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38 | October 17, 2019 | The glencoe anchor sports<br />
glencoeanchordaily.com<br />
Scouts upend Trevians in battle of top teams<br />
Gary Larsen, Freelance Reporter<br />
When Lake Forest’s Gracie<br />
McGowan finally broke a scoreless<br />
tie against New Trier, with<br />
less than nine minutes to play,<br />
the Scouts’ field hockey team<br />
quickly gathered for a timeout.<br />
The message was clear.<br />
“We called timeout and said<br />
that we can’t let them come back<br />
on us,” Scouts junior Julia Hender<br />
said. “We had to stay in the<br />
game and keep our intensity up.<br />
Because the second you drop<br />
back, they’re back in the game.”<br />
The Scouts kept a high intensity<br />
level and used it to get a<br />
second goal from Erica O’Neil<br />
down the stretch. New Trier’s<br />
Kate McLaughlin buried a goal<br />
with less than a minute remaining<br />
before the final buzzer gave<br />
Lake Forest a 2-1 win.<br />
In a game between two of Illinois’<br />
top teams, it was also the<br />
first time in three tries that Lake<br />
Forest (17-3-2) earned a win<br />
over New Trier (22-2-1) this season.<br />
New Trier won 1-0 and 3-1 in<br />
the teams’ previous two meetings.<br />
But the host Trevians<br />
couldn’t pull off a third win over<br />
the Scouts in Northfield on Friday,<br />
Oct. 11.<br />
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Nykaza quickly tipped her hat to<br />
Lake Forest.<br />
“They played great, they<br />
played up, and they did what<br />
they needed to do,” Nykaza said.<br />
“The games between Lake Forest<br />
and New Trier are always<br />
emotional and our girls are upset.<br />
But I also think we’re a better<br />
team than we showed.”<br />
Fifty-two scoreless minutes of<br />
field hockey through two halves<br />
played out before McGowan<br />
scored on an assist from Mimi<br />
Gordon. To that point momentum<br />
swings marked the game,<br />
with the teams taking turns applying<br />
attacking pressure.<br />
Lake Forest benefited from<br />
finally having the whole family<br />
together at the dinner table.<br />
“We’ve had players out with<br />
mono, a car accident, and pneumonias<br />
so today was the second<br />
day all season where we’ve had<br />
our core group all together,”<br />
Scouts coach Catherine Catanzaro<br />
said. “Everybody’s healthy<br />
for the first time.”<br />
Hender played in only her<br />
second game back since a fourweek<br />
absence due to mono. She<br />
saw confidence as the chief ingredient<br />
in the Scouts’ win.<br />
“We have a really young team<br />
this year but we went into this<br />
game with confidence that we<br />
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could come out on top,” Hender<br />
said. “So it was just going into it<br />
knowing that we had the talent to<br />
beat them.”<br />
“I think we’ve been unconfident<br />
the last few times we’ve<br />
played them. But not any more.”<br />
Lake Forest continued to play<br />
hard after McGowan’s goal<br />
and went up 2-0 when O’Neil<br />
pounced on a loose ball near the<br />
goal mouth and converted with<br />
only 3:30 left to play.<br />
New Trier kept battling but by<br />
the time McLaughlin struck for<br />
the Trevians, only 24.9 seconds<br />
remained in the game.<br />
Catanzaro couldn’t single anyone<br />
out in a total team win for<br />
Lake Forest.<br />
“Our bench was loud, they<br />
were engaged, and when I asked<br />
people to go in they stepped up<br />
and played their role,” Catanzaro<br />
said. “They did exactly what<br />
they were asked to do. Nobody<br />
tried to carry it themselves. Everybody<br />
accepted that they had a<br />
role and when you do that, you<br />
get this type of game.<br />
“We’ve been working on trusting<br />
each other and today I think<br />
that was the biggest difference<br />
— they played as a unit.”<br />
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According to national rankings<br />
at Max Field Hockey, New<br />
Trier is the top-ranked team in<br />
the West/Mid-West region, and<br />
Lake Forest is ranked no. 7. New<br />
Trier is also ranked no. 13 in the<br />
country.<br />
The Trevians have played a<br />
brutal schedule that includes a<br />
tournament on the East Coast<br />
and competition against some<br />
of the best teams in the United<br />
States.<br />
Players like Amelia Griffin,<br />
Grace Harris, Evelyn Lake, and<br />
Hillary Cox have keyed a fine<br />
season, and McLaughlin is having<br />
a stellar season.<br />
McLaughlin’s goal against<br />
Lake Forest was her 56th goal of<br />
the season.<br />
“That is absolutely amazing,”<br />
Nykaza said. “She has been huge<br />
for us. “She’s amazing. She’s<br />
competitive in every practice, in<br />
every drill, and the best players<br />
are like that and she just wants to<br />
win, all the time. I’ve never seen<br />
anyone work harder.”<br />
New Trier had Loyola Academy<br />
and Stevenson remaining<br />
on its regular-season schedule<br />
before sectional play begins on<br />
Oct. 22. Lake Forest had Oak<br />
Park-River Forest and Glenbrook<br />
South left to play before<br />
post-season play begins.<br />
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