Every team wants to get on a roll at season’s end, and Lane couldn’t have entered its first-ever state finals appearance on a much better one.

The Champions have won 11 straight and 12-of-their-last-13 games, heading into Friday’s 7:45 p.m. Class 3A state semifinal game against Edwardsville.

Lane won the Chicago Public League Premier Division with a 6-0-1 record. The Champions haven’t lost since a 2-0 defeat to Morton on Sept. 21 in the Morton Premier Invitational.

They kicked off the postseason with a 5-0 semifinal win over Payton and then a 2-0 regional title win over Oak Park and River Forest.

A 3-2 sectional semifinal double overtime win over highly-touted Evanston followed, then  shootout wins over Leyden for the sectional title and Conant in the supersectional.

Offensively, Lane has gotten 18 goals and six assists from Grayson Trinter, and 13 goals and three assists from Leo Vera. Benicio Lacerda and Julian Strelow have scored seven goals each, and Lane has gotten five goals apiece from Bryan Gauto and Kanan Kraus. Nine other players have also scored for a Lane team which has no shortage of scoring sources.

Keeper Evan Burgess has given up 17 goals in 22 games for a team with 11 shutouts on its resume.

Head coach Andrew Ricks enters the state finals with a record of 114-35-18 in nine seasons at the helm.

Editor’s note: Several information requests sent to Lane were not received at the time of publishing.