Complete Game Notes

GAME QUICK FACTS
Millersville (1-9) at Edinboro (8-2)
Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008 - 12 p.m.
Sox Harrison Stadium, Edinboro, Pa.
Audio: Edinboro Webcast

THE SERIES
All-Time Series: MU, 5-3
First Meeting: 1977 (MU 24, EU 12)
Last Meeting: 1999 (MU 20, EU 10)
Current Streak: MU, 2

ABOUT THE GAME
• Saturday's PSAC crossover is the regular season finale for both Millersville and Edinboro. While Millersville enters the contest 1-9 overall, Edinboro—ranked No. 20 in Division II—still has a shot at reaching the NCAA Playoffs. The Fighting Scots are 8-2 overall with their only two losses coming to rivals Mercyhurst and California (Pa.) by a total of eight points.
• Millersville enters the season finale looking to avoid the first 10-loss campaign in the program's history that dates back to 1889. Millersville's last two-win season came in 1969 and it hasn't posted fewer than two wins since going 0-6 in 1953.
• The Marauders suffered a 45-18 homecoming defeat at the hands of East Stroudsburg last week. It was a game of good and bad as the Marauders committed a season-high eight penalties for 105 yards and committed a season-high four turnover but managed a season-best three interceptions and three sacks and generated a season-high 25 first downs. Andy Tischbein also recorded a career-high nine catches, his fourth 100-yard receiving game of the season and his fourth-straight game with a touchdown catch. Cardoza Jacks also topped 100 yards for the fourth-straight game.
• Edinboro is coming off a 35-10 victory at Clarion, which helped it move to No. 6 in the Super Regional One. The top six teams in the four regions of Division II qualify for the playoffs. Edinboro received three touchdown passes from quarterback Trevor Harris but also pounded Clarion on the ground for 290 yards. Michael Battles rushed for 113 yards and Ulysee Davis gained 99.

THE HEAD COACHES
• Greg Colby spent most of his career as an assistant at the Division I level, but has served as a head coach. From 1979-86, he was the head coach at Schlarman High School and Naperville High School in Illinois. While at Schlarman, Colby led the team to back-to-back Illinois High School 2-A State Championships (1981-82).
• Colby has an impressive resume. He came to Millersville after serving as the defensive coordinator at Northwestern from 2002-07 during which time the Wildcats posted three-straight six-win seasons for the first time in 70 years. He was also the defensive coordinator at Kent State for four seasons and served as a defensive assistant at Michigan State under Nick Saban and at Illinois under Lou Tepper.
• Scott Browning is in his third season as the head coach at Edinboro and has posted at least six wins in each season. His squads have also improved in wins each season. Prior to taking over as head coach, the 1981 Ohio State graduate was the offensive coordinator for the Fighting Scots for 11 seasons. He has been a member of the Edinboro staff since 1986. Prior to joining Edinboro, he was the running backs coach at Ohio State from 1984-85, helping the team to a Rose Bowl appearance and coached standout Keith Byars.

ABOUT THE SERIES
• Saturday's contest is just the ninth meeting overall and the first since 1999 between the two PSAC schools. The programs first met in 1977 and Millersville has held a 5-3 edge in the series after capturing the first meeting 24-12. The Marauders have won the last two meetings, including the 1999 game by a 20-10 final.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• Invading East Stroudsburg managed to silence the Millersville Homecoming crowd of 6,258 Saturday afternoon using an explosive passing offense and taking advantage of Millersville's four turnovers.
• The Warriors (8-2, 5-2 PSAC East) used two quarterbacks--Matt Marshall and Tim Roken--to total 424 yards passing. Five of East Stroudsburg's six touchdowns were through the air and two came on bombs of 86 yards and 96 yards.
• Millersville blanked the Warriors on each of their first three offensive drives and had them pinned on their own 4-yard line with 7:39 left in the first quarter and the score tied 0-0. But Roken found Ed Kiser down the sideline on a play-action pass, and Kiser raced 96 yards into the end zone. That play proved to be a game-changer.
• On Millersville's very next offensive play, Cardoza Jacks lost the hand off and East Stroudsburg recovered at the Millersville 42. The Warriors wasted no time boosting the lead to 14-0 as Roken and Doug Ogden connected for a 42-yard strike, giving them two scores in just 17 seconds.
• Millersville fell behind 21-3 at the half and could not recover. 15 of the Marauder's 18 points came in the fourth quarter when they already trailed 31-3. Jacks, who finished with 103 yards for his fourth-straight 100-yard rushing effort, scored Millersville's first touchdown. Senior wide receiver Andy Tischbein hauled in his career-high eighth touchdown grab of the season with 43 seconds left in the contest.
• The Marauders managed to move the ball effectively, rolling up a 418 yards of offense and 25 first downs but did themselves not favors, losing three fumbles, throwing one interception and committing eight penalties for 105 yards. Six of the penalties were personal fouls. The performance was uncharacteristic as Millersville entered Saturday's game as the PSAC's least penalized team.
• Red-shirt sophomore Bill Shirk completed 29-of-45 passes for 290 yards and a touchdown.

