COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Justin Johnston scored a career-high four goals Saturday afternoon and Regis won its second straight Colorado state high school ice hockey championship with a 7-2 victory over Lewis-Palmer at World Arena.
The Denver-area private school won its 36th consecutive game dating to early last season.
“Thirty-six in a row is pretty amazing,” Regis coach Dan Woodley said. “Lewis-Palmer matched our intensity in the first period so we asked our seniors to step it up in the second period, and they did. It’s been very important for this team to repeat.”
Regis is the first team to win back-to-back titles since Colorado-Springs school Cheyenne Mountain did it in 1996-97.
Johnston scored two of his teams’ three goals in the final nine minutes of the second period, turning a 1-1 tie into a 4-1 advantage.
“We got on a roll and everything started going in,” Johnston said. “My teammates set everything up.”
Johnston’s third goal with 11:40 to play made it 5-1, negating any hope of a rally by Lewis-Palmer, a school from Monument.
“There was a real talent differential out there,” Lewis-Palmer coach Steve Fillo said. “We were overachievers this year.”
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