WELLS — Despite dominating possession and playing most of the game inside their opponent’s end, the Wells girls soccer team still found itself deadlocked at 1-1 with less than six minutes to play against Lake Region on Tuesday afternoon.

After seeing plenty of good chances go by, it looked like the Warriors would need a little good fortune to get by a Lakers team that probably already should have been beat, but wouldn’t go away.

That bit of luck came just in the nick of time, when, with 5:31 to play, Sophie Lamb’s cross into the Lakers’ box looked like it would be caught by goalkeeper Isabel Scribner.

Instead, the ball bounced off Scribner and fell to the feet of Amanda Deshaies, who tapped the ball in for the eventual game winner.

The Warriors moved to 1-1 with the win, avoiding going winless in their two games in a season where an experienced group is expecting to end the program’s playoff draught.

“Coming in, I was anticipating we’d have a really good chance to win. It’s some relief with it being our first win of the year,” said Wells head coach Jim Lamb, whose team outshot its opponents 10-3. “Now we’re 1-1 and hopefully moving in the right direction. We have a bunch of tough games coming up, and we didn’t want to go 0-2 into those games we have coming up. It’s a big relief, it really is.”

As it would be for the majority of the game, Wells had the better of the play in the opening 20 minutes, with both Deshaies and Alison Furness running on to through balls past the back line only to be just beaten to them by an oncoming Scribner.

The Warriors beat the Lakers goalie with 15:29 left in the half, largely thanks to miscommunication in the Lake Region ranks.

It started with Furness tossing the ball in from a throw in toward Lamb, who with her back to goal, flicked the ball on from just outside the 18-yard box. Scribner called for the ball but ended up getting caught up with a defender, missing the ball completely and allowing Lamb to pounce for the opening goal.

“That was just all about being aggressive,” Lamb said of the goal. “The goalie was going for the ball and so was I. I wasn’t going to stop just because she’s calling for it.”

That, however, seemed to wake up the Lakers, who seven minutes later got their first good chance when some sloppy Wells defense allowed Lauren Williams to get a shot off from close range that just went wide.

But that untidiness at the back returned to hurt the Warriors with 4:22 left on the clock, when a ball into the box was knocked around and eventually fell to the feet of the Lakers’ Whitney Harriman, who scored.

“We can’t allow them to have it at our 18, and allowing them to without putting any pressure on them,” Jim Lamb said. “We allowed them to turn and the next thing you know that created an opportunity for them. Anything can happen when the ball’s flying around the goal line.”

The game stayed 1-1 into the break and through a mostly uneventful first 30 minutes of the second half until Lamb created some space outside of the Lakers box, but cracked her left-footed shot right at Scribner.

Lamb had another chance with six minutes remaining after making a run down the right side and past two defenders, but again her shot was parried away by Scribner.

But off the resulting corner ”“ Wells’ 10th, compared to four for Lake Region ”“ the Warriors got their break. After the initial ball into the box was sent back out, Lamb floated another toward the far post.

Scribner came for it but could only get a slight touch, with Deshaies there to pick up the leftovers and score the winner.

“I just got a few people and tried to hit the opposite corner and the goalie tipped it and Amanda was there to hit it right in,” Lamb said. “That was fortunate.

“It wasn’t our best game by far, but any win I’ll take. We pulled through.”

Wells will be back in action at 3:30 p.m. Friday, when it travels to Freeport to take on the 1-1 Falcons.

— Staff Writer Cameron Dunbar can be contacted at 282-1535, ext. 323.