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DM Public caps rookie season with state titleBy DOUG NEWHOFF Sports WriterOnly one of Des Moines Public’s two wishes came true as the 9th state high school hockey tournament ended Sunday, but it was the most importantwish of a team new to championshiphoopla.Public capped a 19-1 record seasonwith its first state championship,coasting past Urbandale 10-2 atMcElroy Auditorium Sunday afternoon.If getting that first title was sweet,. getting it with a first-year team and a first-year coach was sweeter,Public was the Ho over-Roosevelt team last year, but consolidated again to form the present team and took on Geoff Willson as coach.Nothing could be better, said Willson. This is great. I am surprised we ended the season with just the one loss, but I had, so much talent to work with-..The only thing that could have been sweeter was if Public would have drawn the defending champion Waterloo Warriors in the final, according to Willson.We would like to have had Waterloo Public, he said. It, would be a lot more special if we could beat them here to win it. ”THE WARRIORS dealt Des Moines its only loss this season, a 5-4 setback during the regular Iowa High School Hockey League season, and their absence from Sunday's title game marked the first time a Waterloo team has not competed for the championship in history.It is also iust the seennrf ti m a ever1983-84 All-state team IGOALTENDERS IJohn Rosenfeld (Mason City!. Man | I Haws (DM Public), Scott Oelasr (Val- I I ley-Oowling). II DEFENSEMEN I| John Moulton (Vall-Dowllna), David I I City), Matt Mafous II (Waterloo), Steve Hansen (DM Public), II Mike Laird (DM Public), Ed Wilson I I (Waterloo), II FORWARDS II Jim Webb (DM Public), Jim Hayes II (Waterloo), Troy Johnson (Urbandale), II (DM Public), Tany Ralph II (DM Public), Brian Cook (Waterloo), II Rlchr Lohg (Columbus), Richard I I Moulton (VaH-Dowling), Steve Cook I I (Ames). II HONORABLE MENTION II ^ Warrlorsr Brad Nielsen, Paul Nelson, I fl Robbie Brown, Columbus: Jon Jasper, I I Joel Jasper, II COACH OF YEAR II Noel Erickson (Ames). Igoals in three games, and was led bytournament MVP Jim Webb, who hadone of two Public hat tricks in Sunday’s victory. Webb had a five-goalgame Friday in the opening round.Urbandale’s path to the championship included an emotional 7-5 first-round win when the Jayhawks scored four times in the final two minutes and a dramatic 9-8 win overthe Warriors in the semifinals Saturday.MIKE LAIRD was the big gun for Des Moines Sunday with a four-goatperformance.Public led 3-0 after one period and 4-0 before Urbandale got on the scoreboard early in the second period. Short-handed goals by A1 Driscoll and Webb later in the period virtually sewed up the title.Urbandale cut the lead to 6-2 with aana 1 Tn f 4-L. - iL * Jbut Des Moines made the Jayhawks pay with their only power play goal.Public had six selections to the all-state team and will lose just five players from the current team to graduation. Urbandale’s only allstater was Troy Johnson, who scored one of the two goals Sunday.Warriors 7, Ames 4Waterloo’s win in the third-place game was highlighted by a standoutperformance by a freshman goal-tender.Tony Marchese stepped in when regular Brad Nielsen failed to show up to play and turned in a masterful effort. Nielsen elected to watch the game from the stands.Tony played a heck of a game,”said Warriors Coach Dave Swick. Hekind of surprised me. It was his first big-game experience.Marchese had not started a varsity game this season and saw only brief varsity action, that coming during a two-game series against Shattuck Academy of Minnesota.“We were watching him in warmups the other night against Columbus and I had to turn to Terry (assistant coach Hoath) and ask if he was seeing what I was seeing, Tony was kicking and catching everything, Swick added.With backup Paul Nelson oncrutches with a sprained ankle, Marchese got the call Sunday and he met the challenge, making 23 savesand checking Ames on just one goal as the Warriors took a 6-1 lead midway through the third period. Then a team-. mate got him in trouble.
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