After winning their respective semifinal contests on Friday, the Fitchburg State Falcons and Worcester State Lancers are set to meet in the MASCAC Men's Soccer Championship game on Sunday, November 6.

#1 Worcester State 4, #5 Bridgewater State 1 Box Score

WORCESTER, Mass. – Worcester State's Andre Ipojuca (Saugus, Mass.) led the team with two goals in the top-seeded Lancers' 4-1 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) Tournament Semifinal victory over the No. 5 seeded Bridgewater State Bears Friday evening at John F. Coughlin Memorial Field.

With the win, the Lancers (11-6) advance to the MASCAC Championship, scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 6 in Worcester against the winner of Mass. Maritime and Fitchburg State, to be played tonight at 7 p.m. Bridgewater State concludes their season with an overall record of 8-9-2.

The Bears took the first lead of the game; however, Worcester State responded with back-to-back goals in the first half to lead 2-1 going into the intermission. The Lancers advanced the score to 4-1 in the second half to seal the win. The Lancers outshot their opponents 25-16 throughout the entirety of the game.

Bridgewater reached the scoreboard first nine minutes in when Jameson Bradley (Westborough, Mass.) took control of the ball and sped down the right side of the field into the Bears' offensive zone. Bradley crossed the ball to open Filipe Gomes (Fogo, Cape Verde) who then tapped it into the left side of the net for the 1-0 lead.

Worcester came back one minute later when Bryan Brasil (Williamsburg, Mass.) tripped up a defender and cleared a path for a crossover to the middle where teammate Ipojuca flicked the ball into the goal to knot the score at 1-1.

Worcester's second goal came after a non-direct kick in the 14^th minute. Following a scramble inside the box, Ipojuca put a foot on the ball, attempted a shot, which landed at the feet of teammate George Siotis (Oxford, Mass.) who then fired the ball into the back of the net for the Lancers' first lead of the game.

Following the intermission, Worcester State received another free kick that resulted in a goal. The free kick found the head of Dent who then placed the ball further up the field for Ipojuca to pick up off the bounce and line the ball into the back left corner of the net.

With four minutes remaining on the clock, freshman forward Mitzschael Myrthil (Clinton, Mass.) scored a goal on a breakaway, beating Bridgewater defenders and the goalkeeper, for the 4-1 advantage, which proved to be the final score of the game.

Worcester's goalkeeper, Jason Barrett (Spencer, Mass.) registered the win in a five-save performance, while Bridgewater's Nate Morgado (Dartmouth, Mass.) suffered the loss with a six-save performance.

#6 Fitchburg State 2, #2 Massachusetts Maritime 1 Box Score

BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. --  Sophomore Marckdonard Bastien’s (Worcester, Mass.) goal in the 57^th minute proved to be the game-winner as sixth-seeded Fitchburg State held on in the closing minutes to notch a 2-1 victory over second-seeded Massachusetts Maritime in semifinal round play of the 2016 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Men’s Soccer Championships Friday evening at Clean Harbors Stadium.

The visiting Falcons, who improve to 7-11-1 overall with the triumph, advance to Sunday’s MASCAC championship match to take on top-seeded Worcester State for the league tournament title and the conference’s automatic berth into the NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Championships, as the Lancers posted a 4-1 victory over fifth-seeded Bridgewater State in Friday’s other semifinal contest.  Sunday’s title tilt will take place at Coughlin Field in Worcester, Mass. beginning at 11:00 a.m.  The host Buccaneers, who advanced to the conference semifinal round for the third time in four seasons, end the year at 7-9-2 overall.

Freshman Matthew Krikorian (Groton, Mass.) staked Fitchburg State to a 1-0 advantage just 10:15 into the contest when he took advantage of an errant passback attempt for his team-leading 10^th tally of the season, and Bastien extended that margin to 2-0 when he deflected a pass from senior Steven Martinez (Middlesex, N.J.) in front of the net for his second marker of the fall.  Freshman Andrew Wayrynen (Rockport, Mass.) sliced Massachusetts Maritime’s deficit in half in the 68^th minute when he netted his second goal of the season on a cross from junior Kevin O’Leary (Norton, Mass.) from 10 yards out, and the Buccaneers had a chance to even matters with just under 10 minutes remaining on a penalty kick attempt that hit the cross bar and sailed high, allowing the Falcons to escape with their triumph.

Courtesy of Mass. Maritime and Worcester State Sports Information