Players love performing on the ice.

Although it is a club sport at South, hockey is one of the most followed sports at South. Hockey is a sport that takes years of experience and players often play for multiple teams.

Senior Jacob Kasten is one half of the Kasten duo. The Kastens are South’s leading scorers with 25 combined goals and 15 assists. Jacob said he has been playing hockey most of their life and devote a lot of time.

“I’ve been playing puck for 12 years. I now play for South and the Affton Americans AAA team. I practice twice a week for South, and twice a week for Affton. I am very busy in the winters with hockey and spend most of my time on skates,” said  Jacob.

Currently South is 5-6 with wins over Lafayette, Lindbergh twice, Eureka, and rival Seckman. South is projected to go to the Wickenheiser Tournament this season.

“I think that if we play our best game and are in the Wick, we have a pretty good shot at winning,” said junior Blake Lauria.

South hockey has a reputation for always bringing a good Posse to games. Their biggest rivals are Rockwood Summit and Seckman. Senior goalie Vincent Rebello loves rivalry games

“Rivalry games are the best. Some of my favorite South hockey memories are rivalry games. Sophomore year we beat Seckman in one of the biggest games of my career. Both teams had huge student sections and it felt good to be able win and shut up a lot of summit fans,” said Rebello.

Every hockey player has a classic celebration when they score. Lauria has one celebration that he uses every time.

“My go-to celebration is always the Lasso while coming back to the bench. It gets the boys rowdy and hypes me up,” said Lauria.

Jacob Kasten has a crowd-pleasing celebration.

“My favorite celebration is jumping on the glass when I score. I jump on the glass that the Posse is on and they go crazy when I do it,” said Jacob.

The Patriots still have a lot of hockey left to play and they hope to make a deep playoff run.

“The season is long and we have a lot of time to make fixes. We have a very senior heavy team and I feel like we can make this a really memorable season,” said Jacob.