame-winning goal in overtime of a 2-1 victory overUtica;EdZdolshekGoaltenderoftheWeekforhispairofupsetvictoriesovertheweekendbystopping80of82shotsfora.976savepercentageandDavidSeward(Williamsville/JuniorSabres)Rookieof theWeekafterhescoredtwogoalsSaturdaytohelpNazarethtoa4-1upsetwinoverGeneseo. ZdolshekwasagainselectedtheweekendingFeb-ruary9th after helpingNazareth split a pair of ECACWestConferencegameswithManhattanvillewith54saves.

NIAGARA

With twogames remaining in the regular season,thePurpleEagleshadclinchedafirstroundhomeplay-offgamethankslargelytoarunoffivewinsoversevengamesfromlate-JanuarytoearlyFebruary. Junior Isaac Kohls matched his goal output fromhis first two years combinedwhile sophomoreHugoTurcotteeclipsedthe20pointmarkforthefirstinhiscareerandwassecondonthesquadinscoring.



Buffalo The Bengals have had a rough start to their season, going winless through the majority of 2013-14. However, they had a comeback at the end and beating Cortland 3-2 on J a n u a r y

25 and then Neumann 3-2 on February 15. They also tied Neumann and New England. With Cortland sweeping Chatham and Elmira beating Neumann in ECAC West play the Bengals secured the final playoff spot and face #3 Os-wego in the first round/quar-terfinals. Buffalo faces the loss of Melissa Ash (#9/Binghamton), Em-ily Cornett, Christina Zandri (#26/Baldwinsville) and Jordan Lee to graduation. Ash is a native of Binghamton and graduated from Chenango Valley High school. She is a For-ward who played for the Syracuse Stars. Zandri comes from Baldwins-ville and played her hockey with the Syracuse Stars orga-nization. She is also a forward. This was Head Coach Candice Moxley’s first season behind the bench.

RIT The RIT women earned a dramat-ic 2-1 overtime win against CHA ri-val Syracuse to garner a third seed in the conference tournament.

Senior Melissa Bromley scored the game-winner 2:31 into overtime to

give RIT a weekend sweep over Syracuse. The Tigers will host Penn State for a best-of-three se-ries at press time. This is the second straight season they have been seeded third. RIT closes out the regular season 16-15-3 and 11-7-2 in the CHA, their second year in the conference. Coach Scott MacDonald will lose three Seniors, Captain Me-lissa Bromley (#28), Erin Zach (#20) and Kourtney Kunichika (#26), giv-ing the team a strong start to the 2014-15 season.

The Tigers raised over $8,000 for Wounded Warriors when they auctioned off camouflage jerseys they wore during a special Salute to Troops night.


Western New YorkWomen’s College Hockey Report

by Janet [email protected]@gmail.com



The third year was a nail-biter. But I love the team this year, we all have good chemistry and work for each other, and it was nice to get the win.” The game began at a rapid pace, with Williamsville East’s Mike Mostowy and Kenmore East’s Da-vid Christopher trading goals in the game’sfirst fourminutes.That tiewould last until 23 seconds into the second period, as Trevor Pray gave the Bulldogs their only lead of the game. Dylan Cicero beat Kenmore East goaltender Luke Stewart at the8:25markofthesecondperiodwith assists from Cohen and Matt Steffan, and then Cohen’s third-period goal proved to be the one to clinch the championship.

Niagara-Wheatfield 3 – Williamsville North 2 Before the year, the Niagara-Wheatfield Falcons set out to dowhat no Section VI team had done before: win three consecutivechampionships. It took three goals for the Falcons to win that third championship over the Williams-ville North Spartans by a score of 3-2. Justin Durkee, the Falcons’ leading scorer, provided the game-winning goal at 8:49 of the sec-ond period. Domenic Senese and

James Stenzel led all Niagara-Wheatfieldscorerswithagoalandan assist each.Williamsville North got on the board earlywithtwogoalsinthefirst1:46of play on Falcons goaltender Nate Sommers. Zach Kurbiel got the scoring started 59 seconds intothe first period, followed by BrianCouto just 47 seconds later on along shot from the point that made its way through a maze of players in front.After the quick start, Niagara-WheatfieldheadcoachRickWrazinhad to help his team wipe the slate clean and play a much better game overthefinal43minutesofregula-tion.“It wasn’t the way we wanted to start the game, that’s for sure,” Wrazin said. “I can’t say enough of how I proud I am [of the team] for com-ing back after dropping two. You see a lot of good teams, in a game like that, have that kind of start and end up giving it away. They hung in there, they came back.” While the Falcons were held scoreless most of the first, theycontrolled much of the posses-sion through the period. Niagara-Wheatfieldfinallygotontheboardwith1:01leftinthefirstperiodonagoal by Senese.The second period was where the game was won by the Falcons. Just over six minutes into the peri-od, Stenzel beat Spartans goalten-

