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Saturday, November 14, 2015
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CELTICS 106, HAWKS 93
BASEBALL
Strong
finish
carries
Celtics
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
CHAMPIONSHIP:
FALCONS
Craig Kimbrel shouts and
pumps his fist after recording
the game’s final out in a World
Baseball Classic game in 2013 in
Phoenix. AP FILE PHOTO
Red Sox trade for closer
Kimbrel from Padres
By Scott Souza
@Scott_Souza
Dave Dombrowski didn’t waste
time acquiring a premium
power arm for a Red Sox
bullpen that was in tatters by
September. Boston acquired
four-time All-Star closer Craig
Kimbrel from the San Diego
Padres on Friday evening in
exchange for minor-leaguers
Manuel Margot, Javier Guerra,
Carlos Asuaje and Logan Allen.
Kimbrel will move over as
the Red Sox closer, bumping
incumbent closer Koji Uehara
back into the setup role he
occupied for the first half of
the 2013 season. “We looked
at him as a premium closer,
one of the best in the game
of baseball,” Dombrowski
said. With Kimbrel in the fold,
Dombrowski can turn his
attention to acquiring the ace
he has made clear he wants
to acquire — and he expects
to do so without ever surrendering any of the most prized
prospects in one of the game’s
deepest farm systems.
HIGHSCHOOLS
Cape & Islands teams
chase sectional titles
The Barnstable and Bourne
girls volleyball teams, and the
Nantucket boys soccer squad
will play for South Sectional
championships today. The
Red Raiders, who have won
five straight Division 1 South
titles, face former Old Colony
League rival Taunton at Silver
Lake High School in Pembroke
at 5 p.m. The Canalmen will
kick off the sectional tripleheader at noon at Silver Lake
against Case with the Division
3 crown on the line. The South
Coast Conference combatants split their two contests in
the regular season this year.
The Division 2 South final at
2:30 matches up Dartmouth
and Notre Dame of Hingham. On the soccer pitch,
the Nantucket Whalers will
face Archbishop Williams in
Marshfield at 1:30 p.m. for the
Division 4 South title.
Title game previews, Page B4
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Today’s Top 15 matchups
No. 1 Clemson at Syracuse,
3:30 p.m. (ABC/ESPN2)
No. 2 Ohio State at Illinois,
noon (ABC)
No. 3 Alabama at No. 20 Mississippi State, 3:30 p.m. (CBS)
No. 4 Baylor vs. No. 12 Oklahoma, 8 p.m. (ABC)
No. 5 Oklahoma State at Iowa
State, 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)
No. 6 Notre Dame vs. Wake
Forest, 3:30 p.m. (NBC)
No. 7 Stanford vs. Oregon, 7:30
p.m. (Fox)
No. 8 Iowa vs. Minnesota, 8
p.m.
No. 9 LSU vs. Arkansas, 7:15
p.m. (ESPN)
No. 10 Utah at Arizona, 10 p.m.
(Fox Sports 1)
No. 11 Florida at South Carolina, noon (ESPN)
No. 13 TCU vs. Kansas, noon
(Fox Sports 1)
No. 14 Michigan State vs.
Maryland, noon (ESPN2)
No. 15 Michigan at Indiana,
3:30 p.m.
Penn at Harvard, noon
NEW ENGLAND
Dartmouth at Brown, 12:30
p.m.
Stony Brook at Rhode Island,
12:30 p.m.
Yale at Princeton, 1 p.m.
Holy Cross at Bucknell, 1 p.m.
UMass at Eastern Michigan, 3
p.m. (ESPN3)
New Hampshire at Albany, 7
p.m.
Deshaun Dias of Mashpee breaks away for one of his two touchdown runs with the help of block by Emmett Sweeney on Billy Barrett of MillisHopedale in Friday night’s Division 6 South title game. RON SCHLOERB/CAPE COD TIMES
Dias scores twice in 22-20 win, leads Mashpee to Div. 6 South title
By Rob Duca
Contributing Writer
Today’s game
Friday’s scores
Bishop Connolly at Nantucket, 3 p.m.
