SCE celebrate seniors with win over WWS
DuKane champions win 4-2 in potential regional semifinal preview
By Chris Walker
ST. CHARLES – The lights had been turned off at Norris Stadium on Thursday night, but Jack Settle wasn’t done talking.
He wasn’t ready to walk off his home field after his last regular season game there either.
The St. Charles East senior goalkeeper reached into one of his bags to find his phone and then used the phone flashlight app to find his other bag before heading out of the stadium.
The Saints had just finished off Wheaton Warrenville South 4-2. The game really served as an afterthought since the Saints had already won the conference, although a victory meant a 17-1-3 regular season.
Just a single loss. Any team that battles through a high school soccer season with only one defeat is a special team. That probably added to Settle’s emotions. Who would want the joy that greatness brings to ever end?
No one.
Settle was one of nine Saints along with two team managers who were recognized on Senior Night. He played 65 minutes, making one save and allowing one goal. Josh Kennedy and Zachary Doerr also saw action in net.
“I came here and played every level here, and it (stinks) to see it all come to the end,” he said, “I’ve been here so long. I was ball boy-ing for my sister (Morgan, who played for Paul Jennison’s Saints and graduated in 2013) so I’ve been around here since there was really bad grass and scrappy games.”
Now, he may have walked off of it for the first time.
“We want to get back home for sectionals,” he said.
If the Saints win next week’s Class 3A Lake Park Regional, they will return home Oct. 29 to play in a sectional semifinal.
The Saints haven’t won a sectional since 2012. They haven’t been to state since before any of their players were born (1997). Coach Vince DiNuzzo was just seven. The high school kids back then were digging Hanson’s “MMMbop” and Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping” when the Saints last went to state. Great soccer, awful music.
“The first step to getting back here is winning the regional,” he said. “We want to get that home field advantage, and we’ll do everything we can to keep going here.”
Too often it’s said that “this senior class is special,” but this group truly is a special one -- a longtime tightknit group that’s known each other and played together for a long time and remains truly connected.
“I’ve been with these guys for a while,” he said. “I’ve played with Geoff (Unterberg) since freshman year and with Myles (Hamilton), (Tyler) Filbert, Brendan (Adams). Our class is really strong, but something is different with this year.
“We’re all leaders. And we’re never going to talk bad about the game. We’re always going to keep it positive, positive, positive and go out and try to win games.”
He hopes to leave his mark on the field and be remembered for his style too.
When asked about his legacy at the school he said, “having the best hair to ever go through the program.”
Well, it might just rank up there.
“I’m 6-foot-4,” he laughed. “With the hair I’m about 6-5 and a half. My mom says it’s about two inches.”
With the 17th win, the Saints have won the most games in a season since 2016 when the Jennison-led squad went 18-3-2 and captured a regional title along the way.
On Thursday they scored four goals in the first half while taking more of a scrimmage/preseason approach than anything else.
If seeds hold true, these teams will play each other next Wednesday in a Class 3A Lake Park Regional semifinal with much higher stakes.
“There’s not a lot to take away from the game, because neither of us had our guys on the field,” Saints coach Vince DiNuzzo said. “We were able to give the other guys some minutes and have some fun and kind of celebrate the season.”
The Saints, ranked no. 16 in the Chicagoland Soccer Top 25, jumped to a 4-1 lead at halftime.
Jake Maslowski scored 12:31 into play for a 1-0 lead for a Saints team that is one of the fewer than 10 3A teams in the state to still have just one loss.
Wheaton Warrenville South's Connor Shrigley tied the game midway through the first half.
Sebastian Carranza buried a penalty kick with 14:57 left before the break.
Zach Gamster then scored off a corner kick with a little over 10 minutes remaining to make it 3-1.
Tyler Filbert, the other senior to score along with Gamster, then seemingly put the game out of reach with a penalty kick, his third goal of the fall, with 4:09 remaining before halftime.