THE LAST MEETING
• Millersville edged Edinboro at Sox Harrison Stadium by a 20-10 final score on Sept. 25, 1999. The win helped the Marauders bounce back from a 38-35 setback the previous week against New Haven. It also helped propel the Marauders toward an 8-2 final record and an appearance the NCAA Division II Playoffs. Quarterback Drew Folmar went on to finish the regular season with 26 touchdowns to four interceptions and averaged 270 passing yards per game. Sean Scott was his main target, totaling in 1,030 yards on 67 receptions.

SCOUTING EDINBORO
• Edinboro features one of the most dynamic offenses in the PSAC and also boasts one of the stingiest defenses. The Fighting Scots average 31.7 points per game and rank fifth in the league in rushing offense (181.2) and third in passing offense (248.0). Defensively, the team is allowing just 13.1 points per game, which is second-best in the league. Its rushing defense is also top-notch, surrendering just 100. 4 yards per game and 3.0 yards per carry.
• While the Fighting Scot defense is solid against the run, it also gets after the quarterback, having logged a PSAC-best 34 sacks on the season.
• Individually, Ulysee Davis is ranked 10th in the PSAC in rushing with 71.3 yards per game, and Trevor Harris is one of the top passers in Division II. He has completed 64.5 percent of his 296 attempts for 2,444 yards. He has also thrown 24 touchdowns to just five picks. His 157.3 efficiency rating is second-best in the league.

STREAKING
• Andy Tischbein is capping his Millersville career on quite a run. He has recorded a touchdown catch in his last four games and has eight in his last six outings. He has also totaled at least 80 yards receiving in his last five games and has four 100-yard performances to his credit during that span. Against East Stroudsburg—in his final home game—he totaled a career-high nine catches for 112 yards.
• So far this season, Tischbein has totaled eight touchdown catches, which tops his previous best of seven he totaled as a sophomore in 2006. It is also the highest total by a Marauder since Shawn Foxworth totaled eight in 1999.

FOUR-FOR-FOUR
• After not having a 100 yard rusher for the first six games of the season, Cardoza Jacks has rushed for over 100 yards in each of the last four weeks. After posting 274 yards against Cheyney on Oct. 11, he totaled 139 against C.W. Post on Oct. 18, 139 at Kutztown on Oct. 25 and 101 against East Stroudsburg on Nov. 1. Of the 1,322 rushing yards Millersville has on the season, 653 have come from Jacks in the last four weeks. Despite starting only four games, he ranks ninth in the PSAC in rushing. He is averaging 164.25 yards on 32.0 carries in his four starts.
• Jacks has also scored at least one touchdown in each of the last four weeks and has six in the last four games.

300
• Bill Shirk completed 17-of-27 passes for 300 yards on Oct. 18 against C.W. Post, becoming the first Millersville quarterback to reach that plateau since Dan Csencsitz threw for 301 against Bloomsburg in 2004. Millersville played 40 games during that stretch without a 300-yard passer. Each of the last two 300-yard passing games, however, have come in losses.

SHOOT-OUT
• The Millersville and C.W. Post meeting on Oct. 18, 2008 was the highest scoring game in school history with 93 total points. The 38 points scored by Millersville was the most in a loss since 1989 when the Marauders fell 43-41 to Southern Connecticut State.

TWICE AS NICE
• On Oct. 18, Millersville wide receivers Andy Tischbein and Jamal Smith each had over 100 yards receiving. Tischbein totaled 108 yards and two touchdowns and Smith totaled 139 yards and one touchdown. It was the first time all year that both players made touchdown catches in the same game. It was the first time that two Marauders receivers have gone for 100 yards in the same game since Sept. 4, 2004 against Glenville State, when Ryan Clift and Omar Sanders had 108 and 104 respectively.