Mashpee 22, Millis-Hopedale 20
Barnstable 41, Sandwich 14
Nauset 24, Pembroke 14
Dennis-Yarmouth 48, Apponequet 14
Falmouth 28, Stoughton 14
Bellingham 45, Bourne 20
St. John Paul II 28, West Bridgewater 21
Martha’s Vineyard 28, Norwell 14
Holbrook/Avon 24, Monomoy 22
Upper Cape 30, Southeastern 16
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MILLIS — There was the element of
revenge on one side and, one assumes,
an air of confidence on the other.
The Mashpee Falcons were hoping
to enact some payback for two straight
double-digit losses in the Division 6
South quarterfinals to Millis-Hopedale. The Mohawks, playing at home,
believed that wasn’t about to happen.
Friday night’s third meeting at
Welch Memorial Stadium came in
the South final with a spot in the state
semifinals on the line. And this time,
the result was different as the No. 6
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Falcons sent home the fifth-seeded
Mohawks with a compelling 22-20
victory that wasn’t decided until
Millis-Hopedale missed a desperate
45-yard field goal attempt as time
expired.
Mashpee (8-2) moves on to the state
semifinals, while Millis-Hopedale finishes 6-4.
“This is the best win we’ve ever had
in this program’s history, pure, plain
SEE MASHPEE, B3
BARNSTABLE 41, SANDWICH 14
Red Raiders turn up offense in dominating win
By Geoff Converse
[email protected]
HYANNIS— It’s one thing to dominate time of possession but what
Barnstable did to Sandwich in the
opening quarter Friday night was
downright humbling.
The host Red Raiders took the opening kickoff and used 19 plays to march
70 yards, using 10:32 of the clock
before punching in a 2-yard run by
junior quarterback Bryce Conroy. It
was a lead they would never relinquish en route to a 41-14 thrashing of
the Blue Knights at Leo Shields Field.
When it ended, Barnstable (4-6)
had amassed 422 yards in offense led
by senior running back Ryan Dauphinais, who rushed for 189 yards and
two touchdowns in 21 carries. He also
hauled in a 30-yard scoring strike from
Conroy, giving him 219 yards in total
offense.
Though he didn’t have the most
accurate night passing, when Conroy
connected, it usually meant something. The junior hit on only four of the
10 passes he threw, but three of them
went for touchdowns - two of those
to Nate Balthazard and the third to
Dauphinais.
As impressive as the Raiders offense
was, the defense was even more of a
factor as it limited the Sandwich
(3-7) offense to just 159 yards — 66 of
those in the first half when Barnstable
jumped out to a 28-0 lead.
“Our game plan was to be physical
with our guys up front,” said Barnstable coach Chris Whidden, who has
seen his Raiders win two straight and
go 4-2 over their past six games. “We
wanted to be able to grind it out and
that’s just what the team did. When
Sandwich closed it up defensively, that
opened things up for us to throw or run
it outside.”
When Sandwich had the ball in the
opening half, it turned the ball over
on downs to Barnstable twice and the
third time the Knights were forced to
punt. Led by linebacker Rory Dwyer
and linebacker Sean Ford, the Knights
spent most of the night spinning their
tires and not getting any traction.
Sandwich was hoping to come out of
the halftime break and get untracked
on the offense. It received the kickoff
and those hopes were dashed when the
Raiders forced a fumble, which they
recovered on the Sandwich 36-yard
line. Seven plays later Dauphinais
cruised into the end zone and Barnstable had a 35-0 advantage.
SEE BARNSTABLE, B3
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Stahmer back in the game for MMA
By John Garner Jr.
Contributing writer
The Massachusetts Maritime
Academy football team plays
its final game of the season
this afternoon and nobody will
appreciate pulling on the Buccaneer uniform and pads more
than Cody Stahmer.
The lanky 6-foot-3, 180pound junior wide receiver from
Wareham caught two touchdown passes in last week’s
48-27 win over Plymouth State.
However, Stahmer’s trips to
the end zone - heck, just to the
Cranberry Bowl
MMA closes out its season at noon today in the 37th renewal of the
Cranberry Bowl when the Buccaneers host Bridgewater State at
Clean Harbors Stadium on the Buzzards Bay campus. MMA will be
looking to retain the coveted cranberry scoop and finish the season
at 5-5. The Bucs beat Plymouth State last week, 48-27. Bridgewater
State is 6-3 after losing 27-17 to Framingham State. MMA won last
year’s Cranberry Bowl, 31-21, but the Bears have won 24 of the last
27 meetings and hold a 26-9-1 advantage in the rivalry.
football field - were not easy
after being diagnosed with testicular cancer his freshman year
at the academy.
