Alonso Flores contributed plenty of goals (49 this season, 122 for his career) and even more intangibles for Bloom. That's why he's the SouthtownStar's Boys Soccer Player of the Year.
Years of hard work paid off this season for Bremen's Steve Granat, who led the Braves to the Class 2A supersectional. That has earned him Fire/SouthtownStar Boys Soccer Coach of the Year honors.
Boys soccer: As the team bus stopped at the Neuqua Valley Athletics wing and the boys soccer team filed off for the last time in the 2008 season, the team's leading scorer and co-captain Bryan Ciesiulka approached coach Jim Johns and simply said "great year, coach."
New Trier edged Edwardsville 2-1 Saturday night in Class 3A to win its second boys soccer state title in three seasons. St. Joseph beat Lake View 4-1 for third place in Class 2A.