der Matthew Ladd assisted by Senese and Dakota Beck-er.At the 8:49mark of the second, it was Durkee who found the puck to the right of Ladd and bur-

ied the rebound for the eventual game-winning goal. Durkee, who was also named MVP of the game, was at a loss for words talking about the feelings of scoring the championship-winning goal.“It feels good, I don’t really know how to explain it,” he said. “I just remember [forward Matt] Paon-essa was in the corner, and they were all over him for that shift. He just passed it in front, and I was stunned at first when I got it, buteventually I put it in. He’s unbeliev-able at passing so I knew I was go-ing to get it.”Wrazin acknowledged that the secondary scoring was necessary to pull out the win against a great team like Williamsville North. “For us, we counted on our one line most of the year, so it’s great to see it spreading around in the playoffs. We knew we had guys that could do it; they were squeez-ing the stick a little bit earlier in the season. When it comes time for the playoffs, everyone’s got to play the same way and they got back to playing hockey the right way and now the points and the goals are coming for them.” The three-time defending champions were elated that they met the lofty goals set before the offseason. The win against Wil-liamsville North represented a tre-mendous accomplishment for the Niagara-Wheatfieldprogram. “We had the goal of the ‘threep-eat’ from the start, but we didn’t say it,” said Wrazin. “We said early on it was our goal to win the third, and then we decided we weren’t going to talk about it again. We knew we wanted it, and I can’t say enough how proud I am of them for bearing down at the end of the season.”


By Warren Kozireski

Webster-Schro-eder won theirfirstsec-

tional championship and Fairport took their first insixyears in thefinals played at RIT’sRitter Arena.

Class B Schroeder, the sixth seed in Class B with an 11-7-2 regularseason record, went 4-0 in the postseason with wins over cross-town rival Webster Thomas, Aquinas, Hil-ton and Victor to earn theirfirstsectional titlesince Webster split into two high schools.In the title game, the Warriors jumped out to a 1-0 lead when Casey Winn redirected a perfect pass from the corner byJoeSchulerat6:36ofthefirstperiod. They made it 2-0 when Matt Montgomery pounded in thereboundofaSchulershotonthepowerplayat11:59ofthe second period. Victor threatened in the third as David Farrance had his shot from the right point stopped as was the rebound attempt from Kyle Pooler. Three minutes later a wrister from Eric Haney went off the glove of Schroder goaltender Ryan Buetel and dribbled wide of the net. “We played a tough schedule and it helps when you’re tested all year and I think that really came into play when it came down to it; we knew how to win those tough games,” said Schuler. Onthefirstgoal,Schulersaid“weworkonthatpowerplay all the time in practice with the backdoor look. I can’t say enough about these guys. We knew we could do it be-cause we knew what we had.” Buetel stopped 16 shots to pick up the shutout. “It feels really good. We worked hard all season and couldn’t ask for

anything more. (Web-ster) Thomas has a ton of banners hang-ing at the rink and now wefinallyhaveone.” The Warriors clinched the title as Montgomery scored an empty net goal with 23 seconds remaining and was named Of-fensive Most Valuable Player. Winn took De-fensive Most Valuable Player and Schuler was named Most Valu-able Player.

Class A Fairport avenged an overtime defeat to McQuaid that ended their season last year

in thesemi-finals tobeat theKnights this season—againin the semi’s—in triple overtime on a goal by Quinn Wi-edemer.ThatvaultedthemintothefinalagainstaGreeceThunder team that advanced by defeating Churchville-Chili and top-seed Pittsford to advance. Afterascorelessfirstperiod, theRedRaidersgotontheboardfirstat4:10ofthesecondonaPatDoudslapshotfrom the right point with assists from Nick Musshaven.Theymadeit2-0inthefinalminuteofthesecondasCodyHowatt wristed a screen shot through the goaltenders legs with assists to Alex Schoepfel and Cameron Gebhardt. The Thunder put on some pressure in the third. With 7:30 left in regulation, Codey Mazeau forced a turnoverand passed to Anthony Fedele, who backhand attempt was stopped by Fairport goaltender Ethan Kaiser. A late Thun-der powerplay netted just one shot on goal and they pulled theirgoaltenderwith1:31remaining,buttwopenaltiesne-gated any chance to tie. Fairport’s JaredCarlstonscoredafive-on-threepow-er play goal off an assist by Wiedemer to seal the title at 14:17. “We had a terrible third period; they were all over us,”


