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Photo Credit: David Herman

 

SYRACUSE, NY – The Eastern States Collegiate Hockey League has announced the end of the season awards for the 2021-22 season. Stony Brook’s Brendan Pepe has won the ESCHL Player of the Year, Rhode Island’s Curits Briggs has won Rookie of the Year, and Rhode Island’s Joe Augustine has been named the conference Coach of the Year. These awards are voted on by the six head coaches in the conference. 

Brendan Pepe finished 5th in the nation in scoring amongst defenseman – recording 11 goals and 19 assists in 30 games played. The 5th year senior captained his Seawolves to ESCHL regular season championship finishing 13-3-1 in conference play and 19-6-2 overall. The Essex Fells, NJ native also won the ESCHL Player of the Month award in October.

 Curtis Briggs finished his 2021-22 campaign with 2.62 goals against average with a .920 save percentage. Briggs also led all ESCHL goaltenders with 3 shutouts. The first year netminder from Foster, RI also recorded 14 wins in 25 games played. Briggs won ESCHL Player of the Month honors for the month of November.

 Joe Augustine finished up his 32nd regular season as Head Coach of Rhode Island with a 6-2 win over Lehigh last weekend. Augustine led the Rams to 12-6-0 ESCHL conference record – finishing in 3rd place in the standings just 1 point behind the University of Delaware. URI has also been ranked in the top 25 in the country for most of the season and currently sit at #22.

The ESCHL has also announced the All-Conference team recognition and the All-Conference Rookie Team. Here is the complete list of all the ESCHL award winners.

 

ESCHL Player of the Year

#22 Brendan Pepe | Stony Brook University

ESCHL Rookie of the Year

#30 Curtis Briggs | University of Rhode Island

ESCHL Coach of the Year

Joe Augustine | University of Rhode Island

 

All-Conference Team

Forward | #11 Charles Peck | Stony Brook University

Forward | #88 Joseph Slevin | Stony Brook University

Forward | #37 Gavin Hulser | University of Delaware

Defenseman | #22 Brendan Pepe | Stony Brook University

Defenseman | #10 Nick Urbani | Drexel University

Goaltender | #30 Curtis Briggs | University of Rhode Island

 

All-Conference Rookie Team

Forward | #22 Ryan Rodrigues | University of Delaware

Forward | #29 Ryan Sambuco | Drexel University

Forward | #26 Sam Hutchinson | Syracuse University

Defenseman | #6 Andrew Mancini | Stony Brook University

Defenseman | #17 Jonathan Shaw | University of Rhode Island

Goaltender | #30 Curtis Briggs | University of Rhode Island