LYNN – Manning Field has been the Lynnfield girls soccer team’s own personal house of horrors since it was built. The Pioneers had played in the North final or semifinals at least four times at Manning and had come away empty in each instance.On Monday night, the No. 2 seeds finally got that gorilla off their backs. Jess Duhaime and Liz Reed scored second half goals as Lynnfield solved a stingy Triton defense with a dominant effort over the final 40 minutes to take a 2-1 win and a spot in Saturday’s (2) Division 3 North final against upstart North Reading. The game is at Manning Field.?Triton is a really good team and they have some really good players,” Lynnfield coach Mark Vermont said. “It was such a great battle. They took us out of our game for the first 25 or 30 minutes and then we started passing to feet more and we just kept working.”The Vikings (14-7-2), who were more talented than their No. 7 seed showed, made life extremely difficult for Lynnfield (15-4-2) over the first half and into the second thanks to a strategy that saw them hang seven, eight and sometimes as many as nine players back on defense.That took Lynnfield’s ability to work the middle of the field out of play. Fortunately for the Pioneers, they possess the ability to use their speed to get on the wings and it was that move which eventually helped them swing the possession completely in their favor over the final 40 minutes.?That was the plan, to go wide to the flanks,” Vermont said. “But Triton came out and outplayed us for a while there in the first half. We just had to settle down and play five minutes at a time.”The Vikings strategy was on display right from the start as they sacrificed constant offensive pressure in favor of trying to lock things up in front of keeper Christine Ciccone. The move worked for almost the entire first half as Lynnfield put only three shots on goal.At the other end, Triton had only one good scoring chance and they made the most of it in the 17th minute. Meredith Kennedy picked up a pass in the box and fed it to a wide open Cara Orlandi for a rocket that Lynnfield keeper Hannah Travers had no shot on.Late in the half, the Pioneers looked like they had picked up some momentum when they scored off a restart but were called offside on the play, sending the teams into halftime with the Vikings clinging to their 1-0 lead.?After they got that goal, we told the girls that they just had to calm down and play,” Vermont said. “And that’s hard to do sometimes.”Whatever strategy the Pioneers came up with to try and break Triton’s defensive wall worked right out of the gates in the second half. In the first five minutes alone, Lynnfield had as many shots on goal as it did in the entire first half.The pressure finally paid off with 34:15 left. Reed worked her way into the box and fired a shot that hit the crossbar. Duhaime was there to seemingly put the rebound home but one official ruled no goal on the play. But the linesman who had a better view of the play overruled the original call and the Pioneers were back even.?The linesman called it right away and credit to him for sticking with the call,” Vermont said.Duhaime’s goal signalled the first crack in Triton’s defensive shell and the Pioneers would go about prying it wide open. They nearly took the lead three minutes later but Abbie Weaver saw her original shot stopped and then Paige MacEachern misfired on the rebound with an open net in front of her.Minutes later, Duhaime had a breakaway but Ciccone made a great save to preserve the tie for the moment. Less than three minutes later, the Vikings wouldn’t be as fortunate.Reed picked up a deflected pass and went in on a break from 30 yards out. The sophomore then got past Ciccone and put the ball into an empty net to give Lynnfield the lead with 19:11 to go.Triton would press everyone up field to try and get the equalizer in the final minutes but the Lynnfield defense locked things down in front of Travers for the win.