Castine, Me. — Senior Mark Behne had two of the Bears three fourth-quarter interceptions, including the final one in the end zone with 40 seconds left, as Coast Guard overcame a 14-point deficit and held off Maine Maritime on Saturday, 21-14, in a New England Football Conference game.

The Bears’ Derek Victory threw a 7-yard touchdown to Jordan Groff with 11:55 left in the game to break a 14-14 tie.

Victory became the Bears all-time passing yards leader as he finished the game with 4,686 yards, breaking the mark of 4,569 set by Jon Resch (2009-12).

Victory was 11 of 23 for 165 yards with two touchdowns.

The Mariners triple-option offense ran 82 times for 403 yards on 82 and had 428 yards of total offense. It also dominated time of possession (41:50 to 18:10).

Coast Guard had 245 total yards, 80 of those on the ground.

“We got ourselves in a little bit of a hole, down 14-0, but we got the quick score and got the big break on the kickoff which got us back in the game,” Bears head coach Bill George said. “We played the option much better in the second half and our defense came up with some big plays to stop drives which was tremendous for us. It’s a great Coast Guard win against a good team.”

Carter Provost had three catches for 51 yards for the Bears (3-2, 2-0) and Mike Clancy ran for 40 yards.

Senior linebacker Kyle Wood had a career-high 18 tackles for Coast Guard. Lazowski had added 15 tackles and Behne finished with 14 total tackles for the Bears.

Tyler Henning set a school-record for point after touchdowns (89), besting the mark set by David Lieberman (87, 2004-07).

Michael Fahey had 31 carries for 159 yards for the Mariners (1-3, 0-2) while Joe DiBiase had 19 carries for 121 yards.

Maine Maritime had three possessions in the fourth quarter, all of which ended in interceptions. Will Daniels got the first of his career with 14:03 remaining and returned it 30 yards, setting up the go-ahead score.

Maine Maritime turned it over once again as Behne intercepted a pass on 4th-and-7 from the Coast Guard 34 with 7:44 left.

The Mariners forced a three-and-out, but Henning boomed a 64-yard punt which teammate Ryan Robertson downed at the 1-yard line with 6:36 left.

Maine Maritime drove to all the way to the 5-yard line, but a holding call pushed it back to the 15. The drive ended when Behne intercepted the ball in the end zone to preserve the win.

Coast Guard's Joe Rizzardi blocked a 22-yard field goal attempt with 5:31 left in the third quarter and the game tied at 14.

Clancy ran for a 3-yard touchdown and Henning added the PAT to cut the Bears' deficit to 14-7 with 7:06 left in the first half.

The ensuing kickoff was knocked down by the wind and recovered by Rizzardi at the Mariners’ 27-yard line. It set up Victory’s 37-yard touchdown to Kyle Jackson to tie the game with 6:24 remaining in the half.

Coast Guard will have the week off before hosting MIT on Homecoming Weekend (Oct. 17, 1 p.m.).