Late goal halts NSCD bid for road point
Parker's Dylan Jung scores in 75th-minute to earn ISL win
By Patrick Z. McGavin
CHICAGO -- Carl Jung (1875-1961) was a pioneering Swiss psychiatrist who is the founder of the practice called analytical psychology, exploring our rational states of being, or what Jung called thinking and feeling.
The small-school city soccer powerhouse Parker has its own Jung, specifically Dylan Jung, a dynamic and whirling dervish of a player who displays flair and daring. He is one of six returning starters from the Colonels’ Class A team that played in a supersectional last year.
He was his own archetype against North Shore Country Day. As the only forward in the Colonels’ 4-5-1 formation, he stands alone. Jung has demonstrated a very specific talent for creating space. At just 5-foot-5, he is elusive and unpredictable and knows how to work through tight windows.
He was the best player on the field who created repeated opportunities. Despite his individual play, North Shore Country Day found the means to deny him. For more than 90 percent of the game, the Raiders had an answer in the form of the seven saves by freshman keeper Nick Potter or the splendid play of its backline of Riley Jones, Andrew Karmin, Axel Garcia or Tyler Doornweerd.
Eventually the law of averages caught up to the Raiders.
North Shore Country Day kept Jung and the Colonels on a string until the 75th minute when Jung blasted a ball from about 25 yards for a textbook goal and a 1-0 Independent School League victory Friday afternoon in Lincoln Park.
Jung earned the Chicagoland Soccer Man of the match prize for his game-winner. Midfielder Tomas Catoggio slotted the ball that Jung finished.
“It was a heartbreaker,” North Shore Country Day coach Kyle Jones said. “Our boys were pretty dejected from the end of the game. From an effort standpoint, I could not have faulted them.”
The game marked the ISL seasonal debut of the Raiders. Coming off an earlier 2-0 loss against much-larger Lake Forest, North Shore Country Day was seeking its own answers about how to unlock its full offensive potential.
Parker had the clear advantage in possession time, shots on goal and quality of play. The game gave every indication of being a rout, of sorts.
“I think people would have been surprised had they just watched the game and not looked at the scoreboard,” Parker coach Neil Curran said. “Had you just watched the game, it probably seemed like a 4-0 or 5-0 game.”
Parker (3-2,0, 1-1-0) held the advantages. North Shore capably negated their skills in direct ways with superb effort and emotional intensity. Potter was the primary interruptor. He made several athletic stops, including a leaping tip of a ball by Parker midfielder Jarad Albert.
Jung made several forays deep into the Raiders’ backline, only to see Potter or one of the defenders converge on the ball and take away the favored angles.
“Kyle has a good group of kids,” Curran said. “They are better than they appear to be. That has everything to do with his coaching ability. He turns out a product every year that is well organized. He always has a group of guys that just never stop. That was the most impressive thing in watching them. No matter what we did, they just kept coming and coming.”
Mason Roberts-Jones, a freshman who is also the coach’s son, had several strong runs against Parker. Twice in the game he got behind the Colonels’ back and managed a strong one-on-one opportunity at their keeper, Zach Lending. He was able to get accurate shots off, but they lacked the punch and movement to be considered truly dangerous.
North Shore Country Day (2-3-0, 0-1-0) endured its third-consecutive shutout. Kyle Jones has been experimenting with different formations and making subtle changes in an effort to bring more drive and zest to the attack.
Forward Vincent Luglio, who led the ISL in scoring last year as a freshman, is looking to become more dangerous. North Shore Country Day failed to score. That is not to say the team did not have some decent runs throughout the game. The Raiders managed four corner kicks and a couple of free kicks.
The team is struggling putting the final touch together.
“We switched things up after the Lake Forest game to try and create a few more chances,” Jones said. “We’ve got several more conference games coming up. We have the guys to score goals. Right now it’s just taking a bit longer.
“At one point in the game, I looked out and Parker had 10 seniors out there. We are playing a lot of freshmen and sophomores out there, and you have to keep that in mind. We are just looking to get better.
“Games like this one, the boys are not going to forget.”
Small-school soccer is a thing of beauty played by the likes of Parker and North Shore Country Day. The two schools typically go up against five, six or seven times their size and more than hold their own. The ISL games have a purity and wonder to them. Parker’s experience and savvy showed.