“Nothing came up in my
physical, but I felt a lump
– actually a few bumps my
freshman year and that’s when
SEE MMA, B3
Cody Stahmer
BOSTON – A test of resolve
took place in the fourth quarter of Friday night’s game at
TD Garden.
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possession was
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fast. Celtics
coach Brad Stevens called a
timeout, drew up a play, and
Jae Crowder hit Amir Johnson driving to the basket for
a five-point game with 2:33
to go.
Evan Turner followed
with a three-point play off
a defensive stop, Crowder
drilled a 3-pointer after
another stop, and Crowder
canned a jump shot for a 10-0
run and 106-93 lead with 1:05
remaining.
The 10-0 run and 13-point
spread held up to end the
game as the Celtics won for
the third time in the past four
games.
Isaiah Thomas scored 23
points with 10 assists and five
rebounds, Amir Johnson had
his best game as a Celtic with
19 points on 8-of-14 shooting to go with eight rebounds,
Jared Sullinger had 10 points
and 10 rebounds and Crowder
had 13 points, four steals and
eight rebounds out of the
starting lineup.
Kelly Olynyk led the bench
effort with 15 points and three
3-pointers.
The Celtics forced 17 turnovers and out-rebounded the
Hawks 50-35 in the game.
The Celtics stretched an
11-point lead after three
quarters to 86-71 on backto-back drives from Olynyk
and Jonas Jerebko in the first
two minutes of the fourth
quarter. But Atlanta ran off
12 straight points for a onepossession game with 6:41 on
the clock.
Thomas answered with one
3-pointer, then hit a second
in a row after an Atlanta make
for a 92-85 lead with 5:42
remaining. A Sullinger drive
had the Celtics up 94-87 with
5:06 left, and Turner matched
baskets with Atlanta again
for a 96-89 game at the 3:52
mark.
Kent Bazemore’s basket out
of a timeout brought Atlanta
within 96-93 with 3:00 to go.
The Hawks did not score
again in the game.
The Celtics broke open
a tie game at the half with
a 35-point third quarter in
which they shot 50 percent
and had six steals to go with
five blocked shots.
Down 60-59 with 5:17
to go, an Olynyk 3-pointer
sparked a 12-2 run capped
with a Thomas 3-pointer
with 2:08 on the clock. An
Olynyk 3-pointer had Boston
up 74-65 before Jerebko’s free
throws gave Boston its first
double-digit lead of the game.
Olynyk drove for a 78-67
lead with 27.2 seconds left,
then Johnson’s put-back at
the buzzer made it 80-69
entering the fourth.
Neither team was able to
build more than a two-possession lead in the first half.
Atlanta had a 41-36 lead with
4:13 left in the half before
Boston finished the quarter
on a 9-4 run for a tie game at
the break.
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NAUSET 24, PEMBROKE 14
By Wesley Sykes
The two teams are familiar with
each other. The last two years the
Lakers met D-Y in the Division
SOUTH YARMOUTH — On 4 South playoffs and each time
Friday the 13th, crazy things have Funk’s team left the victor.
been known to happen. For senior
This time, it was a non-playoff
defensive back Tavian Miranda, game.
it was a crazy Friday night to
“[Apponequet] is a great proremember. He had not one, but gram. Their quarterback play was
two, touchdown returns against terrific. I think at the end of the
visiting Apponequet — the first a day, though, we just made a few
95-yard interception return in the more plays,” Funk said.
first quarter and then a 99-yard
Lakers senior quarterback Chad
strip-sack early in the fourth Gaucher spent the majority of the
quarter.
evening dropping back to pass
Add in 190 yards from scrim- connecting a few times on passes
mage and three touchdowns by of 50 or yards. But three costly
senior running back Andrew turnovers, two by Miranda and
Jamiel, and the Dennis-Yarmouth an interception on the first play
Dolphins (5-4) trounced the of the second half by Jamiel, ultiApponequet Lakers (5-5), 48-14. mately proved to be too much to
“Everyone gave a great effort all overcome.
the way around,” D-Y head coach
A trio of Dolphins defensive
Paul Funk said. “It was a complete linemen, senior Jack Fallon and
team victory tonight.”
sophomores Jacob Dolan and Sam
Contributing Writer
Contributing Writer
NORTH EASTHAM – After a long season of frustrating defeats, the Nauset football team finally
emerged victorious on Senior Night at High School
Field.