LEGIT THREAT
• Jamal Smith has emerged as a big-play wide receiver since moving from quarterback in week four. In his first game, he hauled in six catches for 131 yards and a touchdown. Against C.W. Post, he totaled a career-high 139 yards on five catches and made his second touchdown catch of the season. On Nov. 1 against East Stroudsburg, he matched a career-high with six catches.
• Both of Smith's touchdown catches have been for over 50 yards this season. His 80-yard grab against West Chester is the team's longest completion of the season and was the longest since Drew Folmar's 91-yard TD pass to Sean Scott in 1999. Both of his TD catches are two of the three longest pass completions of the season for Millersville.

PASS HAPPY
• Since taking over the starting quarterback, Shirk has been sharp. Shirk completed 29-of-45 passes for 290 yards and a touchdown against East Stroudsburg on Nov. 1. It was the most pass attempts by a Marauder since 2004 when Dan Csencsitz totaled 49 attempts against Bloomsburg.
• He completed 22-of-33 passes to become the first Millersville quarterback since 2004 to complete at least 20 passes in a game against Bloomsburg. The last Marauder QB to perform the feat was Dan Csencsitz. Shirk's two touchdown tosses was the first two-TD pass performance by a Millersville quarterback this season, the first since Jamal Smith found the end zone twice in against East Stroudsburg on Sept. 29, 2007 and just the second since the 2006 season. Shirk improved upon that outing against Cheyney with three TD passes and another rushing. Shirk's three passing TD's were the most by a Millersville QB since Dan Csencsitz threw four against Mansfield in 2006. He followed that up with three more TD tosses against C.W. Post, giving him eight touchdowns in the last three games.
• Against Cheyney, Tischbein made three touchdown grabs, which were the most by a Marauder since Joe Flamish caught three against Mansfield in 1999.

CATCHES IN BUNCHES
• Andy Tischbein's has totaled at least eight catches twice this season, hauling in a career-high nine against East Stroudsburg on Nov. 1 and eight on Oct. 4 against Bloomsburg. He became the first Millersville wide receiver to have an eight-catch outing since he performed the feat on Sept. 9, 2006 against Slippery Rock. He also made six catches the following week against Cheyney, seven against C.W. Post and five against Kutztown. Prior to Tischbein's streak, no other Millersville player had recorded more than six receptions in a game since Tischbein's 2006 effort.
• Despite only playing three quarters, junior running back Brad Lantz made five catches against Bloomsburg as well. It was his second five-catch of the game of the season (Aug. 29 at Bentley), but he was playing wide receiver the first time he accomplished the feat. The five grabs were the most by a Millersville running back since Lantz caught five passes for 52 yards against Bloomsburg on Oct. 28, 2006. The last running back to record more than five catches in a game was Omar Sanders, who made six receptions for 79 yards at Kutztown on Oct. 25, 2003.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK
• Following record-setting rushing performance against Cheyney Saturday, Millersville running back Cardoza Jacks was named PSAC East Offensive Player of the Week Sunday afternoon.
• Jacks is the first Millersville player on either side of the ball to be honored by the PSAC this season, and his efforts on Saturday helped the Marauders to their first win of the season. He rushed for a career-high 274 yards--the highest rushing total by a Marauder since 1993 when Marc DeBellis went for 275 against Mansfield--and totaled a school record 44 carries.
• The 44 carries snapped Juan Jones' record of 40 that was set in 2005 and tied him for ninth most in PSAC history. Jacks also totaled two touchdowns, which helped the Marauders to 48 points and their highest offensive output of the season. Jacks entered the game with only 13 carries for 46 yards in the previous six games. All 13 carries came in the Sept. 13 loss to Indiana (Pa.). With Saturday's performance, he now is the team's leader in total rushing yards.

