Somers Ends Regular Season with 9-5 Win Over Ursuline

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On Monday May 8, Somers faced Ursuline at the high school and hoped to end the regular season on a high note. A tone that was quickly set when Sydney Ingram opened the scoring and would ultimately do justice for the last time the seniors would take their home turf.

“I’m really proud of this win,” said Ingraham, and the Tuskers will take a 9-7 record into the sectionals.

She didn’t win the opening face. But Ella Lassen got the strip and the steal and Ingraham was back in business. On the left, she danced, juked and cut across the crease for an overhand that found the net at 10:36.

The draw again to Ursuline, Ingraham righted the situation herself this time. She got the strip, but the Ursuline goalie denied Ingraham right out front.

No problem, Ingraham and the defense got Ursuline in transition, and the ball went back the other way for Fink. She drew the penalty and scored at 7:11.

A 2-0 game, Ingraham dug in and set up Fink for the scoop. On the ball, any good result that makes it Fink’s way never fails to be a special delight for the draw lady. “I always just want to play for Molly, because she’s my senior,” Ingraham assured endearingly.

So the set up away, Lyla Mancini and Mia Parisi played a little give and go. Mancini passed back to Parisi behind the goal, and she hit Mancini cutting across the crease. A step ahead, Mancini swung over her left shoulder, and it was a 3-0 game at 6:22.

Of course, one on one works too. Ingraham got the scoop on the draw, and from the top of the key, she put on a spin move to the goal. The defense beat, the goalie didn’t have a chance either.

Now 4-0 with 5:11 left in the first, Ingraham sent the ball backwards but never gives up any ground, according to Fink. “She has one mission,” said Fink. “She goes for the ball, and she gets it.”

The case here, Fink took the hand off and muscled her way through to put Somers on the set up. Taking the cue, Mancini now went solo, and in dancing from back to front for the goal, the X-man had Ingraham’s blessing. “She’s really grown in her dodging,” said Ingraham. “Her confidence has gone through the roof.”

Caroline Nowak did answer for a 5-1 game at 2:31, but there was no questioning the Somers attack. Ingraham went sideways for the draw, picked up the bounce and then Fink employed the acrobatics.

From the top, Mancini’s pass was a little behind a trailing Fink, and she reached back for the snare. Straightening up, she went around the pick and found the left top corner of the net with 1:27 left in the first.

In control, Ingraham and Fink piled on. Dancing on the right, Ingraham waited for Fink to make the cut, and she sliced up the goalie again for a 7-1 advantage at 10:03.

The lead would grow to 9-2, and so would a degree of tension. “It was definitely a physical game,” said Fink.

But that only works to the Tusker advantage. “It just prepares us to play tougher teams and makes us stronger,” said the senior.

Crunch time, Fink and her team feel they are peaking at the right time. “Ending the season with three wins, we are going to keep our momentum going into the sectionals, and I’m really confident,” she concluded.

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