Section V Boy’s High School Hockey

Rick Altienas presents Jackson Charron with the Thomas Nichols Scholarship with Jody Gage looking on. (Section V photo)


said Fairport’s sophomore goaltender Ethan Kaiser. “We played good defen-sively though and were able to get it out of the zone when it mattered. In the locker room we said that defense was first.” “I’ve been waiting three years for this,” said senior defenseman Pat Doud. “Sophomore year we lost to Victor and last year to McQuaid in the semi’s in overtime. Especially senior year I couldn’t ask for anything more. (On his goal) “I had an open lane. (Nick) Musshaven gave me the pass and I just walked in and let it rip. I saw it hit the twine and I couldn’t be hap-pier. At the beginning of the year when we lost to Brighton and went on a los-ing streak, I never thought we would win the championship. But team bond-ing really helped halfway through the year and here we are.” Fairport’s Nick Musshaven was named Offensive Most Valuable Player, Kaiser, who made 21 saves in the shutout, Defensive Most Valu-able Player and Howatt Most Valuable Player.

Scholarship

Spencerport senior Jackson Charron was named the 2013-14 recipient of the Thomas Nichols Scholarship between Section V hockey’s Class A and B champion-ship games held last weekend at Ritter Arena on the RIT campus.Charron was second on the Rang-ers this past season with 13 goals and added nine assists to help his teamtoa13-7recordandsecondplace in the West Division.Charron is the oldest son of Roch-ester Americans Hall of Famer Craig Charron.

All-League Division I Pittsford’s Greg Weyl was named Player of the Year after his 22 goal—44 point campaign. Teammates Tim Foster (47 points), Chris Perna andDannyKelly(league-leading15wins)were First Team selections at forward, defense and goaltender respectively. Brighton’s Ernie Clement 52 points)and Greece Thunder Anthony Fedele (35 points) were the other two FirstTeam forwards while Jared Kachaylo of Penfieldwas the other First Teamdefenseman. Named to the Second Team were Joe Schuler (F) and Ryan Winn (D) from Webster-Schroeder, Quinn Wi-edemer (F) and Ethan Kaiser (G) of Fairport, Brian Wall (F) from Pen-fieldandZachBuccholz (D) from theGreece Thunder. Pittsford’s Steve Thering was named Coach of the Year.

All League Division II-East Victor freshman defenseman Da-vid Farrance was named Player of the Year after leading the division with 31 goals while teammate Christian Port-land (division leading 11 wins) was First Team Goaltender. Aquinas forwards Jimmy Diliberto (league leading 61 points) and Connor Hynes (37 points) along with defen-seman Trevor Dennis were also First Team selections as were forward Gra-ham Gooch (38 points) and defense-man Theo Cup of Irondequoit. Second Team forwards were Kyle Pooler (Victor), Anthony Thurston (Irondequoit) and Ben Myles (Canan-daigua). Defenseman were RJ Miller (Victor) and Matt Comanzo (Ironde-quoit) and the Goaltender was Justin Nevinger (Aquinas).

Rick Giuffrida of Irondequoit was named Coach of the Year.

All League Division III-West Hilton forwards Sean Robson and Frank Gaffney were named First Team as was defenseman Alex Whitehair. Defenseman Brian Mangene was a Second Team selection. Robson and Gaffney tied for the team lead in points with 42 each and combined for 46 of the team’s season total of 102 goals. Whitehair tied for third on the squad in assists and led Cadets defenseman with23pointswhileMangenefinishedwith nine points as a shutdown defen-seman. Spencerport forward Brandon Co-rey, defenseman Aidan Conolly and goaltender Ryan Shirano completed the First Team. Corey led the team with 25 goals and tied for the teamlead with 35 points, Conolly led allteam defenseman with 16 assists and 19 points and Shirano was in net for all 13 team wins while sporting a 2.89 goals against average. Churchville-Chili forwards Ryan Cosgrove and Connor Hoyng were SecondTeampicksafterfinishing1-2ontheSaintsinscoringwith34and27points respectively.Brockport senior forward Brandon Henshaw was named Division III Play-er of the Year after leading the entire leaguewith35goalsandfinishingsec-ondwith54points in20 regularsea-son games. Hilton’sChrisMonfilettoandSpen-cerport’s Jason Rich were named co-Coaches of the Year in Division III.

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Kenmore’sEmilyKingputsonepastthe Lancaster/Iroquois goalie andthe game is tied 1-1 and remainsthatwaywhenthebuzzersounds. Thefirstovertimegoesscorelessbutat1:37ofthesecondovertime,Lina Mirabella shoots in the win-ning goal and Kenmore becomesthe WNYGVIH Federation Cham-pion. Whileshotsongoalarenotkeptfor the league, the goalies in thisleague need a lot of the credit fortheclosegames. If you haven’t attended one oftheseGirl’sFederationgames,makesure todo itnext season.Theyarefullofaction,skilledhockeyandalot of last minute actiontodetermineawinner!

