Old Rochester goes for two in overtime, beats unbeaten Hudson 22-21 and will meet Abington in the Final Four

MATTAPOISETT In overtime, Connor Nelson sneaked in from the 1 and Matt Tobin's two-point conversion gave Old Rochester a 22-21 win at unbeaten Hudson on Thursday night and a spot in the Division 6 Final Four.

Hudson had scored first in overtime, on Logan Dome's 7-yard pass to Mason Bastien and Cristiano De Oliveira Filho's extra point. When Nelson, the junior quarterback, answered with his third touchdown of the night, the Bulldogs could have kicked to tie and played another overtime, and instead they lined up to go for two. Tobin, the senior fullback and a team captain, got into the end zone to win it for the No. 7 Bulldogs (9-1).

It was the first loss of the season for No. 2 Hudson (9-1), which ended Old Rochester's run in last fall's quarterfinal with a 34-13 win at Hudson and came into Thursday having won every game by at least 12 points. Old Rochester now plays No. 3 Abington in a state semifinal, after Abington beat No. 11 Joseph Case of Swansea 36-7 on Thursday night at Memorial Field in Abington.

A scoreless half and a stand at the 1

For a full half neither offense reached the end zone, and the Bulldogs' defense was the reason Hudson didn't. Hudson took the opening kickoff, Bastien returned it 21 yards before senior Nolin Vieira pushed him out of bounds at the Hawks' 36, and Vieira and sophomore linebacker Wyatt Churchill made the first stop of a drive that ended in a punt when Dome was stopped short on third down.

The first real swing went Hudson's way on Old Rochester's second possession, when a toss to the right came loose and Hudson's Brayden Folan fell on it at the Bulldogs' 20. Michael Karnes ran to the 8 and Dome lowered his shoulder down to the 2, and that was as far as the Hawks got. Logan Hiles met Toby Edie at the line on second down, sophomore Balin Donnelly stopped Edie inches short on third, and on fourth and goal from the 1 Dome faked a handoff and threw for the end zone, where the pass was tipped and fell incomplete for Karnes.

Benji Baptiste, the junior running back and a captain, took the next snap from his own 1 and ran 10 yards for breathing room, then shook a tackle on the next carry as the Bulldogs moved out of danger. Junior linebacker Ben Durocher had already tipped away a Dome pass on the Hawks' second drive.

Hudson threatened again early in the second quarter after a face mask penalty on an Old Rochester punt gave the Hawks the ball at their 25. Dome moved them into Bulldogs territory with a screen to Bastien, a middle screen to Edie and a completion to Johnny McPartlen, but on fourth down at the Old Rochester 25 he tried to stretch a run to the sideline and Vieira dropped him at the line of scrimmage, Hudson's second turnover on downs of the half.

The Bulldogs' front four kept Dome under pressure, and Old Rochester forced three Hudson punts. Hudson's best moment came in the final minute, when Bastien pulled in a deep ball along the sideline with two defenders on him, but Vieira ran Dome down on a scramble at the Old Rochester 45, a holding call on Hudson ended the half, and the teams went to the locker rooms at 0-0. Old Rochester had put the ball on the ground twice in the half and lost it once.

Hudson strikes first, and the Bulldogs answer

Old Rochester took the second-half kickoff and drove from its 43 to inside the Hudson 30, with Baptiste breaking a tackle to reach the Hudson 40, but Hudson's Gabe Ferreira stopped him on third down and a fourth-and-6 throw fell incomplete.

Hudson then put together the drive the first half had lacked, 76 yards from its own 24. Edie ran for 9 on the first play, Dom Senske turned an awkward throw into a catch and a first down, freshman Enzo DaSilva went around the left side for another, and a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Old Rochester moved the ball inside the Bulldogs' 30. On third and 3 from about the 20, Dome tossed to Bastien coming in motion from the left, Karnes's block forced his man outside, and Bastien won the race to the corner for a 21-yard touchdown with 3:27 left in the third quarter. De Oliveira Filho kicked the extra point for a 7-0 Hudson lead.

Hunter Horsey, a senior captain, started Old Rochester's best drive of the night by returning a short kickoff to the Bulldogs' 44, and Tobin broke a couple of tackles on the next snap to carry the ball into Hudson territory, then cut outside on the following play before Tyson Meuse brought him down at the 25. On third and 5, Baptiste found room all the way to the Hudson 11, and he jumped through a tackle on the next carry to reach the 6, where Blake Freitas wrapped him up on the last play of the third quarter.

