KEENE, N.H. -- The Buccaneers continued their conference slate on Saturday on the road against Keene State in New Hampshire. Going into the matchup, the Buccaneers were 0-4 all-time against the Owls. Maritime gutted out their second conference win of the season, 14-12.

The Basics

Final: Buccaneers 14, Owls 12

Records: Maritime 6-2 (2-0)

               Keene 4-5 (1-1)

Between The Pipes

Maritime: Eddie Keller (4-2): 12 GA | 13 SV | 25 SH | 60 Min

Keene: Dylan Florian (L, 4-5): 14 GA | 7 SV | 21 SH | 60 Min

Inside the Numbers

Maritime

• Quinn Mucha tied for the game-high with four goals. Cooper Barrett scored three times in the win. Daniel Kane, and Ryan McDonough netted two, and James Sullivan, Chilton Cabot, and Joe Vricella scored one.
• Sullivan, Cooper McIntire, Braeden Kosiewicz, and Vricella all had two assists. Mucha, Cabot, and Kyle Shanahan had one assist.
• Brian Rosher picked up a team-high seven ground balls and won 15 of 27 faceoffs he took.
• Defensively, Sullivan caused two turnovers.
• In total, Maritime picked up 29 ground balls, were successful on 20-of-30 clearances, won 17-of-30 faceoffs, and took 43 shots in the victory.

Keene

• Jack Ansart scored four times for the Owls. Cole Ricardi, Tim Souza, and Adam Scala scored two. Rex Maccarini, and Sean Bosworth scored one.
• Giacomo Tedone recorded two assists in the loss. Five other Owls had an assist.
• Gabe Pereira picked up a game-high 10 ground balls and won 13 of 28 faceoffs he took. 
• Defensively, Ty Coughler caused a game-high three turnovers.

How It Happened

A defensive battle for the first nine minutes of the game. The Buccaneers opened the scoring with two goals in two minutes from Cabot and Mucha to take a 2-0 lead. In the final 4:10 of the first, Keene scored two of their own, and the teams were tied after the first quarter, 2-2.

In the second, Maritime took another two-goal lead with goals from McDonough and Sullivan in the first three minutes. Once again, Keene matched the Bucs with goals at 11:31 and 7:59 to tie the game at 4-4. Though the Bucs took back the lead, 5-4, on a Barrett goal, the Owls went on a four-goal run in three minutes with the half winding down. Ricardi scored twice, and Ansart and Souza gave the Owls a three-goal, 8-5, advantage. With 1:33 led in the half, Vricella scored a power play goal to pull within two, 8-6, going to the break.

Keene opened the second half with a goal to open the gap back to three goals, 9-6. Mucha scored back-to-back at 12:04 and 10:52 to get within one goal, 9-8. Ansart netted another to get the Owls to double digits and make the score 10-8. The Buccaneers offense surged at the end of the third with three unanswered goals from Kane, Barrett, and McDonough to tie the game and give the Bucs the lead, 11-10. That score remained at the end of the third.

In the fourth, Barrett and Kane scored within 30 seconds of each other to open a three-goal Maritime lead, 13-10. Midway through the quarter, Bosworth scored for Keene to get within two. That is as close the Owls would get ad Mucha scored one more with 2:57 left, and Souza scored for the hosts with 41 seconds to go. The Buccaneers left New Hampshire with their first-ever win over the Owls, 14-12, in conference play.

What's Next

The Buccaneers are off until next Saturday when they will head to Boston to face UMass Boston in a battle of the top two teams in the LEC at 1pm.