PAXTON, Mass. – Junior Logan Sawyer threw three touchdown passes and junior Joe Cox registered nine tackles as the Nichols College football team rallied from a 20-0 deficit to score a 27-23 win over Anna Maria College Saturday afternoon in non-conference action at Caparso Field.

Sawyer shook off an early pick-six to throw for 213 yards – 78 of which went to senior Terrance Harris – and throw a 12-yard scoring strike to senior Hunter Ferreira, a 17-yard TD pass to senior Matt Mulroy,  and a 22-yarder to Harris with 5:37 remaining that gave the Bison (2-0) their first lead of the afternoon. Graduate student Joshua Pierre-Charles also scored from two-yards out and finished with 85 yards on the ground. Ferreira, meanwhile, hauled in five receptions for 35 yards.

Defensively, the Bison forced six turnovers (three interceptions, three fumble). Sophomore Mark James, Jr. intercepted a pass for the second-straight game while graduate student Dylan Kehoe and senior Derek Rousso also picked off AMCat signal caller Alex Cohen. Graduate student Earl Jones and junior Chris Copponi forced fumbles that were scooped up by sophomore Daenin Walker, freshman Spencer Berlepsch, and Copponi.

Following an interception by Cohen with 16 seconds remaining in the first half, Sawyer found Ferreira for a 12-yard touchdown with one second remaining to get the Bison on the board entering the locker room. Mulroy's first collegiate TD five minutes into the third cut the NC deficit to 20-14 before JPC's scoring run capped a 16-play, 79-yard drive and made it 23-20 in favor of AMC. Less than six minutes later, Harris hauled in the go-ahead touchdown pass.

Nichols is now 6-0 all-time against Anna Maria with four of the wins coming in Paxton.