The honors continue to come in for Massachusetts Maritime senior linebacker Marshall McCarthy, as he earned a spot on the 2016 D3football.com second team all-East Region squad that was announced earlier this week.

McCarthy, a native of Duxbury, Mass. and a graduate of Duxbury High School, was named as the 2016 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year for his performance for Head Coach Jeremy Cameron’s squad this fall, as he recorded 108 total tackles in just nine games played during the season to rank 12^th nationally in NCAA Division III that category.  Marshall led the country in solo stops with 83 overall (9.2 per game), and he became the first player in school history to post back-to-back 100-tackle campaigns.  In just 19 games played in a Massachusetts Maritime uniform, McCarthy registered 155 solo and 53 assisted stops for 208 total tackles, including a career-high 20 back on October 22^nd at UMass Dartmouth, and he notched the fewest number of assisted tackles (25) of any player ranked in the top 50 nationally this season.  A two-time all-MASCAC honoree, Marshall averaged nearly 11 tackles per game over the last two years for the Buccaneers, as he reached double-digits in stops 12 times (including seven this season) during that time span.

McCarthy became the sixth player in Massachusetts Maritime history to earn a spot on the prestigious 2016 New England Football Writers Association all-star squad and the third Buccaneer in the last five seasons to receive all-New England recognition.  He received that honor last night at the New England Football Writers Annual Banquet at the Montvale Plaza in Stoneham, Mass.  Marshall is also one of 60 NCAA Division III nominees for the prestigious Cliff Harris Award, which is presented to the nation’s top small college defensive player.

Joining McCarthy on the D3football.com all-East Region team from the MASCAC were UMass Dartmouth’s Pat Sullivan, Bridgewater State’s Elvis Romero and Framingham State’s Stephen Beahn.

Click here to access the complete 2016 D3football.com All-East Region team.