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38 | October 4, 2018 | The winnetka Current sports<br />
winnetkacurrent.com<br />
Trevians celebrate homecoming with rivalry win<br />
Neil Milbert<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Ask Brian Doll about<br />
senior wide receiver/defensive<br />
back Carson Kosanovich<br />
and the New Trier coach<br />
will tell you: “he makes big<br />
plays in key situations.”<br />
“One game I’m talking<br />
about how great he is offensively;<br />
next game I’m<br />
talking about how great he<br />
is defensively,” Doll continued.<br />
“Tonight he got the momentum<br />
going in our favor<br />
and that got us some confidence.<br />
That set the tone for<br />
the game.”<br />
Doll’s words came in the<br />
aftermath of the Trevians’<br />
hard-earned 35-28 homecoming<br />
victory over an<br />
Evanston team that didn’t<br />
know when to quit.<br />
“That’s the best Evanston<br />
team I’ve seen in a long<br />
time,” Doll said. “They<br />
have weapons everywhere<br />
and a 350-pounder (Quentin<br />
Ivory) on the right side<br />
of their line.”<br />
“They never gave up,”<br />
said wide receiver/defensive<br />
back Sean McNeeley.<br />
“We just perservered.”<br />
The traditional archrivals<br />
EVANSTON VS. NEW TRIER<br />
1 2 3 4 F<br />
EVANSTON 6 0 6 16 28<br />
NEW TRIER 14 7 0 14 35<br />
Top Performers<br />
1. Carson Kosanovich, DB/WR – 2 interceptions, 20-yard<br />
INT TD<br />
2. Brian Sizter, RB – 72-yard touchdown reception, 14-<br />
yard rushing touchdown.<br />
3. Donovan Perkins, RB – The running back scored on a<br />
52-yard run<br />
went into the Friday, Sept.<br />
26 struggle with 4-1 overall<br />
records, while New Trier<br />
was 1-0 in conference play<br />
after a win over Niles West<br />
last week, but Evanston 0-1<br />
after a loss to Maine South.<br />
Kosanovich’s big plays<br />
were three in number and<br />
they all came on defense in<br />
the first quarter.<br />
He opened the scoring<br />
with an interception runback<br />
from about 20 yards<br />
out on a third-and-12 situation<br />
at the Wildkits’ 9-yard<br />
line. He picked off a pass<br />
when Evanston tried for a<br />
two-point conversion after<br />
scoring its first TD with 52<br />
seconds to play in the quarter.<br />
And his interception at<br />
the Evanston 32 on the last<br />
play of the quarter instigated<br />
the Trevians’ drive for<br />
their third touchdown.<br />
The most conspicuous<br />
contributors on offense<br />
were quarterback Carson<br />
Ochsenhirt and running<br />
backs Brian Sitzer and<br />
Donovan Perkins, both of<br />
whom had spent time on<br />
the injured list during the<br />
first half of the season.<br />
“Ochsenhirt is an exciting<br />
quarterback to watch,”<br />
Doll said. “This was a rivalry<br />
game and he stepped<br />
up big. Playing lacrosse has<br />
helped him a lot.<br />
“Brian got hurt in the first<br />
quarter of the Loyola game<br />
and didn’t come back until<br />
he played about a quarter<br />
last week. Tonight we were<br />
Carson Kosanovich makes the interception and runs it back for a New Trier<br />
touchdown to go ahead 7-0 Friday, Sept. 28, in Northfield. Scott Margolin/22nd<br />
Century Media<br />
leaning on him a lot, as a<br />
ballcarrier and on defense,<br />
and he looked great.<br />
“Donovan has come<br />
back from an ankle injury.<br />
It’s healed now and we<br />
were able to use him on offense<br />
a little bit more. He<br />
was one of the guys we<br />
were able to use both ways<br />
effectively in ways that we<br />
hadn’t before tonight. On<br />
his touchdown there was a<br />
fast kid chasing him but the<br />
kid couldn’t catch him.”<br />
Ochsenhirt connected<br />
with Sitzer on a 72-yard<br />
touchdown pass play in the<br />
first quarter and scored on<br />
a 9-yard run in the second<br />
quarter.<br />
“Initially, I was looking<br />
to the other side,” Ochsenhirt<br />
said of the pass that<br />
Sitzer pulled down along<br />
the left sideline and kept<br />
going before slanting to the<br />
middle of the field to break<br />
tackles en route to the end<br />
zone.<br />
“Brian popped open and<br />
I just threw it.”<br />
In the fourth quarter, Perkins<br />
broke away for a 52-<br />
yard scoring run and Sitzer<br />
took the ball to the end<br />
zone from 14 yards out for<br />
the touchdown that came<br />
after the Wildkits cut their<br />
deficit to 28-20 with 8:31<br />
remaining.<br />
Prefacing Sitzer’s TD<br />
was a trick play in a third<br />
down and long yardage<br />
situation from the Evanston<br />
41—a tackle eligible<br />
reception by Duke Olges of<br />
Ochsenhirt’s pass that put<br />
the ball on the 14.<br />
Undaunted by the<br />
derring-do of Olges and<br />
Sitzer, Evanston made another<br />
comeback. Gerrard<br />
Lamour returned the kickoff<br />
to the New Trier 47 to<br />
begin a touchdown drive<br />
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