Alton’s Hatfield repeats as All-Stater

Pete Hayes, phayes@thetelegraph.com

Published 8:41 pm, Thursday, May 24, 2018

Alton’s Brianna Hatfield (11) repeated as an Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association All-State selection in voting that was announced Thursday. She is shown in action against Collinsville earlier this season.

Alton High’s Brianna Hatfield repeated as an All-State selection in voting conducted earlier this month by Section 12 coaches of the Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association.

Hatfield, a Florida Gulf Coast University recruit, finished her prep career with 54 goals. This season, she scored 11 goals and added seven assists to help the Redbirds to a 10-7-2 record and a second-place finish in the Southwestern Conference.

A pair of Belleville West players, goalie Bailey Redden and Belleville West’s Taylor Mathenia, were also named to the 61-player All-State team, as was Grace Bauer of Belleville East.

Five Telegraph-area players were named to the All-Sectional team and six were voted All-Sectional Honorable Mention.

Seniors Emma Lucas of Roxana and Morgan Wilson of Civic Memorial headlined the Section 12 All-Sectional team.

Lucas, a Lewis and Clark recruit, scored 37 goals and had 16 assists. Wilson, who’s headed to McKendree, scored 42 goals and had 12 assists.

Other area on the 30-player All-Sectional team include Calista Cox of Alton, as well as Sarah Kraus and Jocelyn Wagner of Edwardsville.

The rest of the All-Section 12 team included Marion’s Marissa Basi and Blake Clark; Triad’s Sydney Beach and Jodi Ellis; Columbia’s Sophia Bondaldi; East’s Annie Brown; Wesclin’s Sidney Christopher; Granite City’s Emma Dutko; Althoff’s Jessica Hoffman, Julia O’Neil and Madison Eghigan; Rylee Iorio of Columbia, West’s Addison Hanusek; Viktoria Johnson of Granite City; Justine Knapp of Mascoutah; Belleville East’s Olivia Lee; Courtney Marten and Jaylyn Richardson of Collinsville; Taylor Parks of Columbia; Mater Dei’s Faith Rackers; Waterloo’s Sydney Stephens and West’s Courtney Vollmer.

The All-Sectional Honorable Mention list included area players Lynde Gibbs of Carlinville, Alton’s Sydney Schmidt, CM’s Cassie Hall, Marquette Catholic’s Madalyn Smith, EA-WR’s Kara Crutchley and Edwardsville’s Hannah Biliecke.

The rest of the All-Sectional Honorable Mention list included Bailey Bosler and Sydney Luedeman of Waterloo, Bailey Busman of Mascoutah, Tori Calvert of Wesclin, Ashlen Deluca of Highland, Father McGivney High’s Macy Hoppes, Carbondale’s Claire Kippenbrock, O’Fallon’s Aubrey Mister, Gibault’s Abbey Phelps, Granite City’s Anna Stearns and Breese Central’s Madison Toennies.