Lake Forest High School's girls tennis team won the Class 1A Antioch Sectional championship Saturday, Oct. 17, piling up 31 points.
Woodlands Academy's Courtney Croll took the singles title, while Lake Forest's Nina Singh and Lainey Laughton won the doubles championship. Both results send local players to the IHSA state finals, which run Thursday, Oct. 22, through Saturday, Oct. 24, in Buffalo Grove, according to the Peoria Journal Star. The top four finishers in singles and doubles at each sectional earn a state bid.
Singh and Laughton were dominant on their path to the doubles crown. The pair beat Johnsburg's Abby Lane and Brooke Butler 6-0, 6-0 in the semifinal round, according to the Northwest Herald. Lane and Butler, an unseeded team that had upset Wauconda's No. 2-seeded Kaitlyn Tracey and Sam Watton in the quarterfinals 4-6, 6-4, 7-5, could not win a game against the Lake Forest duo.
Lane and Butler went on to lose the third-place match to Grayslake Central's top-seeded Peyton Hoffman and Gigi Fedor 6-0, 6-1. That bracket context underscores how thoroughly Singh and Laughton controlled their side of the draw.
Scouts' boys soccer falls in OT regional semifinal
The Scouts' boys soccer season ended Monday, Oct. 19, with a 3-1 overtime loss to Niles Notre Dame in the 2A regional semifinal in Niles.
Neither team scored in the first half. Each side found the net once in the second half to send the match to overtime, where Niles Notre Dame scored twice while Lake Forest was shut out, according to MaxPreps.
Lake Forest reached the semifinal after beating Mather 4-1 in the regional quarterfinal Saturday, Oct. 17, as reported by the Chicago Tribune. That quarterfinal win gave the Scouts their second victory of the season.
Lake Forest finished 2-16-1 but earned a playoff win and pushed a Niles Notre Dame squad with a 16-2-5 record to overtime before bowing out.