Junior running back Akeem Atkinson was the
main ingredient, rushing for 129 yards and three
touchdowns, leading the Warriors (1-9) to a 24-14
non-playoff win Friday over winless Pembroke
(0-10).
The Nauset defense also came up big, stopping
Pembroke on downs several times during the game,
including the Titans’ final two drives of the game.
It was also the initial high school win for first-year
Nauset coach Mike Sherman, a former head coach
with the NFL Green Bay Packers.
“This game was a lot like our season, a lot of
bumps in the road, but we found a way to win,”
Sherman said. “We had a good week of practice and,
overall, it was a group effort. For Akeem, it was the
most physical he’s run all season. I’m happy for our
players, who’ve given a lot of effort all season.”
Steadily-improving Nauset was coming off a
tough 22-12 loss to Barnstable last Friday, while
the Titans lost to Hull, 38-30.
Balanced on offense, the Warriors outgained
Pembroke 390-212 in total yards, including 198167 on the ground.
Travis Van Vleck completed 11-of-15 passes for
111 yards and rushed for an additional 54 yards, while
Sam McGough hauled in three passes for 45 yards,
including a key 20-yarder late in the fourth quarter.
Hunter Quinn also had three catches for 27 yards.
Brandon Sheehan led the Titans with 92 yards and
one TD, while adding a two-point rush.
Pembroke made the first big plays on defense,
stopping the Warriors on fourth-and-1 and recovering a fumble, but the visitors were unable to take
advantage.
Nauset finally took a 7-0 lead early in the second
quarter when Atkinson broke loose for a 43-yard
touchdown scamper after the Warriors’ defense
stopped the Titans on fourth-and-1.
Pembroke cut the lead to 7-6 with 5:28 on a twoyard scoring plunge by Sheehan, but the two-point
conversion pass was caught out of bounds. The
scoring drive was aided by two 15-yard penalties
on Nauset.
The Warriors ended the half on a 21-yard field
goal by James Tooker with eight seconds remaining.
Van Vleck engineered the drive with two passes each
to McGough and Quinn and a key 19-yard scramble.
A four-yard TD run by Atkinson with 3:15 remaining in the third quarter gave Nauset a 17-6 lead and
a little breathing space
But Pembroke cut the lead to 17-14 with 6:54
remaining on a razzle-dazzle, 18-yard halfback
option pass from Bobby Brooks to Joe Benting and
a two-point conversion rush by Sheehan.
Nauset marched the ball to the 20 before Van
Vleck fumbled on a run for a first down, but the
Warriors defense stopped the Titans when linebacker Jacob Hirschberger tipped away a Kyle Watts
pass and Atkinson put it out of reach with a 20-yard
TD burst off left tackle.
Eli Wilson, Chase King, Hirschberger, TJ Guazzaloca and Isiah Honeycutt stood out on defense for
Nauset, while Brian Burns and Bryce Garvey played
well for the Titans.
Nauset is off until Thanksgiving Day when it travels to Dennis-Yarmouth for a 10 a.m. kickoff at Alan
Carlsen field.
BARNSTABLE
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To its credit, Sandwich battled to stay in the
game and on the ensuing kickoff, returned the ball
to the Sandwich 47-yard line where consecutive
15-yard penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct
set up the Knights on the Barnstable 23. It took
nine plays, but the Knights finally hit paydirt when
quarterback Sam Whittle connected with Kevin
Shea on a 4-yard scoring toss.
After recovering a Raider fumble on the Sandwich 46, the Knights went 54 yards in seven plays
with Ryan McNally punching in the tally on a
3-yard run to close the gap to 35-14.
