The Champs: Seaford beats Mount Sinai 2-1 in closing seconds of LI Class A girls’ soccer title game for the ages

With four minutes remaining in the Long Island Class A girls’ soccer championship match, Mount Sinai tied the score 1-1 and the game seemed headed for overtime.  But Seaford midfielder Grace Cullingford had other plans. With 12 seconds remaining, Cullingford cracked a shot from 30 yards out that ricocheted off the crossbar and into the back of the net — igniting her team in celebration. “I knew we had like 15 seconds left when I got the ball so I knew I just had to shoot it no matter how far out it was,” said Cullingford, a junior co-captain. “I shot it with my non-dominant foot, my left foot, so I was just praying that it was going in.” Cullingford’s prayers were answered, as her game-winning goal clinched the championship for Seaford on the misty night of Thursday, Nov. 5 at Farmingdale State College. Before Cullingford’s late-game heroics, Seaford (13-4-2) nearly let this one slip away. It was a game the Vikings largely dominated, holding the lion’s share of possessio