Timothy wins in PKs
over Wheaton Academy
Trojans top Warriors 5-4 after 6 shootout rounds
By Dave Owen
ELMHURST – When quality teams like Wheaton Academy and Timothy meet, it often requires digging deeper than usual to produce victory.
The host Trojans put that cliché to the ultimate test Thursday.
When starting goalkeeper Peter Buikema was knocked from the game on a battle for a loose ball in the box with 8:41 left in the second overtime, Kyle Steiner was thrust into action in the battle between top Metro Suburban Conference Blue Division rivals.
Steiner was more than up to the pressure cooker challenge.
With the match going into a penalty kick shootout, the junior made saves on two of the Warriors’ six PK tries (including a diving block at the right post on the final attempt).
The end result: Timothy (7-2-1, 4-0-0) won the kick session 5-4 and the match, emerging with a leg up on perennial power Wheaton Academy (5-3-1, 2-1-0) in the conference race.
“They threw some balls with me on the sideline (warming up),” Steiner said, “but I just wanted to get through that overtime. When we practice PKs I save a lot of them. That’s where I wanted to be, in that position with PKs.”
Steiner got a fingertip on the first Warriors’ PK that went in, then made clean saves on the fourth and sixth shots – a sixth round was needed when the first five PK shooters produced a 4-4 tie between the teams.
“I try to guess one side and cover as much of the goal that I can,” Steiner said, “and do what I can to get in front of the ball. It’s a guessing game in the PKs.”
Steiner’s PK heroics earned him Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match honors.
But starter Buikema came up just as big late in regulation to set the stage.
After an eventful first 31-plus minutes of the second half produced a 2-2 tie, Buikema was center stage in a key sequence with 8:55 remaining in regulation.
The freshman keeper made a diving save at the left post on Jude Barton’s low 28-yard rocket, but in the race for the loose rebound, Buikema tripped hustling Warriors forward Robert Platt to produce a Wheaton Academy penalty kick.
Platt had netted the goal of the night 13 minutes earlier, a sliding boot between two defenders that tucked inches inside the right post.
But Buikema won the PK rematch. His diving stop towards the left post denied the Warriors’ striker and led to even bigger dramatics later on.
“Peter is fantastic,” Steiner said. “We weren’t in that (overtime PK) situation without Peter. He stepped up huge.
“He’s a freshman, and it’s unbelievable to watch how far he’s come. He means so much to this team. We work together each practice; we’re good friends. It’s a great friendship we’ve built. You couldn’t ask for a better goalkeeper friend on the team.”
The friendly battle for time in the nets between talented goalkeepers can produce a coaching conundrum.
“We were actually having the debate between our staff in the second half,” Timothy coach Joel Zielke said. “If we go to PKs who goes (at keeper). Peter made a big save there (on the regulation PK), but we know Kyle is super athletic; and he’s always making those athletic saves.
“Our hand got forced unfortunately with the injury to Peter, but Kyle really came in big for us there.”
Zielke added that Buikema appeared OK after the scrum in front outside of a swollen hand.
“We’ll give it some time,” he said.
For Wheaton Academy, 100 minutes of quality time on the pitch produced a disappointing result but a philosophical outlook.
“We played great team soccer and held each other up through all of it,” said junior Josiah Pitts, a defensive standout for the Warriors. “There were a lot of difficulties to overcome and today just wasn’t our day. God bless the other team, and we hope for a successful rest of the season.”
Last second drama was nothing new for the Warriors this fall.
“Interestingly enough we played an invitational earlier in the season, and we won two games on penalty kicks,” Wheaton Academy coach Cody Snouffer said. “So I told my guys (after the game) it’s actually okay to get a taste of what it’s like to lose them. Normally when you lose them, the season’s over.
“We can taste the bitterness now with practice tomorrow. In the playoffs, you taste the bitterness and look at a 10-month waiting period.”
Evan Eckert, Haetham Nasr, Josh Mariotti and Caleb Mariotti converted PKs for the Warriors.
As for Timothy, a diving save by Wheaton Academy goalkeeper Declan Finnegan on the first shot was followed by consecutive finishes by Cam Baker, Ethan Lemkull, Chris Cruz, Carter Day and Jake Alex.
Alex preceded Steiner’s deciding save with a left corner PK putaway, the capper to the senior defender’s great night.
“I just work a lot (in PKs) on aiming for the corners and focusing on that,” Alex said. “I had a season-ending knee injury last year, the last game of the season (in the spring).
