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LakeForestLeader.com sports<br />
the lake forest leader | September 8, 2016 | 29<br />
Sports Briefs<br />
Thomas in running for<br />
youth player of the year<br />
After shooting a 5-over<br />
76 at Randall Oaks Golf<br />
Club in Dundee that captured<br />
a tournament in early<br />
August, Lake Forest’s Asa<br />
tennis<br />
From Page 31<br />
No. 1 singles.<br />
At No. 2 singles, fellow<br />
sophomore Caitlin Goldberg<br />
collected another win<br />
for the Giants, defeating<br />
the Scouts’ Emily Gorczynski,<br />
6-1, 6-3.<br />
Lake Forest earned its<br />
lone win of the match<br />
at No. 5 doubles, where<br />
sophomores Lucy Rubenstein<br />
and Anisha Paruchuru<br />
defeated Highland<br />
Park’s tandem of Lizzie<br />
Insoft and Chloe Blum,<br />
6-2, 6-7 (6), 10-6.<br />
Lake Forest has a<br />
strong pedigree under<br />
coach Denise Murphy and<br />
features a younger squad<br />
this season, like Highland<br />
Park’s. The current<br />
group’s fitness coming<br />
into the season was<br />
something to behold, she<br />
said, a good foundation to<br />
build around.<br />
“They’re really great,<br />
really responsive, super<br />
eager to learn.” Murphy<br />
said. “They’ve been hustling<br />
like crazy. This is one<br />
of the best conditioned<br />
groups I think we’ve ever<br />
had. I know they have the<br />
stamina, I know they have<br />
the footwork, it’s just a<br />
matter of putting all the<br />
pieces together.”<br />
Highland Park won<br />
each of the No. 1 through<br />
No. 4 doubles matches in<br />
straight sets.<br />
At No. 1 doubles, Monique<br />
Brual and Halle<br />
Michael bested Julianna<br />
Roman and Nika Belova,<br />
6-2, 6-1.<br />
That success was replicated<br />
at No. 2 doubles,<br />
where Highland Park’s Samara<br />
Michael and Devin<br />
Davidson dispatched<br />
Lake Forest’s freshman<br />
tandem of Salma Alsikafi<br />
and Alex Slomba, 6-2,<br />
6-3.<br />
Rudman has been<br />
mixing up his pairings in<br />
the early goings, mixing<br />
and matching players<br />
and getting them time at<br />
various levels of doubles<br />
play.<br />
“The goal right now<br />
because the kids are so<br />
young and combinations<br />
are so inexperienced at<br />
doubles, we’re just trying<br />
to find who can work<br />
with who and who compliments<br />
each other,”<br />
Rudman said. “It’s still<br />
a work in progress but<br />
we’ve picked up some<br />
good wins.”<br />
Erin Lothan and Mia<br />
Loquande earned a 6-4,<br />
6-1 win over Ali Davidson<br />
and Sara Eichelman<br />
at No. 3 doubles for the<br />
Giants, while Highland<br />
Park’s No. 4 doubles won,<br />
6-1, 6-2.<br />
Rudman said his team<br />
played well and was<br />
growing more comfortable<br />
with each outing as<br />
the Giants look forward to<br />
postseason play.<br />
The goal today<br />
was really just to be<br />
competitive and do<br />
something different,”<br />
Rudman said. “For the<br />
most part the group has<br />
done that. They’re starting<br />
to get it and our hope is<br />
to get better each week<br />
so when we have to play<br />
Deerfield and Glenbrook<br />
North for conference<br />
the kids are going to<br />
Thomas found himself<br />
atop the leaderboard in<br />
the running for the Illinois<br />
Junior Golf Association’s<br />
Player of the Year in the<br />
10-11 year old division.<br />
Thomas, a sixth grader<br />
at Deerpath Middle<br />
School, held off a hard<br />
charge from Chicago’s Jason<br />
Gordon (plus-7) and<br />
Libertyville’s Aleks Slessers<br />
(plus-8) to capture the<br />
tournament.<br />
be comfortable, they’re<br />
going to be confident and<br />
ready to play.”<br />
Highland Park defeated<br />
Lake Forest, 5-0, earlier<br />
this season. Rudman specifically<br />
scheduled the<br />
Scouts twice, as well as<br />
Stevenson twice and Hinsdale<br />
Central and Glenbrook<br />
South once each in<br />
order to expose his team<br />
to the best teams and players<br />
early so they have a<br />
feel for what they’ll be in<br />
for when the matches really<br />
matter.<br />
Lake Forest employs a<br />
similar mindset and has<br />
played tough competition<br />
throughout the season<br />
thus far, including at the<br />
New Trier Invite in late<br />
August. The Scouts delivered<br />
a 3-2 victory over<br />
Glenbrook South, thanks<br />
largely to wins by Slomba<br />
and Gorczynski at No. 1<br />
and No. 2 singles, respectively.<br />
Murphy said that<br />
Lake Forest could use<br />
each result as positive<br />
motivation moving<br />
forward, even when<br />
things don’t break its way<br />
like they did not against<br />
Highland Park.<br />
“Our goal, every single<br />
match when we walk off<br />
the court is to be very<br />
mindful of what just transpired—<br />
whether it’s a win<br />
or a loss—and to try and<br />
be better the next time we<br />
walk out,” Murphy said.<br />
“If we continue to do that<br />
throughout the season,<br />
by the end we should be<br />
significantly stronger and<br />
wiser.”<br />
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