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‘It’s been a long time coming:’ Plainfield North boys soccer overcomes rain, Oswego East to win SPC crown · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  It's been a long time coming Plainfield North Boys soccer overcomes rain
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  as we go east to win SPC crown. Written by Skylar Casellus.
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  by Everlit. It was a slog of a soccer match in the
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  rain. The weather never let up. If anything, it only got worse
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  as Plinfield North and Oswego East battled Thursday evening with the Southwest
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  Prairie Conference title on the line. But Tigers coach Lukas Maevsky wouldn't
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  have had it any other way. It's a dream, right? Majewski said.
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  It's raining, night, evening, cooler weather, lights, everything on the line for
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  a game. It can't get any better than this. Well, it could.
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  Emmett Walk and Joel Martinez each scored a goal, and keeper Kai
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  McPhail made five saves to help Plainfield North come away with a
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  2-1 victory at home and claim the SPC title outright. In the
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  final moments the emotions on the field were instant. The Tig the
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  Tigers, may first, thirteen nine two SPC, were jumping for joy, while
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  MacPhail simply took a seat in front of the net he defended
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  so valiantly. It was amazing to feel that relief, just to be
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  able to fall down and say that I won, MacPhail said. His
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  teammates promptly emptied a water cooler onto their sixth year coach. Though
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  Mayevski was already drenched, he said that cold splash felt amazing. S
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  this is my first first one as a head coach out here,
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  so it's been a long time coming, Majewski said. We've had some
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  teams before that we thought were gonna be able to pull this
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  off. And sometimes it's it's just the right group of kids that
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  get together and start believing in each other and working for each
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  other, and that's the result. For the Wolves May 1692 SPC, it
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  was a heartbreaking end to their best regular season since 2021. Jacob
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  McPhee, playing in his first game back from a foot injury, scored
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  OE's lone goal off an assist from Ashton Pope in the 63rd
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  minute. Goalkeeper Carter Lucas made nine saves. It's tough to find words
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  because we've had a good season, Seas Wolves coach Steve Szymansky said.
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  But we're not peeking at the right time, and I think they're
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  playing their best soccer right now. Shimanski also said his team knew
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  Thursday's battle wasn't going to be easy. Azwego East had already faced
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  Plainfield North earlier in the season, beating the Tigers 2-0 on September
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  16 to knock them out of the Plainfield Classic Tournament. The first
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  game, we didn't have as much intensity, Walk said. We didn't want
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  it enough, and this game It
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  just changed. We wanted it more than them. Walk proved that in
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  the game's 22nd minute exchanging a quick series of passes before burying
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  a shot into the left corner with his right foot. Martinez added
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  another score right after halftime, beating Lucas to put North up 2
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  0 in the 43rd minute. It was just an amazing team thing.
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  Walk said, Me and Martinez have been working together all season to
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  do that. Back in the playing field North net, MacPhail made three
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  saves in the first half. The senior remained in goal after halftime
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  rather than giving way to sophomore Jakob Pavlak as he had throughout
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  the season. Majexi said the decision came down to sticking with the
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  hot hand. I thought Kai had a really good first half, controlling
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  the back, the back line, keeping everything in front of him, so
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  we decided to keep him in there, he said Macphail said he
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  was mindful of the slick conditions created by the rain and the
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  possibility of slipping. That concern became a reality when McPhee snuck one
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  past him with 1731 left. I made sure that I tried to
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  keep it from doing that as much as possible, but obviously it
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  didn't happen, MacPhail said, but I had to bounce back. He did
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  just that, fending off a late push from the Wolves to preserve
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  a victory that he said ranks near the top of his soccer
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  career. It might be no one, to be honest, Macphil said. It's
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  been a very tough year, especially since last year we had to
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  bounce back. But this year our younger players picked up the intensity,
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  and we all came together.