“I broke my patella and had to rehab all summer basically just to get ready for the season. Getting in shape was a big part of it, and I just grinded.”
Alex was back on the field for Timothy’s season opener with Northridge, and in the spotlight for the huge win Thursday.
“This means a lot to me,” Alex said, “especially two years in a row (vs. Wheaton Academy) we got it done (with wins). The boys are great; we put in a lot of effort. It was a great performance overall.
“This is real big in conference, and this is my senior year. It means a lot to me. I’m just proud of the team and proud of everybody.”
As expected, Wheaton Academy made it anything but easy.
After the two talented sides battled to a nil-nil first half, the Warriors jumped ahead 1-0 just two minutes into the second half as Caleb Mariotti broke in on the right side and powered an 18-yarder into the upper right corner of the net.
“It’s really easy for me to take Caleb and his brother Josh for granted,” Snouffer said. “They’re twins, out there wearing (numbers)17 and 18, and they always perform so well.
“It’s great to see one of them get on the tally sheet, because a lot of times they’re pulling the strings for everybody else.”
But down 1-0, Timothy continued a season-long trend of answering every challenge.
After a foul with 33:29 left, Cruz powered a 20-yard free kick into the upper right corner of the net to tie the game 1-1.
The goal was Cruz’s ninth of the season.
“He does a great job,” Zielke said. “We’re playing a 4-5-1 so he’s our lone guy up there (at forward), and that’s a big ask to have him hold the ball and get numbers forward. But we had to get to that spot to try to own the midfield. And it worked out.”
Great efforts by the Wheaton Academy defense were needed to keep Cruz off the board besides the set piece.
“Obviously they have a really talented striker: Chris Cruz is a heck of a player,” Pitts said. “You’ll only see a couple of people like him throughout the season. He got past me a couple of times, but I think I did a good job adapting.
“At the same time I trusted that if I wasn’t stopping him I had a great center back right next to me and two good outside backs.”
That maximum effort to contain Cruz began early, with Flanagan making a diving catch at the right post on a Cruz shot in the second minute of the match.
Later in the half, Cruz turned a strong 1-on-2 right side attack into a 10-yard shot over the net, and had a 30-yard free kick headed away by Josh Mariotti.
And Pitts was a constant factor, routinely clearing threats from just inside or at the edge of the box.
“I thought Josiah played really well,” Snouffer said. “He’s a versatile kid that we’ve played a couple different positions, and he played a great match. He caused a lot of trouble for them in the air. Gio (Nicoski) and Robert and Haetham, our front three, caused a lot of danger. It would have been nice to make the keeper make a few more saves, but I thought we were dangerous which was great.”
The best first half threats the Warriors did produce were from Platt (a low 20-yard shot juggled and controlled by Buikema in the 25th minute) and Nasr (corner kick cleared by Ethan Monk and Baker in the 30th minute).
“I thought our whole backline was pretty consistent with winning the ball,” Zielke said of the Timothy defense. “We knew they have a lot of speed up-top, and we wanted to be sure to be tight on them and not give them open space to roam.
“They were really strong in the middle. The first half I thought they outplayed us in that spot. Then we turned it up a little bit in the second half to try to match that pace.”
Fast forwarding back to that second half, the 1-1 tie after Cruz’s free kick didn’t last long.
After Buikema nicely blocked a Platt one-timer off a cross to the left post with 23:10 left, Platt turned a sliver of space into a lead two minutes later.
On a loose ball off a Nasr corner kick, Platt’s sliding shot in traffic somehow found the net inside the right post.
But suddenly down 2-1 to a Warriors team on a five-game winning streak, Timothy didn’t panic.
“We knew that the game’s not over (down 2-1),” Alex said. “We played St. Ed’s, and we were down 2-1 at the half and came back and won 5-2.
“So the second half is usually our half. We’re really strong in those. We just wanted to make sure we finish our opportunities and don’t get down. Next play.”
That next play came with just under 15 minutes left in regulation. Out of a scramble in the box for a loose ball, senior Ethan Lemkull found the back of the net through the scrum to retie the game 2-2.
Buikema’s save on the PK came six minutes later. And despite great Wheaton Academy efforts and Buikema’s exit, Timothy never let the momentum get away again.
“Our mindset is we’re never out of a game until it’s over,” Zielke said. “It’s a very resilient group. We went down 1-0, tied it, down 2-1, tied it. Then a huge save by Peter to keep us in the game on the PK. That was definitely a turning point.
