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46 | September 20, 2018 | The wilmette beacon sports<br />
wilmettebeacon.com<br />
Offense carries New Trier to win<br />
Michael Wojtychiw<br />
Sports Editor<br />
It’s important for a team<br />
to finish the nonconference<br />
portion of its schedule on<br />
a high note, something that<br />
helps give it confidence<br />
going into conference play.<br />
Coming off of a win<br />
against Fremd on Sept. 7,<br />
New Trier was looking to<br />
do just that and win its second<br />
straight against a Mid-<br />
Suburban League squad.<br />
The Trevians walked out<br />
of its Friday, Sept. 14, road<br />
game against Palatine with<br />
a 37-25 win.<br />
“This is the first time<br />
we’ve finished nonconference<br />
play 3-1, because we<br />
were always 2-2,” New<br />
Trier coach Brian Doll<br />
said. “Once the MSL deal<br />
started, we’d never been<br />
better than 2-2 so this is a<br />
big deal for us to get out<br />
of this. We’ve won three<br />
games against MSL teams<br />
in a row and we feel like<br />
we’re starting to compete,<br />
starting to get better.”<br />
What ended up being<br />
somewhat of a shootout<br />
didn’t always look<br />
that way. In a first half<br />
that included five punts,<br />
New Trier’s Jonathan Taylor runs in for a touchdown against Palatine Friday, Sept.<br />
14, in Palatine. Scott Margolin/22nd Century Media<br />
more points were scored<br />
off of field goals (nine)<br />
than touchdowns (seven).<br />
Luckily for the Trevians,<br />
they did most of the scoring,<br />
with a 13-yard touchdown<br />
run by Jonathan<br />
Taylor and two field goals,<br />
of 42 and 40 yards, from<br />
Graham Dable to take a<br />
13-3 lead to the half.<br />
“Those are the longest<br />
field goals I’ve ever had<br />
in a game,” Dable said.<br />
“When I’m going up there,<br />
I’m just thinking to have<br />
a clean, fluid motion and<br />
trying not to kill the ball.<br />
Every kick should be the<br />
same kick.”<br />
The second half was an<br />
entirely different story,<br />
however, as both team’s<br />
offenses came to life. The<br />
Trevians scored on all four<br />
of their possessions, including<br />
the opening drive,<br />
which was highlighted by<br />
a 51-yard run by quarterback<br />
Carson Ochsenhirt<br />
(161 yards rushing on 24<br />
carries), who also punched<br />
the ball in from eight yards<br />
to extend the Trevians lead<br />
to 20-3.<br />
On the next possession,<br />
after a 20-yard run, Taylor<br />
went down with an<br />
injury that would cause<br />
him to miss the rest of<br />
the game. Already down<br />
to their fourth running<br />
back because of injuries,<br />
the Trevians got an unexpected<br />
boost from one of<br />
NEW TRIER VS. PALATINE<br />
1 2 3 4 F<br />
NT 7 6 14 10 37<br />
PALATINE 0 3 7 15 25<br />
Top Performers<br />
1. Thomas Criswell, RB – 48 rushing yards on 13 carries, 2<br />
touchdowns.<br />
2. Carson Ochsenhirt, QB – 161 rushing yards on 24<br />
carries, 1 touchdown.<br />
3. Graham Dable – The kicker converted 42-, 40- and 35-<br />
yard field goals.<br />
the players that normally<br />
wouldn’t see much playing<br />
time: junior Thomas<br />
Criswell. Criswell would<br />
finish with 48 yards and<br />
two touchdowns rushing<br />
on 13 carries.<br />
“We’ve got a lot of kids<br />
working hard,” Doll said.<br />
“Criswell had been our<br />
scout team running back<br />
all the time and just runs<br />
hard. We were like ‘let’s<br />
go. Next guy up.’<br />
“He knows the plays,<br />
he knows what we do. We<br />
kept it simple, we kept<br />
it basic and he did what<br />
he needed to do to get us<br />
downfield.”<br />
Dable added another<br />
field goal, a 35-yarder in<br />
the second half as well.<br />
Both he and Doll said the<br />
team talked about what<br />
they had to do in the second<br />
half to secure the win<br />
at halftime.<br />
“Our coaches were just<br />
trying to fire us up, get us<br />
focused,” able said. “We<br />
were able to do so well<br />
because everyone started<br />
to do their job even better.”<br />
“They (Palatine) gave<br />
us some different looks<br />
than we were planning<br />
on, based on scouting reports<br />
and were we able to<br />
make adjustments from<br />
those looks,” Doll said.<br />
“They gave us those same<br />
looks in the second half, so<br />
we were able to see some<br />
things we were able to take<br />
advantage of up front and<br />
we let Ox read some of the<br />
plays in the second half,<br />
where in the first half we<br />
weren’t reading as much.”<br />
The Trevians head to<br />
Skokie Friday, Sept. 21,<br />
to face Niles West and<br />
start CSL South play. The<br />
Wolves are 0-4 this season<br />
and have given up at least<br />
47 points in three of their<br />
four losses.<br />
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