“The idea was to rest some guys and get healthy since there were no implications on the playoffs,” DiNuzzo said. “But it had implications for us on momentum. I feel like we wanted to continue our momentum and that message that we have to prepare for every opportunity regardless of the situation. I think we took them seriously, and it was nice to finish the season with a win.”
And thinking of getting back here to Norris Stadium rather than departing for the final time.
“This was a great night, and we couldn’t have had a better group of seniors in terms of leadership and talent,” Saints junior midfielder Sam Wade said. “Throughout the season we’ve had a lot of injuries and adversity and stuff, but this group of guys is the reason why we persisted through with the record we have. So coming out on top was important. We already had conference secured but winning was symbolic, and we got a lot of seniors in the game too.”
And some respect with a nice-sized, loud crowd.
“We had one of the bigger crowds that we’ve had all season, so we don’t want to show up and go down in 10 minutes,” Wade said. “It’s huge. We don’t get a lot of attention really except for (when we play St. Charles) North and Geneva and postseason games. We’ve had the most consistent crowds that we’ve ever had this year, and I think it’s because the senior class is so well liked. They’re good students too. It’s a good group.”
“We’ve all been playing together since we’ve been kids,” Wade said. “I’m an '02 (born in 2002), so I’ve been playing with the senior class since I was 10. We have great chemistry and it’s nice because I can try to reciprocate what they do on the field, and my effort helps their game so it’s kind of like a circle.”
The Saints won a regional last year before losing a heartbreaker to Lake Park on PKs in a sectional semifinal. The Lancers proceeded to take fourth in the state and narrowly missed upending three-time defending state champion Naperville North in the state semifinals. The Saints went home and thought about what could have been if they would’ve beaten those same Lancers. Perhaps they could’ve been the team that got all the way to Hoffman Estates.
Now they’re ready for another chance.
“A big thing, a consistent phrase that coach tells us, is to treat every game as if it’s your last,” Wade said. “We didn’t last year, and I think that’s one of the reasons why we fell short in the sectional semis. We didn’t take the team very seriously. We can’t do that. Wheaton Warrenville South is a good side. And they’re going to go out and give their all because they’ve got nothing to lose. We have to keep watching film and staying disciplined in practice to get the result we want.”
Say goodbye to the regular season and hello to the postseason.
“We’re almost where we need to be,” DiNuzzo said. “By the time we reach Wednesday we’ll be exactly where we want to be. Everyone is dealing with things, and we have no season-ending injuries, knock on wood. Everyone is going to be pretty healthy going in, and we’ve been preparing for this moment for Wednesday and Saturday. Hopefully our guys will be prepared.”
In celebration of St. Charles East’s nine senior players and two senior managers, here's some info on them.
Renato Avendano, who said few people know that he is half French and half Guatemalan, said beating St. Charles North twice during his senior year, with one game being the sectional final would be his favorite high school soccer memories.
Doerr, who said if he could have just one wish granted would, “wish to have as much money as Bill Gates” plans on pursuing a career in speech language pathology.
Filbert’s favorite memory is when Settle borrowed his jersey to go in at the end of a game and scored, making it “my first goal I scored that season, officially.”
Brendan Adams “can pick up almost anything with my crazy long toes and hail a cab with my big toe.”
Gamster wanted to grow up to be an astronaut. At least, that’s what he thought when he was just five years old. Now he hopes to pursue engineering. Word to the wise: Don’t mess with him. He said he is a black belt in karate.
Hamilton admits that he wishes he had the ability to fly like a bird. Since he doesn’t, he’s going to pursue a career in aviation, maybe becoming an airline pilot like his father, or getting into sports management. He hopes to be remembered for being a speedster.
Josh Kennedy, who is ambidextrous, wishes he could work for Dunder Mifflin. Unfortunately we were unable to find out which character he would like to be, or if he’d like to be a new employee.