“It’s tough to see a team lose tonight. Cody’s a great coach. Both groups really left everything out there. It’s obviously exciting for the fans, and great for us to get a win.”
After an uneventful first OT, Buikema’s second OT injury was followed by set piece chances for Wheaton Academy’s Nasr (a free kick headed away by Alex) and Timothy’s Monk (a shot over the net off a Cruz free kick).
Then came the PKs and the narrowest of decisions.
“It was a very even match,” Zielke said. “I thought both groups had plenty of chances, defended well, competed for everything and left it all out there.”
Being on the downside of a PK-decided match so important to the league race produced a natural reaction.
“The worst way to finish a game in history,” Snouffer said of PKs. “The kids had nothing left in the tank.
“But credit to Timothy. They have a really good young squad. I want the MSC to be a strong conference. Timothy’s on the rise, Ridgewood’s on the rise, St. Francis – it’s great when the conference is a dog fight. I think the MSC conference trophy is starting to mean a lot. The last five years so many coaches have come in and put the programs in good places.”
Snouffer is one of those coaches, arriving as head coach in 2019 after a standout playing career at Mt. Vernon Nazarene in Ohio (where ex-White Sox pitcher and 1988 NL Rookie of the Year Tim Belcher starred in baseball).
Wheaton Academy has made four state semifinal trips in the last decade, including the 2014 Class AA title. That puts results like Thursday into perspective.
“You have to win the right seven games (the state tournament) every year,” Snouffer said. “That’s something we haven’t done in a long time and that I haven’t done as a coach.
“We’ve really tried to frame our season in that light. You get a season after a season and it’s one game at a time. We try to schedule big nonconference opponents to challenge us, but in our conference there are schools that play the style we’re going to see in the state series, so conference is a warmup for the tourney run.”
The Warriors quickly warmed up to fire hot after an 0-2-1 start this season. They won their last three matches by a combined 19-2 score (including 4-1 over Batavia on Sept. 11).
“Our coach has great game plans,” Pitts said, “and he adapted them after the St. Charles Invitational. He did all he could to prepare us, and it was working for awhile.
“I feel like today we came out expecting something that wasn’t secure yet, but I feel like if we go out every game like it’s a state championship game we’ll have a successful season.”
A shorter-than-usual natural grass field at Timothy where multiple goalkeeper punts reached the opposing end box added to the Warriors’ challenges Thursday.
“They’re a great team, and this field is unorthodox,” Pitts said. “We haven’t played on a field quite like this all year. We were preparing by playing on a grass field at our school, and mentally we were prepared.
“We trusted each other and came out with a mindset that we were going to win this game. Obviously that wasn’t the outcome, but I just hope we learn from this.”
For Timothy, the night meant celebration instead of introspection.
“It’s a huge win,” Steiner said. “This is a game we look forward to every year. We all wanted to win it so badly. This was the highlight of our season so far for sure.”
The win was Timothy’s fourth in a row over a nine-day span.
“We have a lot of momentum,” Zielke said. “We’re on a roll and we just want to continue going forward to obviously get better each day. Conference is something we really wanted to win this year. We know the job’s not done, but this is a step towards a championship.”
Starting lineups
Wheaton Academy
GK Declan Finnegan
D Xander Anaya
D Scotty Murray
D Troy Ericson
D Josiah Pitts
M Josh Mariotti
M Caleb Mariotti
M Giovanni Nicoski
M Evan Eckert
F Robert Platt
F Haetham Nasr
Timothy
GK Peter Buikema
D Jake Firnsin
D Carter Day
D Jake Alex
D Ethan Monk
M Eddie Favela
M Josh McMillan
M Cameron Baker
M Ethan Lemkull
M Chris Cruz
F Caleb Hoekstra
Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match: Kyle Steiner, jr. GK, Timothy
Scoring summary
First half
No scoring
Second half
WA- Caleb Mariotti, 42’
T- Chris Cruz, 47’
WA- Robert Platt, 59’
T- Ethan Lemkull, 66’
First overtime
No scoring
Second overtimes
No scoring
Shootout (six rounds)
WA (4 PKs made) – Evan Eckert, Haetham Nasr, Josh Mariotti, Caleb Mariotti
T (5 PKs made) – Cam Baker, Ethan Lemkull, Chris Cruz, Carter Day, Jake Alex
over Wheaton Academy
Trojans top Warriors 5-4 after 6 shootout rounds
By Dave Owen
ELMHURST – When quality teams like Wheaton Academy and Timothy meet, it often requires digging deeper than usual to produce victory.
