Benilde-St. Margaret's Boys' Hockey

The Benilde-St. Margaret's 2011-12 boys hockey season, which ended last Saturday with the program's first Class AA state championship, cmae to a close with the team's annual awards banquet, held at Jax Cafe in Minneapolis.

Following opening introduction, Red Knight junior varsity coach Chris McGowan handed out certificates to JV players and three individual awards.

The team's Most Improved Player Award went to Jack Sims, the Sportsmanship Award was given to Mikey Lamb and the Coaches' Award was presented to Tanner Ahlborn.

In the varsity portion of the program, North Suburban Conference Academic Awards were given to Alec Anderson and Jake Horton. Honorable mention all-conference honors went to Tyler Ellegard, Patrick Graham, Anders Jecha and Jonah Johnson while all-conference awards were bestowed upon Grant Besse, Christian Horn, Jake Horton, Dan Labosky, T.J. Moore and Jake O'Borsky.

The All Star Sport Academic Award, for the player with the highest grade point average on the varsity team, went to Ben Newhouse, who also earned the Andrew Alberts Most Improved Player Award.

Horton received the team's Hobey Baker Character Award, Anderson was named the Vic St. Martin Coaches' Award winner, Graham earned the team's Best Defenseman Award and Ellegard was honored with the team's Best Defensive Forward Award.

Leading scorer awards went to Besse (goals and points) and Labosky (assists) while Horton, Labosky and Moore were cited for joining BSM's 100-point club for their careers and Horn became the charter member of the team's 200-point club.

The banquet was highlighted by the introduction of Jack Jablonski. The team's Most Determined Player Award has been renamed for Jablonski and he was on hand to present the first Jack Jablonski Most Determined Player Award to Moore.