Some Photos from

Championship Game!

by Janet Schultz


WNYGVIH ALL LEAGUE NAMED

First Team: Forwards:ErinGehen(Williams-ville),RachelLenard(MMHSAA),Missy Mallon (Amherst/SweetHome)Defense: Rachel Grampp Wil-liamsville), Maddy Grisko (Am-herst/SweetHome)Goalie:LaurenPray(Kenmore)

Second Team: Forwards:MeghanFonfara(Lancaster/Iroquois),SarahScolnick(Williamsville),JillBattista(Kenmore)

Defense: Kaeli Mathias (Kenmore), MeganRuekauf(Lancaster/Iroquois) Goal:TheresaMeosky(Williamsville)

Honorable Mention: Forwards: Caitlin Horvatits (Lancaster/Iroquois), Ma-

rissa Janiga (Nichols), Jordan Roetzer (Williamsville),OliviaSmith,(Kenmore)EmilyKing(Kenmore)

Defense:BriannaColucci(Lancaster/Iroquois),AmeliaGajewski(MMHSAA),GraceSimmons(Kenmore),Jes-

sicaUrbank (Orchard Park/Frontier), ShannonMoran (MMHSAA), KathrynDarling (Nichols), ReneeLauer(Amherst/SweetHome) Goal:MadelineNorton(Lancaster/Iroquois),MikaelaDitonto(OrchardPark/Frontier),MargaretJan-iga (Nichols),MadisonAston (Amherst/SweetHome),BriannaGawronski (MMHSAA),AbbieMutton(WestSeneca)

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2014 Women’s Summer Dra� League Intended for Female Players ages 14 and up

Wednesday Evenings beginning April 16th at 6pm

*Designed for female players ages 14 and up

*Week 1 will be used to evaluate players. Teams will be picked for the remaining weeks and actual games will be played. *All sessions will be held at the -

Northtown Center at Amherst

1615 Amherst Manor Drive Williamsville, NY 14221

All Participants will be required to have WNY Roller Hockey Membership ($30)

Membership is effective from Sept. 1, 2013 – August 31, 2014 membership forms will be available at the rink during registration

12 Week Session—$65 (player) $50 (goalie)

*A full season schedule will be posted on our web site. Please check on Rink Calendar for dates and �mes.

*For more Informa�on please contact Eric Haak—716-903-2658 ([email protected]) or Jason Flowers—716-903-2658

For addi�onal informa�on on all of our programs visit

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GoaltenderAdrian IgnagniwasnamedAHAGoalten-deroftheWeek,whilefreshmanVincentMuto(NiagaraFalls)pocketedRookieoftheWeekhonorsfortheweekendingJanuary26th. Muto collected three helpers in NU’s conferencesweepoftheTigersmovinghimintothetopspotamongdefensemanscoringonthePurpleEagles.Hefinishedtheweekendwitheightshots,andaplus-3rating. Ignagni stopped 69 of 70 shots in the two winsagainstRITforasavepercentageof .986andhisfirstcollegiateshutout.

R.I.T.

The Tigers ended a nine-game unbeatenstreakwithararewinatAirForceandhadtwogamesremaining todeterminewhere

theywouldplaythefirstroadpostseasongameintheirDivisionIhistory. “We’vegotalongwaytogoasateam,”saidheadcoachWayneWilson.“Thisisn’ta(goaltenderJordan)Rubyproblemandit’snota (goaltenderMike)Rotoloproblem,thisisateamproblem.” Webster’sDanSchulerhadmorethandoubledhisfive-goaloutputfromhisfreshmanseasonwith11overthefirst32games. DefensemenNolanDescoteauxcame intohis se-niorseasonwith16pointsin103games.Thisseasonhehas17pointsonfivegoalsand12assistsin28games,includinganeight-pointJanuary. CalebCameronscoredhisfirstcollegiategoalFeb-ruary14thagainstMercyhurst.

OTHER AREA NOTES:• JuniorgoaltenderDerekMohney(Amherst)ofCur-ryCollegewasnamedECACNortheastGoaltenderoftheWeek for theperiodending January26thafterhewas2-0ontheweekincluding25savesandashutoutagainstSUNYCantononJanuary23rd.• Robert Morris sophomore Terry Shafer (Penfield)was named Atlantic Hockey Association Goaltenderof theWeek for the period ending February 9th afterhebackstoppedtheColonialstothreekeyroadpoints

against RIT. He picked up his first collegiate shutoutJanuary 31st against Army and his second February15thagainstNiagara.Healsowasco-GOTWtheweekendingFebruary16th.• BrockportnativeDomenicTrentohascommittedtoplayatUMass-Lowellnextfall.Heisinhissecondsea-sonwiththeNewJerseyHitmenofthePremierLeagueintheUSPHLwhereheledtheleagueinscoringwithsixgamesremainingintheirregularseason.• SpencerportnativeShanePrincenettedhisfirstpro-fessional (AHL)hat trick January26th asBinghamtondefeatedAlbany.

