BUZZARDS BAY, Mass – Friday night marked the start of the annual women's lacrosse Maritime Cup between Maine Maritime, Mass Maritime and SUNY Maritime. In the opening game of the tournament the Buccaneers fell to the Privateers 11-7 at Clean Harbors Stadium.

The Basics

Final: Privateers 11, Buccaneers 7

Records: Mass Maritime 1-1 (0-0 MASCAC)

               SUNY Maritime 2-1 (0-0 Skyline)

For The Bucs

• Junior Captain Casey Sullivan (Sagamore Beach, Mass) led all Buccaneers with four goals and added an assist.
• Junior Captain Anna Deely (Barnstable, Mass), senior Heather Seggelin (Sharon, Mass) and sophomore Alyssa Blumenthal (Braintree, Mass) each scored in the loss.
• Blumenthal added a game-high four assists for the Bucs. Senior Cammi Balentine (Haverhill, Mass) and freshman Grace Calvert (Windsor, Mass) each had an assist in the game.
• Deely led the team with four draw controls and Blumenthal picked up a team high four ground balls.
• Defensively, sophomore Amanda Gould (Buzzards Bay, Mass) caused a game-high three turnovers. Deely and junior Hannah Mannai (Keene, N.H.) each caused two turnovers.  
• Freshman goalkeeper Aviva Beringhause (Providence, R.I.) face 23 shots, made 12 saves and allowed the 11 Privateer goals in the loss.

For The Privateers

• Senior Krista Deleva (Sound Beach, N.Y.) led all players in the game with six goals and tied for her team lead with two assists.
• Junior Mackenzie Fabiani (Bayport, N.Y.) and freshman Nicole Johnson (Farmingville, N.Y.) each had two goals in the game. Junior Sarah Wright (East Islip, N.Y.) added a goal as well.
• Fabiani tied Deleva for the team lead in assists and Wright assisted on a goal as well.
• Wright had a game-high six draw controls.
• Defensively, four Privateers had two caused turnovers in the win.
• Senior goalkeeper Esmealda Hernandez (Huntington, N.Y.) saved seven of 14 shots and allowed the seven Buccaneer goals.

How It Happened

SUNY scored first 3:30 in to the game on a Deleva goal from Fabiani. The scored stayed 1-0 Privateers for the next 13 minutes until Deleva made it 2-0 on a free position shot in a man-up situation. The Buccaneers erased the shutout and cut the lead in half just inside the 10-minute mark of the first half on Sullivan's first goal of the night on a pass from Calvert. Inside six minutes, Deleva and Sullivan each scored again with 5:30 and 1:40 remaining on the clock at the time of their respective goals. With the score 3-2 SUNY, Johnson scored with a minute left in the half on a free position shot to give her team a two-goal, 4-2, lead going in to the halftime break.

The Buccaneers came out shooting to start the second half at a cold and windy Clean Harbors Stadium though they didn't break through until nine minutes had expired in the half. Then, in a matter of 35 seconds, Deely scored with 21:45 on the clock and Seggelin, from Balentine, netted her goal with 21:10 left in regulation to tie the game at 4-4. SUNY went on to grab momentum back and score three unanswered to grab their biggest lead of the night, a three-goal, 7-4 advantage with 13 minutes left in the second half. Sullivan scored for the Bucs to cut the deficit to two with 10:45 left in the game. Thanks to stout defense, a couple yellow cards against the Bucs and some well-placed shots, the Privateers went on to score three more goals unanswered over a six-minute period to take a 10-5 lead. Sullivan and Blumenthal put two more on the board for Maritime assisting on each other's goals to get back within three goals but the seven mark would be as high as they would go. SUNY grabbed another goal with 38 seconds left in the game to take an 11-7 lead, the eventual final score.

The Buccaneers will be back at Clean Harbors Stadium on Sunday morning at 11am to take on Maine Maritime in the final game of the Maritime Cup.