BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- Maritime played host to the Mitchell College Mariners at Clean Harbors Stadium on Tuesday evening. In a hard fought, physical game, the Buccaneers game away with 4-2 comeback win.

The Basics

Final: Maritime 4, Mitchell 2

Records: Maritime 4-8 (2-2 MASCAC)

            Mitchell 0-9-2 (0-1-1 NECC)

For the Bucs

• McNeill Somers (Boston, MA) scored his team-leading fourth goal in the 86th minute.
• Ty Chafa (Quincy, MA) and Quin Lutz (Carrollton, VA) scored their first career goals in the game.
• Nicholas Vanti (East Longmeadow, MA) scored his first career goal and game winner for the Bucs in the 55th minute on a free kick from 20 yards out.
• Brian Tannian (Reading, MA) recorded his first and second career assists on the Chafa and Lutz goals.
• Jake McInerney (Hanover, MA) picked up his second assist of the season on the Somer goal.
• Goalkeeper John Murphy (Braintree, MA) made three saves and allowed the two Mariners goals on five shots faced.

For The Mariners

• Bryan Ramos scored the first Mitchell goal in the 48th minute. Nicholas Ghirardi scored the second on a penalty shot in the 52nd minute.
• Eric Leuchner tallied an assist on the Ramos strike.
• Goalkeeper Dylan Kinsella made one save and allowed the four Maritime goals on five shots faced.

How It Happened

Maritime opened the scoring relatively early in the 11th minute on a Chafa header past Kinsella on a well placed free kick from Tannian from the sideline. Tannians kick made it all the way across the 18, just outside the six yard box and Chafa put it in the net to give the Bucs a 1-0 advantage. There were 10 more shots between the teams and neither could find the back of the net. The game went to the half 1-0 with the excitement yet to come. 

In the second half, the goalfest began when the Mariners leveled the game early on in the 48th minute on Ramos's goal on a pass from Leuchner, making the score 1-1. Five minutes later, Mitchell was awarded a penalty on a hard challenge by Maritime in the six yard box. Ghirardi put it home in the bottom righthand corner to give the Mariners a 2-1 lead. Then, in the 55th minute, the Buccaneers started their comeback. After being awarded a free kick from 20 yards out, Vanti stepped up with his left foot and from a deflection off of a Mitchell defender, the ball found its way past Kinsella who was tracking the shot to the left of the net and had no opporunity to get back to the ball. The Bucs had tied the game at 2-2. Just five minutes late, in the 61st minute, by a second, Vanti delivered a corner kick in to the box. Tannian received the ball at the far post, passed the ball in front of the net to a waiting Lutz who buried the ball in the back of the net to give the Bucs a 3-2 lead. The Lutz goal, the fourth scored in the first 15 minutes of the half, would prove to be the game winner. The Bucs added an insurance goal in the 86th minute to seal the game. McInerney took a free kick from nearly midfield. The ball bounced around inside the box then found the foot of Somers. McNeill tapped the ball in to the net to make the score 4-2 in favor of the Bucs. The Mariners puched back but couldn't get anything else on the board and the Bucs won by the 4-2 score.

What's Next

Maritime hosts Framingham State in MASCAC action on Friday night at 7pm. Live stats and stream will be available at mmabucs.com.