Rochester XTreme Hockey League Comes to Lakeshore!

Currently entering it’s 14th season, the RXHL isexpandingtotheLakeshoreHockeyArenatoin2014!Thelargestandmostpopularspringpro-

graminRochesterwithover400players,theRXHLof-fersdivisionsforPonies,Mites,Squirts,Peewees,Ban-tams,andahighlycompetitiveHighSchool/JuniorlevelthatattractsRochester’sbestplayers.BesuretocheckoutthelinkbelowtoseewhichprogramsareofferedatLakeshore. Founded in 2001, the RXHL has grown from 8teams, tomore than40 today. The league runs fromearlyApril through lateMay, finishing beforeMemo-rialDayweekend.UniquerulesapplytoRXHLgamesincludingpenaltyshotsforallpenalties,andtag-upoffsideswhichhelps improvegameflow. AllgamesarescoredliveonPointstreak,apowerfulsoftwarewhichprovidesdetailedstatisticsinrealtime. Thegoalof theRXHLis tooffera local,competi-tive,andaffordableoptionforkidswhoarelookingforafunwaytoendtheseason.TheRXHLoffersauniqueopportunityforplayerstoplaywithandagainstplayerstheymaynormallynothavethechanceto. WehaveplayersthatcomefromasfarwestasBatavia,andasfareastasOswego! TheexpansionallowstheRXHLtoaddtothevari-etyofcompetitionbyplayingcross-overgamesagainstRXHLteamsfromdifferentlocations. We’reveryexcitedaboutthisseasonandlookfor-wardtoseeingeveryonethisspring!Formoreinforma-tiononRXHLprograms and to register, please checkoutwww.rochesterxhl.com



The first annual Tyler PutnamAwards is scheduled for March 21. The NewEdge Hockey Train-

ing Company will be awarding the prestigious Tyler Putnam Award to players from17 local youthandhighschool hockey organizations. The award winners are selected by their re-spective organizations and must meet the Tyler Putnam Award winner criteria of hard work, commitment, and dedi-cation to the game of hockey that Tyler himself was known for. Tyler’s dream was to play for his High School Hockey team, The Irond-equoit Eagles, Junior Hockey, Division I Hockey and ultimately Professional Hockey. Tyler was able to realize two of those dreams, having played for The Irondequoit Eagles as an eighth and ninth grader and then with the Maksy-mum Junior team here in Rochester, NY.AttheconclusionofhisfirstJuniorseason, Tyler was well on his way of realizing his next dream as he was offered roster spots on five Junior Ateams from Rochester, Minnesota to San Diego, California. In July of 2011, Tyler’s hockey dreams ended tragically when he died of an illness called “meningococce-mia”, which is an infection that affects the bloodstream. Tyler was known for his high en-ergy, incredible work ethic, and desire to achieve his goals. Tyler has been memorialized with a banner hanging above the ice in Lakeshore Hockey Arena as well as by a memorial hel-met sticker that dawns the symbol of a hard hat – a symbol of Tyler’s hard work and dedication to the game that he loved.

The formal presentation of the First Tyler Putnam Awards will be made at the Whittier

House in Rochester. Each recipient will receive a very special commemorative plaque and will be honored on the NewEdge Hockey website, their respective orga-nizations website, The Tyler Putnam Foundation website as well as in vari-ous media outlets.

Participating Programs:

Aquinas High School Hockey Program Brockport High School Hockey Program Canandaigua Youth Hockey Rochester Edge Girls Hockey Program Greece Athena High School Hockey Pro-gram Greece Olympia/Arcadia High School

Hockey Program Hilton High School Hockey Program Irondequoit High School Hockey Program Maksymum Hockey Program Monroe County Youth Hockey Perinton Youth Hockey / Rochester Mon-archs Rochester Grizzlies Rochester Youth Hockey / Rochester Alli-ance Spencerport High School Hockey Program Tri-County Youth Hockey Webster Schroeder High School Hockey Program Webster Thomas High School Hockey Pro-gram Not only is a an award program likethiswelloverdue,thebenefitsofthe program reach much deeper than memorializing an amazing young man and hockey player, recognizing ex-ceptional hard work and dedication by local, young athletes, but it donates 100%ofsurplusfundstolocalandna-tional charities.

