Buzzards Bay, Mass. --  Massachusetts Maritime senior offensive right tackle John Moriarty earned a spot on the 2013 D3football.com All-East Region Team that was announced earlier today, as the Buccaneer standout collected third team all-regional accolades and is one of 78 student-athletes to be honored by the most respected voice of Division III football nationally.

A native of Wilmington, Mass. and a graduate of Wilmington High School, Moriarty is the second Massachusetts Maritime standout to earn all-regional recognition from D3football.com in the last three seasons, as he joins Walter Butler ’12, the 2011 New England Football Conference Bogan Division Defensive Player of the Year, in that category.  Moriarty’s latest accolade comes in a week that will also see him honored as a member of the Division II-III All-New England team by the New England Football Writers Association on Thursday evening at the Montvale Plaza in Stoneham, Mass., as he is the fifth player in Academy history to earn a spot on the prestigious NEFW squad.

Moriarty has been Massachusetts Maritime’s starting right tackle for the past two seasons and has been part of an offensive line unit that has set 22 school records over that time span.  Head Coach Jeremy Cameron’s Buccaneers ranked as high as second nationally in total offense during the year and are currently rated 13^th with a mark of 494.2 yards per game, including a school-record 752 total yards in a 52-18 Admiral’s Cup victory at Maine Maritime on September 21^st.  Moriarty, who allowed just one sack in 509 quarterback passing and rushing attempts on the year, played in 876 of a possible 886 total offensive snaps, including 121 at Worcester State on September 28^th in a contest that saw Massachusetts Maritime set NCAA Division III single-game records for most plays and first downs (44), and he was part of an offensive line unit that amassed a record 4,942 yards of total offense this fall.  Over the course of his career, Moriarty helped the Buccaneers collect 9,628 yards and average 34.1 points per game.

A Facilities Engineering major at the Academy, Moriarty has achieved a 3.82 cumulative grade point average and became the third Massachusetts Maritime student-athlete in school history to earn Capital One Academic All-America honors after being named to the Division III football national second team last Tuesday.  He was one of 170 semifinalists for the prestigious William V. Campbell Trophy (considered as the Academic Heisman) presented by the National Football Foundation to the absolute best scholar-athlete across all divisions and was one of 39 Division III student-athletes to also be a semifinalist for one of the National Football Foundation’s 16 Scholar-Athlete Awards.

Joining Moriarty on this year’s D3football.com All-East Region team from the MASCAC are Western Connecticut State’s Octavias McKoy, Framingham State’s Melikke Van Alstyne, Bridgewater State’s Rob Ruggiero and Matt Green and Worcester State’s Casey Hippert.

Massachusetts Maritime posted its fourth straight five-win season this fall and once again re-wrote the school record books while ranking among the Division III national leaders in several categories.  Cameron has guided the Buccaneers to their best four-year record since 1988, and over the last three seasons his student-athletes have earned a total of 23 all-conference honors.