The Colonels had fallen into a trap of sorts, dominating games statistically but finding ways to lose. They were eager to get on the right side of the scoreboard.
“That has been the tale of the tape this year,” Curran said. “We are moving the ball around really well. Even with the two losses, against Intrinsic and Northridge Prep, both of those games we dominated. We just did not finish the way we should have.”
The two leaders from the supersectional qualifier, four-year keeper Chase Heyman and star forward Cameron Miller, have graduated and the Colonels are still finding their way.
The North Shore game was a promising step in the right direction.
“We are a couple of weeks in front of where I thought we’d be,” Curran said. “Defensively, I thought we are coming together. We are defending far better and preventing people from penetrating in on us. We are faster than I thought we were going to be.
“We just have to resolve how to put the ball into the back of the net.”
By contrast, North Shore Country Day has simply aimed to get better. On Tuesday, the Raiders play their toughest game of the year against undefeated Latin, which joined the Chicagoland Soccer Top 25 at no. 23 this week.
“There are no excuses,” Jones said. “When you have an even game, and you don’t create or finish the chances, you leave yourselves susceptible to a goal like that. You have to create your chances.
“These games are tough and you have to take chances and play to the end. We have to close spaces, and not let those good players in there to punish us.”
Starting lineups
North Shore Country Day
GK: Nick Potter
D: Riley Jones
D: Andrew Karmin
D: Axel Garcia
D: Tyler Doornweerd
MF: Finn Doornweerd
MF: Alex Winslow
MF: Adam Terhaerdt
MF: Aidan Zavala
MF: Jacob Sherman
F: Vincent Luglio
Parker
GK: Zach Lending
D: Aaron Stone
D: Sammy Kagan
D: Jack Maling
D: Tyler Maling
MF: Joey Stern
MF: Oscar Fardon
MF: Tomas Catoggio
MF: Jarad Albert
MF: Daniel Mansueto
F: Dylan Jung
Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match: Dylan Jung, sr., F, Parker
Scoring summary
Second half
Parker—Dylan Jung (Tomas Catoggio), 75th minute
Parker's Dylan Jung scores in 75th-minute to earn ISL win
By Patrick Z. McGavin
CHICAGO -- Carl Jung (1875-1961) was a pioneering Swiss psychiatrist who is the founder of the practice called analytical psychology, exploring our rational states of being, or what Jung called thinking and feeling.
The small-school city soccer powerhouse Parker has its own Jung, specifically Dylan Jung, a dynamic and whirling dervish of a player who displays flair and daring. He is one of six returning starters from the Colonels’ Class A team that played in a supersectional last year.
He was his own archetype against North Shore Country Day. As the only forward in the Colonels’ 4-5-1 formation, he stands alone. Jung has demonstrated a very specific talent for creating space. At just 5-foot-5, he is elusive and unpredictable and knows how to work through tight windows.
He was the best player on the field who created repeated opportunities. Despite his individual play, North Shore Country Day found the means to deny him. For more than 90 percent of the game, the Raiders had an answer in the form of the seven saves by freshman keeper Nick Potter or the splendid play of its backline of Riley Jones, Andrew Karmin, Axel Garcia or Tyler Doornweerd.
Eventually the law of averages caught up to the Raiders.
North Shore Country Day kept Jung and the Colonels on a string until the 75th minute when Jung blasted a ball from about 25 yards for a textbook goal and a 1-0 Independent School League victory Friday afternoon in Lincoln Park.
Jung earned the Chicagoland Soccer Man of the match prize for his game-winner. Midfielder Tomas Catoggio slotted the ball that Jung finished.
“It was a heartbreaker,” North Shore Country Day coach Kyle Jones said. “Our boys were pretty dejected from the end of the game. From an effort standpoint, I could not have faulted them.”
The game marked the ISL seasonal debut of the Raiders. Coming off an earlier 2-0 loss against much-larger Lake Forest, North Shore Country Day was seeking its own answers about how to unlock its full offensive potential.
Parker had the clear advantage in possession time, shots on goal and quality of play. The game gave every indication of being a rout, of sorts.
