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GOSHEN – The Northern Lakes Conference announced its selections for boys and girls soccer all-conference teams Wednesday afternoon.
Warsaw placed five players on the All-NLC girls team, none of which are seniors. Juniors Anna Grill and Dayle Harvey, and sophomores Abby Steffensmeier, Delaney Taylor and Brenna Buhrt represent the Lady Tigers on the team. Brenna Shipley and Alex Koontz were honorable mention for the Lady Tigers.
Wawasee junior Olivia Birch was named to the all-conference team, and Sara Pritchard was honorable mention.
Northridge had six players on the All-NLC team; Arianna Stoltzfus, Sage Schnell, Meghan Cawood, Kyla Long, Emma Oxenrider and Leah Stacker. Goshen’s Jill Kissinger, Aniya Hartzler and Hannah Kurtz made the team. Rounding out the squad was NorthWood’s Mackenzie Bergman, Kira Robinsion and Kali Parisi, Concord’s Hannah Schraw, Haley Miller and McKenna Defreese, Plymouth’s Cece Robionson and Sydnee Smith and Elkhart Memorial’s Veronica Ocampo.
Honorable mention went to Sophie Carrison, Mikayla smith and Izzy Love of Northridge, Maggie Gallagher and Alkexa Medina of Goshen, Savannah Feenstra of NorthWood, Rachel DeShone of Concord, Madison Smith of Plymouth and MaKenzie Swearengin of Memorial.
Phil Ummel of NorthWood was coach of the year.
BOYS TEAM
Warsaw’s Eric Ocock, Luis Cleto and Blake Burns were named All-NLC, along with Wawasee’s Chris Pena. The Tigers’ Harrison Mevis and the Warriors’ Eric Yankowsky were honorable mention.
Conference champion Goshen placed six players on the team; Lucas Bontrager, Flavio Cruz, Alex Martinez, Manuel Castillo, Marcos Hernandez and Junior Argueta. Plymouth and Concord had four players each on the team. The Pilgrims were represented by Jorge Caliz, Jesus Jiminez, Larry Dragani and Alex Baca, and the Minutemen by Matt Granitz, Chino Saleh, Landon Fisher and Josh Gorval.
Memorial was represented by Elmar Martinez and Brandon Vargas. Northridge’s Micah Cross, Jonny Mora and Braden Tadeo, and NorthWood’s Juan Pantoja round out the squad.
Honorable mention went to Chris Garcia and Sergio Gonzalez of Goshen, Wyatt Howard and Colin Harding of Plymouth, Nick Binkley and Ariel DeLaPaz of Concord, Preston Elonich of Memorial, Anthony Jimenez of Northridge and Northwood’s Landon Parker.
Plymouth’s Josh Martin was named coach of the year.
