DARTMOUTH, Mass -- Maritime football took on UMass Dartmouth for Pirate Supremacy on Saturday afternoon on the road. The Bucs battled hard though they could not come home with a win, falling 26-10 to their conference foe.

The Basics

Final: UMass Dartmouth 26, Maritime 10

Records: UMass Dartmouth 4-2 (2-2 MASCAC)

            Maritime 3-2 (2-1 MASCAC)

For The Bucs

• Senior quarterback Curtis Cann led the passing attack with 87 yards on five completions, including a 33 yard touchdown pass to Jonah Mitchell. Colbe Andrews came in in relief of Cann in the fourth, completing three of six passes for 20 yards. 
• Andrews led the rushing attach for the Bucs with 28 yards on three carries. Mitchell followed closely with 26 yards on seven carries. Senior captain Conner Reynolds and sophomore Kobe Copeland each gained 22 yards on the ground. 
• Andrew Brightman once again led the Bucs in the receiving category with 46 yards from two catches. Mitchell had one catch for 33 yards and the touchdown.
• Defensively, Hugh Wells had a big day for the Bucs with 10 solo tackles, one tackle for loss and one sack.
• Keven Paul tallied nine tackles while senior captain Kyle Rogers recorded eight. 
• Defensive lineman Chris O'Brien totaled three tackles, a tackle for loss and a sack.
• Cobey Williamson made his third interception of the season in the game. 
• On special teams graduate captain George Lampros converted a 35-yard field goal and made an extra point. Lampros punted seven times for 286 yards, an average of 40.9 yards with a long of 47 yards.

For The Corsairs

• Quarterback Dante Avile-Santos completed 14 of 28 passes for 198 yards, a touchdown and an interception. Matt Gacioch completed four passes for 39 yards and a touchdown and interception each. Mike Vincent also completed his lone pass of the game for three yards and a touchdown.
• Luis Gonzalez ran the ball 18 times for 62 yards. Marvens Jean scored the only touchdown on the ground for Dartmouth and carried the ball 12 times for 57 yards. 
• On the receiving end, Luis Gonzalez caught six passes for 53 yards and a touchdown. Antonio Brown hauled in one pass for a 49 yard score. The starting QB, Aviles-Santos caught a touchdown pass as well on a double reverse pass.
• Defensively, Mehki Geter led the Corsairs with six tackles and a tackle for loss. Josh Lacerte recorded two sakcs in the game to go along with five tackles and two tackles for loss. 
• Logan Chappell intecepted two passes and made three tackles.
• On special teams, Gacioch punted the ball six times for 219 yards, an average of 36.5 yards. 

How It Happened 

Dartmouth scored first in the game with just over four minutes left in the first quarter. It took 15 plays, 62 yards and sven minutes as the Corsairs capped off the drive with a two-yard touchdown pass from Gacioch to Gonzalez. Not kicking the extra point, the Corsairs went for two and were unsuccessful, settling for a 6-0 lead. That 6-0 score was also the score at the end of the first.

The second quarter featured a Buccaneer 35-yard field goal from Lampros with 10:26 left before the break to cut the deficit in half, 6-3. Following a lot of defense and squandered drives by both teams, Dartmouth took the ball down field and scored to top off a 12-play, 67-yard drive with a Vincent to Aviles-Santos touchdown pass off the double reverse. After another failed two-point conversion attempt the Corsairs extended their lead to 12-3. That 12-3 score took the teams in to the hafltime break.

In the third, the hosts extended their lead to 17 points with 5:25 left in the quarter on a 49-yard strike from Aviles-Santos to Brown. Down 17, the Bucs chipped at the Corsair lead scoring on a 33-yard swing pass from Cann to Mitchell. Mitchell scurried by two defenders, tip-toed the sideline and scampered in to the end zone for the touchdown. Lampros converted the extra point to make the score 20-10 at the end of three quarters of play.

The Buccaneers kept pushing offensively. A couple of miscues led to a Jean 6-yard touchdown run with 7:46 left in the game. That game the Corsairs enough momentum to hold off the Bucs from making a comback. The game finished 26-10 in favor of UMass Dartmouth.

What's Next

The Buccaneers will host Worcester State in MASCAC play on Saturday, October 16th at 12pm at Clean Harbors Stadium. The game can be followed live at mmabucs.com