{"id":136473,"date":"2026-01-16T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/136473\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:12:10","slug":"second-ranked-detroit-catholic-central-gets-everyone-involved-in-8-0-win-over-warriors-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/136473\/","title":{"rendered":"Second-ranked Detroit Catholic Central gets everyone involved in 8-0 win over Warriors \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROYAL OAK \u2013 The Detroit Catholic Central Shamrocks got eight goals from as many different players and routed Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice 8-0 Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The score stayed close for most of the first two periods. The Shamrocks led just 3-0 with three minutes to play in the second period. But then a couple of deflections 20 seconds apart made it a 5-0 game and things started to unravel on the Warriors.<\/p>\n

Catholic Central dominated the game from start to finish. Its forecheck and depth were relentless; and while Brother Rice had flashes of offense, the game was largely played in the Warriors\u2019 defensive end.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very pleased. I like the way we played. I like the plays we made,\u201d Shamrocks head coach Brandon Kaleniecki said. \u201cI thought we were very hungry on the puck. The forecheck was really crucial in terms of taking away time and space and giving us opportunity to play in the offensive zone, which is where we want to be. Every team wants to be in the offensive. The game is a lot of fun when you can do that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Still, goalie Drake England kept Brother Rice hanging around on the scoreboard most of the night. England turned in an outstanding performance, stopping 54 shots, including 40 of the first 43 shots he saw. But eventually, the Shamrocks just had too many shots from point-blank range and pucks started finding the net late in the second period, a trend that continued after the last intermission.<\/p>\n

\"HockeyBloomfield Hills Brother Rice goalie Drake England (35) makes the save on Detroit Catholic Central’s Jacob Ryner (26) during Thursday’s 8-0 victory by the Shamrocks. (KEN SWART – For MediaNews Group)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (England) played really, really well. I thought we were hanging in there pretty good in the second period and then they got a couple bounces, one deflection out in front and then one from behind the net, and that sort of broke us there I think, because it started going downhill at that point,\u201d Warriors head coach Kenny Chaput said.<\/p>\n

Photo gallery of No. 2 Detroit Catholic Central vs. Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice in MIHL North hockey action<\/a><\/p>\n

Sean Goff, Nicholas McQuaid, Luke Perdue, Myles Schlack, Elian Szerlip, Lucas Szmagaj, Dominic Testani, and Gabe Thompson all scored for Catholic Central, while Ryan Dye and Jackson Leiter each had two assists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the story of our team,\u201d Kaleniecki said. \u201cIt\u2019s good to see you have goals coming from all different angles, all different guys, all four lines. With our team this year, we kind of have to be that way; and I think that makes us the type of team that we can be successful with,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

As displayed by Thursday’s performance, the goalscoring has been well-distributed this season for Kaleniecki’s side. No one has hit double-digits yet, though Szmagaj and Thompson are now one away. Dye leads the team in both assists (18) and points (25), while Goff and Sam Masek have 11 and 12 assists, respectively.<\/p>\n

Maxxon Sulla, who has split time between the posts this season with Nicholas Kogut, earned the shutout against the Warriors.<\/p>\n

Detroit Catholic Central improves to 15-1-1 as it chases yet another state title. The Shamrocks have been a bit less dominant in the regular season than in the last two years, but Catholic Central are still ranked second in the state and should be among the favorites to add another trophy to the case when the state playoffs finish in Plymouth this March.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, the record is what it is. We try not to dwell on it when it\u2019s going well or when it\u2019s not. Whether we\u2019ve got a couple more losses or not in our pocket before the end of this year, it\u2019s really about just getting to the point where we really like the team that we are and what we\u2019re capable of when it comes time to play in the playoffs,\u201d Kaleniecki said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Shamrocks still have work to do to claim another league title, leading the Michigan Interscholastic Hockey League North Division by just one game over Cranbrook. Detroit Catholic Central is 6-0 in league play and hosts Clarkston in a non-league match up this Saturday before traveling to Trenton next Wednesday for their next MIHL game.<\/p>\n

Brother Rice is 4-15. The Warriors will face Orchard Lake St. Mary\u2019s next Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROYAL OAK \u2013 The Detroit Catholic Central Shamrocks got eight goals from as many different players and routed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4599,2044,181,795,13448,143,904,145,144,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-136473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-bloomfield-hills","9":"tag-high-school-sports","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-michigan","12":"tag-novi","13":"tag-oakland","14":"tag-oakland-county","15":"tag-oakland-headlines","16":"tag-oakland-news","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}