The host Trojans put that cliché to the ultimate test Thursday.
When starting goalkeeper Peter Buikema was knocked from the game on a battle for a loose ball in the box with 8:41 left in the second overtime, Kyle Steiner was thrust into action in the battle between top Metro Suburban Conference Blue Division rivals.
Steiner was more than up to the pressure cooker challenge.
With the match going into a penalty kick shootout, the junior made saves on two of the Warriors’ six PK tries (including a diving block at the right post on the final attempt).
The end result: Timothy (7-2-1, 4-0-0) won the kick session 5-4 and the match, emerging with a leg up on perennial power Wheaton Academy (5-3-1, 2-1-0) in the conference race.
“They threw some balls with me on the sideline (warming up),” Steiner said, “but I just wanted to get through that overtime. When we practice PKs I save a lot of them. That’s where I wanted to be, in that position with PKs.”
Steiner got a fingertip on the first Warriors’ PK that went in, then made clean saves on the fourth and sixth shots – a sixth round was needed when the first five PK shooters produced a 4-4 tie between the teams.
“I try to guess one side and cover as much of the goal that I can,” Steiner said, “and do what I can to get in front of the ball. It’s a guessing game in the PKs.”
Steiner’s PK heroics earned him Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match honors.
But starter Buikema came up just as big late in regulation to set the stage.
After an eventful first 31-plus minutes of the second half produced a 2-2 tie, Buikema was center stage in a key sequence with 8:55 remaining in regulation.
The freshman keeper made a diving save at the left post on Jude Barton’s low 28-yard rocket, but in the race for the loose rebound, Buikema tripped hustling Warriors forward Robert Platt to produce a Wheaton Academy penalty kick.
Platt had netted the goal of the night 13 minutes earlier, a sliding boot between two defenders that tucked inches inside the right post.
But Buikema won the PK rematch. His diving stop towards the left post denied the Warriors’ striker and led to even bigger dramatics later on.
“Peter is fantastic,” Steiner said. “We weren’t in that (overtime PK) situation without Peter. He stepped up huge.
“He’s a freshman, and it’s unbelievable to watch how far he’s come. He means so much to this team. We work together each practice; we’re good friends. It’s a great friendship we’ve built. You couldn’t ask for a better goalkeeper friend on the team.”
The friendly battle for time in the nets between talented goalkeepers can produce a coaching conundrum.
“We were actually having the debate between our staff in the second half,” Timothy coach Joel Zielke said. “If we go to PKs who goes (at keeper). Peter made a big save there (on the regulation PK), but we know Kyle is super athletic; and he’s always making those athletic saves.
“Our hand got forced unfortunately with the injury to Peter, but Kyle really came in big for us there.”
Zielke added that Buikema appeared OK after the scrum in front outside of a swollen hand.
“We’ll give it some time,” he said.
For Wheaton Academy, 100 minutes of quality time on the pitch produced a disappointing result but a philosophical outlook.
“We played great team soccer and held each other up through all of it,” said junior Josiah Pitts, a defensive standout for the Warriors. “There were a lot of difficulties to overcome and today just wasn’t our day. God bless the other team, and we hope for a successful rest of the season.”
Last second drama was nothing new for the Warriors this fall.
“Interestingly enough we played an invitational earlier in the season, and we won two games on penalty kicks,” Wheaton Academy coach Cody Snouffer said. “So I told my guys (after the game) it’s actually okay to get a taste of what it’s like to lose them. Normally when you lose them, the season’s over.
“We can taste the bitterness now with practice tomorrow. In the playoffs, you taste the bitterness and look at a 10-month waiting period.”
Evan Eckert, Haetham Nasr, Josh Mariotti and Caleb Mariotti converted PKs for the Warriors.
As for Timothy, a diving save by Wheaton Academy goalkeeper Declan Finnegan on the first shot was followed by consecutive finishes by Cam Baker, Ethan Lemkull, Chris Cruz, Carter Day and Jake Alex.
Alex preceded Steiner’s deciding save with a left corner PK putaway, the capper to the senior defender’s great night.
“I just work a lot (in PKs) on aiming for the corners and focusing on that,” Alex said. “I had a season-ending knee injury last year, the last game of the season (in the spring).
