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22 NEW YORK HOCKEY JOURNAL April 2020 Subscribe today at NYHockeyJournal.com/subscribe and bounced back by winning its next seven games (not including the champi- onship game) by a score of 23-2. After speaking with the players in the locker room, Gojdycz said he looked at his assistant coaches and said, "It takes one. We need one, and the floodgates will open." Less than two minutes into the third period, C.J. Cummings scored the first of four third-period goals to help CBA come from behind and win the champi- onship, 4-1. Additional goals were scored by Zach Wagnon, Kyle Contessa and Gio Crepaldi. Colts goalie John Dono- hoe recorded 20 saves for the win. Watching his team celebrate after the final buzzer, Gojdycz was nothing but proud of his players. "They never wavered in what they wanted," he said. "I talked to many pa- pers and reporters and said, 'You need to talk to my guys. This is their time.' They truly deserved to win the season with that third check box, and they got the job done. I'm glad to be able to call them my team and be their coach." Public A: Morris Knolls repeats The beginning of the season did not go as planned for 2018-19 Public A champion Morris Knolls. The team was winless in four of its first six games. The cliché, however, is that it's not how you start the season but how you end it, and Morris Knolls ended strong. The team won 10 of its final 11 games of the season, including a 3-2 overtime victory over Montclair in the NJSIAA Public A final round in order to repeat as champions. "Our team was playing hard and I knew that we had it in us to win," fresh- man goalie Elliot Marken said in an in- terview on NJ.com. "The second it went to overtime, I knew we were going to kill off the penalty and we were going to score. You could just feel it in the locker room, and everybody had energy." In the finale, Marken made 26 saves and junior Jason Kwestel scored two goals, including the tip-in winner in the extra session, deflecting a shot from Dylan Idland. Public B: Zangara lifts Randolph For multiple years, Randolph has been the top seed come tournament time. Unfortunately for the Rams, they had fallen short each time. The success- ful program had not won the champion- ship since 2015. In 2020, Randolph was the top seed and again in the championship game, this time a rematch of the 2019 final against Ridge. The title was again in doubt, as third-seeded Ridge scored two goals in the final three minutes of regu- lation to send the game into overtime. Before the extra period, Randolph head coach Richard McLaughlin told his players they were in control for 42 min- utes and couldn't let the opportunity for a championship slip past them because of a bad three-minute stretch. They listened, as senior J.T. Zangara completed his hat trick, scoring the game- winner off assists from Ben Yurchuk (his e HIGH SCHOOL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS '20 NEW JERSEY Continued from Page 21 Catalina Fragoso Morris Knolls goes into pile-on mode after defeating Montclair, 3-2, in OT to win the Public A title. Morris Knolls freshman goalie Elliot Marken Morris Knolls' Jason Kwestel netted two goals in the finale.

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