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Last Year’s State Finals in Review Last Year’s State Finals in Review

CENTRAL CATHOLIC GIRLS GO TO PKS FOR FIRST STATE TITLE PROVIDENCE WINS FIRST CROWN BY EDGING DEFENDING CHAMPION ARGOS

Lafayette Central Catholic turned the tables on Park scoreless deadlock, followed by two overtime periods Edward Bobkoskie’s goal on a header in the 66th Dragons broke through in the 45th minute. Tomas
Tudor in the Class A girls championship contest, without a score. minute provided the winning goal to give Providence Gutierrez took a centering pass from Michael Rich-
which featured the only rematch from the 2019 girls a 2-1 victory over Argos in the Class A boys state ard and beat Providence keeper Jacob Braswell to
and boys seasons. In the first round of penalty kicks, both teams championship game at Fishers High School. the top right corner of the net.
converted four times to force a second round, which
Central Catholic’s Madisyn Schultz beat PT goal- came down to the final kicks. Central Catholic keeper Bobkoskie’s score broke a 1-1 tie and gave the Providence (17-3) came back just two minutes later
keeper Lucy Ferqueron to the left side in the 10th Kate Hutzel made a diving save on the final Panther Pioneers of coach Jake Stengel their first state title. and tied the game on a beautiful move by senior
round of penalty kicks to give the Knights a 1-0 (9-8) shot before Schultz stepped up with the game- Providence lost in the championship matches in Luke Hesse, who netted his 41st goal of the season.
victory in the contest at the Grand Park Sports Event winner. 2013 and 2016. His goal total came into the weekend as second-best
Center in Westfield. Park Tudor (21-3) outshot the Knights, 17-14. Hutzel in the state.
Last season, Park Tudor and coach John Simmonds recorded nine saves in net for LCC, which finishes The loss for defending-champion Argos broke a Coach Todd VanDerWeele’s Dragons (18-4-1) came
13-game, state-tournament winning streak, which
won its first-ever state title with a 2-1 victory over 16-3. coming into the finals was a state-best. in riding a 10-game winning streak and a 14-game
LCC. The state title is the first in program history for the unbeaten roll (13-0-1).
The contest, which goes down as the first-ever Knights, coached by Bill Kerr. The teams played to a scoreless first half before the
indoor state title game, featured two halves of a

Lawrence Loner honored as State’s Top Official

Each year, the Indiana High School Athletic Association Lawrence is an educator by trade, majoring in English
honors an outstanding official in each sport during the and minoring in both philosophy and theology at St.
State Finals Tournament. Meinrad.
The recipient of the 2021-22 IHSAA Outstanding
Soccer Official in the state of Indiana is Officiating soccer has taken Lawrence across
Lawrence Loner from Jasper, Indiana. the globe to Brazil, Germany, Jamaica,
Lawrence was selected for this honor by England, Ireland, Guatemala … to name only
a committee representing the 24 officials a few. He now gives locally to the USSF and
associations in Indiana. There are more high school programs within Dubois county.
than 6,000 officials licensed by the
IHSAA in all sports. These officials work In his spare time, Lawrence has served as a
tirelessly to provide safe, competitive school board member and president, parish
environments for over 160,000 student council member, sings in his church choir,
athletes. works with St. Vincent DePaul, is a religious
education teacher through his church and
Lawrence has been licensed in the sport works with Special Olympics soccer events.
of soccer for 29 years and given his time Loner currently serves in a leadership role
and talent in working all 28 tournaments as a state soccer clinician for the IHSAA.
for our student athletes. He has been a crew member for He continues to be instrumental in the recruitment,
11 different regionals, nine (9) semi-state games, and has mentoring, and training of IHSAA soccer officials across
had seven (7) state finals appearances! southern Indiana. His dedication and loyalty to his sport,
our student athletes, his fellow officials, and the IHSAA
have been exceptional.
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