“I broke my patella and had to rehab all summer basically just to get ready for the season. Getting in shape was a big part of it, and I just grinded.”
Alex was back on the field for Timothy’s season opener with Northridge, and in the spotlight for the huge win Thursday.
“This means a lot to me,” Alex said, “especially two years in a row (vs. Wheaton Academy) we got it done (with wins). The boys are great; we put in a lot of effort. It was a great performance overall.
“This is real big in conference, and this is my senior year. It means a lot to me. I’m just proud of the team and proud of everybody.”
As expected, Wheaton Academy made it anything but easy.
After the two talented sides battled to a nil-nil first half, the Warriors jumped ahead 1-0 just two minutes into the second half as Caleb Mariotti broke in on the right side and powered an 18-yarder into the upper right corner of the net.
“It’s really easy for me to take Caleb and his brother Josh for granted,” Snouffer said. “They’re twins, out there wearing (numbers)17 and 18, and they always perform so well.
“It’s great to see one of them get on the tally sheet, because a lot of times they’re pulling the strings for everybody else.”
But down 1-0, Timothy continued a season-long trend of answering every challenge.
After a foul with 33:29 left, Cruz powered a 20-yard free kick into the upper right corner of the net to tie the game 1-1.
The goal was Cruz’s ninth of the season.
“He does a great job,” Zielke said. “We’re playing a 4-5-1 so he’s our lone guy up there (at forward), and that’s a big ask to have him hold the ball and get numbers forward. But we had to get to that spot to try to own the midfield. And it worked out.”
Great efforts by the Wheaton Academy defense were needed to keep Cruz off the board besides the set piece.
“Obviously they have a really talented striker: Chris Cruz is a heck of a player,” Pitts said. “You’ll only see a couple of people like him throughout the season. He got past me a couple of times, but I think I did a good job adapting.
“At the same time I trusted that if I wasn’t stopping him I had a great center back right next to me and two good outside backs.”
That maximum effort to contain Cruz began early, with Flanagan making a diving catch at the right post on a Cruz shot in the second minute of the match.
Later in the half, Cruz turned a strong 1-on-2 right side attack into a 10-yard shot over the net, and had a 30-yard free kick headed away by Josh Mariotti.
And Pitts was a constant factor, routinely clearing threats from just inside or at the edge of the box.
“I thought Josiah played really well,” Snouffer said. “He’s a versatile kid that we’ve played a couple different positions, and he played a great match. He caused a lot of trouble for them in the air. Gio (Nicoski) and Robert and Haetham, our front three, caused a lot of danger. It would have been nice to make the keeper make a few more saves, but I thought we were dangerous which was great.”
The best first half threats the Warriors did produce were from Platt (a low 20-yard shot juggled and controlled by Buikema in the 25th minute) and Nasr (corner kick cleared by Ethan Monk and Baker in the 30th minute).
“I thought our whole backline was pretty consistent with winning the ball,” Zielke said of the Timothy defense. “We knew they have a lot of speed up-top, and we wanted to be sure to be tight on them and not give them open space to roam.
“They were really strong in the middle. The first half I thought they outplayed us in that spot. Then we turned it up a little bit in the second half to try to match that pace.”
Fast forwarding back to that second half, the 1-1 tie after Cruz’s free kick didn’t last long.
After Buikema nicely blocked a Platt one-timer off a cross to the left post with 23:10 left, Platt turned a sliver of space into a lead two minutes later.
On a loose ball off a Nasr corner kick, Platt’s sliding shot in traffic somehow found the net inside the right post.
But suddenly down 2-1 to a Warriors team on a five-game winning streak, Timothy didn’t panic.
“We knew that the game’s not over (down 2-1),” Alex said. “We played St. Ed’s, and we were down 2-1 at the half and came back and won 5-2.
“So the second half is usually our half. We’re really strong in those. We just wanted to make sure we finish our opportunities and don’t get down. Next play.”
That next play came with just under 15 minutes left in regulation. Out of a scramble in the box for a loose ball, senior Ethan Lemkull found the back of the net through the scrum to retie the game 2-2.
Buikema’s save on the PK came six minutes later. And despite great Wheaton Academy efforts and Buikema’s exit, Timothy never let the momentum get away again.
“Our mindset is we’re never out of a game until it’s over,” Zielke said. “It’s a very resilient group. We went down 1-0, tied it, down 2-1, tied it. Then a huge save by Peter to keep us in the game on the PK. That was definitely a turning point.
