BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- The Buccaneers welcomed Worcester State to Clean Harbors Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Bucs led 24-7 at the half and a surging Lancer team completed a comeback, winning the game 28-24.

The Basics

Final: Worcester 28, Maritime 24

Records: Worcester 2-4 (2-2 MASCAC)

           Maritime 3-3 (2-2 MASCAC)

For The Bucs

• Quarterback Curtis Cann (Easton, MA) completed 10 of 18 passes for 117 yards. 
• Sophomore Jonah Mitchell (Sanford, FL) ran the ball 15 times for a career and game-high 121 yards and a touchdown. Senior Captain Conner Reynolds (Norton, MA) ran for 39 yards and a touchdown. 
• Andrew Brightman (Wareham, MA) caught four passes for 46 yards to lead all Buccaneer receivers.
• Defesinvely, Andrew Longwater (Tybee Island, GA) tallied a career and game-high 14 tackles and had two tackles for loss. Cole Keefe (Merrimack, N.H.) also racked up a career-high in tackles with 10 and had a TFL.
• Nicolas Ford (Jackson, N.J.) forced a fumble, recovered it and ran it back 56 yards for a touchdown. He also had two tackles and a TFL.
• Maritime had three sacks in the game coming from Hugh Wells (West Hartford, CT), Mack Brown (Harvey, LA) and Chris O'Brien (Scituate, MA) and Billy Horlbogen (North Kingstown, R.I.) who each recorded a half sack.
• On Special Teams, George Lampros (Bridgewater, MA) made his lone field goal attempt from 26 yards and converted all three extra points to remain perfect in both categories on the season. Lampros also punted five times for 219 yards, a 43.8 yard per punt average and a long of 55 yards. He also pinned Worcester inside the 20 yard line on three occasions.

For The Lancers

• Quarterback Aaron-Moses Williams completed 30 of 45 passes for 381 yards and four touchdowns. He also ran the ball 12 times for 41 yards.
• Amir Mells led all Lances in the running game with 49 yards on 16 carries.
• Ke'Vaughn Davis had a great day for Worcester catching 13 passes for 190 yards and three touchdowns. Deion Osei-Sarpong caught nine passes for 136 yards and a touchdown. 
• Defensively, Mason Broyles tallied a team-high 10 tackles and had one tackle for loss. 
• Matt O'Conor totaled six tackles an a TFL. Jonah Familia, and Jayden Caron had five tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss apiece.
• Layne Benton recorded the only sack of the day for Worcester and had a tackle to go along with it.
• On Special Teams, Kyle Wall made al lfour of his PATs and punted four times for 161 yards with an average of 35.3 yards per punt and a long of 61 yards with two inside the 20 yard line.

How It Happened

Worcester received the opening kick off after winning the coin toss and went 27 yards on six plays with the drive ending in a punt. Maritime's offense proceeded to go 26 yards in nine plays, the drive also ending in a punt; a 55 yarder by Lampros. On Worcester's second drive of the game they drained the clock and got on the board, going 80 yards in 13 plays taking up nearly seven minutes of the quarter. Williams connected with Sarpong from 16 yards for the touchdown and Wall converted the PAT to give Worcester a 7-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. 

Maritime was unable to do anything with the ball on their first possession of the second quarter and neither was Worcester. The Lancers drive ended on a 10-yard punt by Wall giving the Bucs great field position. The Buccaneers went 51 yards down field in nine plays and the drive stalled at the Worcester nine yard line. Lampros came on for a 26-yard field goal, which he knocked through, to make the score 7-3 Worcester with just over nine minutes left in the half. Worcester went three-and-out on the ensuing drive giving the bal lback to the Bucs. In a flash, Mitchell and Reynolds took over the drive. Mitchell ran for 33 yards in three plays including a 32-yard scamper to the Worcester eight. Reynolds took the ball in to the end zone untouched on the next play, and after Lampros's extra point, the Bucs had taken a 10-7 lead. On the next Lancers drive things were going well for the visitors, moving the ball up field 22 yards and in to Maritime territory. On a second and 10 play from the Bucs 49 Williams completed a pass to Keither Smith Jr. five yards in to the catch and run Ford took the ball right out of Smith's hands and went 56 yards to the house for the touchdown making the score 17-7 after a Lampros PAT. That 17-7 advantage for the Bucs took us in to the halftime break.

On the first drive of the second half the Bucs drove 60 yards in six plays and scored again, this time on a Mitchell 17-yard touchdown which included a truck, a spin move and open space for the sophomore running back. A Lampros extra point ran the Buccaneer lead out to 17 points, 24-7. Worcester had two drives in the third in which they gained 47 and 72 yards respectively but could not score and even turned the ball over on downs on the 72-yard drive. The game went to the fourth with Maritime still leading by 17.

In the fourth, Worcester put their foot on the gas offensively and scored on their first drive of the final 15 minutes of play. Williams hit Davis for his first of three fourth quarter touchdowns on a 36-yard hookup over the middle. Wall's PAT made the score 24-14. Worcester's defense stopped the Bucs outside of field goal range on the next drive forcing a Cann punt. With the ball at their own 13 yard line, the Lancers Drove down the field in seven plays, 87 yards in a minute and 53 seconds. They capped it off with Davis's second touchdown in as many drives on a 34-yard completion. The Bucs next drive ended in a three-and-out and a punt. Worcester got the ball back again, now down three, 24-21, with nearly six minutes to play. Worcester drove down field, 64 yards in nine plays, and Williams hot Davis again for a touchdown, this one from five yards out, to take the lead, their second of the game and first since the opening quarter. Down 28-24 the Bucs had 2:29 to go down field. They went 27 yards in six plays and were unable to get in to the end zone. Worcester took the ball back and ran out the clock to secure their 28-24 comeback win over the Bucs.

What's Next

The Buccaneers travel to Danbury, CT on Saturday, October 23rd to take on West Conn at 12pm