With a strong run through the final week of the regular season, the Solvay ice hockey team claimed the seventh spot in the Division I standings, well within the top eight playoff qualifiers. It all got capped Thursday night, at State Fair Coliseum, where the Bearcats jumped all over Corcoran in the early going, then breezed to a 6-3 victory over the Warriors. Playing for the third time in four days, Solvay was sharp in the first period, roaring out to a 4-1 lead. That pace could not keep up, but the Bearcats matched Corcoran’s production the rest of the night and never faced serious stress. Peter Lynch stepped up to score twice, leading a balanced attack where David Graf, Forrest Gilbert, David Lilly and Travis Hyde also converted. Lilly added two assists as Tyler O’Mara, Brendan Antonini and Casey McHale earned one assist apiece. Jim Albright played in goal, earning 34 saves. All this began last Monday with a trip east to Kennedy Arena, where it saw a late lead slip away in a 5-4 loss to Rome Free Academy. The Black Knights carried a 15-game unbeaten streak (13 wins, two ties) into the game, but Solvay was not cowed. They were tied, 1-1, when a busy second period saw the Bearcats move in front 3-1 before the margin got cut to 4-3. Tom Missert, with two goals and one assist, led an attack where O’Mara and Mike Sniffen also found the net. Josh Wilton And Alex Tripp earned assists. Despite this lead, the Black Knights kept applying pressure, tying it 4-4 as Kyle Williams scored with 9:31 left, then moving ahead on Mike Pekarski’s goal with 5:01 to play in regulation. In defeat, Ryan Bonk made 39 saves, more than twice that of RFA counterpart Anthony D’Urso. Back home at State Fair Coliseum Wednesday to face Utica Proctor, the Bearcats had a much easier time of it, stomping past the Raiders 8-1. Neither side got on the board until the second period, when Solvay took charge by finding the net four times. Not content with that, the Bearcats added four more goals in the third period as it took 43 shots to Proctor’s 19. David Graf and Jim Farella both found the net twice, part of a deep and potent attack where Sniffen, Tripp and Missert each got one goal and one assist. Ben Carrock earned the other goal as O’Mara, Will Downs and Peter Lynch got two assists apiece. David Lilly and Carmen Gacek earned single assists.