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WILL KOWALSKI
Sports Editor/Asst. Editor
Harper Creek senior forward Tre
Cotton scored the game’s lone goal
on a rebound effort with 50 seconds
remaining in the first half last Friday
evening as coach Kyle Grestini’s
Beavers earned the school’s first
(and only) All-City Boys’ Soccer
Tournament championship since
2008 by posting a 1-0 triumph over
host Lakeview.
The tourney has been held annually
since 1992; and Lakeview was the
five-time defending All-City champ
heading into this year’s tourney.
In goal for Harper Creek was
sophomore Broderick Hanger. The
goalkeeper for Lakeview, coached
for the first time this season by Ryan
Sisco (replacing the retired Trent
Harper Creek earns first All-City Soccer crown since 2008
Harper Creek High’s boys’ soccer squad gathers for a team photo after it defeated host Lakeview 1-0 in the title
game of the All-City Tournament last Friday. (Shopper News photo by Will Kowalski)Harper Creek senior forward Tre Cotton (22) scored the game’s only goal in
the Beavers’ All-City Tournament championship match against Lakeview. Also
in the photo for HCHS is junior defender Steven Maske (11). In the photo for
LHS are freshman Christian Pahuamba Duran (15) and senior James Ram
(10). (Shopper News photo by Will Kowalski)Heil) was senior Kyler Smith. Both
netminders came up with several cru-
cial saves during the contest – with
all of the All-City games featuring
two 30-minute halves with running
clocks.
In the consolation game for third
place, coach Mike VanderBilt’s
Calhoun Christian Co-Op (a co-op
with St. Philip and Climax-Scotts)
defeated coach Jason Rahn’s
Pennfield Panthers 4-3 in a penalty
kick shootout after the squads were
tied at 1-all at the end of regulation.
In earlier All-City tourney games,
coach Mel Carillo’s Battle Creek
Central Bearcats blanked Pennfield
3-0; Harper Creek defeated the
Calhoun Christian Co-Op 5-0; and
Lakeview edged BCC 2-1. Both
HCHS and LHS advanced directly
into the title match after winning
their opening tilts.
Both Spartan Memorial Stadium
(turf) and the Lakeview’s adjacent
soccer field (grass) were used forLakeview senior goalkeeper Kyler
Smith boots the ball from in front of
his net and in front of Harper Creek
freshman forward Jake Cushman
(14) in the title game of the All-City
Boys’ Soccer Tournament last Friday.
(Shopper News photo by Will Kowalski)