Settle plans on studying broadcast journalism. He already speaks a secret language called “Gib” that he and his close friends know. This reporter considered asking him to translate this story into “Gib,” but didn't.
Unterberg wanted to grow up and run an elephant sanctuary. If he had one wish it would be “to be crazy wealthy and let everyone I love never have to work – just pursue a passion.”
And let’s not forget Lauren Arvizo, co-team manager who is going to pursue a career in trauma nursing after college. She wants to be remembered as a leader, hard worker and 2020 soccer champion.
Margaret Harper, the other co-team manager said her best friends would describe her as loud and goofy. If Harper had just one wish, it would be “to have the ability to eat and not get fat.”
Enough about St. Charles. What’s happening with Wheaton Warrenville South?
A regional quarterfinal at home in Wheaton looms against Willowbrook on Saturday around lunchtime
“I suspect Willowbrook has nothing to lose either and is going to be coming in and playing in the same format where everyone is one-and-done,” Tigers coach Guy Callipari said. “We’ll put our best foot forward and hope we establish something positive, especially like in the last 40 minutes here.”
The Tigers did, indeed, shut out the Saints in the second half. They also scored themselves, getting a goal from sophomore Christian Munoz with 14:23 remaining in the game but were unable to get any closer.
“I do like what we saw in the second half,” Callipari said. “I thought our technical players played with a little bit of common sense and understanding, and having learned from the first half, learned how to play where the spaces were, and we did a good job of finding those spaces.”
Tigers senior Paul Thalman said the team has to really have the desire to win if it’s hopeful to get it done.
“I do believe we manufactured some good things throughout this game,” he said. “We did have our mistakes, but overall we were pretty happy with our performance. Now we have a big game on Saturday.”
The Tigers can erase that 7-9-2 record and start anew against Willowbrook (6-12-1). The Warriors fell 4-1 to no. 9 West Chicago on Thursday night in their season finale.
“The playoffs are definitely a whole different animal,” Thalman said. “Rankings, you can look at them, but in reality it’s whomever wants it more. We’re not the highest seed, but I think we have the fire behind us and can go for it.”
And when Thalman talks about the “want to win” he’s referring to a supreme effort from start to finish.
“I think it’s just us wanting the ball,” he said. “It’s wanting the 50/50s. It’s wanting the game, wanting the goals, wanting to get in there and play hard. Hopefully we can do it. We’ve been inconsistent throughout the season, but hopefully we can string together some stuff now and go for a run.”
That’s certainly what Callipari is hoping to see happen.
“I think (we can) if we play with some continuity, and the way we managed in the second half and maintained some rhythm,” Callipari said. “But that can only be established with possession, and we went with a lot more technicality. We focused on that part of the game and trying to play them into soft layers that were available to us and that seemed to work out well.”
While acknowledging that the Saints weren’t playing at full strength, Callipari was still pleased with how the Tigers were able to play the game.
“I know they were starting to rest some guys too at the point, but it was just good for us to get on our front foot and be able to keep the ball and gain some confidence,” he said. “That’s what they need, as much of the game is played upstairs. I’m hoping the second half served them well.”
A lack of consistency has most definitely plagued the Tigers this season.
“We’re hot and cold,” Callipari said, “It’s about trying to establish 80 minutes, and I think that’s where most of the programs might have a step on us, a little bit. We seem to have these lapses and consequently it’s five to 15 minutes, but they’re scoring two or three goals in that five to 15 minutes and see ourselves out of a game. We can’t recover, and I don’t have an answer for the one bad goal we might give up.”
Thursday was a prime example of that. When was the last time a solid program like Wheaton Warrenville South gave up two PKs in a half? Probably a long time ago.
“I thought their first goal was quality, jumped over the back on got a head on it and kept it alive,” Callipari said. “The two PKs certainly hurt us. We weren’t tracking well. We’ve got to be on the balls of our feet and have a sense of urgency on that final third. And they were running really well off the ball and the last goal, that’s kind of soft. We we’re again surprised with the danger that exists and not clearing well.”
