By Michael Wojtychiw

GLENVIEW — Like many teams early in the season, both Prospect and Glenbard West are looking for players to step up and put the ball into the back of the net. Each team had one game in the Jim Wolter/Titan Invitational where it exploded for four or more goals, but in the other four games, the two combined to score a single goal.

When the teams met in the fifth place game Saturday morning, they continued their search for consistency and someone to take the scoring lead. The Knights (3-2-0) got a candidate when forward Owen Walsh put in a ball with about 15 minutes remaining to seal take a 1-0 win in the fifth place game.

“Shutting out a team like Glenbard West shows that we were able to keep our defense organized and tight, which is what we were struggling with in the early games,” Prospect manager Michael Andrews said. “In the early games of the tournament, we were struggling with marking, giving guys too much space and kind of losing our overall shape.

“We worked hard to remedy that and made certain personnel changes, and the guys really stepped it up today.”