BOSTON, MA -- After their 15-5 win over Eastern Connecticut in the Little East Conference Quarterfinals on Tuesday, the Buccaneers shipped up to Boston on Thursday to face the top seeded UMass Boston Beacons at BC High. Maritime gave the Beacons a run for their money for 60 minutes, providing an instant classic for everyone involved. Boston scored with 10 second remaining on the clock to win the game by the slimmest of margins, 21-20 over the fourth seeded Buccaneers.

The Basics

Final: Beacons 21, Buccaneers 20

Records: Boston (15-2, 9-0)

               Maritime (8-9, 6-4)

Between The Pipes

Boston: Trevor Koppy (W, 14-1): 8 GA | 19:50 Min | 5 Sv | 13 SH

             Christian Meinhold: 12 GA | 40:10 Min | 10 Sv | 22 SH

Maritime: Sean Lally (L, 7-6): 21 GA | 60 Min | 13 Sv |  34 SH

In The Field

Maritime

• In the final game of his impressive career, Spencer Jones scored a game-high six goals for the Bucs.
• Mitchell Maida scored five goals of his own and led the team with four assists to end his impressive season on an individual high note.
• Nick Lamattina, the first offensive guy off the bench for the Bucs scored four goals and had two assists in the game.
• Peter Raei, Gage coolahan, Ryan Cameron, Braeden Kosiwicz, and even the goalie Lally scored a goal each.
• Cameron added three helpers in the game. Lamattina and Jack Iversen had two assists.
• Brian Rosher picked up a team-high nine ground balls and won 21 of 44 faceoffs. Patrick Lawson also took a faceoff for the Bucs and won it for Maritime while Rosher was off the field.
• Maida caused two turnovers for Maritime in the loss.
• The Bucs picked up 37 ground balls, were successful on 22 of 25 clear attempts, won 22 of 45 faceoffs, scored two power play goals on seven chances, and took a total of 51 shots in the game.

Boston

• Charlie Chapman and Darragh Fahey scored four goals each to lead the Beacons. 
• Donovan Prozinski, Michael Claflin, and Jacob Banks each scored three times.
• Luke Murphy added two goals, Greg Wolff and Jack Dobrynski scored once.
• Dobrynski picked up a game-high 11 ground balls and won 16 of 33 faceoffs.
• Patrick Colburn led all players defensively with three caused turnovers.
• Boston picked up 47 ground balls, were successful on 19 of 21 clears, won 23 of 45 faceoffs, scored two power play goals on seven chances, and took a total of 57 shots in the win.

How It Happened

Going up against the top seeded Beacons, the Bucs knew they had to score early and score often. They started with a goal from Lamattina 23 seconds into the game and added another from Raei less than a minute later to make it 2-0 Bucs. Boston proceeded to tie the game over the next 45 seconds getting goals from Claflin and Prozinski, off the draw, to make it 2-2. Not backing down, the Buccaneers rattled off three goals in a row from Jones, his 100th point of his career, Maida and Lamattina. Down 5-2 with six minutes left in the first, Prozinski scored another to cut the Boston deficit to two goals. Maritime, again, scored three goals in a row from 5:39 to 3:24 of the first with goals from Lally, his first of the season from the Goalie position, Lamattina and Jones on a power play to go up five goals, 8-3, shocking the Beacons. Boston scored three unanswered of their own in 1:30 to bring it back to a two-goal separation, 8-6. In the final minute, Jones scored again for the Buccaneers to make it 9-6 Maritime at the end of one quarter of play.

After a 15-goal first quarter, the teams kept it to a modest 11 goals in the second quarter. Boston started it off with three goals to tie the game at 9-9. Maritime took the lead once again on a Coolahan goal with 12:05 until halftime. Boston went on another three-goal unanswered run from 10:50 to 8:53 to take a two-goal lead, their first and biggest of the game. Maida scored with 7:55 to bring it back to a one goal Beacons lead, 12-11. Neither team scored again until the clock went under two minutes. Chapman scored for Boston at 1:48 to open it back up to a two-goal lead for Boston. The Bucs closed out the half with two goals in the final 35 seconds including a goal at four seconds from Maida to tie the game, 13-13 at the half.

In the third, Boston scored first to retake a lead 14-13. Maritime then went on a three-goal run with Maida, Jones and Cameron netting goals to give the Bucs a lead once again, 16-14. Boston scored three more with no answer to retake the lead 17-16. Each team scored another in the quarter and Boston led Maritime 18-17 at the end of three quarters of play.

With a spot in the LEC Championship game on Saturday on the line, neither team wanted to give this one up. Maritime scored three goals to start the fourth, the first just 11 second in from Jones to tie the game at 18-18. Maide scored at 12:47 to give his team a 19-18 advantage. With 8:52 on the clock, Lamattina added some insurance and gave the Bucs a two-goal, 20-18 advantage with under nine minutes to play. The top seeded Beacons would not go away that easily as they scored two goals to tie the game up. With 4:30 left in regulation, the defenses stepped up holding the tie until the final minute of play. With 1:11 on the clock, Boston took a timeout to control the clock. With 10 seconds left, Chapman scored to give the Beacons a 21-20 advantage. The Bucs went on to win the ensuing faceoff but could not find the back of the net as the Beacons held on to win the highest scoring game in Little East Conference playoffs history, 21-20 over Maritime.

The Buccaneers season comes to an end with the team finishing 8-9 overall with a 5-4 conference record.