Recipients of the 2014 Tyler Putnam Award

Hockey Program Recipient Aquinas High School Trevor Dennis Brockport High School Mitchell Henshaw Canadaigua Youth Ben Myles Rochester Edge Girls Abilgail Weltman Greece Athena High School Trevor Brown Hilton High School Austin Bull Irondequoit High School Theodore Cup Maksymum Hockey Thomas Grammatico Monroe County Youth Spencer Nuccitelli Perinton Youth/Rochester Monarchs Nick Charon Rochester Grizzlies Max McNally Spencerport High School Jackson Charron Tri-County Youth Cameron Dony Webster Schroeder High Billy VanApeldorn Webster Thomas High Alex Puluci

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The Ontario Junior Hockey League announced the OJHL First and Second All-

Star Teams. Among them are three players from New York State, Nick Desim-one, East Amherst; Shane Ben-nett, Grand Island and Pat Egan, Rochester.

1st Team All-StarG – Kevin Entmaa (Aurora Tigers)D – Nick Desimone (Buffalo Jr. Sabres)D – Michael Prapavessis (Toronto Lakeshore Patriots)F – Taylor Best (Whitby Fury)F – Steve Hladin (Georgetown Raid-ers)F – Liam Kerins (North York Rangers)2nd Team All-StarG – Nathan Perry (Cobourg Cougars)D – Alex D’Oliveira (Cobourg Cou-gars)D – Tyler Mayea (Trenton Golden Hawks)F – Shane Bennett (Milton Ice-hawks)F – Pat Egan (Buffalo Jr. Sabres)F – Mike Panowyk (Whitby Fury)F - Brett Seney (Kingston Voyageurs)Goaltender – Kevin Entmaa (Aurora Tigers)

Defence – Nick Desimone (Buffalo Jr. Sabres) Playing his first season in the

OJHL, the 19-year old rearguard was a pillar on the back-end for the Buffalo Jr. Sabres, an-choring the club’s pow-er play while providing a steadying presence in the defensive end. The native of East Amherst, New York finishedfourth on the Sabres and second overall among OJHL defend-ers with 51 points in52 games played thisseason, helping the club capture a second consecutive West Di-vision title, while earning Gongshow Gear South-West Conference Player-of-the-Month runner-up honours in October.Hefiredhome13goals,alsosecond best in the league, and his 38 assists were tied for third among re-arguards and 19th overall among all skaters. Desimone would be named to the OJHL South-West Conference All-Star Team and would help them finishasrunner-upatthe2013CentralCanada Cup All-Star Challenge as the only defenceman to record two goals in the tournament. He is committed to join Union College next season.2 Milton Icehawks forward Shane Bennett is a native of Grand Island, New York. Named a 1st Team All-Star in2012-13,Bennettfinishedfifthwith36goalsand fourthwith77points in

51gamesplayedwhilebeingnamedthe OJHL Gongshow Gear South-West Conference Player-of-the-Month in November. Bennett was a member of the OJHL South-West Conference All-StarTeamthatfinishedasrunner-up at the Central Canada Cup All-Star Challenge to the QJAAAHL. Buffalo Jr. Sabres forward Pat Egan is a native of Rochester, New York. Leading the club in scoring, he finished third among all scorers with78 points and 13 power play goals,while finishing fourth overall with 47assistsin51gamesplayed.EganwasBennett’s teammate on the South-West Conference All-Star Team at the Central Canada Cup.

(Submitted by the OJHL)

OHL All-Stars Selected

Nick Desimone, Buffalo Jr. Sabres, East Amherst (Timothy T. Ludwig/OJHL Images)


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CENTRALClintonCentral NY Squirt Invita-tionalMarch7-9

Onondaga Tournamentsthunder Rumble Tourna-mentMarch 14-16

Salmon RiverPeeWee March [email protected]

Schenectady i2014 Shatterpoint Tourna-ment for Squirts -- March 7-9Pee Wees -- March 14-16. Go to www.schenectadyy-outhhockey.com for details

Whitestown Youth HockeyBob Mercurio Extreme FreezeMiteTournament:[email protected]

EASTClifton ParkMite March MadnessX-Ice JamboreeMarh 8-9

Schenectady2014 Shatterpoint Tour-

namentSquirts,March7-9Pee Wees, March 14-16

WESTCazenoviaFounders Scholarship Tour-namentMarch8-10;15-17;22-24www.Cazhockey.com

WheatfieldBladesMite March Madness TournamentFebruary 28 - March 2

West SenecaLuke Gould Memorial TournamentMarch 21-23ContactJimBowen,[email protected]

TonawandaLightning TournamentMarch 9 - 16

Tri County Youth Hockey13th Annual David Bide-low Memorial Tourna-mentMarch 19-23, 2014Mite B, Mite A, Squirt B, Squirt A, Pee Wee B, Pee Wee AHeld at the SUNY Brock-port Ice Arena

Includes Saturday Skills Competition (like the NHL)Light/Music/MC show for Championship SundayCoaches GameGo to www.tricountyyouth-hockey.com for more infor-mation and registration.

