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Thursday, February 7, 2013

'Unprovoked Attack' Lands PJP2 Grad in Prison

Former hockey star jailed for attacking his WCU roommate.

The former captain to the Pope John Paul II High School's hockey team will be spending his summer in prison, according to the Pottstown Mercury. Zachery Russell, 20, of Gilbertsville, was sentenced to three to 23 months in Chester County prison for attacking his West Chester University roommate. Russell attacked the roommate when he found out he'd reported his drug and alcohol use to school authorities, said the report. "This was an all-out, unprovoked attack," said Deputy District Attorney Michelle Frei, describing what happened in the Brandywine Hall dormitory at WCU last April to the Mercury. "It was not a one-punch case." For the full story, visit this Pottstown Mercury story.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

High School Ice Hockey: Vikings Eliminate Knights

Ches-Mont League Playoffs: Perkiomen Valley 3, Bayard Rustin 1

Generally speaking, ice hockey is a sport that requires a short memory. If a player makes a mistake on a shift, he needs to forget about it and attack even more aggressively on the next one. Noting that, it would have been nearly impossible for the Vikings to look across the ice Monday night at No. 1 seed West Chester Bayard Rustin and not pull up the memory of the season-ending loss suffered at the hands of the Knights in last year’s Flyers Cup semifinals. In an interesting strategy, Vikings head coach Robert Nielson chose to embrace the agony that his club endured last season and use it as fuel to motivate his underdog squad. “I told them in the locker room before the game that they could beat this team,” said a jubilant Nielson after …

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