WALPOLE — Duxbury football team used a nine-play, 60-yard drive to take the lead and hang on for a 28-21 win over Tewksbury in a Div. 4 semifinal game in Walpole on Saturday night.

Duxbury will play Scituate for the state championship.

“Credit to them and credit to our guys,” Duxbury coach Matt Landolfi said. “We kept pushing and making little adjustments here and there. I’m so happy for the boys.”

Senior Jack Rees scored the go-ahead touchdown with a 1-yard run with 4:16 remaining in the game. The Redmen drove to just about midfield, but ultimately turned the ball over on downs with 1:28 left.

Tewksbury took a 7-0 lead at 5:53 of the first quarter when junior Ben Christopher scored from 39 yards out on a pass from senior quarterback Vincent Ciancio. Jackson Feudo added the extra point.

The Dragons answered with a 65-yard drive that ended with a 14-yard touchdown run by senior quarterback Trevor Jones with 2:20 left in the first quarter.

“Trevor Jones had an unbelievable game, “ Landolfi said.

The Redmen took the lead back with a 57-yard drive, scoring when junior Nicky Desisto ran for a 5-yard touchdown to make it 14-7 with 5:07 to go in the half. A bruising 21-yard run by Manny Mengata and an 18-yard reception by senior Joe Barletta set up the TMHS score.

Duxbury scored a critical touchdown to tie the game at halftime, moving 65 yards in 14 plays, finding the end zone when Jones hit senior Jack Sovik with a 13-yard touchdown pass. Jones added the extra point with just 16 seconds to go before intermission.

Duxbury took its first lead with 2:27 left in the third quarter after a 55-yard drive that took eight plays before a 9-yard run by Rees and Jones’ extra point made it 21-14.

A 10-yard pass to junior Ian McNeil and a 21-yard run by Jones were the key plays in the drive. The Redmen would tie the game for a third time with 9:24 remaining after Ciancio hit junior Jake Burns with a 5-yard touchdown pass.

The 12-play drive covered 65 yards and was aided by two Dragon penalties that led to first downs. An 11-yard run by Christopher and a 10-yard reception by junior Sean Callahan helped set up the Tewksbury score.

Duxbury would have the final say, however.

The last drive featured a first-down catch by Sovik on a third-and-eight pass early In the drive, a 19-yard run by Rees and a 13-yard carry by Brett Bart before Rees took a direct snap and plunged into the end zone to send Duxbury to the Super Bowl at Gillette Stadium.

“Tewksbury is a tough, tough team,” Landolfi said . “It seems like we play them every year (in the playoffs). “

“We had a couple of lapses that hurt us, “ said Tewksbury coach Brian Aylward, whose team also lost to Duxbury in the playoffs last season. “When you have a chance to get (the Duxbury offense) off the field, you have to get them off the field. If you give them too many chances with that offense , they’re going to go ahead and convert and score. We fought hard. We expected to be here, but we knew the road to Gillette was probably going to have to go through Duxbury at some point .”