Buffalo StarsNiagara Falls Classic Hockey Tournament

March 21-23Hyde Park Ice ArenaOpentoMidgetU15AA;U16 AA and AAA; 18U [email protected]

2013-14 NYS Tournament* Schedule(We have compiled this list from your emails, websites and NYSAHA site. If your tournament is not listed and

you wish to do so, please email us at [email protected] or [email protected]

Buffalo Stars Tryouts 2014-15

Monday, March 10 @ Holiday7:30 p.m. Squirt Minor (2005) & Squirt Major (2004)8:30 p.m. Peewee Minor (2003) & Peewee Major (2002)

Tuesday, March 11 @ Hyde Park6:45 p.m. Mite (2006-07) & Squirt Minor (2005)7:45 p.m. Peewee Major (2002)

Wednesday, March 12 @ Holiday5:45 p.m. Mite (2006-07) & Squirt Major (2004)6:45 p.m. Peewee Minor (2003) & Peewee Tier 3

All participants must present a release from their current organi-zation in order to participate in the tryout. Release required even from House League.Tryout fee: $15 per session -- Coaches will be announced Feb. 15

Contact: [email protected] Information: Pete Preteroti, 685-1122

or online at www.buffalostars.com


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FEBRUARY TOURNAMENT RESULTSNiagara Falls (NY) President’s Day Tournament 2014Hyde Park ArenaTeams participating from NY, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Tennessee and Canada.

Squirt MinorChampions:MiltonWinterhawks

Squirt MixedColumbus5-1overNiagaraJuniorPurpleEagles.TogettothefinalsNJPEbeatMt.LebanonHornets3-0 and Olean Arrows 8-0 and had a 4-1 loss to Co-lumbus.

Squirt MajorLancaster Firebirds 3-0 over West SenecaWet Seneca tied Lancaster in game 1; beat Strongs-ville 4-0 and Artic Foxes 6-2.

Pee Wee MinorMiltonbeatOleanArrows5-1.Olean beat Lincoln Blades 6-1; Lancaster 4-3 and Gilmore Sabres 8-1 to get to championship.Clifton Park went 0-2-1 in the tournament.

Pee Wee MixedNorth Bay Trappers beat Canandaigua 1-0 in Cham-pionship.Olean beat West Seneca 4-2; lost to North Bay 4-0.Canandaiguawent5-2overTeamComcast,7-3overLancaster,4-3overOleanand5-1overWestSenecatogettofinals.West Seneca lost to North Bay (4-2) and Olean (4-2).

Pee Wee MajorNashville over Milton 3-1 for the Championship.

Bantam Minor ISteel City beat Strongsville 4-3 for the Championship.Southtown Stars had two losses and a tie.

Bantam Minor 2Niagara County Coyotes beat Columbus 8-1 for the Championship.EarliertheCoyoteslost5-4totheTonawandaLight-ning and had a 9-0 win over the Reston Raiders.The Tonawanda Lightning lost 0-1 to Columbus and beat the Reston Raiders 4-1.

Bantam MixedOakevillebeatAmherst5-0totaketheChampionship.Amherst beat Strongsville and the Southtown Stars, tiedtheWheatfieldBladesheadingintothechampion-ship round.The Niagara Junior Purple Eagles lost their three games against Lancaster, Oakeville and Clarence.Clarence beat the Purple Eagles, lost to Lancaster and tied Oakeville.TheWheatfieldBlades tied hometown rivalsSouth-towns Stars and Amherst, both 3-3 and then beat Strongsville 1-0.The Southtowns Stars tied the Blades, lost to Amherst and beat Strongsville.

Midget 16UThe Buffalo Stars beat Southpoints 7-1. They alsohad a 10-2 win over Prince William Hockey.(There was no champion listed on the scoresheet)

Niagara Falls will host the Niagara Falls Champion-ship Cup on March 14-16 at Hyde Park Arena.

www.nyhockeyonline.com NYS Tournaments /


www.nyhockeyonline.com NYS Hockey /

Snowbelt JAM Tournament Results(as of February 23)

2014 John Abbott Memorial (JAM) TournamentMidget at Elmira

Teams:Elmira,Camillus1,Ithaca,Auburn,Camilius2and Salmon River

Elmira 11 and Ithaca 2; Camillus 2, 4 and Salmon Riv-er0toheadintothefinals.Final:Elmira3overCamillus23-1fortheChampion-ship

Teams: Binghamton, Corning, Onondaga, Oswegoand LysanderOnondaga 4, Corning 3; Lysander 2, Binghamton 9Final: Binghamton shut out Onondaga 9-0 for theChampionship

