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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Ice Hockey update

* Sorry for the delay on this post, I actually wrote it yesterday, but have been having difficulty getting things to post for some reason.

With all of the wrestling and boys basketball news happening lately, I've neglected the E-town ice hockey team, which is in the midst of a fantastic season.

The Bears have locked up first place for the Tier 2 Lancaster-Lebanon-Berks division of the CPIHL, with a 14-2-1 record with one regular season game remaining. E-town is two games ahead of Garden Spot, who is 12-4-1. The Bears will play Ephrata (2-14-1) tonight at Lancaster Ice Rink, while the Spartans wrap up with Cocalico (2-13-2) tonight at Body Zone.

The CPIHL is doing something a little different this year, so the first and second-place teams in the LLB division will have a one-game division championship game after the season is over. While it's not set in stone just yet, all signs point to the Bears playing Garden Spot in that game. E-town has clinched a spot in the game, and Garden Spot will clinch with a win tonight. But Annville Cleona (11-4-2) could theoretically sneak in ahead of the Spartans if GS loses or ties. But I don't see that happening.

The Bears are in the midst of a five-game winning streak. They beat Garden Spot both times they played them this year, winning 7-1 back on Dec. 14 and 4-3 on Jan. 14. E-town also swept A-C, beating them 11-1 and 9-2. So far this season, E-town has scored 118 goals in just 17 games and has allowed a paltry 49.

E-town has seven player in double digit in points so far this season, led by Zach Lokey's 36 goals and 28 assists. Brian Milici is also having a fantastic season with 22 goals and 26 assists. Here are the rest of E-town's top point-scorers:
Dillon Filepas, 14 G, 12 A
Thomas Dombrosky, 10, 13
Josh Carter 12, 9
Michael VanHorn, 6, 13
Derek hallett 5, 8.

In goal, Steven Dombrosky and Harry Rhodes have split time and both have done well.

Dombrosky is 7-2 with a save percentage of 89 and a goals allowed average of 2.67.

Rhodes is 7-0-1 with a save percentage of 82 and a goals allowed average of 3.13.

It looks like the LLB championship game will be Wednesday night, also at Lancaster Ice Rink. It will, unfortunately, end too late to make next week's print edition of the Chronicle, but I'll cover the game and put it on the blog and on our Web site.

Playoff brackets have not been set yet, but once they are, I'll post them here.

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