MANCHESTER — The bigger the game, the better for Adam Edmunds, who has come up huge for the Wilton-Lyndeborough boys' soccer team in the championship game the last two years.

Last season, he assisted on the only goal in the Warriors' win. And on Sunday, he assisted on the first goal and then scored the game winner with just more than a minute left as they secured their second straight Division IV crown with a 2-1 victory over Sunapee at Southern New Hampshire University.

Seventh-seeded Wilton-Lyndeborough finished the season with a record of 14-4-1, while Sunapee ended 14-5.

“I love playing under pressure,” Edmunds said. “That's when I play my best.”

The winning goal was set up by a long ball played into the box by Mark Davidson. Sunapee goalie TJ Walchotz (4 saves) came off his line to play the ball, but Edmunds got to it first and flicked a header over him and into the net to make it 2-1 with 1:11 remaining.

The Lakers got the ball in the Warriors' zone after that, but couldn't tie it up and time expired on their chances for a championship.

Edmunds said he was trying to hold off a defender as the ball was served by Davidson into the box and as he went to play it, he could see Walchotz out of the corner of his eye. He figured the goalie was going to try to keep him from kicking the ball, so Edmunds decided to play it in the air.

“I headed it over and watched it slowly roll in,” Edmunds said.

Wilton-Lyndeborough never trailed and got on the board first with a goal by Marshal Davidson, Mark's brother and a former goalie, 9:18 into the game.

Edmunds set that up when he beat his man on the right wing and centered a pass to Marshal, who needed two swipes at it to score. His first shot was deflected off a Sunapee defender, but the second went in.

The score remained 1-0 at the break thanks in part to a spectacular save by Walchotz on a shot from about 25 yards out with 18 minutes before halftime.

Then the Lakers tied it 9:12 into the second half when Troy Fowler blasted a shot from just outside the 18-yard box into the lower corner of the net Warrior goalie Connor Melrose (1 save) couldn't get to.

“It was a perfect strike,” Sunapee coach Jack Iacopino said. “He's got a great boot and he's got good power.”

Marshal Davidson had another one of his shots in the box deflected by a Sunapee defender with 24:30 remaining, and after that both teams got really conservative. Defenses packed in and out-numbered strikers in the attacking zone, and it wasn't until the final minutes that either team got a good opportunity.

That was when Mark Davidson played the ball to Edmunds, and once again he came through in the clutch.

“I was crossing my fingers pretty hard at that point,” Warriors coach Steve Martus said about the sequence when Edmunds scored. “He's a confident player though.”

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