BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- The Buccaneers hosted Worcester State Friday night in conference play at Clean Harbors Stadium. Karah Deveau scored three times and had two assists, and Sarah Naar netted four goals in a 16-8 loss to the Lancers.

The Basics

Final: Lancers 16, Buccaneers 8

Records: Maritime 0-11 (0-5)

               Worcester 10-5 (5-0)

Between The Pipes

Maritime: Christiane Rech (L, 0-10): 15 GA | 8 SV | 23 SOG | 45 Mins

                Sarah Beal: 1 GA | 8 SV | 5 SOG | 15 Mins

Worcester: Cadence Oleniak (W, 9-4): 8 GA | 7 SV | 15 SOG | 60 Mins

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• Sarah Naar scored four goals, tying the game-high. Karah Deveau scored three times in the loss. Maggie O'Malley scored once for the Bucs.
• Deveau tallied two assists in the game. O'Malley, Erin Cardinal, and Taylor Barnett had one assist.
• Deveau led all players in the game with seven ground balls, and led all Bucs with two draw controls. 
• Defensively, Cardinal led all players with three caused turnovers. Emily Hazen and Rech added two. 
• In total, Maritime picked up 32 ground balls, was successful on 13 of 20 clearances, won five draw controls, and took 17 total shots.

Worcester

• Fallon Lozano tied for the game-high in goals with four. Five Lancers scored two times, and Madigan Kelley and Meghan Heffernan scored once. 
• Molly Witkoski tallied a game-high six assists in the win. Donahue had three assists, and McKayla Fisher and Ciara Reilly each had one. 
• Fisher and Kelley led the Lancers with four ground balls each. 
• Fisher led all players with seven draw controls in the win.
• Defensively, Donahue caused a game-high four turnovers.
• In total, Worcester picked up 28 ground balls, was successful on 14 of 21 clearances, won 20 draw controls, and took 25 total shots.

How It Happened

Worcester scored first, 17 seconds into the game, to take a 1-0 lead. The Bucs answered with Naar's first goal just over a minute later. On the ensuing draw, Worcester scored 14 seconds after Naar to take a 2-1 lead and never looked back. The Lancers went on to score four more over the next eight minutes and led 6-1 with 5:40 left in the first. Naar scored her second at 1:42, and in the final minute of the first, the Lancers scored two more to take an 8-2 lead heading to the second.

Worcester scored six seconds into the second to make the score 9-2, then scored two more at 11:27 and 8:19 to surpass 10 goals in the game, and led 11-2 with 8:19 left in the first half. Naar scored her third with 39 seconds left in the half to pull within eight goals, 11-3, and Worcester added one more with 17 seconds remaining to take a 12-3 lead heading to the break.

In the third quarter, Deveau and Naar each scored to get the score to 12-5. The Lancers scored three unanswered through the remainder of the quarter and led by 10, 15-5, heading to the fourth. 

Worcester scored first in the fourth to take an 11-goal, 16-5, lead. Then, the Bucs went on a three-goal unanswered streak to end the game. Deveau scored at 9:43, O'Malley scored at 3:50, and then Deveau scored with 10 seconds remaining to make the score 16-8. The Lancers went on to win by that same score.

What's Next

The Bucs travel to Framingham State on April 21st to take on the Rams in conference play at 7 pm.