IHAAZ roller stars readying for May State Finals

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Matthew Boelts two goals and Cole Genhart one. Luke Freeman tacked on a pair of assists and Jackson Gebhart turned aside eight shots in goal. For the Outlaws, Jackson McCutcheon scored two goals, Daniel Madia and Sam Borzone one each, and Keegan Tinsdale finished with 16 saves between the pipes.

Round robin action saw Eli Shulman of the Serial Grillers post 10 goals and 13 points, while the Peoria Desert Scorpions’ Kade Pareja tally six assists. For the goalies, Tinsdale had three wins and the Yetis’ Dallin McShane recorded a 2.00 GAA and a .882 save percentage.

18U Silver

The Cereal Killers rallied from a 4-2 deficit late in regulation to beat the Black Magic 5-4 in overtime as Brody Payne won it with 11:20 to go in OT.

Payne also notched an assist for a multi-point game, Austin McPherson had a goal and an assist, and Nick Wolf, Caden Shafer and Cooper O’Mahoney all scored to back Connor Blondel’s 16-save effort in goal. Ashton Sherstobitoff had a goal and an assist for the Black Magic and Braden Hordichuk, Gavin Fine and Cade Savoini all scored one each. Everett Payie finished with 12 saves between the pipes. During round robin play, Payne had six assists and nine points, while the Cereal Killers’ Brady Ishu posted five goals. Blondel was the top netminder with three wins, a 1.50 GAA, .920 save percentage and one shutout.

Up next is IHAAZ State Finals, held May 6-7 and then May 20-21, at The Wheelhouse in Prescott

Valley.

“Each season, we attempt to pick a weekend for State Finals that we hope won’t fall on one of the 3-4 ice hockey tryout weekends that get used each summer,” Boyarsky said. “When we originally set our State Finals dates for 2023, we did so blindly as these tryout dates are never announced until the tail end of the previous ice hockey season. The result of the dates for this year’s tryouts have forced us to split our weekends for State Finals into two, or risk multiple teams not being able to attend, preventing us from even holding some age groups.

“The easiest path was to hold our younger divisions (8U, 10U, 12U) earlier in May when the older age group ice tryouts are, and run our older divisions (14U and 18U) on the original dates as they are during the younger division ice hockey tryouts.”