Somers Advances with Resounding 19-0 Victory Over Brewster

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On Tuesday May 21, Somers opened the sectional one tournament as the two seed. Seven seeded Brewster on the other side, the Tuskers didn’t take very long to set the tone

Three minutes into the game, Somers scored three goals and went onto an easy 19-0 victory.

The game began with Matt Mayfield winning the draw and dishing to a sidearm shooting Mac Sullivan. Going wide, Sullivan got the ball again on the left side, drove baseline and hit an open Cameron Violante on the right of the goal.

No chance for Kevin O’Gorman, and Mayfield went back to work in the middle. The ball back to Dean Palazzolo, Somers set up, and Miguel Iglesias decided to take care of business himself. He raced around the Brewster defense and fired over his shoulder for a 2-0 lead at 10:38 of the first.

O’Gorman did get to have a little glory, though. With Grayden Carr’s tent pitched right in front of the crease, the Brewster goalie stood down the point blank shot, and the Bears were able to exhale for the moment.

Not for long, Brewster would lose the ball on offense, and the elephants hit the trifecta. Logan Ruby picked up the loose ball, fed to Sullivan on the left, and Violante again knew his place. The ball coming across, he had another easy goal at 8:54.

Three minutes later, O Gorman got the drop again. Sullivan fired low on a line, and the Bear goalie had the scoop save.

The Brewster offense was unable to take advantage, though. So the Somers stampede continued. Another solo, Tristan Iglesias put two spin moves on his defender, and the shake left room for a sidearm shot.

O’Gorman bested again, Somers led 4-0 with 3:38 left in the first period. No rest for the weary was forthcoming either. Mayfield picked up his own draw, and took it right to the house for a 5-0 lead.

Two more goals for the period, and Somers didn’t stop pouring it on. Violante to Iglesias made it 8-0 to start the second period, so a Landon Pepe save with 8:15 left in the half didn’t seem very dramatic. “It means a ton,” said the senior goalie of his 400th career save for the Tuskers.

Back the other way, the Somers crowd got to tip their caps. Left to right again, Sullivan hit Violante for a freshman hat trick, and filling in for an injured Ryan Brush, the underclassman knew the score coming in. “I had to step up and play attack,” said Violante.

The rest was mostly a matter of preserving the shut out, and those duties fell to Andrew Marzella and Ryder Pelkey as the backups.

Marzella passing the test first, the junior knew the ribbing he’d get at practice in the event of a blemish on the scoreboard, but all in good fun. “It’s been a great experience playing with these dudes,” he assured.

Pelkey then getting the call, the junior had the same concern. “They would definitely be on me in practice,” he joked, and things got a little more dicey.

With the clock running down, he made two big saves and kept the scoreboard pristine. “I knew I had to save the shutout,” Pelkey said.

Fun aside, Pepe didn’t complicate the next steps. “We just have to commit to the game plan and put our heads down,” the goalie concluded.

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