By Michael Wojtychiw
WINNETKA – For most teams in this girls soccer season, the pitch has been a place they’ve competed against other schools for more than three weeks now. That was not the case for North Shore Country Day.
The new-look Raiders debuted their season with a match against conference rival Latin more than 700 days since they last played in the state championship game at North Central College on May 25, 2019.
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CAROL STREAM – The streak is over.
Both Glenbard North and Lake Park came into Saturday, May1’s, game looking for their first win on the year. Each team was also looking for another set of firsts as well: the Lancers aimed for their first overall win since April 23, 2019 (the 2020 season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic); while the Panthers were trying for their first win in a conference game since May 1, 2018. The DuKane Conference, of which they are now members, didn’t exist then. The teams then played in the DuPage Valley Conference.
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CHICAGO – Young came into its key conference matchup against Jones with one decisively large advantage: numbers of games played and days on the pitch.
The Dolphins already had five games under their belt, including matchups against ranked Loyola, Warren and St. Ignatius. Jones, on the other hand, played its first match of the season after a team shutdown due to coronavirus protocols.
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NORTHFIELD – What do you get when you match up two teams with campuses located a mere 0.7 miles away from each other and feature multiple players who have played on the same club teams for years?
You get a tough, physical matchup that had double-digit fouls en route to a hard-earned 1-1 result between New Trier and Loyola, that’s what.
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GLENVIEW — Six hundred and ninety eight days.
That’s how long it had been since Loyola had taken to the pitch. That changed Thursday evening, however, when the Ramblers welcomed Young to their Munz Campus in Glenview April 15.
“It’s unbelievable, such a great feeling to be back on the field,” Loyola’s Kendall Beil said. “Playing for your school, playing for your teammates, there was undoubtedly great energy. You could feel it in the crowd and everybody on the bench.”
Continue readingBased off of the teams’ first match on April 19, a 1-1 draw, it was a safe bet that the Glenbrook South and New Trier sectional semifinal match Tuesday was going to be a tough one. Continue reading
Coming into Glenbrook South’s West Chicago Invite May 2 game against the host, the Titans’ Olivia Peters knew she was approaching 100 goals and that the likelihood of reaching the milestone was high that day. Continue reading
The spring can be a hard time to be a high school athlete playing an outdoor sport. With the crazy weather and uncertainty of whether a game will be played, many teams are made to scramble and reschedule key games for later in the season no matter what that game day’s weather may be like. Continue reading
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