BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- The Bucs hosted Salve Regina in their final non-conference game of the season on Wednesday night. Behind 15 saves from freshman goalie Nicholas Hall and seven goals from James Sullivan, the Bucs picked up their 10th win of the season against a very good Seahawks squad, 17-9.

The Basics

Final: Buccaneers 17, Seahawks 9

Records: Maritime 10-2

               Salve Regina 8-4

Between the Pipes

Maritime: Nicholas Hall (W, 8-1): 8 GA | 15 SV | 23 SOG | 59:08 Mins

                 Jonathan Visser: 1 GA | 2 SV | 3 SOG | 0:52 Secs

Salve Regina: Griffin Caiozzo (L, 5-4): 17 GA | 12 SV | 29 SOG | 60 Mins

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• James Sullivan led all scorers with seven goals. Daniel Kane and Ryan McDonough scored three times. Chilton Cabot scored twice, and Quinn Mucha and Zach Gambill scored once.
• Kane notched two assists in the win, and Mucha, Sullivan, Cooper McIntire, Camden Stern, Seamus Buckley, and Joe Vricella all had one helper.
• Faceoff man Cole Jenkins picked up a game-high seven ground balls and won 16 of 26 faceoffs he took.
• Defensively, nine different Bucs caused a turnover. 
• In total, Maritime picked up 30 ground balls, was successful on 20 of 27 clearances, won 17 of 30 faceoffs, and took 51 shots in the game.

Salve Regina

• Daniel Naglieri led the Seahawks with three goals in the loss. Six other Salve players scored once in the game.
• Naglieri also led his team in assists with two. Chris Koltzan added one assist.
• Luis Castillo picked up five ground balls to lead his team. 
• On the faceoff, Nate Strassberger won seven of the 14 faceoffs he took.
• Defensively, Castillo led all players with four caused turnovers.
• In total, Salve Regina picked up 29 ground balls, was successful on 20 of 24 clearances, won 13 of 30 faceoffs, and took 51 total shots.

How It Happened

The Seahawks scored first at 13:33 of the first quarter on Naglieri's first. Cabot tied the game at 1-1 for the Buccaneers at 11:49. Salve went on to score two goals in a row, one on a power play, and took a 3-1 lead with 3:32 left in the first. Down two goals, the Bucs got a goal from Sullivan with 1:54 left in the first to get back within one goal, 3-2. The Seahawks held that one-goal lead heading into the second.

Maritime scored early and often in the second quarter, with the game-tying goal coming 41 seconds into the quarter from Gambill. The Bucs then scored two goals in under a minute, with McDonough putting in the go-ahead goal, and Sullivan turning the lead into two goals, 5-3, with 9:55 left in the half. Naglieri pulled Salve back within one goal at 8:51, 5-4. But the Bucs got back-to-back goals from McDonough and Kane to open the lead to three goals, 7-4. Faceoff man, Adam Laber scored off the ensuing faceoff, nine seconds later, to make the score 7-5. There was a scoring drought for five minutes of game time from 6:00 to just under one minute, then the Buccaneers scored three goals from Sullivan in the final 53 seconds of the half, the third coming as the buzzer sounded for halftime. Maritime led at the half, 10-5.

To open the third quarter, Sullivan added his fourth goal in 94 seconds of game time at 14:19 of the third to give the Bucs a commanding 11-5, six-goal advantage. Salve scored their lone goal of the third at 9:46 to bring the score to 11-6. The Buccaneers scored three more times in the quarter, getting goals from Kane at 8:26 and 6:19, and Cabot at 3:41. At the end of the third, the Bucs led by eight goals, 14-6. 

The Seahawks scored the first two goals of the fourth quarter at 14:10 and 10:29 to get back within six, 14-8. Under a minute after the second Salve goal, McDonough scored for the Bucs to go back up seven goals, 15-8. The Seahawks got one more goal on a power play at 8:23. That would be the end of the scoring for Salve, and the Bucs went on to score two more, one from Mucha, and a seventh from Sullivan with 3:09 left in regulation. Maritime held on and went on to win the game, 17-9, securing their 10th win of the season.

What's Next

The Buccaneers travel to the Granite State on Saturday to play Plymouth State in conference play at 11 am.