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Former Rhino Jendras goes D-1
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The El Paso Rhinos are proud to announce the first Rhino player to commit to a Division 1 University.
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Rhinos defeat Polar Bears, 5-4
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It was fitting that the Western States Hockey League Showcase came down to this. On the event’s last day in the Alamo City, the El Paso Rhinos made their stand and their statement to the rest of the league, edging the Phoenix Polar Bears, 5-4, to get their first-ever win against the defending league champions.
El Paso goes 3-0 in the annual get-together between the WSHL’s Mid-West Division, paced by the Rhinos who improve to 28-0-2 and 58 points, and the Western Division, led by the Polar Bears – still owners of the league’s best record at 31-2-0 and 62 points by virtue of having played three more games than El Paso.
Though it is not nearly as high-flying as last season’s inaugural Rhinos team, head coach Cory Herman recruited players who are more physical. The record speaks for itself. Through 30 games last season, El Paso had already lost five games. This season’s Rhinos are on a 13-game win streak and have earned at least a point in every contest this season with no out-and-out losses thus far.
The win against the champs did not come without a fight. Phoenix struck first as Derek Chubinsky beat El Paso goaltender Arthur Hollinger at 7:10 of the first period. But the Rhinos’ Eric LaBounty equalized less than 90 seconds later, assisted by Alec Sherman and Costi Hinn; the first of a three-goal run that gave El Paso a 3-1 lead by the first intermission.
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El Paso End Emotional Weekend With a 10-0 Win
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The El Paso Rhinos registered another double-digit win, shutting out the Dallas Hawks in the last home game of 2007, 10-0.
Nine different Rhinos scored goals in the win, giving El Paso a 25-0-2 record and 52 points. The Rhinos have opened up an eight-point lead on second place Tulsa in the Western States Hockey League’s Mid-West Division, and they continue to polish a young but growing legacy.
Though there aren’t nearly as many individual Rhinos at the top of the Western States Hockey League’s leading scorers list as there were this time last year, last season’s team already had five losses through 27 games. El Paso has taken at least a point from every game they’ve played thus far this season.
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Pink Onslaught Proves Too Much for Hawks
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On a night when real men wore pink, the El Paso Rhinos earned their 50th points of the season in fine fashion, rocking the Dallas Hawks, 14-1, to improve to 24-0-2 on the season.
The Rhinos auctioned off their special pink jerseys at the end of the game to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. As well as they did Saturday night, the players may have wanted to keep them hanging in their lockers.
There were many notable statistics from the game. El Paso outshot the Hawks, 75-5. The Rhinos went 4-for-5 on the power play to improve their success rate to over 25 percent.
Individually, for the second straight night Hayden Kowalski started and ended the scoring, and for the third time in four games the second-year winger out of Highlands Ranch, CO, notched a hat trick; although, Saturday night, Kowalski wasn’t alone. Marcus Wilhite also got a hat trick with two goals in the first and one in the second.
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