The Yorktown Huskers played a local rival, Somers, Tuesday night. Somers had won four games in a row while Yorktown came into the contest losing four of its last five games. The Huskers, led by four goals and an assist from Ty Schuldt, were able to halt the Tuskers winning streak with a 10-6 home victory.
“It was a huge win especially with two other huge games this week,” Schuldt said. “We have Brewster on Thursday (at YHS at 4:30 p.m.) and we have the biggest of the season, which is the Murphy Cup. We just have to keep on playing hard and have good practices this week.”
Since Yorktown is in Class B this year, the game against Somers may very well be a playoff preview.
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“I’m glad we came out with a win in a big game playing Somers, they are Class B as well, it’s a possible playoff matchup,” Yorktown coach Dave Marr said. “You want to have a big game against them and I think we did. At times it wasn’t perfect but we gutted it out.”
Keying the win for the Huskers against Somers was a fast start as Yorktown jumped out to a 4-0 lead and led 6-1 at halftime.
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“The first half we played really well,” Marr said. “We didn’t turn over the ball much. We played good team defense, finished some of our shots. The goalie (Matt Sialiano, six saves) played really well the whole game I thought.”
Marr thought his team could’ve played better in the second half, where it was outscored 5-4.
“In the second half, we again had second-half doldrums a little bit,” Marr said. “We were a little bit slow in the second half. We made some poor decisions and bad mistakes and kind of let them back in the game a little bit. Those are things we have to keep working on.”
One Husker who seems to have everything working right now is Schuldt.
“Ty is a very good player,” Marr said. "He is feeling very confident these days. He’s playing very well. He plays very hard. He’s good on the grounders, he’s good on the face-offs, he’s taking his shots. He’s a very fast player as you can see and he is utilizing that.”
One play in particular where he used his speed was with 3:18 to go in the third quarter when he scored off a face-off after Somers had scored twice to cut Yorktown’s lead to 7-3.
“They had just scored a couple of huge goals so we knew we were going to have to answer back strong,” Schuldt said. “That’s the best way to answer right back, is to get a big goal of your own.”
Schuldt said that he wound up scoring four goals of his own because of great teamwork.
“I was just running hard,” Schuldt said. “Our team moved the ball great. In previous games we had been having we had been throwing the ball away a lot. Tonight we really settled it down; we moved the ball around good. We didn’t have too many turnovers that led to goals and that led to a good win.”
Conor Gately (two goals, two assists), Connor Vercruysse (one goal), Justin Mabus (one goal), Frankie Fusco (one goal) and Joey Raniolo (one goal) joined Schuldt in the scoring column for Yorktown.
Good cause
The game raised money for the Stephanie Crispinelli Humanitarian Fund at www.stephaniesmission.org. It is named after Crispinelli, a 2008 Somers graduate, whose life was tragically cut short by the earthquake in Haiti.
Crispinelli, 19, was traveling on the “Journey of Hope” mission with two professors and 11 classmates from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., where she was a sophomore majoring in human services.
Murphy Cup
Ever since losing to rival Lakeland/Panas in both the Murphy Cup and Section 1 Class A championship games last season, Yorktown (7-4) has had revenge on its mind.
The Huskers will get a chance to exact that revenge when they host the Rebels in this year’s Murphy Cup on Saturday, May 7 at 7 p.m.
