Somers Has an Easy Time of Briarcliff in 17-6 Victory

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On Friday April 11, Somers hosted Briarcliff, and the Tuskers didn’t take much time to get on the scoreboard. 47 seconds in, the next one came only seven seconds later, and so it went the rest of the way.

9-1 by the time the first period ended, the lead would grow to 17-2 before a series of late goals made the 17-6 final seem a lot closer than it was.

Of course, Matt Mayfield took the opening face, and the Tuskers got down to business. They patiently worked the perimeter until Matt Battaglia passed left to Miguel Iglesias. The senior surveyed, closed in and fired into the net for a 1-0 lead.

Time was short the next time around, though. Mayfield raced forward for his own flip, dumped left to Miguel Iglesias, and his pass back right left Dylan Jimenez ready to throttle. He shifted down, raced to the left side of the goal and easily hit the back of the net.

2-0, Somers took their time again, and Miguel Iglesias was free on the other side. But Joseph Hentel stood tall with his catcher, and maybe a momentum shift was on the way.

Not quite, Iglesias did not take kindly to the theft and refused to let the goalie win the sequence. Eventually, the ball came loose, and Tristen Iglesias kept it in the family. He picked up the loose ball and dropped into the empty net.

At 9:42 on the clock, Mayfield put his team in possession for the 4th straight time. The boys set up, the ball came to Mason Kelly on the left and he sidestepped the defense for to 4-0 game

The score coming at 9:03, the lead increased to 6-0 with only 23 second elapsing. Cameron Violante unleashed from the right at 8:41, and seven seconds later, Mayfield took care of things himself after winning the face-off.

Another draw win on the way, Hentel finally got the better of Somers. Three bigs saves and defense turned to offense when Willam Soffer got Briarcliff on the board.

6:13 left in the first, the Tusker defense took their turn sparking offense. After Somers lost the ball on the whistle, the boys swarmed Briarcliff’s advance and forced an errant pass that Mayfield scooped up. The senior raced forward, dished to Miguel Iglesias on the right, and his overhead regained the six goal lead.

Tristan Iglesias and Violante would add two more goals to close the quarter, and even the defense got into the act. Tristan Wachtel picked up a loose ball at midfield, came barreling down, and after faking a pass left, he unleashed for a commanding 11-2 score.

From there, the lead would grow to 14-2 by the time a pair of Somers rookies got the call. After receiving on the left,” said George Sullivan, “I was like, oh I can shoot it. So I shot high, and it went in.”

Awesome and surreal, he added and then the moment came again two minutes later. “I guess I showed my teammates I could play,” said Sullivan.

His first two varsity goals, Sullivan gave way to Harry Brelesky. “I got the ball on the top right, the coach called midnight. So I carried it down to X, dodged left and hit the five hole on the goalie,” said the freshman.

His teammates joining the celebration, Brelesky took stock. “I’ve been watching these guys play since I was young. It was great,” he said, and the rest was just a matter of the running clock.