When Wences Baumgartner was five years old, his parents signed him up to play soccer simply as a way to have him run around and stay busy.

Well, it stuck, and a little over a decade later, the Beecher senior is now the IHSA record holder for career goals with 187.

He reached that milestone, which had been 177 goals since 2011, by scoring a career-high 64 goals this season, tied for the fifth-most in a single season in state history.

It has been about two months since the Daily Journal Boys Soccer Player of the Year scored his record-setting goal, and it’s taken a little time for the fact that he sits alone atop the all-time scoring list to sink in.

“It was great, and I feel really special that I could do that,” he said. “It wasn’t a thing that was in my mind at the beginning of the s

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