And do what they may, the Tigers simply couldn’t match the Saints.
“You’ve got to give credit where credit is due,” Callipari said. “That’s why they’re conference champs, and they’re not hiding anybody from front to back. Sometimes it seems like we’re playing men against the boys there, especially in the first half.”
The game was the 1,000 in the 40-year history of St. Charles boys soccer. The Saints have already held anniversary celebrations in honor of both those numbers. With the victory, the Saints improved to 688-212-100 all-time.
As for the answer to a future trivia question: Sam Wade.
Although it was Senior Night, the junior helped the Saints celebrate by delivering a pair of assists to receive Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match accolades. That trivia question? “Who was the Man of the 1,000 Match in St. Charles East history?”
Starting lineups
Wheaton Warrenville South
GK Marco Chavez
D Jason Aranda
D Jackson Moran
D Connor Shrigley
D Sean Tully
D Eric Vargas
D Ben Webber
M Ryan Dufty
M Kevin Stumbris
M Paul Thalman
F Nick McGrath
St. Charles East
GK Zach Doerr
D Zach Gamster
D Myles Hamilton
D Geoff Unterberg
M Alex Mancera
M Brendan Adams
M Tyler Filbert
M Renato Avendano
M Sam Wade
F Sebastian Carranza
F Jake Maslowski
Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match: Sam Wade, jr., MF, St. Charles East
Scoring summary
St. Charles East 4 0 - 4
Wheaton Warrenville South 1 1 - 2
First half
St. Charles East – Jake Maslowski (Sam Wade), 27:29
Wheaton Warrenville South – Connor Shrigley (none) 19:57
St. Charles East – Sebastian Carranza PK 14:57
St. Charles East – Zach Gamster (Sam Wade) 10:16
St. Charles East – Tyler Filbert PK 4:09
Second half
Wheaton Warrenville South - Christian Munoz 14:23
DuKane champions win 4-2 in potential regional semifinal preview
By Chris Walker
ST. CHARLES – The lights had been turned off at Norris Stadium on Thursday night, but Jack Settle wasn’t done talking.
He wasn’t ready to walk off his home field after his last regular season game there either.
The St. Charles East senior goalkeeper reached into one of his bags to find his phone and then used the phone flashlight app to find his other bag before heading out of the stadium.
The Saints had just finished off Wheaton Warrenville South 4-2. The game really served as an afterthought since the Saints had already won the conference, although a victory meant a 17-1-3 regular season.
Just a single loss. Any team that battles through a high school soccer season with only one defeat is a special team. That probably added to Settle’s emotions. Who would want the joy that greatness brings to ever end?
No one.
Settle was one of nine Saints along with two team managers who were recognized on Senior Night. He played 65 minutes, making one save and allowing one goal. Josh Kennedy and Zachary Doerr also saw action in net.
“I came here and played every level here, and it (stinks) to see it all come to the end,” he said, “I’ve been here so long. I was ball boy-ing for my sister (Morgan, who played for Paul Jennison’s Saints and graduated in 2013) so I’ve been around here since there was really bad grass and scrappy games.”
Now, he may have walked off of it for the first time.
“We want to get back home for sectionals,” he said.
If the Saints win next week’s Class 3A Lake Park Regional, they will return home Oct. 29 to play in a sectional semifinal.
The Saints haven’t won a sectional since 2012. They haven’t been to state since before any of their players were born (1997). Coach Vince DiNuzzo was just seven. The high school kids back then were digging Hanson’s “MMMbop” and Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping” when the Saints last went to state. Great soccer, awful music.
“The first step to getting back here is winning the regional,” he said. “We want to get that home field advantage, and we’ll do everything we can to keep going here.”
Too often it’s said that “this senior class is special,” but this group truly is a special one -- a longtime tightknit group that’s known each other and played together for a long time and remains truly connected.
