ADHSHL All-Star selections excite players
For a sixth year running, the Anaheim Ducks High School Hockey League is set to roll out the red carpet for its top players.
In what has become an exciting tradition for the players and their families, those to be selected to the league’s three All-Star games will get to play on the NHL ice sheet at the Honda Center.
The games, which consists of a senior game, a varsity game, and a junior varsity game, will be played at the Ducks’ home arena on Thursday, Jan. 26.
From its infancy, the league had to put measures in place to ensure that a greater number of kids could participate in the sport. That meant that non-pure teams were ushered in, or those teams made up of players that live within a particular region.
Most schools are not privileged to have their own hockey clubs, so non-pure teams such as the Newport-Mesa Ice Kings benefit the players that do not attend the select few schools.
Joseph Cianfrani, Solomon Sonenshine, Cole Bergstrom, Duke Hoey, Luke Miramadi, and Kevin Jolas play for Newport-Mesa, but they are all students at Corona del Mar High.
Cianfrani is a sophomore at CdM, and he has been having an exciting month. He was a second-team selection to the Daily Pilot Boys’ Cross-Country Dream Team. He has also been named to the ADHSHL Junior Varsity All-Star roster.
“Being able to play with the league’s best players, it’s going to be phenomenal,” Cianfrani said. “I didn’t make it last year, so it’s going to be a new experience. It’s going to be really fun.”
The center has eight goals and five assists in 11 games played. He has posted three multi-goal games, including his last contest against Los Alamitos.
As one who idolizes Pavel Datsyuk, the former shifty Red Wings center, Cianfrani had a goal that he won’t soon forget in Saturday’s game against the Griffins. It came right off of a face-off.
“I kind of tapped it between the other centerman’s legs,” he said. “Then, I just side-stepped around him. I shot it blindly at the net and scored a goal.”
All of the All-Star selections are being honored for a season’s worth of contributions, but some have been hotter than others lately. Put Edison JV defenseman Clay Bozanich on that list.
Bozanich scored a natural hat-trick in his team’s 4-2 victory over Capistrano United last weekend. He has scored at least one goal in each of his last four games. For the season, he has 12 goals and six assists.
LOCAL ADHSHL ALL-STAR SELECTIONS
Senior Game
Trevor Arsenault, Edison, Forward, No. 16
Jake Gealy, Edison, Forward, No. 14
Josh Marin, Huntington Beach, Goalie, No. 1
Varsity Game
Savannah Gutierrez, Edison, Goalie, No. 81
Cole Kennedy, Huntington Beach, Forward, No. 33
Ryan Osterkamp, Edison, Forward, No. 23
Junior Varsity Game
Joseph Cianfrani, Newport-Mesa, Forward, No. 4
Evan Osterkamp, Edison, Forward, No. 88
Clay Bozanich, Edison, Defense, No. 55
Aaron Parsons, Newport-Mesa, Defense, No. 37
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
Happening Friday
Los Amigos at Bolsa Grande, 5:30 p.m.: After having their 14-game winning streak snapped by Garden Grove on Wednesday night, the Lobos (14-2, 0-1) look to rebound against the Matadors (8-8, 0-1).
University at Corona del Mar, 5:30 p.m.: The Trojans (12-5, 2-0) have won six straight heading into Friday’s Pacific Coast League tilt with the Sea Kings.
Ocean View at Westminster, 6 p.m.: The Lions (8-8, 0-1) just had their 12-game Golden West League winning streak snapped by Segerstrom in their league opener. Ocean View (14-3, 1-0) has won seven in a row. Westminster has won the last four meetings.
WRESTLING
Marina earned eighth place as a team in the Juan Enriquez Memorial Tournament at John Glenn High with 143 points. Newport Harbor took 19th with 71 points.
John McCoy took second in the 145-pound division for the Vikings. He had three pins and a major before dropping the final to Mater Dei’s Devin Pacheco, 5-2.
Sailors junior Xander Moreno took sixth in the same division before bowing out with a lower body injury in the semifinals.
Mike McCoy (106s, 4th), Wyatt Been (170s, 4th), and Daniel Escamilla (285s, 8th) also medaled for Marina. DJ Van Oostendorp took fourth in the 182s for Newport Harbor…
Kainoa Suguitan (182s) and Cameron Gonzales (152s) medaled for Edison at the Esperanza Tournament. They placed fifth and sixth, respectively…
The Five Counties Tournament begins Friday and concludes Saturday on the campus of Fountain Valley High.
