BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- The Buccaneers played Castleton on Friday on Senior Night and their final regular season game of 2023. Already having locked up the five seed in the Little East Conference Playoff Tournament, the Bucs beat up on the Spartans winning 26-11.

The Basics

Final: Buccaneers 26, Spartans 11

Records: Maritime (8-6, 5-3)

               Castleton (4-13, 1-7)

Between The Pipes

Maritime: John Aidonidis (W, 7-4): 8 sv | 9 ga | 17 sh | 51:58 min

Castleton: Christopher Dindino (L, 4-13): 7 sv | 17 ga | 24 sh | 36:58 min

In the Field

Maritime

• Mitchell Maida scored five times in the game.
• Jack Iversen netted four goals for the Bucs and Braeden Kosiewicz scored three times. 
• Ryan Cameron, Gage Coolahan, and Daniel Kane all scored twice. 
• Nick Leander, Leo Allgaier, Kyle Shanahan, Jack Schrier, Cooper Barrett, James Cassidy, Brian Rosher, and Ryan McDonough all scored once.
• Maida and Allgaier recorded three assists in the victory.
• Iversen, and McDonough both had two helpers.
• Cameron, Kane, Schrier, Patrick Franco, Hugh Wells, and Doug Walker all had one assist.
• Rosher led the team in ground balls with 11 and won 21-of-34 faceoffs. 
• Defensively, Allgaier caused six turnovers for Maritime.
• In total, Maritime picked up 55 ground balls, were successful on 21-of-25 clears, won 25-of-41 faceoffs, and took 69 total shots.

Salem

• Chris Labonte and Dawson Nalette led the Spartans with three goals each.
• Casey Meczywor, Cam Frankenhoff, Hunter Sarro, Dylan Davis, and Liam Evarts all scored once in the loss.
• Meczywor, Ethan Esposito, and Labonte each had two assists. Xavier McKenna recorded one helper.
• Davis led the team in ground balls with six and won 12-of-34 faceoffs.
• Defensively, Davis led the team in caused turnovers with two.
• In total, Castleton picked up 31 ground balls, were successful on 21-of-35 clears, won 16-of-41 faceoffs, and took 35 total shots.

How It Happened

Maritime scored the first two goals of the game in less than four minutes to go up 2-0. Castleton cut the Bucs lead in half at 8:08 making it 2-1. Maritime went on to score three in a row running the clock down to six minutes and taking a 5-1 lead. The Spartans came back with two of their own including a powerplay goal from Nalette to pull within two goals, 5-3, with 4:34 left in the quarter. The Bucs closed out the first with four goals in under a minute from 2:17 to 1:24 and led 9-3 after one.

In the second, Maritime extended their run to six unanswered with goals from Kane and Iversen to go up 11-3. Castleton sprinkled in a goal at 9:38 to make the score 11-4. Maritime scored at 7:21 and then scored again six minutes later at 1:56. The teams traded goals the remainder of the half with two from Castleton and two from the Bucs including a goal with 12 seconds left in the second from Kosiewicz. The Buccaneers led the Spartans 15-6 at the half.

Kosiewicz opened the second half with another goal at 10:17 and Schrier added one two minutes later making it 17-6. Castleton went on two score two unanswered to get within nine, 17-8. The Bucs closed out the third with three goals, two in the final minute, and led 20-8 at the end of the third quarter.

The Bucs scored three to open the fourth with two within 10 seconds of each other from Coolahan and Leander and led 23-8 with 11:47 left in the game. Castleton scored to make it 23-9 and Cameron scored for the Bucs with 7:58 to go back up 15, 24-9. Castleton netted two from Nalette in under a minute to get into double digits and trailed 24-11 with 6:46 remaining. Iversen scored again 22 seconds later and Cameron scored the final goal at 3:07 putting the final nail in to win 26-11.

What's Next

The bucs are on to the LEC Playoffs and will play at Keene State on Tuesday, May 2nd. Start time is TBA.