“It’s tough to see a team lose tonight. Cody’s a great coach. Both groups really left everything out there. It’s obviously exciting for the fans, and great for us to get a win.”
After an uneventful first OT, Buikema’s second OT injury was followed by set piece chances for Wheaton Academy’s Nasr (a free kick headed away by Alex) and Timothy’s Monk (a shot over the net off a Cruz free kick).
Then came the PKs and the narrowest of decisions.
“It was a very even match,” Zielke said. “I thought both groups had plenty of chances, defended well, competed for everything and left it all out there.”
Being on the downside of a PK-decided match so important to the league race produced a natural reaction.
“The worst way to finish a game in history,” Snouffer said of PKs. “The kids had nothing left in the tank.
“But credit to Timothy. They have a really good young squad. I want the MSC to be a strong conference. Timothy’s on the rise, Ridgewood’s on the rise, St. Francis – it’s great when the conference is a dog fight. I think the MSC conference trophy is starting to mean a lot. The last five years so many coaches have come in and put the programs in good places.”
Snouffer is one of those coaches, arriving as head coach in 2019 after a standout playing career at Mt. Vernon Nazarene in Ohio (where ex-White Sox pitcher and 1988 NL Rookie of the Year Tim Belcher starred in baseball).
Wheaton Academy has made four state semifinal trips in the last decade, including the 2014 Class AA title. That puts results like Thursday into perspective.
“You have to win the right seven games (the state tournament) every year,” Snouffer said. “That’s something we haven’t done in a long time and that I haven’t done as a coach.
“We’ve really tried to frame our season in that light. You get a season after a season and it’s one game at a time. We try to schedule big nonconference opponents to challenge us, but in our conference there are schools that play the style we’re going to see in the state series, so conference is a warmup for the tourney run.”
The Warriors quickly warmed up to fire hot after an 0-2-1 start this season. They won their last three matches by a combined 19-2 score (including 4-1 over Batavia on Sept. 11).
“Our coach has great game plans,” Pitts said, “and he adapted them after the St. Charles Invitational. He did all he could to prepare us, and it was working for awhile.
“I feel like today we came out expecting something that wasn’t secure yet, but I feel like if we go out every game like it’s a state championship game we’ll have a successful season.”
A shorter-than-usual natural grass field at Timothy where multiple goalkeeper punts reached the opposing end box added to the Warriors’ challenges Thursday.
“They’re a great team, and this field is unorthodox,” Pitts said. “We haven’t played on a field quite like this all year. We were preparing by playing on a grass field at our school, and mentally we were prepared.
“We trusted each other and came out with a mindset that we were going to win this game. Obviously that wasn’t the outcome, but I just hope we learn from this.”
For Timothy, the night meant celebration instead of introspection.
“It’s a huge win,” Steiner said. “This is a game we look forward to every year. We all wanted to win it so badly. This was the highlight of our season so far for sure.”
The win was Timothy’s fourth in a row over a nine-day span.
“We have a lot of momentum,” Zielke said. “We’re on a roll and we just want to continue going forward to obviously get better each day. Conference is something we really wanted to win this year. We know the job’s not done, but this is a step towards a championship.”
Starting lineups
Wheaton Academy
GK Declan Finnegan
D Xander Anaya
D Scotty Murray
D Troy Ericson
D Josiah Pitts
M Josh Mariotti
M Caleb Mariotti
M Giovanni Nicoski
M Evan Eckert
F Robert Platt
F Haetham Nasr
Timothy
GK Peter Buikema
D Jake Firnsin
D Carter Day
D Jake Alex
D Ethan Monk
M Eddie Favela
M Josh McMillan
M Cameron Baker
M Ethan Lemkull
M Chris Cruz
F Caleb Hoekstra
Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match: Kyle Steiner, jr. GK, Timothy
Scoring summary
First half
No scoring
Second half
WA- Caleb Mariotti, 42’
T- Chris Cruz, 47’
WA- Robert Platt, 59’
T- Ethan Lemkull, 66’
First overtime
No scoring
Second overtimes
No scoring
Shootout (six rounds)
WA (4 PKs made) – Evan Eckert, Haetham Nasr, Josh Mariotti, Caleb Mariotti
T (5 PKs made) – Cam Baker, Ethan Lemkull, Chris Cruz, Carter Day, Jake Alex