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28 | March 2, 2017 | The lake forest leader sports LakeForestLeader.com Athlete of the Month Ignoffo lights up scoreboard, contest Derek wolff, Sports Editor Prolific Highland Park High School sophomore shooter Sydney Ignoffo gave opposing defenses the slip plenty of times this season en route to a 3-pointer. Ignoffo racked up another accomplishment by winning 22nd Century Media’s Athlete of the Month contest, capturing the title with 681 votes. Glenbrook North hockey player David Rubin finished second, while Lake Forest basketball player Connor Hanecamp finished third. Highland Park hockey player Casey Eisenberg and Glenbrook South boys basketball player Nick Samataro rounded out the top five. Voting lasted from Feb. 10-25. The Athlete of the Month contest for athletes selected in the month of February gets underway on March 10 and will end on March 25. Vote at Lake- ForestLeader.com. RIGHT: Highland Park High School girls basketball player Sydney Ignoffo won 22nd Century Media’s Athlete of the Month contest for the month of February. 22nd Century Media File Photo Sports Briefs Scouts land new records, conference spots The Lake Forest girls basketball team put together an impressive 23 wins for the 2016-17 season, but they’re not done racking up accolades. Junior forward Maeve Summerville ascended to the rank of all-time leading rebounder with 769, overtaking Grace Torkelson’s 755. Senior guard Delaney Williams became the all-time leader in assists with 391, overtaking Janie Hodgkinson’s 284. Williams also became the all-time leader in steals with 314, overtaking Mary Striedl’s 260. Both Summerville and Williams were announced as members of the North Suburban Conference’s All-Conference team. This Week In… Scouts Varsity Athletics Girls Badminton ■March ■ 7 - Scrimmage at Lake Forest, 5:45 p.m. Boys Basketball ■March ■ 3 - Regional Final at Maine West, 7 p.m. ■March ■ 6 - Sectional, TBD Girls Track and Field ■March ■ 3 - at Rolling Meadows, 5 p.m. Boys Water Polo ■March ■ 7 - Scrimmage at Lake Forest, 5 p.m. Girls Water Polo ■March ■ 7 - Scrimmage at Lake Forest, 5 p.m. visit us online at LAKEFORESTLEADER.com
LakeForestLeader.com sports the lake forest leader | March 2, 2017 | 29 Boys Ice Hockey Scouts rout Naperville Central, earn date with champs Derek Wolff Sports Editor To a man, every Scout had one number in mind before a tilt with Naperville Central in the first round of AHAI 2017 Illinois State Hockey Championships Red Varsity Division: two. It’s the number worn by Redhawks captain Andrew Maynard, who scored twice and had four points in a 5-1 win over Lake Forest on Dec. 26, 2016. The junior had a team-high 70 goals and 102 points in 26 games coming into the playoff matchup. With those figures in mind, the No. 17 seeded Scouts scored twice in the first three minutes of the contest en route to a 6-3 win over the No. 16 seeded Redhawks on Feb. 22 at Seven Bridges Ice Arena in Woodridge. “There was one guy that we had to shut down, (Maynard),” Scouts cocaptain Ryan Gattari said. “We shut him down and we scored early, so it was over at the beginning.” Jack Barbour had a hat trick on the evening, including a pair of back-toback goals that helped the Scouts pull away with a commanding 5-1 lead that created a running clock in the second period. Barbour scored 41 seconds into the first period after crashing the net and being set up by Jack Kaptrosky. The Scouts scored again less than two minutes later, setting the tone early on, Scouts head coach John Murphy said. “I would say that was a key part Scoring those first two really gave us a lot Jack Kaptrosky wheels toward the net. photos by derek Wolff/22nd century media of momentum,” Murphy said. Lake Forest earned a power play with 14:10 remaining in the period but couldn’t convert on the man advantage, a theme shared by both teams on the night. Naperville Central earned a power play just over seven minutes into the period, then went on a 5-on-3 advantage for 22 seconds at the 7:48 mark. But a lack of any sense of urgency hurt the Redhawks, who mustered just one shot on the power play and were listless again later in the period on a third opportunity, allowing the Scouts to skate into the first intermission with the 2-0 lead intact. The momentum gained from the success of the penalty kill emboldened the Scouts, Murphy said. “We’ve got a really, really good team,” he said. “Like I’ve been telling the guys all year, they’ve been beating themselves with these penalties. The first period, we played a good portion of that period shorthanded and almost beat ourselves, but I thought the guys did a great job and were very resilient. We killed off those penalties and from there I thought the momentum went our way.” After both sides failed to capitalize on power play chances early in the second period, Naperville Central got on the board after eight minutes of play. Maynard picked off a pass in the high slot near the left circle and toedragged around a lunging poke check from Scouts goaltender Colson Stutz to cut the deficit in half at 2-1. Lake Forest drew a power play with 3:47 left in the period and proved the old adage true by converting on their third chance. Barbour potted his second of the night near the right side of the net off a goal line pass, then completed the hat trick 76 seconds later. After pushing the puck through a defenders skates on a breakout, Barbour deked around Redhawks netminder Daniel Longmire and scored on the backhand to make it 4-1. “I thought the goalie was going to play it at the top of the circles but I beat him to it and then he was just out (of position) so I went to my backhand and tapped it in,” Barbour said. Later in the period, Scouts defenseman and cocaptain Alex Riedel seemingly stunned Longmire with a high wrist shot that caught the latter in the mask. A minute later, Luke Abbattista cashed in a rebound through Longmire’s Scouts forward Jack Barbour heads toward the goal line during Lake Forest’s 6-3 win over Naperville Central on Feb. 22. 5-hole with less than a minute left in the period. Abbattista’s goal created a running clock for the rest of the game, which accelerated Naperville Central’s demise in a whacky, chipper third period filled with penalties. Lake Forest made it 6-1 when Graham Hickey scored on a toe-drag backhand two minutes into the third period, but Naperville Central got it back two minutes later. Maynard got his second point on the night and 104 on the season when he fed a saucer pass over to Zachary Kill on a 2-on-1. Kill buried the one-timer passed Stutz on the stick side. The penalty kill magic finally ended for the Scouts when the Matthew Wadhiwa scored with a 5-on-3 advantage with just over eight minutes to play, though Lake Forest did limit the Redhawks’ power play to a paltry 1-for-6 in the game. Aided by the running clock, the Scouts controlled possession en route to the 6-3 final. Lake Forest earned a second round matchup with New Trier Green—the defending state champions— in the process. “They have some guys that can play, so we just have to play well,” Gattari said. Green had a BYE in the first round and Murphy believes that if the Trevians overlook the game and don’t treat it with the proper importance, the Scouts could play spoiler. “If we can stay out of the box we’re going to make that game very competitive,” Murphy said. “Typically in any sport when the opposition doesn’t respect you that much, that comes back to haunt you. We’re a very good team and I’m really excited about the game. We’re looking forward to it.” Lake Forest will meet Green on the ice at 6:40 p.m. on March 1 at The Edge Ice Arena in Bensenville.
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