“I’ve been with these guys for a while,” he said. “I’ve played with Geoff (Unterberg) since freshman year and with Myles (Hamilton), (Tyler) Filbert, Brendan (Adams). Our class is really strong, but something is different with this year.
“We’re all leaders. And we’re never going to talk bad about the game. We’re always going to keep it positive, positive, positive and go out and try to win games.”
He hopes to leave his mark on the field and be remembered for his style too.
When asked about his legacy at the school he said, “having the best hair to ever go through the program.”
Well, it might just rank up there.
“I’m 6-foot-4,” he laughed. “With the hair I’m about 6-5 and a half. My mom says it’s about two inches.”
With the 17th win, the Saints have won the most games in a season since 2016 when the Jennison-led squad went 18-3-2 and captured a regional title along the way.
On Thursday they scored four goals in the first half while taking more of a scrimmage/preseason approach than anything else.
If seeds hold true, these teams will play each other next Wednesday in a Class 3A Lake Park Regional semifinal with much higher stakes.
“There’s not a lot to take away from the game, because neither of us had our guys on the field,” Saints coach Vince DiNuzzo said. “We were able to give the other guys some minutes and have some fun and kind of celebrate the season.”
The Saints, ranked no. 16 in the Chicagoland Soccer Top 25, jumped to a 4-1 lead at halftime.
Jake Maslowski scored 12:31 into play for a 1-0 lead for a Saints team that is one of the fewer than 10 3A teams in the state to still have just one loss.
Wheaton Warrenville South's Connor Shrigley tied the game midway through the first half.
Sebastian Carranza buried a penalty kick with 14:57 left before the break.
Zach Gamster then scored off a corner kick with a little over 10 minutes remaining to make it 3-1.
Tyler Filbert, the other senior to score along with Gamster, then seemingly put the game out of reach with a penalty kick, his third goal of the fall, with 4:09 remaining before halftime.
“The idea was to rest some guys and get healthy since there were no implications on the playoffs,” DiNuzzo said. “But it had implications for us on momentum. I feel like we wanted to continue our momentum and that message that we have to prepare for every opportunity regardless of the situation. I think we took them seriously, and it was nice to finish the season with a win.”
And thinking of getting back here to Norris Stadium rather than departing for the final time.
“This was a great night, and we couldn’t have had a better group of seniors in terms of leadership and talent,” Saints junior midfielder Sam Wade said. “Throughout the season we’ve had a lot of injuries and adversity and stuff, but this group of guys is the reason why we persisted through with the record we have. So coming out on top was important. We already had conference secured but winning was symbolic, and we got a lot of seniors in the game too.”
And some respect with a nice-sized, loud crowd.
“We had one of the bigger crowds that we’ve had all season, so we don’t want to show up and go down in 10 minutes,” Wade said. “It’s huge. We don’t get a lot of attention really except for (when we play St. Charles) North and Geneva and postseason games. We’ve had the most consistent crowds that we’ve ever had this year, and I think it’s because the senior class is so well liked. They’re good students too. It’s a good group.”
“We’ve all been playing together since we’ve been kids,” Wade said. “I’m an '02 (born in 2002), so I’ve been playing with the senior class since I was 10. We have great chemistry and it’s nice because I can try to reciprocate what they do on the field, and my effort helps their game so it’s kind of like a circle.”
The Saints won a regional last year before losing a heartbreaker to Lake Park on PKs in a sectional semifinal. The Lancers proceeded to take fourth in the state and narrowly missed upending three-time defending state champion Naperville North in the state semifinals. The Saints went home and thought about what could have been if they would’ve beaten those same Lancers. Perhaps they could’ve been the team that got all the way to Hoffman Estates.
Now they’re ready for another chance.
