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

DWENGER OUTLASTS CATHEDRAL IN PKS TO TAKE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP NOBLESVILLE TOPS GUERIN CATHOLIC TO REPEAT AS 3A CHAMPION

Grace Morris converted a penalty kick in the first Noblesville became the first Class 3A team to repeat and allowed only five goals all year.
round of sudden-death PKs to give Fort Wayne as champion since the tournament expanded in 2017
Dwenger a 1-0 (4-3) victory over Indianapolis with a 3-0 victory over Guerin Catholic in the girls Coach Sean Yau’s Golden Eagles, who came in on a
Cathedral in the Class 2A girls final. title game. 15-game unbeaten streak (14-0-1), finished 16-2-2.
The two teams battled to a 0-0 deadlock through With the win, the Millers, of coach Mike Brady
80 minutes of regulation time and two overtime completed their second-consecutive unbeaten
periods. The teams combined for only seven shots campaign, finishing 17-0-1. Noblesville won its first
in the game. 10 games this season before tying Hamilton
Southeastern in the regular season finale. In 2019,
In the first session of penalty kicks, each team the Millers turned in a 17-0-3 mark en route to the
converted three times -- although Cathedral had a title.
chance to win on its final kick, but Dwenger
goalkeeper Cecilia Garrett made a diving-catch Carlie Sack opened the scoring in the 24th minute,
save to her left to force the sudden-death round. tallying her first and only goal of the season on an
assist from Jacey Hoopingarner.
The title is the third for Dwenger (17-1) in program
history, but the first since 2006. First-year coach Early in the second half, Ava Bramblett gave the
James McCaig’s Saints beat Cathedral, 1-0, in Millers a 2-0 lead before Jenna Chatterton closed the
a regular season match-up. Dwenger’s only loss scoring in the 62nd minute with an unassisted goal. It
since last season’s championship match to was her team-leading 11th of the season.
Evansville Mater Dei, came in its regular-season
finale to Homestead. Goalkeeper Sara Kile and the defense did the rest as
Kile notched her ninth shutout of the season, making
Coach Marc Behringer’s Irish finished 10-7-3. five saves. All told the Millers recorded 18 shutouts

EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL REPEATS AS 2A CHAMP CHESTERTON ROLLS TO SECOND SOCCER CROWN IN THREE YEARS

In a battle of two of the state’s all-time winningest championship in 2017 and 2018. The Cavaliers, A record-setting performance led Chesterton to a 7-1 Trojans goalkeeper Charlie Eaton played the first 73 minutes
programs, Evansville Memorial claimed its coached by Greg Mauch, finished 3-10-3 in 2019 rout of Castle in the Class 3A boys state championship of shutout soccer, marking three saves.
second-straight Class 2A boys title with a 3-0 victory and started this season 1-4-1 before riding a 16- game.
over Fort Wayne Canterbury. game (12-0-4) unbeaten streak into the Castle’s only score came as the result of an own-goal recorded
championship match. The Trojans claimed their second title in three seasons in the 78th minute. Coach Mike Reiter’s squad finished 17-3-1.
by scoring early and often, breaking six all-class team
The title for coach Bill Vieth’s Tigers is the fourth and individual records and tying or setting 11 Class 3A
in five years and the sixth overall. That leaves the records in the process of completing a 21-2 season.
Memorial program just one behind Canterbury, which
owns a state-best seven championships. The Tigers Coach Lucas Sabedra’s squad opened the scoring
are now 6-0 all-time in state championship games. in the ninth minute on the first of three goals by Zack
Bowser before Josh Wadowski netted what proved to
Memorial (18-3) dominated throughout, breaking be the winning goal in the 10th minute.
through in the 34th minute on a goal by Garland Hall, Chesterton eventually led 6-0 at halftime as Ryan
with an assist from Evan Harding. The Tigers padded O’Dell and Bowser each scored twice in the first half,
their lead at the first-half horn when Isaac Bennett while Bowser assisted on Wadowski’s goal and Nick
tallied from 20-yards out. Biel’s tally, which closed the first-half scoring in the 30th
minute.
Memorial junior Evan Garrison netted the final goal in
the 78th minute. All told, Memorial outshot the Bowser completed his hat trick in the 60th minute. His
Cavaliers, 17-2 and held a 12-1 bulge in corner three goals tied the all-class record for goals in a game,
kicks. Ben Weikert played the first 79 minutes to set by North Central’s Kei Tennyson in 1996. His two
assists set a 3A record, while it tied the all-class record
record the shutout in goal. set by three other players. He recorded a 3A mark of
nine shots – seven of which were on goal, tying the
Canterbury (13-5-5) came in seeking its third state all-class record held by Tennyson and Chesterton’s
title in four seasons, after winning the Class A Owen Hallas in 2016.

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