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| In the second year of Iowa High School Hockey League, membership includes seven Division I teams and four in Division II. Division I teams play a 12-game schedule. |
| Des Moines Dowling Maroons wins its first regular-season championship. |
| Webster City exits the League. |
| Des Moines site of state hockey meet Mar. 9-12 PDF (Des Moines Tribune - Tuesday, February 14, 1978) |
 Des Moines hosted the Varsity year-end tournament March 9-12 at the Metro Ice Sports Arena.This season the year-end tournament begins with district playoffs in Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo, giving Division II teams the opportunity to qualify for the final eight tournament teams. Hockey preps open districts PDF (Des Moines Register - Thursday, March 2, 1978) |
VARSITY REGULAR-SEASON CO-CHAMPIONS
Waterloo Columbus Sailors (10W-2L-0T)
Des Moines Dowling Tigers (10W-2L-0T)
VARSITY TOURNAMENT CHAMPION
March 9-12, 1978 - Metro Ice Sports Arena
Championship Game: Waterloo Columbus Sailors 4, Sioux City Jr. Musketeers 2
Sailors 'persevere' for 3rd straight title 4-2 PDF
(Waterloo Courier - Monday, March 13, 1978)
VARSITY COACH-OF-THE-YEAR
Duke Dutkowski - Waterloo Columbus
VARSITY TOURNAMENT RESULTS |
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| District Qualifier Games | DISTRICT I - Sioux City #1DII-Ankeny at #3DI-Sioux City for two games. Game 1: Sioux City ?, Ankeny ?; Game 2: Sioux City 5, Ankeny 3 Both teams qualify. Team scoring most goals is top seed. DISTRICT II - Waterloo #2DII- Mason City 0 at #4DI-Waterloo Warriors 11 Mason City eliminated. #1DI-Waterloo Columbus 4, Waterloo Warriors 3 (OT) Both teams qualify. DISTRICT III - Des Moines #7DI-Urbandale over #3DII-Des Moines Lincoln Des Moines Lincoln eliminated. Urbandale 1, #2DI-Des Moines Dowling 8 Both teams qualify. DISTRICT IV - Des Moines #6DI-Des Moines Valley over #4DII-Ames Ames eliminated. Des Moines Valley 6, #5DI-Des Moines Hoover-Roosevelt 5 Both teams qualify. |
| Quarterfinals | #1District III-Des Moines Dowling 5, #2 District II-Waterloo Warriors 1 #1District I-Sioux City 4, #2District IV-Des Moines Hoover-Roosevelt 3 #1District II-Waterloo Columbus 9, #2District III-Urbandale 1 #1District IV-Des Moines Valley 10, #2District I-Ankeny 0 |
| Consolation Semifinals | Waterloo Warriors 3, Des Moines Hoover-Roosevelt 2 Urbandale 6, Ankeny 0 |
| Chamionship Semifinals | Sioux City 3, Des Moines Dowling 1 Waterloo Columbus 6, Des Moines Valley 3 |
| Seventh-Place Game | Ankeny 9, Des Moines Hoover-Roosevelt 4 |
| Fifth-Place Game | Waterloo Warriors 2, Urbandale 1 |
| Third-Place Game | Des Moines Dowling 6, Des Moines Valley 3 |
| Championship Game | Waterloo Columbus 4, Sioux City 2 |
| VARSITY DIVISION I REGULAR-SEASON STANDINGS - Final | |||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | GF | GA |
| 1-Waterloo Columbus* | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 66 | 29 |
| 2-Des Moines Dowling* | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 60 | 31 |
| 3-Sioux City | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 51 | 52 |
| 4-Waterloo Warriors | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 36 | 33 |
| 5-Des Moines Hoover-Roosevelt | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 48 | 83 |
| 6-Des Moines Valley | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 57 | 50 |
| 7-Urbandale | 12 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 68 |
| *Regular season co-champions | |||||||
| VARSITY DIVISION I TOP-10 SCORERS | ||||
| RK | Name, Team | Go | Ast | Pts |
| 1 | Barney Munro, Des Moines Dowling | 18 | 18 | 36 |
| T2 | Craig Brown, Waterloo Columbus | 17 | 17 | 34 |
| T2 | Brian Hartman, Sioux City | 20 | 14 | 34 |
| 4 | Andy Lyon, Des Moines Dowling | 18 | 12 | 30 |
| T5 | David Foley, Des Moines Valley | 13 | 14 | 27 |
| T5 | Scott Sutherland, Des Moines Hoover-Roosevelt | 13 | 14 | 27 |
| T5 | Jeff Bowman, Des Moines Dowling | 11 | 16 | 27 |
| 8 | Mike Stanbrough, Des Moines Valley | 10 | 24 | 24 |
| 9 | Rick Radcliff, Des Moines Valley | 11 | 11 | 22 |
| 10 | Kevin Landau, Waterloo Columbus | 11 | 9 | 20 |
| VARSITY DIVISION I GOALTENDERS (no individual stats available) | |||||||
| Names - Team | GP | W | L | T | GA | GAA | SO |
| Greg Davis, Paul Sand - Waterloo Columbus | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 2.41 | 1 |
| Frank Cataldo, Jim Heidman - Des Moines Dowling | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 2.58 | 1 |
| Ed Henn, Eric Peterson - Waterloo Public | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 33 | 2.75 | 1 |
| David Linn, Scott Hagerman - Des Moines Valley | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 50 | 4.18 | 0 |
| Mike Bennett, Mark Hartman - Sioux City | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 52 | 4.33 | 0 |
| Jerry Thompson, Mark Cory, Greg Warwick - Urbandale | 12 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 68 | 5.78 | 0 |
| Kevin Thompson, Kim Day - Des Moines Hoover-Roosevelt | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 83 | 6.92 | 0 |
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| DIVISION II REGULAR-SEASON STANDINGS - Final | |||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | GF | GA |
| 1-Ankeny | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 40 | 14 |
| 2-Mason City | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 27 | 23 |
| 3-Des Moines Lincoln | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 25 | 21 |
| 4-Ames | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 42 |
| DIVISION II TOP-10 SCORERS | ||||
| RK | Name, Team | Go | Ast | Pts |
| 1 | Randy Pierce, Randy, Mason City | 9 | 6 | 15 |
| 2 | Ted Wiles, Ankeny | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 | Doran Doty, Ankeny | 9 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | Phil Rogers, Des Moines Lincoln | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 5 | Mike Aspeborg, Mason City | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| T6 | Tim Copperstone, Ankeny | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| T6 | Bob Strohn, Des Moines Lincoln | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| T8 | Marty Suttom, Des Moines Lincoln | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| T8 | Randy Zimmer, Ankeny | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| T10 | Seth Wolins, Ames | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| T10 | Steve Nielsen, Mason City | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| T10 | John Leopold, Ankeny | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| T10 | Bill Robyt, Ames | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| T10 | Tom Mackin, Mason City | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| T10 | Mike Smith, Des Moines Lincoln | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| T10 | Skip Ware, Ankeny | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| DIVISION II GOALTENDERS (no statistics available) | |||||||
| Name, Team | GP | W | L | T | GA | GAA | SO |
IOWA HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY LEAGUE 1977-1978 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Secretary: W. David Tyler - Waterloo
Treasurer: Jack McFadyen - Des Moines
Commissioner: Alan Murdoch - Ames
Referee-in-Chief: Don Johnston - Waterloo