Springfield, Mass. – November 15, 2025 – The Springfield College football team completed its 2025 regular season with a 23-7 victory over Maritime on Saturday afternoon on Stagg Field.

Springfield improved to 8-2 overall and to 7-0 in NEWMAC play winning the outright conference title this afternoon. Springfield has strung together 33 consecutive NEWMAC victories dating back to 2021 and will now await its postseason fate in tomorrow's NCAA Division III Football Championship selection show slated for 5:00 pm on NCAA.com. Maritime wraps up its campaign at 5-5, 3-4.

TJ Welch (Shrewsbury, Mass.) totaled 84 rushing yards, 64 passing yards and two touchdowns, while James Green (Gales Ferry, N.Y.) added 60 yards on the ground and Bode Dunn (Stockton, N.J.) ran for 57 yards and a touchdown this afternoon for the Pride. Defensively, Hunter Hayes (Auburn, Maine) led Springfield with ten tackles, while Tyler Sordillo (Hull, Mass.) notched 2.5 sacks and four total tackles as the Pride sacked Maritime quarterback Will Pickett six times on the day. Nick Peterson (Kingston, Mass.) and Bryan Feliciano (Clifton, N.J.) both forced fumbles, while Corbett Cimini (Tinton Falls, N.J.) notched an interception late in the fourth quarter.

Springfield entered the final week of the regular season as Division III's top rushing team averaging 352.3 yards per game and as Division III's best defense allowing just 193.9 yards per game.

A fumble by Pickett midway through the first set up Springfield at the Maritime 37 yard line for its first scoring drive of the game. After a long 18 yard rush by Green and a six yard scramble by Welch, a touchdown by Welch was nullified by a holding penalty. But two plays later, pass interference was called pushing the Pride down to the two. Stanford Davis (Montague, N.J.) ran a yard and Welch punched it in for an early 7-0 lead.

Maritime went three and out on its next drive and just a 35 yard punt gave Springfield great field position again. Welch found Cam Pedro (Cumberland, R.I.) through the air for 51 yards pushing the Pride down to the one yard line. On the first play of the second, Dunn ran the ball into the end zone and after a failed PAT, Springfield led 13-0. The visitors answered on the ensuing drive and took advantage of three long penalty calls and made it 13-7.

Springfield took over with 11:26 to play in the second and took nearly eight minutes off the clock, but failed to convert on fourth and one giving the ball back to Maritime. The two teams traded possessions from there three times before halftime with the final time coming on a fumble recovery by Mike Mendicino (Pound Ridge, N.Y.) at the Maritime 31 yard line. Three plays later, Welch ran five yards into the end zone extending Springfield's lead to 13, 20-7, at the break.

Neither team was able to muster a touchdown in the second half – as the third was riddled with turnovers on fumbles and downs - with the only scoring coming from Ian Wernik (Plymouth, Mass.) and his 25 yard field goal in the fourth quarter before Cimini sealed the game with an interception on the ensuing drive. 

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