Oak Forest Closes Out Stirring Girls Soccer Season

Oak Forest was able to stay toe-to-toe with Lemont in the first half of Friday’s girls soccer showdown.

However, the Indians broke loose for three second-half goals, and the Bengals’ season came to end with the 3-0 loss in the Class 2A Lemont Regional championship game.

“This was definitely our best season in my three years,” Oak Forest coach Stacey Lane said. “We progressively increased our wins and decreased our losses every year.”

Lane added that her team’s goals-against total was great this year.

“We decreased our goals-against number by 16, which is phenomenal,” she said. “And the year before, we decreased them by almost the same number, so we’re definitely making strides. Our goals-for are increasing and our goals-against are decreasing.”

Lane is sad to see her seniors go. She said they meant a lot to her because they helped as she implemented her coaching style.

“When I came in they were sophomores, and my way of doing things was maybe different than the person who was here before me,” she said. “And they embraced my philosophy and my style of coaching soccer and they’ve demanded that from everybody who’s come up behind them, and that’s really important for the program to grow.”

Conference Titles in Baseball, Volleyball

The Oak Forest baseball and boys volleyball teams are both conference champions. The Bengals’ baseball team finished conference with an 18-1 mark, including 12-0 and 5-0 wins over T.F. South this week. The boys volleyball team defeated Shepard and Eisenhower this week to wrap up conference.

Offers Keep Coming in for Coleman 

Oak Forest football and track star Tevin Coleman’s offers for football are on the rise, according to a recent Chicago Tribune story.