BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- The Buccaneers men's lacrosse team's season came to an end on Tuesday evening after an LEC First Round Playoff loss to Keene State on Taylor's Points. A team the Bucs had beaten in regular-season play, 14-12, back on March 29th, the Owls came into Buzzards Bay and left with a 14-11 win and a ticket to the LEC Semi Finals on Thursday at WestConn.

The Basics

Final: Owls 14, Buccaneers 11

Records: Maritime 9-7 (5-3)

               Keene 8-8 (4-4)

Between The Pipes

Maritime: Eddie Keller (L, 6-7): 14 GA | 7 SV | 21 SH | 60 Min

Keene: Dylan Florian (W, 6-9): 11 GA | 16 SV | 27 SH | 60 Min

Inside The Numbers

Maritime 

• Braeden Kosiewicz and Joe Vricella led the Buccaneers with two goals apiece. Daniel Kane, Cooper Barrett, James Sullivan, Brian Rosher, Scott MacKinnon, Kyle Shanahan, and Ryan McDonough scored one.
• Quinn Mucha, Will Dykeman, Kosiewicz, and Shanahan had assists.
• Rosher led the way in the game with 12 ground balls. He also won 19 of 27 faceoffs for the Bucs. 
• Defensively, Dykeman caused a game-high three turnovers.
• In total, Maritime picked up 35 ground balls, succeeded on 14 of 16 clearances, won 20 of 28 faceoffs, and took 43 shots in the game.

Keene

• Tim Souza led all scorers with four goals in the win. Giacomo Tedone and Jack Ansart added two goals. Dylan Seymour, Jaheim Lancaster, Ben Tukey, Sebastian Foresi, Nicholas McNulty, and Henry Freschette scored one.
• Rex Maccarini recorded a game-high three assists in the game. Lancaster and Tedone had two, and Seymout, Foresi, Jake Dubiel, and Ansart had one.
• Florian led all Owls with seven ground balls. 
• On the faceoff, Ty Cougler won three of nine in the win.
• Defensively, Cougler caused a game-high three turnovers.
• In total, Keene picked up 34 ground balls, succeeded on 25 of 27 clearances, won eight of 28 faceoffs, and took 39 shots in the game.

How It Happened

The LEC First Round playoff between the Owls and Bucs remained scoreless for nearly seven minutes before the Owls scored first with 5:07 left in the quarter. Keene added two more goals in less than two minutes, and at the 3:23 mark of the first, they had opened a 3-0 lead. Off the faceoff after the third Keene goal, Kosiewicz scored for the Bucs to make it a 3-1 game. Ansart matched Kosiewicz at 2:19, and the Owls opened the lead back to three, 4-1. With seven seconds to play in the quarter, Sullivan scored for Maritime. The Owls led, 4-2, at the end of one quarter of play.

Kane drew the Bucs within one, six seconds into the second quarter. Souza scored for the Owls three minutes later, and the visitors led 5-3. The Buccaneers got back-to-back goals from McDonough and Vricella at 11:19 and 10:15 to tie the game at 5-5. At 9:31 of the second, Lancaster put the Owls back on top, 6-5. MacKinnon, a long-pole defender for the Bucs, came down the field and scored at 5:20 to bring the game even again at 6-6. In the last 3:43 of the first half, Keene scored three goals in a row from Tukey, McNulty, and Souza, to give the Owls a 9-6 advantage at the break. 

The third quarter was relatively quiet, with only three goals scored. The Buccaneers scored the first when Shanahan scored at the 13:10 mark to make it a two-goal game, 9-7. At 7:17, Souza scored for the Owls, and Tedone scored at 6:19 to bring the score to 11-7 in favor of Keene heading to the fourth.

The Owls scored the first two goals of the fourth at 14:02 and 11:40 to go up by six, 13-7. Maritime proceeded to go on a three-goal run in a minute of clock time on goals from Kosiewicz, Rosher, and Barret. The Bucs were back within three goals, 13-10. Seymour scored for the guests at 3:43 to make it 14-10. Though the Bucs got one more back on a Vricella score with 56 seconds left, that was all Maritime would get back as they dropped the First Round Playoff to the Owls, 14-11.