“I think people would have been surprised had they just watched the game and not looked at the scoreboard,” Parker coach Neil Curran said. “Had you just watched the game, it probably seemed like a 4-0 or 5-0 game.”
Parker (3-2,0, 1-1-0) held the advantages. North Shore capably negated their skills in direct ways with superb effort and emotional intensity. Potter was the primary interruptor. He made several athletic stops, including a leaping tip of a ball by Parker midfielder Jarad Albert.
Jung made several forays deep into the Raiders’ backline, only to see Potter or one of the defenders converge on the ball and take away the favored angles.
“Kyle has a good group of kids,” Curran said. “They are better than they appear to be. That has everything to do with his coaching ability. He turns out a product every year that is well organized. He always has a group of guys that just never stop. That was the most impressive thing in watching them. No matter what we did, they just kept coming and coming.”
Mason Roberts-Jones, a freshman who is also the coach’s son, had several strong runs against Parker. Twice in the game he got behind the Colonels’ back and managed a strong one-on-one opportunity at their keeper, Zach Lending. He was able to get accurate shots off, but they lacked the punch and movement to be considered truly dangerous.
North Shore Country Day (2-3-0, 0-1-0) endured its third-consecutive shutout. Kyle Jones has been experimenting with different formations and making subtle changes in an effort to bring more drive and zest to the attack.
Forward Vincent Luglio, who led the ISL in scoring last year as a freshman, is looking to become more dangerous. North Shore Country Day failed to score. That is not to say the team did not have some decent runs throughout the game. The Raiders managed four corner kicks and a couple of free kicks.
The team is struggling putting the final touch together.
“We switched things up after the Lake Forest game to try and create a few more chances,” Jones said. “We’ve got several more conference games coming up. We have the guys to score goals. Right now it’s just taking a bit longer.
“At one point in the game, I looked out and Parker had 10 seniors out there. We are playing a lot of freshmen and sophomores out there, and you have to keep that in mind. We are just looking to get better.
“Games like this one, the boys are not going to forget.”
Small-school soccer is a thing of beauty played by the likes of Parker and North Shore Country Day. The two schools typically go up against five, six or seven times their size and more than hold their own. The ISL games have a purity and wonder to them. Parker’s experience and savvy showed.
The Colonels had fallen into a trap of sorts, dominating games statistically but finding ways to lose. They were eager to get on the right side of the scoreboard.
“That has been the tale of the tape this year,” Curran said. “We are moving the ball around really well. Even with the two losses, against Intrinsic and Northridge Prep, both of those games we dominated. We just did not finish the way we should have.”
The two leaders from the supersectional qualifier, four-year keeper Chase Heyman and star forward Cameron Miller, have graduated and the Colonels are still finding their way.
The North Shore game was a promising step in the right direction.
“We are a couple of weeks in front of where I thought we’d be,” Curran said. “Defensively, I thought we are coming together. We are defending far better and preventing people from penetrating in on us. We are faster than I thought we were going to be.
“We just have to resolve how to put the ball into the back of the net.”
By contrast, North Shore Country Day has simply aimed to get better. On Tuesday, the Raiders play their toughest game of the year against undefeated Latin, which joined the Chicagoland Soccer Top 25 at no. 23 this week.
“There are no excuses,” Jones said. “When you have an even game, and you don’t create or finish the chances, you leave yourselves susceptible to a goal like that. You have to create your chances.
“These games are tough and you have to take chances and play to the end. We have to close spaces, and not let those good players in there to punish us.”
Starting lineups
North Shore Country Day
GK: Nick Potter
D: Riley Jones
D: Andrew Karmin
D: Axel Garcia
D: Tyler Doornweerd
MF: Finn Doornweerd
MF: Alex Winslow
MF: Adam Terhaerdt
MF: Aidan Zavala
MF: Jacob Sherman
F: Vincent Luglio
Parker
GK: Zach Lending
D: Aaron Stone
D: Sammy Kagan
D: Jack Maling
D: Tyler Maling
MF: Joey Stern
MF: Oscar Fardon
MF: Tomas Catoggio
MF: Jarad Albert
MF: Daniel Mansueto
F: Dylan Jung
Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match: Dylan Jung, sr., F, Parker
Scoring summary
Second half
Parker—Dylan Jung (Tomas Catoggio), 75th minute