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Boys Hockey
Trevians’ penalty-ridden game no factor in win over Ramblers
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1st-and-3
three PLAYERS of
the WEEK
1. Bennett
Kwiecinski
(above). The
Loyola junior
boys basketball
player scored 15
points and had
six rebounds in a
win over Marian
Catholic.
2. Tinah Hong. The
New Trier junior
girls basketball
player scoring
the game-winning
free throws with
4.7 seconds
remaining to
help the Trevians
defeat Evanston.
3. Bobby Soudan.
The New Trier
Green hockey
player scored
two goals in the
Trevians’ 4-1 win
over Loyola Gold.
Brittany Kapa
Freelance Reporter
Puck possession favors
the bold, and in a battle
between New Trier and
Loyola Academy, the Trevians
had the advantage.
Despite a grand total of
104 penalty minutes between
both sides at Winnetka
Ice Arena, Saturday,
Jan. 12, New Trier Green
came out on top with a 4-1
win over its biggest rival.
“It’s always a very emotional
game, and unfortunately
there usually are
a lot of penalties,” New
Trier Green coach Bob
Melton said. “We do have,
what I feel, is the best penalty
kill in the state. As
much as I didn’t like some
of the penalties I took – I
thought they were kind of
dumb – our penalty kill
came through big time.”
Jakob Travis scored the
Trevians’ first goal in the
opening period, but the
Ramblers made it interesting
tying the game in second
off an Eamon O’Brien
goal.
“I thought Loyola outplayed
us a little bit in
the second,” Melton said.
“The third period we came
out strong. Jack Norehad
might have scored the
go-ahead goal, and it just
seemed we built on that,
and I thought we were the
better team in the third.”
Norehad’s follow up
from a rebound put the
New Trier’s Bobby Soudan (right) wraps-around the net for an insurance goal against
Loyola late in the third period Saturday, Jan. 12 in Winnetka. Brittany Kapa/22nd
Century Media
Trevians a goal ahead with
12 minutes, 43 seconds
left in the game.
But a one-goal advantage
wasn’t enough for the
Trevians, who capitalized
on the only power-play
goal of the night. Loyola’s
Cole Corrigan was cited
for a minor head contact
call and a 10-minute misconduct
with 7:31 left to
play in the third. A man
short, the Ramblers staved
off New Trier’s attack until
Bobby Soudan employed
the rarely used wraparound
move and added an
insurance goal.
“I had some good speed
going to the net, and I saw
a lot of space in the front
of me since it was a power
play,” Soudan said. “I kind
of cocked it back, and tried
to get the defenseman to
try and bite on the fake
shot.”
It worked, and Loyola
Gold’s goalie, Andrew
Shearson, followed by
coming out of the crease a
little higher to adjust. That
gave Soudan enough room
to feed the puck in the
back of the net.
“I told the boys, if we
can ever get out power
play as good as our penalty
kill then we’ll be unstoppable,”
Melton said.
Loyola struggled to
maintain possession of the
puck as New Trier utilized
their momentum in an energy-filled
third period.
Shearson finally made it
to the bench with just 52
seconds left to play.
Like the Ramblers
many power plays previously,
the man-advantage
didn’t help. Soudan capitalized
on the empty net
and added his second of
the night with 21 seconds
to play.
“We weren’t happy with
how we played last time
we went against these guys
head-to-head, but we feel
this game was a big factor
in the seeding of state
playoffs,” Soudan said.
“This win should really set
us apart from the group.”
Loyola Gold co-coach
Blake Sorensen knows that
this was not his team’s best
game.
“Physically they abused
us and we weren’t willing
to match it,” he said.
“I think some of the New
Trier kids got in our heads
early on, got under our
skin, and it impacted our
play. It impacted our mindset
to be competing for
loose pucks.”
For Sorensen, that was
the different in the outcome
of the game.
“Our game is based on
puck possession, taking
pucks to the net and skating
not in a verbal confrontation
against kids,”
he said. “I think it was too
many kids trying to do it
on their own [tonight]. For
us to be effective we have
to share the puck, and enter
the zone with speed.”
Loyola’s schedule won’t
let up either, they still have
to face powerhouse teams
like Glenbrook North, Stevenson
and Barrington.
Sorensen knows that this
loss will only help his
team.
“We’ll leave the rink
with our heads high because
it’s only January
12,” he said. “We’re going
to become a better hockey
team because of this result
tonight. We need to learn
from that, learn from our
mistakes and be willing to
be a teammate and not an
individual.”
Listen Up
“It was very loud, but I kept telling myself ‘I
can make this.’”
Tinah Hong — New Trier girls basketball player about
what was going through her head before her gamewinning
free throws.
tunE in
What to watch this week
BOYS BASKETBALL: It’s a shootout for a good cause as Evanston
hosts the War on the Shore.
• New Trier, Loyola play in a shootout Saturday, Jan.
19, at Evanston. NT at 3 p.m., LA at 4:30 p.m.
Index
28 - This Week In
27 - Athlete of the Week
Fastbreak is compiled by Sports Editor Michael
Wojtychiw, m.wojtychiw@22ndcenturymedia.com.