SWITCHING SPOTS
• Junior Brad Lantz was an All-PSAC East Second Team pick at running back last season but was switched to wide receiver at the start of 2008. Lantz hauled in a team-leading 11 catches for 95 yards and a touchdown, but prior to the Sept. 20 game against West Chester, the coaching staff moved him back to his natural position of running back. Lantz picked up where he left off, rushing for a team-leading 62 yards against West Chester and then turned in the team's best rushing effort of the season with 80 yards against Shippensburg. Since moving back to running back, Lantz has 193 yards on the ground and nine catches.
• Also making a position switch was former starting quarterback and PSAC East Rookie of the Year Jamal Smith. Prior to the game against West Chester, Smith was moved to wide receiver where he caught six balls for 131 yards and a touchdown. The bulk of the yards came on an 80-yard touchdown strike from quarterback Bill Shirk. It was the team's only 100-yard receiving performance of the season at that point. Smith has had at least one catch in every game since moving to wide receiver.

CENTURY STREAK
• With 128 yards rushing against Kutztown, Millersville has totaled more than 100 yards rushing as a team in each of the last 20 games dating back to the second game of 2007.
• The streak began in Jamal Smith's first career start at quarterback and has continued with Bill Shirk at the helm. Millersville is averaging 166.9 yards rushing per game since.
• The team has averaged 41.0 rushes per game in each of those games. So far this season, Millersville has rushed 40 or more times in three games including a season-high 50 against Cheyney in week seven. Millersville rushed 43 times for 103 yards in the season opener versus Bentley and 48 times against Kutztown on Oct. 25.
• The 280 yards against Cheyney was the most be the Marauders since gaining 313 against Kutztown on Sept. 30, 2006. The Marauders have rushed for over 200 yards twice this season.

BEST FOOT FORWARD
• Matthew Booker and Matt Sutjak each made positive impressions in their Millersville debuts on Aug. 29 against Bentley and each were on different sides of the ball.
• Booker, a freshman running back, totaled a team-leading 43 yards on nine carries for a team-best 4.8 yards per carry. His gain of 12 was the team's second longest of the game. He is the first freshman to lead the team in rushing in the season opener since Brad Lantz in 2006. Lantz rushed for 53 yards on seven carries in his rookie debut.
• Sutjak, a sophomore transfer at safety, registered a team-high and career-high nine tackles as well as his first career interception. Sutjak took the interception for a 23-yard return. The last player that led the team in tackles in his Millersville debut was Andrew Pough in 2006. Pough made eight tackles. The last Marauder to make an interception in his first game was Brandon Shelton in 2004 against Indiana (Pa.).

ON DECK TO IN THE BOX
• Red-shirt sophomore quarterback Bill Shirk made his second career start against West Chester and was given his chance to shine. Shirk threw the ball 31 times, the most attempts by a Millersville starting quarterback in a single game since Aug. 26, 2006 when Dan Csencsitz tossed the ball 34 times against Shepherd.
• Shirk produced four touchdowns—three passing and one rushing—against Cheyney in week seven. He is the first Millersville QB to throw three TD passes since 2006.
• Shirk's 243 yards passing was the third most by a Millersville starting quarterback over the past four seasons. The only other quarterback to throw for more than 225 yards in a single game over that span was Csencsitz who did it twice, once in 2005 and again in 2006. Despite the WCU game being his first start of the season, Shirk has not been a stranger to the field. Against Bentley, Shirk came off the bench to complete a then career-high 8-of-12 passes for a then career-best 74 yards. His fourth quarter TD toss to Derek Fry was also the first touchdown pass of his career.
• Shirk's previous best outing was also against Bentley. In 2007, he completed a then career-high 6-of-9 passes for 50 yards.

PICK SIX
• Sophomore cornerback Dan McClellan turned defense into offense in the season opener against Bentley, taking a third quarter interception 43 yards for his first career touchdown. It was just the second interception of McClellan's career. Millersville has now had at least one interception return for a touchdown in eight-straight seasons dating back to 2001.
• The most notable playmaker in recent years was Brandon Shelton. Shelton returned five interceptions for touchdowns in his four-year career, including two in 2007 and two as a freshman in 2004.
• McClellan is just the fifth player in the last eight years to take a pick for a touchdown. Along with Shelton, Andrew Siggins performed the feat twice, returning one in 2005 and one in 2002.