“A big thing, a consistent phrase that coach tells us, is to treat every game as if it’s your last,” Wade said. “We didn’t last year, and I think that’s one of the reasons why we fell short in the sectional semis. We didn’t take the team very seriously. We can’t do that. Wheaton Warrenville South is a good side. And they’re going to go out and give their all because they’ve got nothing to lose. We have to keep watching film and staying disciplined in practice to get the result we want.”
Say goodbye to the regular season and hello to the postseason.
“We’re almost where we need to be,” DiNuzzo said. “By the time we reach Wednesday we’ll be exactly where we want to be. Everyone is dealing with things, and we have no season-ending injuries, knock on wood. Everyone is going to be pretty healthy going in, and we’ve been preparing for this moment for Wednesday and Saturday. Hopefully our guys will be prepared.”
In celebration of St. Charles East’s nine senior players and two senior managers, here's some info on them.
Renato Avendano, who said few people know that he is half French and half Guatemalan, said beating St. Charles North twice during his senior year, with one game being the sectional final would be his favorite high school soccer memories.
Doerr, who said if he could have just one wish granted would, “wish to have as much money as Bill Gates” plans on pursuing a career in speech language pathology.
Filbert’s favorite memory is when Settle borrowed his jersey to go in at the end of a game and scored, making it “my first goal I scored that season, officially.”
Brendan Adams “can pick up almost anything with my crazy long toes and hail a cab with my big toe.”
Gamster wanted to grow up to be an astronaut. At least, that’s what he thought when he was just five years old. Now he hopes to pursue engineering. Word to the wise: Don’t mess with him. He said he is a black belt in karate.
Hamilton admits that he wishes he had the ability to fly like a bird. Since he doesn’t, he’s going to pursue a career in aviation, maybe becoming an airline pilot like his father, or getting into sports management. He hopes to be remembered for being a speedster.
Josh Kennedy, who is ambidextrous, wishes he could work for Dunder Mifflin. Unfortunately we were unable to find out which character he would like to be, or if he’d like to be a new employee.
Settle plans on studying broadcast journalism. He already speaks a secret language called “Gib” that he and his close friends know. This reporter considered asking him to translate this story into “Gib,” but didn't.
Unterberg wanted to grow up and run an elephant sanctuary. If he had one wish it would be “to be crazy wealthy and let everyone I love never have to work – just pursue a passion.”
And let’s not forget Lauren Arvizo, co-team manager who is going to pursue a career in trauma nursing after college. She wants to be remembered as a leader, hard worker and 2020 soccer champion.
Margaret Harper, the other co-team manager said her best friends would describe her as loud and goofy. If Harper had just one wish, it would be “to have the ability to eat and not get fat.”
Enough about St. Charles. What’s happening with Wheaton Warrenville South?
A regional quarterfinal at home in Wheaton looms against Willowbrook on Saturday around lunchtime
“I suspect Willowbrook has nothing to lose either and is going to be coming in and playing in the same format where everyone is one-and-done,” Tigers coach Guy Callipari said. “We’ll put our best foot forward and hope we establish something positive, especially like in the last 40 minutes here.”
The Tigers did, indeed, shut out the Saints in the second half. They also scored themselves, getting a goal from sophomore Christian Munoz with 14:23 remaining in the game but were unable to get any closer.
“I do like what we saw in the second half,” Callipari said. “I thought our technical players played with a little bit of common sense and understanding, and having learned from the first half, learned how to play where the spaces were, and we did a good job of finding those spaces.”
Tigers senior Paul Thalman said the team has to really have the desire to win if it’s hopeful to get it done.
“I do believe we manufactured some good things throughout this game,” he said. “We did have our mistakes, but overall we were pretty happy with our performance. Now we have a big game on Saturday.”
The Tigers can erase that 7-9-2 record and start anew against Willowbrook (6-12-1). The Warriors fell 4-1 to no. 9 West Chicago on Thursday night in their season finale.
