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30 | September 20, 2018 | The lake forest leader SPORTS<br />
LakeForestLeader.com<br />
Scouts fall in shootout to New Trier<br />
Michael Wojtychiw<br />
Contributing Sports Editor<br />
Lake Forest’s Allison Quackenbush battles a New Trier player for possession during the game that ended in a shootout loss to the Trevians<br />
Sept. 12 in Northfield. Michael Wojtychiw/22nd Century Media<br />
When two of the best<br />
teams in the state face<br />
off, the play on the field<br />
gets elevated and makes<br />
it seem like a postseason<br />
game that’s going to decide<br />
a state championship.<br />
That was the feeling<br />
Sept. 12 when Lake Forest<br />
visited Northfield to<br />
take on New Trier in the<br />
teams’ first matchup of the<br />
season.<br />
“That was exciting for<br />
you, but my heart was<br />
skipping a beat,” New<br />
Trier coach Stephanie<br />
Nykaza said.<br />
The reason for that was<br />
her Trevians had to hold<br />
off the visiting Scouts for<br />
a 5-4 shootout win.<br />
With New Trier up 2-1<br />
with over a minute left,<br />
Lake Forest was looking<br />
to tie the game and give<br />
it an opportunity to win<br />
the game in regulation or<br />
overtime.<br />
That’s when Scouts’<br />
Maggie Mick put in a shot<br />
from in front of the goal to<br />
tie the game with 1 minute,<br />
1 second remaining in<br />
regulation.<br />
“Addie (Sidles) in the<br />
middle, she had a wide<br />
open space, so she just<br />
hit it and I was like ‘I’m<br />
just going to go for the<br />
tip,’” Mick said. “So I just<br />
put my stick there to get<br />
something, went to the<br />
goalie. I honestly thought<br />
I was going to hit the post<br />
but luckily it went right in<br />
the corner.”<br />
The Scouts looked as if<br />
they had actually tied the<br />
game 30 seconds earlier,<br />
but had a goal waved off.<br />
Instead, it helped lead to<br />
Mick’s heroics.<br />
After a scoreless overtime<br />
session and a brief<br />
delay after the stadium<br />
lights shut off, the game<br />
headed to a shootout,<br />
where Nykaza made a<br />
bold move: she inserted<br />
goalie Emmaliese Lauber<br />
into the cage. Lauber<br />
hadn’t played all season,<br />
as she was recovering<br />
from a torn labrum, and<br />
had just started practicing<br />
a couple days ago. Her<br />
younger sister, Isabella,<br />
had played goalie during<br />
regulation.<br />
“Our senior (Emmaliese)<br />
just came back to<br />
practice yesterday, she had<br />
a torn hip labrum, but she<br />
came back yesterday and<br />
she’s done a lot of 1v1’s<br />
and said she could do it,”<br />
the New Trier coach said.<br />
“Her younger sister (Bella)<br />
has done a great job in<br />
goal but she doesn’t have<br />
the experience her sister<br />
does. Emma ended up taking<br />
it and she did a great<br />
job. She just came back<br />
and that was really impressive.”<br />
You wouldn’t be able<br />
to tell that the elder Lauber<br />
hadn’t played until<br />
that night, as the senior<br />
saved the first two shots<br />
she faced from Mick and<br />
Logan Hanekamp.<br />
“Going into the shootout,<br />
a lot of us are nervous,<br />
but we know it’s<br />
not the end of the world,”<br />
Mick said. “We haven’t<br />
practiced shootouts a lot,<br />
so that might have been in<br />
our minds, but at the end<br />
of the day, it’s just a game<br />
in the season, not playoffs<br />
or anything. Just try<br />
to get it in the goal and if<br />
not, it’s not the end of the<br />
world.”<br />
While she was keeping<br />
the Scouts off of the scoreboard,<br />
Kathryn McLaughlin<br />
and Paige Baldwin<br />
were getting the Trevians<br />
on the board with goals in<br />
the team’s first two shootout<br />
attempts. McLaughlin<br />
had scored the game’s first<br />
goal of the night when she<br />
put the ball past the Lake<br />
Forest goalie just minutes<br />
into the contest.<br />
After not converting on<br />
their first two shots, the<br />
next two Scouts to shoot,<br />
Julia Hender and Gracie<br />
McGowan, scored, giving<br />
the visitors life in the<br />
shootout. A New Trier<br />
miss, followed by a Hillary<br />
Cox conversion meant<br />
that the Scouts’ hopes<br />
were down to Sarah Considine.<br />
If she made the<br />
shot, the Trevians would<br />
need to convert their next<br />
shot to win. If not, the<br />
game would be over.<br />
Lauber made the save,<br />
sending the Trevians off<br />
to celebrate the big win.<br />
The win marked the second<br />
over some of the best<br />
teams in the state, as the<br />
Trevians defeated North<br />
Shore Country Day last<br />
week as well.<br />
“This was a tough<br />
game, a good game on<br />
both sides,” Nykaza said.<br />
“To come back like that,<br />
that’s really hard what<br />
they did. But for us to rebound,<br />
because we were<br />
looking like balloons that<br />
were deflating when they<br />
scored that goal, was great<br />
to see.”<br />
Both of the Trevians’<br />
regulation goals were<br />
scored in the first half,<br />
with Baldwin scoring<br />
New Trier’s second goal<br />
with 5:27 remaining in the<br />
first half. In addition to<br />
Mick’s game-tying goal,<br />
Hender scored in the first<br />
half at the 19:50 mark.<br />
“For us, what this game<br />
showed us is that we’re<br />
in control of our own<br />
destiny,” said Lake Forest<br />
coach Cat Catanzaro.<br />
“When we needed to<br />
score, we found a way to<br />
do that and in games like<br />
this, we got to practice<br />
every aspect of a game.<br />
Even if we don’t go to<br />
overtime the rest of the<br />
season, come state playoffs,<br />
we’ve done it. We’ve<br />
been there and against a<br />
good team, so we’ve practiced<br />
it.”
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