A stop by the defense and getting the ball back
might have made things more interesting. Instead,
Dauphinais sewed things up with a burst through
the line and then outracing the Knights’ defensive
backs for a 54-yard TD score.
“These kids are playing with a lot of confidence
right now,” Whidden said of the Raiders. “We are
at the point I hoped we would reach sooner. I see
us as being close to playing to our potential.”
As for Sandwich, the Knights had some promising moments, especially seeing co-captain Frank
Kelleher suit up and see some playing time after
missing three games with injury.
“I was pleased with effort we showed not
quitting out there,” said Sandwich coach Bill
O’Connell. “Our hope was to get our front line
going on offense and to get a chance to start developing some depth. I thought we did that tonight.”
I was diagnosed,” said Stahmer. “It was a big
shock as I didn’t notice symptoms before that.”
After a visit to his doctor during the season,
he was sent to a specialist and then to the
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He was diagnosed with seminoma, a form of testicular
cancer most commonly found in men under
age of 35.
Stahmer would spend entire days in
Boston receiving chemo treatments, before
B3
No luck needed for Dolphins
By John Garner Jr.
From Page B1
Saturday, November 14, 2015
DENNIS-YARMOUTH 48, APPONEQUET 14
Atkinson’s 3 TDs
help Warriors
win first game
MMA
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Kenny, kept Gaucher under pressure for the majority of the game.
“I thought we controlled the
line of scrimmage all game. That’s
something we didn’t do well the
last two weeks,” Funk said.
D-Y let up a combined 39
points in their last two games to
Foxborough and Plymouth South
after holding opponents to a combined 13 points in their final three
regular season games to reach the
playoffs.
After re-emphasizing the
importance of winning the battle
of the trenches in practice, Funk’s
offense responded on the second
snap of the game. Fallon took an
inside handoff on a fullback dive
and then ran 51 yards, shedding
Laker would-be tacklers on his
way to the end zone.
Then on the Lakers’ second
possession, Fallon and Dolan
pressured Gaucher to rush his
throw on third-and-1. The ball
was intercepted by Miranda and
he returned it 95 yards for a score.
With only 1:33 remaining in
the first half and having just
allowed Apponequet to score
on back-to-back drives hinged
together with an onside kick
recovery to pull within 13 points,
D-Y was pinned back at its own
20-yard line.
Sophomore quarterback Jacob
McCarthy seemingly never
batted an eye at a tricky twominute drill. He led his team on a
10-play, 80-yard drive capped by
an 8-yard strike to Jamiel with no
time left to make it 35-14 at halftime. McCarthy (5⁄9 for 100 yards
and 2 TDs) accounted for 63 yards
between his arm and legs on the
drive.
D-Y will square off against
Nauset in their annual Thanksgiving Day game.
Mashpee’s players celebrate after receiving their championship trophy following their 22-20 win over Millis-Hopedale. Photos by Ron Schloerb/Cape Cod Times
MASHPEE
From Page B1
and simple,” Mashpee coach Matt
Triveri said. “That’s probably the
best football team we’ve played
all year, so for us it’s a great win.
It’s a testament to how tough our
kids are. We were probably outweighed by 30 pounds, but we
fought and fought and fought.”
There were many storylines
to this game. But the overriding
one was Mashpee running back
Deshaun Dias. The Falcons’ game
plan was simple; give Dias the
ball and watch him carry them to
victory. Dias lugged the football
39 times for 224 yards and two
touchdowns, and he appeared as
fresh in the final quarter as he was
in the first.
“He’s our guy. We were going
to run him until he dropped,”
Triveri said. “I still think we’ve
got the best back in Massachusetts. I don’t care what anybody
says. I don’t care if you’re talking Division 6 or Division 1. He is
absolutely a stud.”
Dias did not appear ready to
drop at any time.
“Whatever it takes,” he said.
“My team needs me, they depend
on me to get that extra yardage.
I would’ve run it 50 times if I
needed to.”
On the other side of the coin,
the Falcons limited the Mohawks’
star back, Josh Pierre-Charles, to
only 44 yards on nine carries.
“I can’t say enough about the
job our defense did. It was a great
job by our defensive coordinator
(Mark Doucette),” Triveri said.
It was a night of explosive plays.