“The playoffs are definitely a whole different animal,” Thalman said. “Rankings, you can look at them, but in reality it’s whomever wants it more. We’re not the highest seed, but I think we have the fire behind us and can go for it.”
And when Thalman talks about the “want to win” he’s referring to a supreme effort from start to finish.
“I think it’s just us wanting the ball,” he said. “It’s wanting the 50/50s. It’s wanting the game, wanting the goals, wanting to get in there and play hard. Hopefully we can do it. We’ve been inconsistent throughout the season, but hopefully we can string together some stuff now and go for a run.”
That’s certainly what Callipari is hoping to see happen.
“I think (we can) if we play with some continuity, and the way we managed in the second half and maintained some rhythm,” Callipari said. “But that can only be established with possession, and we went with a lot more technicality. We focused on that part of the game and trying to play them into soft layers that were available to us and that seemed to work out well.”
While acknowledging that the Saints weren’t playing at full strength, Callipari was still pleased with how the Tigers were able to play the game.
“I know they were starting to rest some guys too at the point, but it was just good for us to get on our front foot and be able to keep the ball and gain some confidence,” he said. “That’s what they need, as much of the game is played upstairs. I’m hoping the second half served them well.”
A lack of consistency has most definitely plagued the Tigers this season.
“We’re hot and cold,” Callipari said, “It’s about trying to establish 80 minutes, and I think that’s where most of the programs might have a step on us, a little bit. We seem to have these lapses and consequently it’s five to 15 minutes, but they’re scoring two or three goals in that five to 15 minutes and see ourselves out of a game. We can’t recover, and I don’t have an answer for the one bad goal we might give up.”
Thursday was a prime example of that. When was the last time a solid program like Wheaton Warrenville South gave up two PKs in a half? Probably a long time ago.
“I thought their first goal was quality, jumped over the back on got a head on it and kept it alive,” Callipari said. “The two PKs certainly hurt us. We weren’t tracking well. We’ve got to be on the balls of our feet and have a sense of urgency on that final third. And they were running really well off the ball and the last goal, that’s kind of soft. We we’re again surprised with the danger that exists and not clearing well.”
And do what they may, the Tigers simply couldn’t match the Saints.
“You’ve got to give credit where credit is due,” Callipari said. “That’s why they’re conference champs, and they’re not hiding anybody from front to back. Sometimes it seems like we’re playing men against the boys there, especially in the first half.”
The game was the 1,000 in the 40-year history of St. Charles boys soccer. The Saints have already held anniversary celebrations in honor of both those numbers. With the victory, the Saints improved to 688-212-100 all-time.
As for the answer to a future trivia question: Sam Wade.
Although it was Senior Night, the junior helped the Saints celebrate by delivering a pair of assists to receive Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match accolades. That trivia question? “Who was the Man of the 1,000 Match in St. Charles East history?”
Starting lineups
Wheaton Warrenville South
GK Marco Chavez
D Jason Aranda
D Jackson Moran
D Connor Shrigley
D Sean Tully
D Eric Vargas
D Ben Webber
M Ryan Dufty
M Kevin Stumbris
M Paul Thalman
F Nick McGrath
St. Charles East
GK Zach Doerr
D Zach Gamster
D Myles Hamilton
D Geoff Unterberg
M Alex Mancera
M Brendan Adams
M Tyler Filbert
M Renato Avendano
M Sam Wade
F Sebastian Carranza
F Jake Maslowski
Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match: Sam Wade, jr., MF, St. Charles East
Scoring summary
St. Charles East 4 0 - 4
Wheaton Warrenville South 1 1 - 2
First half
St. Charles East – Jake Maslowski (Sam Wade), 27:29
Wheaton Warrenville South – Connor Shrigley (none) 19:57
St. Charles East – Sebastian Carranza PK 14:57
St. Charles East – Zach Gamster (Sam Wade) 10:16
St. Charles East – Tyler Filbert PK 4:09
Second half
Wheaton Warrenville South - Christian Munoz 14:23