Hudson stood Baptiste up on third down to open the fourth quarter, but an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against the Hawks on the play moved the ball half the distance and gave Old Rochester a first down at the 2. Edie stopped Baptiste once more, and on second and goal from the 1 Nelson called his own number and scored with 11:01 left. Vieira kicked the extra point, and it was 7-7.

Trading touchdowns in the fourth

Hudson went right back ahead on the next possession. Bastien returned the kickoff 32 yards, DaSilva shook a tackle to the Old Rochester 30, Dome ran into the second level to the 15, and DaSilva cut inside to the 5 before Durocher brought him down. After Dome pushed for a first down at the 3, Edie followed Senske's block on the edge, cut back inside and scored with 7:51 left, and De Oliveira Filho's kick made it 14-7.

Old Rochester started from its own 40 and reached the Hudson 35 on a Baptiste run, and then the drive came down to its quarterback. Senske stuffed Nelson for half a yard and Freitas broke up a pass meant for Horsey, leaving third and 10. Nelson faked the handoff up the middle, kept it around the left side and was not caught until Jackson Wood ran him down at the Hudson 6, a gain of nearly 30 yards. Hudson's Marcus Holbrook stopped Baptiste short on first down and the Hawks held him again on second and goal from the 2, but on third and goal Nelson went in from the 1 for his second touchdown, and Vieira's kick tied it 14-14 with 3:36 to play.

The Bulldogs got the ball back quickly. Logan Hiles stopped DaSilva for a short gain, two Dome passes fell incomplete, and Hudson punted on fourth and 9. A penalty on the return left Old Rochester at its own 27 with 2:18 left, and the rain started to fall.

One second and one kick

Nelson ran the last drive of regulation nearly by himself. He faked and kept for a first down past the 40, ran right for 6 more, kept again on third and 1 for another first down with about a minute left, and completed a pass underneath that moved the ball to the Hudson 15 inside the final minute. Drew DePeter stopped Baptiste for no gain, Old Rochester called time with 16 seconds left, and on third down Baptiste wrestled his way to about the Hudson 6, where the Bulldogs stopped the clock with one second to go.

Hudson called timeout before the kick, and Vieira's 24-yard try as time expired went wide right, sending the game to overtime tied 14-14.

Overtime

Each team started from the 10, and Hudson went first. Edie ran to about the 7, and Dome found Bastien underneath, between two defenders, for a 7-yard touchdown, his second of the night. De Oliveira Filho's kick made it 21-14.

Old Rochester went back to Nelson, whose keepers had carried it through the fourth quarter. His keeper on first down pushed the ball to the 1, and on second and goal he sneaked in for his third touchdown, every one of them from a yard out. After a timeout the Bulldogs lined up to go for two instead of kicking for a second overtime, and Tobin got in to end it, 22-21.

The loss ended the playoff run of a Hudson team that went 4-0 to finish first in its league. For Old Rochester it was a sixth straight win and a trip to the semifinals, a year after the Bulldogs' playoff run ended in Hudson.

Scoring

Old Rochester 22, Hudson 21 (OT), Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, at the Morgan Bowl, Hudson

Quarter	Team	Play	Score
Third, 3:27	Hudson	Mason Bastien 21-yard run (Cristiano De Oliveira Filho kick)	Hudson 7-0
Fourth, 11:01	Old Rochester	Connor Nelson 1-yard run (Nolin Vieira kick)	7-7
Fourth, 7:51	Hudson	Toby Edie 3-yard run (De Oliveira Filho kick)	Hudson 14-7
Fourth, 3:36	Old Rochester	Nelson 1-yard run (Vieira kick)	14-14
Overtime	Hudson	Bastien 7-yard pass from Logan Dome (De Oliveira Filho kick)	Hudson 21-14
Overtime	Old Rochester	Nelson 1-yard run (Matt Tobin two-point conversion)	Old Rochester 22-21

Both teams also have a Thanksgiving game on Thursday, Nov. 26, at 10 a.m., with Apponequet coming to Old Rochester's David S. Hagan Stadium in Mattapoisett and Hudson playing at Marlborough.

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