UNH Recruits Update: Jan-6-2015

2016 UNH Recruit
Justin Fregona

Player Spotlight - Justin Fregona

Although Canada has relatively few prep school hockey programs, as compared to the United States, one has emerged as a top prep team on both sides of the border. Over the last decade, St. Andrew's College, a university-preparatory school in Aurora, Ontario, won six championship titles in the Midwest Prep Hockey League. For three years in a row, St. Andrew's has defeated prep teams from New England and New York en route to winning the St. Sebastian's Holiday Hockey Tournament outside of Boston.

Last year, St. Andrew's travelled to Minnesota to play a weekend series against Shattuck-St. Mary's, one of the premiere prep hockey programs in the US. Although they lost both games, the first was a tight 5-4 battle. In late February, Shattuck-St. Mary's will travel to St. Andrew's for a pair of games in the brand new, La Brier Family Arena.

At the St. Sebastian's Holiday Tournament the weekend before Christmas, St. Andrew's senior Justin Fregona and the Saints defeated Williston-Northampton, Thayer Academy, and St. Sebastian's. Fregona scored a hat trick in the 6-2 win over Williston, including the game-winning goal. Over the three games, Fregona posted 4 goals and 2 assists.

This past weekend, St. Andrew's played two more New England Prep School teams in the New Hampshire Showcase at UNH's Whittemore Center. In a 6-1 win over the New Hampton School on Saturday, Justin Fregona posted 2 goals and 3 assists, including the game-winning assist. In the Sunday matchup against Proctor Academy, St. Andrew's lost in overtime 3-4. Although, Fregona did not score, he was the Saints' starting right winger as well as a prime player on the penalty kill and power play units. Here are some highlights of his play in the offensive zone:





Justin Fregona is now the leading scorer on the St. Andrew's squad. In 28 games, Fregona has scored 22 goals and added 17 assists. He is also the leading scorer in the Conference of Independent Schools Athletic Association (CISAA), a league of 4 Ontario-based prep schools plus one from Buffalo. Current UNH freshman Warren Foegele was the leading scorer in the CISAA last season when he posted 23 points in 14 games with St. Andrew's. Fregona and the Saints return to CISAA action when they play St. Michael's College this Saturday.

NOTE
The statistics for the recruits, presented in the table, are categorized by the year the player and UNH coaches have targeted for enrollment in UNH. For example, the "2015 Recruits" have a target of the Fall of 2015 to begin playing for UNH.

Player	Team	League	GP	Goals	Asst	Pts	PIM
2015 Recruits
Jason Kalinowski  (F)	Bloomington Thunder	USHL	17	0	2	2	30
	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders	USHL	5	0	0	0	4
Joseph Masonius  (D)	USA U18 Team	NCAA	15	5	5	10	14
		USHL	9	0	3	3	18
		NAHL	1	0	0	0	0
		Int'l.	4	0	1	1	14
Christopher Miller  (F)	Junior Bruins	USPHL	15	3	4	7	6
2015 or '16 Recruits
Liam Blackburn  (F)	West Kelowna Warriors	BCHL	39	14	38	52	22
Liam Darcy  (D)	Berwick Academy	NEPSHC	10	1	3	4	-
	Islanders Hockey Club 18U	USPHL 18U	4	0	0	0	0
Patrick Grasso  (F)	Des Moines Bucs	USHL	30	7	12	19	8
Ara Nazarian  (F)	Des Moines Bucs	USHL	30	4	8	12	8
Nick Nonis  (D)	Powell River Kings	BCHL	40	0	3	3	32
Brendan van Riemsdyk   (F)	Islanders Hockey Club	USPHL	29	18	7	25	44
Marcus Vela  (F)	Langley Rivermen	BCHL	31	5	22	27	34
2016 Recruits
Joey Cipollone  (F)	Selects Academy 18U	USPHL 18U	10	5	11	16	6
		Non-League	6	2	4	6	-
Justin Fregona  (F)	St. Andrews College	CISAA	5	4	1	5	4
		Non-Conf	23	18	16	34	20
Charlie Kelleher  (F)	Junior Bruins	USPHL	21	8	14	22	8
Aaron O'Neill  (F)	Green Bay Gamblers	USHL	16	0	1	1	4
Jake Ryczek  (D)	Sioux City Musketeers	USHL	30	2	4	6	6
2017 Recruits
Mike Robinson  (G)	Lawrence Academy	NEPSHC	10	2W	7L/1T	3.30	.907
	Boston Jr Rangers	EHL	8	4W	4L	2.35	.937
2017 or '18 Recruits
Eric Esposito  (F)	Loomis Chaffee	NEPSHC	9	4	8	12	-
	CT Wolfpack U16 Split	CT HC	34	17	15	32	44
Jason O'Neill  (F)	Skipjacks Hockey Club 18U	USPHL 18U	15	10	10	20	21
		Non-League	5	4	2	6	-
2018 Recruits
Joel Farabee  (F)	Selects Academy 16U	USPHL 16U	12	3	10	13	6

News & Notes

US National Team Development Program:

~ 2015 UNH recruit Joseph Masonius and the NTDP U18 team have played 4 games against NCAA teams since Christmas. They tied Colorado College 4-4 on Dec. 27th but lost to them 4-8 the next night. Masonius scored a goal in the second CC game. On New Years Eve, the U18's beat Division III Adrian College 6-1 in an outdoor game in Toledo and Masonius scored a goal and an assist. North Dakota downed the NTDP 7-2 on Saturday. Joseph Masonius will play in the USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game on January 13th. Current UNH freshman Shane Eiserman played in this game last winter.

British Columbia Hockey League:

~ 2015 or '16 UNH recruit Liam Blackburn was recently featured in an interview on CKPG-TV from Prince George, British Columbia. Blackburn talks about his career in the BCHL and his commitment to UNH.

New England Prep School Hockey:

~ 2017 or '18 recruit Eric Esposito and the Loomis-Chaffee School have maintained their undefeated record. They are currently 9-0-0 and were ranked #1 in the most recent US Hockey Report Prep Hockey Poll. The sophomore Esposito continues to be the second leading scorer on the Loomis-Chaffee squad with 4 goals and 8 assists in 9 games.