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30 | May 24, 2018 | The lake forest leader SPORTS<br />
LakeForestLeader.com<br />
Scouts offense starts quick, dominates Titans<br />
Neil Milbert<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Aggression and possession<br />
at the outset were<br />
the major elements that<br />
went into Lake Forest’s<br />
conquest over Glenbrook<br />
South.<br />
The Scouts finished off<br />
their regular season play<br />
with a 12-8 win over the<br />
visitors Thursday, May 18,<br />
at home.<br />
It was Senior Night for<br />
the Scouts and, as Coach<br />
Marc Thiergart so aptly<br />
put it, “we came out firing<br />
on all cylinders.”<br />
In seizing a 6-1 first<br />
quarter lead they repeatedly<br />
forced turnovers and<br />
controlled the ball. Most<br />
of their time was spent in<br />
the GBS end of the field<br />
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where they exerted unrelenting<br />
pressure.<br />
Leading the onslaught<br />
were freshman Connor<br />
Armstrong and senior Jack<br />
Mislinski, who will be<br />
playing both lacrosse and<br />
football at the U.S. Military<br />
Academy at West Point next<br />
year. Both scored two goals<br />
in the quarter after goals by<br />
sophomore Nate Field and<br />
junior George Schoette in<br />
the first three minutes ignited<br />
the scoring explosion.<br />
“It was a really good<br />
team game offensively,”<br />
Mislinski said, looking<br />
back on the early scoring<br />
spree that made the difference.<br />
“We got a lot of<br />
people involved. Our sets<br />
were working and our middies<br />
were moving well. It’s<br />
all about capitalizing when<br />
you get the opportunity.”<br />
When GBS mounted its<br />
only sustained attack of<br />
the quarter with just under<br />
seven minutes to play<br />
sophomore goalie John<br />
Welsh responded by making<br />
four stellar saves.<br />
“John stepped up,”<br />
Thiergart said. “He’s a<br />
sophomore and he played<br />
like a senior.”<br />
The Titans’ struggles<br />
on offense continued during<br />
the second quarter<br />
and at halftime they were<br />
looking at an 8-1 deficit.<br />
Compounding their problems<br />
junior goalie Kip Hugueley<br />
had to leave them<br />
game after being injured<br />
in a second-quarter collision<br />
and was replaced by<br />
sophomore Colin Casey,<br />
who normally is either an<br />
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Lake Forest senior Jack VanHyfte maneavers around a Glenbrook South defensemen<br />
during the Scout’s win Thursday, May 18, in Lake Forest. photos by Jackie<br />
Connors/22nd Century Media<br />
Junior George Schoettle prepares to catch the ball deep<br />
in the offensive zone.<br />
attacker or a midfielder.<br />
The way the game was<br />
trending it seemed likely<br />
that in the second half the<br />
Scouts would activate the<br />
running clock that takes<br />
effect when a team has a<br />
12-goal lead.<br />
But GBS didn’t give up<br />
and gradually became the<br />
dominant team in the second<br />
half, outscoring Lake<br />
Forest 7-4 during the final<br />
24 minutes.<br />
“I definitely would like<br />
that first half back,” said<br />
Dylan Garvey, the DePauw<br />
recruit who scored the only<br />
goal of that half for the Titans<br />
and then contributed<br />
two third-quarter goals to<br />
the belated rally that saw<br />
senior Jack Speers get two<br />
goals and sophomore Connor<br />
Karsh score one in the<br />
fourth quarter.<br />
“Jack and Connor and I<br />
have a lot of good chemistry<br />
working off one another,”<br />
Garvey pointed out.<br />
The Titans ended the<br />
regular season with a<br />
13-4 record. Their other<br />
losses were to defending<br />
state champion New Trier,<br />
Glenbard West and Grayslake<br />
North.<br />
In leading the Scouts to<br />
victory, Mislinski wound<br />
up with four goals and<br />
Armstrong with three.<br />
Another conspicuous contributor<br />
was senior Chris<br />
Cavalaris, who set up two<br />
of the goals in the first<br />
quarter and got one of his<br />
own in the third quarter.<br />
“We dominated the first<br />
half but one of the problems<br />
we’ve been working<br />
on is finishing,” said Thiergart.<br />
“We’ve got to put a<br />
whole game together.”<br />
The Scouts, who last<br />
year advanced to the state<br />
tournament semifinals before<br />
losing to runnerup<br />
Loyola Academy, take an<br />
11-6 record into this year’s<br />
tournament. Their regular<br />
season losses came at the<br />
hands of New Trier, Loyola<br />
and Grayslake North and<br />
teams from Ohio, Michigan<br />
and Indiana.<br />
“Our depth is our<br />
strength,” Thiergart said.<br />
“We have a lot of freshmen<br />
on the team and they’re all<br />
playing and contributing.”
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