Week of October 8-14

Volleyball

It was Storm v Storm as Varsity Volleyball took on EF Academy at Homecoming. The St. Luke's Storm easily took the first two sets, 25-10, 25-9 before EF Academy threatened a comeback in the third. St. Luke's held on with a 25-21 win. Kayleigh Bowler ‘20 served for 15 points in the second set and Maddie Harris ‘19 served multiple points in the third.

Field Hockey

Varsity Field Hockey traveled two hrs on Wednesday, October 10 to take on Kingswood Oxford. The team struggled to keep up their energy after the long bus ride and fell 1-3. Katherine Pelligrino ‘19 score the only goal for the Storm.

Luckily, the energy was in overdrive on Saturday at homecoming when the team faced off against Miss Porters School. With the sidelines filled with spectators, the girls showed the SLS community their skills and drive. MP scored the first goal but that didn’t deter the Storm.   In the second half, Kendall Boege ‘19 blasted the ball up the entire field to Lucy Ehlers ‘21 who smacked it into the goal to tie the game and push in into overtime.

Sadly, Miss Portes scored another goal shortly into OT ending the game.

Boege was a standout earning the game ball from the coaches but all the girls played outstanding and should be proud of the team.  

Varsity Football

Led by a suffocating defense and two punt-return touchdowns by Seth Kim ’19, the St. Luke’s Varsity football team thrilled its home crowd with a 31-0 whitewashing of the Hopkins Hilltoppers on Homecoming to move to 4-2 on the season.  Hopkins fell to 3-3.

 

The tone of the game was set early when on the Hilltoppers’ second play from scrimmage Austin Andersen ’21 recovered a fumbled snap at the Hopkins 29.  Five plays later Andrew Lau ’20 drilled a 24-yard field goal for a 3-0 lead just 3:37 into the game.

 

Late in the first quarter, after the teams traded possessions, Hopkins was forced to punt for the second time.  Seth Kim fielded the punt at the Storm 48 and with the benefit of good blocks by Juan Rosario ’19 and Noah Bailey ’19 raced 52 yards for a touchdown.  Lau added the extra point for a 10-0 lead.

 

Midway through the second quarter Everett Andersen ’22 hit Lau in stride with a perfect spiral for a 48-yard scoring strike and a 17-0 lead at halftime.

 

There was a ray of hope for Hopkins as they recovered a fumbled kickoff at the Storm 30-yard line to open the second half, but, as they did all day, the defensive line of JD Burnaman ’19, Christian Haas ’20, Jordan Robinson ’20 and Michael Thompson ’20 shut down the Hilltoppers’ running game.  On fourth down Kenny Soares ‘21 recorded one of his three sacks on the day to give the ball back to St. Luke’s.

 

Junior Shamond Moore’s 30-yard scamper was the big play in a four-play drive culminating in Austin Andersen ‘21’s 10-yard touchdown run and a 24-0 lead.

 

Once again the defense held, forcing a Hopkins punt, which turned out to be the Storm’s best offensive play of the day. Kim once again returned the punt for a touchdown, this time an ESPN top ten-worthy 69 yard beauty to push the score to 31-0.

 

The Storm defense smothered Hopkins all day.  Burnaman led the way with 10 tackles while Austin Andersen and Chandler Greene ’19 each recorded nine.  Bailey was a force at middle linebacker with eight tackles, several of which were of the highlight-reel variety.

 

Head Coach Noel Thomas was able to give the home fans a glimpse of the future as he emptied the bench and let younger players show what they could do.  Will Thomas ’22 made a terrific reception, Matty Goldstein ’22, John Normile ‘22, and James Kontoulis ’21 showed off their quickness at running back and Bear Fox ’22 recovered a fumble for the defense.

Boys Varsity Soccer

 

Homecoming Week started well for Boys Varsity Soccer and it was great to see everyone back after a few injuries, including defender Jack Neafsey (’19) who had been out for several weeks.

The team was at Hamden Hall on Wednesday and brought the ‘A-Game’ with a 5-1 win! Goals came from Phil Platek (’20), Michael Riley (’22) and Jake Kavan (’21) with a hat-trick. They found the net with the help of some great assists from Max Bowman (’22), Max Mitchell (’20) and Platek.

Homecoming Saturday saw the team with the early game at 12pm and rather rainy conditions. The boys came out strong against Masters School though, with several chances on goal. The goal finally came from Kavan with the assist from Platek.

Unfortunately, a questionable call came before halftime and Masters scored a penalty to make it 1-1.

St Luke’s continued to work hard but both teams organized defensively leaving fewer chances on goal in the second half.

CJ Woodberry ‘19 powered up and down the wing, leading the line of midfielders who were well supported by our strong defensive line led by Bear Crystal ‘20 and Desmond Pratt ‘21. The game was ultimately held to a respectable 1-1 draw for two strong teams.

Next up: Boys Varsity Soccer will play Greens Farms Academy at home on Tuesday, October 16 at 4.15pm.

Girls Soccer

Girls Varsity Soccer enjoyed another fruitful week and extended its perfect start to the season with wins against Millbrook School and Hamden Hall.

The Storm traveled to Millbrook on Wednesday, October 10 to face a tough Mustangs team. In a tight first half goals from Lea Panagiotidis ‘20 and Ali Gall ‘22 gave St. Luke’s a 2-0 lead before Millbrook pulled one back before halftime.

St. Luke’s came out strong after the break and controlled the second period to eventually win 5-1. Goals from Lily Tenic ‘20, Panagiotidis and Julia Lombardo ‘21 sealed an important away win.

On Saturday, October 13, GVS made light work of its homecoming opponent with a comfortable 6-0 victory over Hamden Hall. Goals from Tencic, Panagiotidis (x2), Lombardo, Macy Owsley ‘22, and Jackie Thompson ‘20 sees the Storm improve to 7-0 for the season and 5-0 in FAA play.