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46 | March 14, 2019 | The wilmette beacon SPORTS<br />
wilmettebeacon.com<br />
New Trier holds off Loyola, heads to state finals again<br />
Neil Milbert<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Last season it took the<br />
New Trier girls hockey<br />
team two overtimes to<br />
defeat Loyola Academy<br />
in the semifinals of the<br />
Amateur Hockey Association<br />
Illinois state playoffs<br />
but this time it was a lot<br />
easier.<br />
“They took it to us in the<br />
first 10 minutes and then<br />
we took over the game,”<br />
coach Lenny Munson said<br />
after his Trevians moved<br />
on to the championship<br />
game in the United Center<br />
at 4 p.m. on March 22 by<br />
virtue of their compelling<br />
4-2 conquest of the Ramblers<br />
on March 7 at The<br />
Edge in Bensenville.<br />
“We have more scoring<br />
this year. (During the<br />
regular season) we were<br />
the highest scoring girls’<br />
hockey team in Illinois.<br />
“Ella Huber didn’t play<br />
for us last year, and this<br />
year she’s the leading<br />
point-getter in Illinois.<br />
She’s only a sophomore<br />
and she’s already committed<br />
to the University of<br />
Minnesota.”<br />
Huber scored the Trevians’<br />
fourth goal late in<br />
the third period and assisted<br />
when Serena Seiple<br />
got their third goal to prop<br />
goaltender Abby Wieczorek<br />
on a 3-0 cushion<br />
with 3 inutes, 21 seconds<br />
remaining in the middle<br />
period.<br />
Kathryn McLaughlin<br />
opened the scoring at<br />
4:58 of the first period<br />
when her uncontested<br />
short-range attempt from<br />
the right side found the<br />
net after Loyola goalie<br />
Kayla Johnson deflected<br />
a shot-from the opposite<br />
direction and Julia Laden<br />
got the second goal on a<br />
close-in shot with 6:02<br />
elapsed in the second period.<br />
“Our offense was amazing,”<br />
McLaughlin said.<br />
“We used each other well.<br />
Everyone was working.<br />
“It’s going to be awesome<br />
going back to the<br />
United Center with this<br />
new team.”<br />
The Ramblers got on<br />
the scoreboard with 3:21<br />
to play in the second period<br />
when Jayna Park<br />
forced a turnover, broke<br />
away and propelled the<br />
puck past the New Trier<br />
goalie.<br />
New Trier’s Ella Huber brings the puck down the ice against Loyola Thursday, March<br />
7, in Bensenville. Kevin Tanaka/22nd Century Media<br />
“I faked the goalie and<br />
shot high,” Park said.<br />
The Ramblers’ other<br />
goal with 1:49 left in the<br />
contest came from the stick<br />
of Caroline Smith during a<br />
scramble in front of the net.<br />
In a game in which<br />
the action was non-stop<br />
Wieczorek was credited<br />
with 18 saves, while<br />
Johnson had 24.<br />
“Our girls love to play<br />
hockey,” Munson said.<br />
“Fifteen of our 20 players<br />
play (travel hockey) for<br />
either the Young Americans<br />
or the Chicago Mission.<br />
That’s a lot of hockey.”<br />
Loyola also has travel<br />
hockey players on its roster<br />
and some are teammates<br />
of the Trevians with<br />
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Americans.<br />
The girls who are with<br />
the Mission practiced in<br />
downtown Chicago from<br />
5:10 to 6:20 p.m. before<br />
leaving for Bensenville<br />
and their 8:30 p.m. high<br />
school State tournament<br />
semifinal game.<br />
The game concluded<br />
the brilliant high school<br />
career of Loyola’s All-<br />
State senior forward Gabriella<br />
Ciesla, and coach<br />
Robert Messner praised<br />
her contributions to the<br />
Ramblers’ success the last<br />
two seasons.<br />
“She was a captain, a<br />
leader on the ice, a leader<br />
off the ice,” Messner said.<br />
“In the last two years she<br />
has played every position<br />
for us, including goalie.<br />
She brought a passion to<br />
the game that the other<br />
girls fed off.”<br />
Although he will lose<br />
Ciesla to graduation,<br />
Messner will have a<br />
strong nucleus returning<br />
for the 2019-20 season<br />
at Loyola. Juniors Park,<br />
Elle Joubert, Jenna Rekoske<br />
and Kathleen Gorman<br />
played significant roles<br />
this season as did freshmen<br />
Karly Kolssak and<br />
Deanna Buenzow.<br />
While Messner is looking<br />
forward to next season<br />
Munson’s focus is<br />
on the next game: New<br />
Trier’s opponent in the<br />
state title game will be<br />
Fenwick, a 3-1 winner<br />
over Latin School in the<br />
first semifinal game at<br />
The Edge.<br />
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