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36 | October 11, 2018 | The wilmette beacon SPORTS wilmettebeacon.com Football New Trier prepares for Maine South with win Michael Wojtychiw Sports Editor New Trier’s Donovan Perkins (10) with a 10-yard run against Niles North Friday, Oct. 5, in Skokie. PHOTOS BY Scott Margolin/22nd Century Media For the second time this season, Mother Nature wreaked havoc on the New Trier football team’s Friday night plans on the gridiron. Week 2 against Loyola saw a weather delay of over an hour that ended up in a Trevians loss. Week 7’s game, however, had quite the different feel to it. Despite having Friday, Oct. 5’s game postponed to Saturday morning, the Trevians were still able to walk away with an easy 42-7 win over Niles North in Skokie. The game officially went into a weather delay at 8:23 p.m. on Friday, with a minute, 50 seconds to go to halftime and New Trier winning 21-0. A little more than 40 minutes later, it was decided to push the game to 10 a.m. on Saturday morning for the safety of everyone involved. “It’s hard to come back on a second day, but we didn’t play exceptionally well last night, so this was kind of a nice fresh start for us today,” New Trier coach Brian Doll said. “We played ok, but I felt today we came out, dominated early and made some plays early.” “You just have to stay focused,” New Trier’s Donovan Perkins said. The Trevians (6-1) came out a little slow, not really able to do much against a Niles North team that had given up at least 41 points in its last five games. It wasn’t until quarterback Carson Ochsenhirt’s three-yard run put the Trevians up 7-0 with under 30 seconds to go in the first period. “We just didn’t play well yesterday, but I think Please see New Trier, 35 NEW TRIER VS. NILES NORTH 1 2 3 4 F NT 7 21 7 7 42 NN 0 0 0 7 7 Top Performers 1. Brian Sitzer, RB – 3 touchdowns of four, two and 15 yards. 2. Donovan Perkins, RB/DB – 71-yard receiving touchdown. 3. New Trier defense – The defense forced two turnovers and held the Vikings scoreless for 47 minutes. Brian Sitzer breaks tackles on his way to scoring a touchdown.
wilmettebeacon.com sports the wilmette beacon | October 11, 2018 | 37 field hockey New Trier’s depth overpowers Glenbrook South Michael Wojtychiw Sports Editor New Trier’s having one of its most successful seasons in recent memory, having dropped only one game, to nationallyranked Sacred Heart out of Kentucky. Not only have the Trevians beaten every team in Illinois, they’ve done so relatively easily. They were looking to continue that streak when they faced off with Glenbrook South Oct. 2 in Northfield. The Titans, in midst of their best season in recent memory, were looking to pick up their 13th win when they faced off in a Central Suburban League battle. Like all of their previous in-state games, however, the Trevians came out on top, picking up a 6-0 win. “There’s no magic in what we really do here, it’s just hard work,” New Trier coach Stephanie Nykaza said. “We’ve got a really solid team and we need to keep this consistency because we have some big games coming up in the next couple weeks. “These guys, when they’re flat, they’re not bad. That’s a good thing. I don’t like being flat and want to keep people on their toes.” The game didn’t start as Nykaza had hoped, however. Despite controlling much of the play, New Trier (16-1) wasn’t able to get much going offensively until Kathryn McLaughlin put a shot past GBS goalie Hope Nimz, giving the hosts a 1-0 lead with 14 minutes, 10 seconds to go in the first half. That goal seemed to ignite the Trevian offense, however, as it went on to score two more goals in the half, one by Faith Stineman at the 8:03 mark and then Katherine Groff at the 3:11 mark. “We were a little flat the first 10, 15 minutes of the game,” Nykaza said. “For us, we were flat. But we made changes and we have a lot of depth, so it’s not hard for us to make those changes. “It means we have a lot of skill players coming off of the bench and I haven’t had that in a while.” The Trevians kept their foot on the pedal in the second half, as Stineman put in her second goal with just under nine minutes elapsed in the half. McLaughlin added her second goal about eight minutes later, giving the Trevians a 5-0 lead, which also triggered a running clock. Despite the Titans (12-3) not being able to get much going against the Trevians, their coach, Tom Rosenbaum, is pleased with what they’ve been able to accomplish thus far. “This team plays really well together as a team,” he said. “The games we’ve won, we’ve played pressure defense, we’ve played really good offense and communicated really well.” Julianne Ross scored the final goal for the Trevians, who like the Titans, are preparing for the playoffs in a couple weeks. “We just need tom continue tom play the way we’ve been playing if we want to make a run in the playoffs,” Rosenbaum said. “We’ll get