WALLKILL ― As Inga Haines raced after that through ball, seeing open field and opportunity ahead, her teammates’ excitement was tempered with a bit of apprehension.
“I’m thinking, ‘Please get this in,’” Kathleen Conlon said, reenacting how nervous she was in that moment. “’If she doesn’t score here, we’re cooked.’”
Well, not necessarily. But there had been a persistent feeling of uneasiness throughout the Burke Catholic girls soccer team, one that heightened with each missed shot and close call…