Dias scored on two long runs in
the first quarter (he had 153 yards
rushing at halftime), while the
Mohawks got a scoring burst from
Pierre-Charles and a 61-yard
Freddy Bohnenberger (66) and Jack Rodriguez of Mashpee stop Millis-Hopedale
running back Josh Pierre-Charles in Friday night’s Division 6 South title game. The
Falcons won, 22-20.
flea-flicker touchdown that saw
quarterback Ryan Smith lateral
to wide receiver Sagar Desai, who
heaved a long pass to PJ Adams for
the score.
This was all before intermission.
The Falcons were humming
on all cylinders at the start. Dias
scored on their first play from
scrimmage, breaking tackles
along the right sideline and rambling into the end zone from 43
yards with only 1:54 gone off the
clock. On Mashpee’s next possession he was at it again, bursting
up the middle on a delayed draw
and out-racing the Mohawks’
defense for a 60-yard scamper.
Dias ran in the two-point conversion following the first score,
and Nick Carpenter connected
with Domenic Cassell after the
second TD for a quick 16-0 lead.
But the Mohawks, who mysteriously went away from
Pierre-Charles in the first three
possessions, began giving him the
commuting back to Wareham with family
members. It was certainly no day at the beach.
“I battled nausea and acid reflux, which
was pretty tough,” said Stahmer. “The chemo
made me feel tired and weak. But I didn’t miss
any classes or practices because treatments
happened during wintertime.”
After a grueling regimen that lasted most
of the winter and early spring, he went
for a checkup in May 2014 and his doctors
announced him cancer-free.
“I lost about 20 pounds and looked pretty
thin and tired,” said Stahmer. “But then I
started to lift weights and eat everything
ball and he capped a nine-play,
79-yard march with a 21-yard
run, slicing the deficit to 16-6
early in the second quarter.
The flea-flicker score, which
came with 4:41 left before halftime, and a two-point conversion
brought the Mohawks within two
points.
The Falcons then came out for
the second half and produced a
monster drive of 20 plays that
covered 74 yards, killing all but
the final 53 seconds of the third
quarter. Carpenter capped it
with a 1-yard plunge, giving the
Falcons a 22-14 advantage.
“To gain momentum back was
huge for us,” Triveri said.
That momentum was quashed
when Mashpee’s Devaun Ford
muffed a fourth-quarter punt,
giving the Mohawks the ball at
their own 41. Two plays later,
Smith connected with Brian
Espanet on a 59-yard touchdown
strike with 6:01 remaining. The
in sight, once I got my appetite back, and I
started to gain my weight back.”
By the start of training camp at the end of
the summer of 2014, Stahmer was back to his
playing weight of 180 pounds and starting to
feel himself again. He caught his first collegiate pass against Worcester State, while
backing up a strong senior receiving class,
including former Wareham teammate E.J.
Bennett.
Coming into this season, Stahmer had high
hopes and his hard work has paid off. He’s
caught 15 passes for 267 yards and five touchdowns (tied for team lead). He had two scoring
After breaking away for extra yardage,
Emmett Sweeney of Mashpee is finally
brought down by Millis-Hopedale’s
London Artis.
Mohawks went for the tie with
the 2-point conversion, but a bevy
of Mashpee tacklers rose up and
stopped Pierre-Charles to preserve the lead.
Still, one final, wacky play
remained. With 5:05 left, Espanet picked off Carpenter’s third
down pass and returned it to the
Mashpee 27, only to fumble the
ball back to the Falcons.
“It feels like we got over a
hump,” Dias said of finally beating the Mohawks. “They’re a
great team. We were up early,
they came back and made some
plays that got momentum on
their side, and we just had to stay
together.”
receptions in a season-opening Chowder Bowl
win over SUNY-Maritime, one vs. MASCAC
champion Framingham State, and then last
week’s pair in the win over Plymouth State.
“Our offense looks to push the ball and get
other teams back on their heels,” said Stahmer, who will be part of MMA’s high-powered
attack in Saturday’s Cranberry Bowl showdown with Bridgewater State. The Bucs’
offense is averaging 34 points and 506 yards
and 72 plays per game.
“We like to get in as many plays as possible,” said Stahmer.
And nobody appreciates them more.