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LakeForestLeader.com SPORTS<br />
the lake forest leader | January 25, 2018 | 39<br />
Scouts Can’t stop, won’t stop<br />
Scouts win Steve Melichar 41st Annual Wrestling Invitational Tournament<br />
Neil Ament/ 22nd Century<br />
Media<br />
1st-and-3<br />
Stars of the Week<br />
1. Ben Gibson<br />
(ABOVE).<br />
Gibson put up<br />
12 points and six<br />
rebounds to help<br />
his team to its<br />
first conference<br />
win over<br />
Mundelein.<br />
2. Mead Payne.<br />
The boys<br />
basketball player,<br />
and senior Scout,<br />
added 12 points<br />
of his own with<br />
six rebounds to<br />
contribute to<br />
a great thirdquarter<br />
push and<br />
win<br />
3. Kennedy Stein.<br />
Stein, a<br />
sophomore at<br />
Lake Forest High<br />
School, scored<br />
the lone goal<br />
in the Scouts<br />
4-1 loss to<br />
Glenbrook’s girls<br />
hockey team.<br />
Athlete of the Year 2017<br />
Leader readers to vote for Athlete of Year<br />
Michael Wojtychiw<br />
Contributing Sports Editor<br />
Despite the fact the calendar<br />
year has now turned<br />
to 2018, 2017 still has a<br />
little bit missing from it.<br />
On fields of play all over<br />
the North Shore last year,<br />
student-athletes soared to<br />
new heights, and in many<br />
cases, took their team<br />
along for the ride. 22nd<br />
Century Media was following<br />
the action with its<br />
seven North Shore publications<br />
and websites, documenting<br />
the moments of<br />
glory as well as the agony<br />
of defeat.<br />
Along the way, every<br />
week, papers like our Lake<br />
Forest Leader selected<br />
and interviewed a worthy<br />
Athlete of the Week. At<br />
the end of the month, all<br />
Athletes of the Week from<br />
the seven newspapers were<br />
pitted against one another<br />
in the popular Athlete of<br />
the Month competition, for<br />
which residents decide the<br />
result by voting for their<br />
favorite athlete online.<br />
At year’s end, there are<br />
12 winners, and we’re not<br />
done just yet. Those 12<br />
winners — along with six<br />
at-large contenders selected<br />
by 22CM staffers — are<br />
about to vie for the ultimate<br />
title: 22nd Century<br />
Media Athlete of the Year.<br />
The Athlete of the Year<br />
competition is a two-week<br />
online voting contest that<br />
begins at noon Friday, Jan.<br />
26, at LakeForestLeader.<br />
com, as well as the company’s<br />
six other North Shore<br />
websites.<br />
Fans can vote daily for<br />
their favorite student-athlete<br />
until 5 p.m. on Feb. 8.<br />
To avoid voting spam and<br />
abuse, we have restricted<br />
the votes to one per IP<br />
address per day with a<br />
special feature to ensure<br />
votes are being made by<br />
LEFT: The Scouts varsity<br />
wrestling team poses<br />
for a photo Jan. 13 after<br />
the tournament at Lisle<br />
High School where Caleb<br />
Durbin received the<br />
Outstanding Wrestler<br />
Award. Photos Submitted<br />
RIGHT: Bennett Duggan,<br />
freshman, wrestles St.<br />
Rita’s Andre Gurini at 106<br />
to take the first place title.<br />
The Athlete of the Year 2017 Nominees are:<br />
• January winner: Sydney Ignoffo,<br />
Highland Park girls basketball<br />
• February winner: Kirby Bartlestein,<br />
Highland Park girls basketball<br />
• March winner: Henry Yavitt, New Trier<br />
boys water polo<br />
• April winner: Cameron Duffy,<br />
Glenbrook South boys lacrosse<br />
• May winner: Jack Sullivan, Glenbrook<br />
South boys volleyball<br />
• June winner: Melissa Tucker,<br />
Glenbrook North girls soccer<br />
• July winner: Grace Kapsimalis, New<br />
Trier girls volleyball<br />
• August winner: Marcus Shaw, Highland<br />
Park football<br />
• September winner: Daniel Spencer,<br />
Glenbrook North boys soccer<br />
• October winner: Alex Kahn, Glenbrook<br />
North boys soccer<br />
• November winner: Sam Carsello,<br />
Glenbrook North girls basketball<br />
• December winner: TBA online<br />
• At-Large: Cat Nicholson, Lake Forest<br />
field hockey<br />
• At-Large: Ziv Tal, Highland Park boys<br />
basketball<br />
• At-large: Savontae Garner, Glenbrook<br />
South football<br />
• At-large: Charlie Scheinfeld, New Trier<br />
boys swimming and diving<br />
• At-large: Brennan Dwyer, Loyola<br />
Academy girls lacrosse<br />
• At-large: Skyler Metzger, Glenbrook<br />
North football<br />
22nd Century Media Athlete of the Year<br />
When: Friday, Jan. 26, through Thursday,<br />
Feb. 8 (two weeks)<br />
Where: WilmetteBeacon.com,<br />
WinnetkaCurrent.com, GlenviewLantern.<br />
com, NorthbrookTower.com,<br />
LakeForestLeader.com, HPLandmark.<br />
com and GlencoeAnchor.com<br />
Who: Eighteen North Shore studentathletes<br />
(12 Athletes of Month, 6 at-large<br />
contenders)<br />
humans. If votes are proven<br />
illegitimate, they will<br />
be discarded and the beneficiary<br />
of the fraudulent<br />
votes may be disqualified.<br />
A winner will be announced<br />
in the Thursday,<br />
Feb. 15 issue of The<br />
Leader.<br />
Listen Up<br />
“Defense is all about trust and that’s how we were<br />
able to defend them.”<br />
Mead Payne — Scouts senior, on how the boys basketball team<br />
was able to defeat Mundelein<br />
tune in<br />
Competitive Dance<br />
The Scouts dance team gears up for the Illiniois<br />
High School Association’s state final competition.<br />
Lake Forest at IHSA State Finals, Grossinger<br />
Motors Arena, Bloomington, Jan. 26-27<br />
Index<br />
35 - This Week In<br />
34 - Athlete of the Week<br />
Fastbreak is compiled by Sports Editor<br />
Brittany Kapa. Send any questions or comments<br />
to b.kapa@22ndcenturymedia.com.
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