Whitestown TournamentFebruary 14-16

DivisionAChampions:WhitestownDivisonASecondPlace:NewHartford

DivisionBChampions:OswegoGreatLakesDivisionBSecondPlace:ValleyHockey

DivisionCChampions:CorningDivisionCSecondPlace:LakeCityPolice

2014 Robert Esche Squirt TournamentTeams: Whitestown Wolfpack, Bethlehem Eagles,Ithaca Bears, Valley Eagles, Binghamton Jr. Ice-men, Saratoga Blue Knights, Schenectady Chargers, North Franklin Shamrocks, Camillus Cougars, Canton Bears, Leitrim Hawks,

SquirtAChampions:LeitrimHawksSquirtAFinalist:NorthFranklinShamrocks

SquirtBChampions:SchenectadyChargersSquirtBFinalist:IthacaBears

SquirtCChampions:CantonBearsSquirtCFinalist:BinghamtonJr.Icemen

Most Valuable Player Awards (by team)

Whitestown Wolfpack: Carter Urbanke, Aidan El-brecht, Ethan Vernold, Trent Dowd, Kristian Matthews, Eric Suprunchik, Trevor Nelson, Michael Calcagnino

BethlehemEagles:NicholasDemarco,CharlieSpol-len, Luke Napierski, Charles Mulligan, Michael Losav-io, Robert Hazaz, Matthew Witkop, Josh Lotlow

Ithaca Bears: Tyler Kirk, Timmy Kiely, BrettWilcox,Shea Baker

ValleyEagles:EvanCarter,AndrewHeyman,Cam-eron Walsh, Thomas Rioux

Binghamton: Domenico DeRigo, Logan Ciganek,Cameron Fuller, Colin Perney

Saratoga:MacConnor,JuliaAmodio,ShifanShaffe,Timothy Robinson

Schenectady:KevinDefelippo,BeauPotter,KyleKris-tel, Connor Rafferty, Andrew Hastings, Nicholas Pike, Nathan Dominikoski, Anthony Zaccaria

North Franklin: Connor Lewis, Chase Lewis, JaredShowen, Gavin Avery

Camillus Cougars: Holden Phillips, Logan Granato,Trenton Procopio, Jack Mellen

CantonBears:JoshuaAldous,KennethGriswold,An-drew Johnson, Tanner Hazelton,

LeitrimHawks:CorbinDimmell,FranciscoSanchez,Samuel Millette, Brooke Dodd


www.nyhockeyonline.com Women’s College Playoffs /

(As we know them as press time 2/23/14)

2014 ECAC Quarterfinals(bestofthree)No. 8 Dartmouth vs No. 1 ClarksonFriday,February28,3:30p.m.Saturday,March1,3:30p.m.Sunday, March 2, 2 p.m if necessary

No.7YaleatNo.2HarvardFriday,Feb.28,7p.m.Saturday, Mar. 1, 4 p.m.Sunday, Mar. 2, 4 p.m. if necessary

No. 6 Princeton at No. 3 CornellFriday,Feb.28,3:30p.m.Saturday, March 1, 2 p.m.Sunday, March 2, 2 p.m. if necessary

No.5St.LawrenceatNo.4QuinnipiacFriday,Feb.28,7p.m.Saturday, March 1, 4 p.m.Sunday, March 2, 2 p.m. if necessary

Semi-Finals, site will be on campus of highest remain-ingseedafterquarterfinals)Saturday, March 8, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Championship GameSunday, March 9 at 1 p.m.

ECAC West ChampionshipsSaturday, March 1#3OswegoStatevs#6BuffaloatOswego,3p.m.

Sunday, March 2#4Uticavs#5PotsdamatUticaMemorialAuditorium,Noon

Semi-FinalsSaturday, March 8#1PlattsburghvsLowestRemainingSeedatPlatts-bughHighestRemainingSeedvs#2ElmiraatElmiraChampionshipsSunday, March 9 at 3 p.m.

College Hockey America (CHA) Championships

First Round

Friday, February 28-Sunday, March 2at Campus sites#6PennStateat#3RIT,Fridayat7:05p.m.;Saturdayat2:05p.m.andSundayat2:05p.m.ifnecessary.

#4Lindenwoodat#4SyracuseFridayat7p.m.;Saturdayat2p.m.Sundayifneces-sary.

NESCAC Final Seedings

#1Middleburgy#2Amherst#3Williams#4Bowdoin#5Weslyan#6Trinity#7Colby

#8ConnecticutCollege#9Hamilton

QuarterfinalsbeingheldMarch1Semi-finalsandFinalonMarch8and9Games played at highest seeded college.

Women’s College Play-offs

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