to where we need to if we defend the ball, possess the ball and make good decisions.” football From Page 38 backfield, is proficient in all phases of the game. But what is it that makes her such a successful player? “She’s a very good football player at this age, she’s got a willingness to learn,” coach Jim Roth said. “She’s coachable, is I guess the word that we use when we find a player that is open and responsive in a positive way with instruction. I would say that’s one of Maeve’s strong suits is that she wants to know how to be better, and then just her athleticism. “She’s an imposing force. “She is very athletic, she’s got phenomenal hands with regards to being able to catch a football, she’s fast and she just ... if you didn’t know she was a girl — it’s hard to tell when she’s in her football uniform — you would think she’s just like all the other boys.”.” For Kelly’s dad, Mike, it’s been great to see his daughter succeeding on the field. “She’s just an athletic kid. And she throws herself into it,” Mike Kelly said. “So to see her continue to succeed, it’s just great to see her continue to learn. She’s had such great coaches, and you know, she just throws herself into it. She really is a student. She really does her homework, tries to learn her plays. It’s been really great for her. She’s really ... she’s learned a lot. Sports do that, any sport.” Despite playing both offense and defense, Maeve Kelly said that one phase in particular is her favorite. “Defense,” she said. “I get to tackle people and stuff and plus it’s actually really fun. Well, it’s fun. Well, defense sometimes wins the game. And offense, sometimes people do bad, and so the defense is there to pick up what the offense didn’t do.” Starting anew It wasn’t really shocking to her family when Maddie Tarr came to her parents and told them she wanted to play football. “I don’t know that I thought of it any different than when Charlie (her son) asked me to play football,” Tarr’s mom Michelle said. “Maybe it’s just because the way the program is so open here. We’re a big football family. My husband’s a big Nebraska football fan so we sit and watch football together on Saturdays. I just was so excited that my kids could be a part of this sport really. It was like a no-brainer for us.” With the season being the first time she had played on a football team, it’d be easy for Tarr to have struggled against others who have been playing for a long time. But, lucking for Tarr, and her bantam teammates, two-thirds of the squad has never played football, so they’re all on even ground. One thing that has helped Tarr develop so quickly is her gymnastics background. The thirdgrader was a gymnast growing up and says she plans to continue doing acrobatics in the circus when she isn’t playing football. That training is something her coach, Eduardo Monk, said has helped her progress so quickly, even though, like Kelly, she is a lineman for her squad despite not being the biggest of players. “When I saw Maddie, I was like, ‘Okay, so she’s going to play a lineman,’” Monk said. Tarr is skilled at backbends, flips and cartwheels and with amazing feet and good upper body strength Monk thought Tarr’s skills could easily adapt to football. “You could see early on Maddie had the strength and the power and the good feet to play on the line, which is what you really need,” Monk said. Breaking barriers Female football players isn’t a new concept to the North Shore youth football programs. The teams have had female players in the past, but the difference between this year and those in the past is that this is the first time two girls have been in the program at the same time. While girls playing football isn’t something new to the local teams, it might be to those teams that face the Northshore Trevians program. With that, it’d be easy for opponents, whether it be players, coaches or fans to make comments toward the girls. Thankfully, that’s something that hasn’t happened. “I’ve heard nothing of the sort,” Monk said. “I’ve seen other coaches and other players look at Maddie in the same way that they would look at boys on the team. “That’s what I love about this level is these kids don’t see male or female. They see athletes. They see football players.” It isn’t just the other teams and coaches that have done that with the girls. Kelly says that it’s been the same way since she’s been with the program as well. “The best part is they don’t treat me like a girl,” she said. “They treat me like one of the boys and stuff. They don’t go easy on me or anything like that.” Both girls said that playing in the program has helped them socially, as well as athletically, and allowed them to come to certain realizations. “I used to feel like girls couldn’t do a lot and boys were more stronger than girls, but then I realized that girls can do anything boys can do,” Tarr said.
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