DUAL THREAT
• While playing running back in his first two seasons at Millersville, Brad Lantz not only showed ability to run the football, but also catch the football. He not only led Millersville in rushing in 2007 and ranked second on the team in receiving. He made 15 catches for 119 yards to go with his 902 yards rushing. Including his receiving yards, Lantz finished the season with a team-leading 1,061 all-purpose yards and averaged 96.5 yards per game.
• His pass catching ability prompted the coaching staff to move him to wide receiver for the 2008 season. He made the most of the position switch, catching five passes for a team-leading 78 yards in the season opener at Bentley. On Millersville's second offensive play, Lantz made a 43-yard reception which is now the longest of his career. His previous long was a 36-yard catch on Sept. 30, 2006 against Kutztown. He now has four career catches of more than 30 yards. Lantz added a touchdown catch in the second game of the season as well. It was his first receiving touchdown since Nov. 4, 2006.
• Despite moving to running back, Lantz has continued to show his pass catching ability. He made five catches for 75 yards and a touchdown against Bloomsburg in week six.
• So far in 2008, Lantz is second on the team in receptions with 20 and is third in yards with 176. He also owns two of only seven receiving touchdowns the team has this season.

BY LAND AND AIR
• Millersville red-shirt sophomore quarterback Jamal Smith was named PSAC East Rookie of the Year in 2007, making him the first Marauder to earn that award since quarterback Drew Folmar in 1997 and just the second ever.
• He earned the award by impressing the opposition with his feet. In 2007, he rushed for a team-high five touchdowns and totaled nine on the season. His 1,440 yards of total offense led the team, and his 633 yards rushing was 352 more than any other quarterback in the league. Clarion Tyler Huether was second among quarterbacks with 281 yards.
• Smith's 633 yards is the most rushing yards by any quarterback in Millersville history and stands as the most rushing yards by a PSAC quarterback since before 2000. Only East Stroudsburg's Jimmy Terwilliger (503 in 2006) and Clarion's Adam Almashy rushed for more than 500 (513 in 2002) since Slippery Rock's Randy McKavish rushed for 641 in 2000.
• So far in 2008, Smith is tied for fourth on the team in rushing with 93 yards. He has also thrown for 144. He has rushed for 30 or more yards in nine of his 14 career appearances and for positive yards in 14 of his appearances.
• He has also added wide receiver to his resume, and with 420 yards receiving, he has a rare opportunity to record over 100 yards passing, receiving and rushing.
• Since moving to wide receiver, he has recorded a catch in every game.

WORK HORSE
• Brad Lantz has emerged as one of the most durable backs in the PSAC the last two seasons. He was named All-PSAC East Second Team last year after ranking sixth in the PSAC with 902 yards and an average of 82 yards per game.
• More impressively, he lugged the ball 234 times, which ranked second in the conference trailing only Bloomsburg's Harlon Hill nominee Jamar Brittingham. In the last two seasons, Lantz has totaled 1,759 yards and 12 touchdowns.
• Lantz is quickly advancing up the Millersville career records lists. In just over three seasons, he has moved into 13th-place in career yards and needs just 61 more to pass John Flamish (1998-2000) for 10th all-time. If Lantz stays on his current pace of 879 yards per season, he will finish his four-year career with 3,516 yards, placing him second to only the legendary Ricke Stonewall, who totaled 4,169 from 1981-84.
• Also, Lantz already ranks third in career carries with 472. He is on pace for nearly 800 career carries, which would shatter Stonewall's record of 648. It would also place him fifth in PSAC history behind Bloomsburg's Jamar Brittingham (2004-07).

SHOOTING FOR TWO AND THREE
• Millersville landed eight players on the All-PSAC East team a year ago. Tackle Adam Cobb and defensive end Kevin Kershner were first team honorees, and Brad Lantz and Jarrod Linn were on the second team.
• Cobb was the first Millersville offensive lineman to be a first team selection since center Matt Doherty in 1998. If he earns first team honors in 2008, Cobb will be the first Millersville offensive lineman to be a two-time first teamer since guard Chris Smith in 1993-94 and the first tackle since Greg Faulkner in 1992-93.
• Linn could possibly be a three-time All-PSAC East pick. The most recent Marauder to be a three-time selection was cornerback Marcus Banks (2005-07) and defensive back Braden Steffey was a four-time honoree from 2000-03.

FIRST TIME NOT A CHARM
• History was not on Greg Colby's side in the Aug. 29 opener against Bentley. With the 35-22 defeat, new Millersville coaches are 6-12-2 all-time in their debut. However, picking up a win in the first game is no indication of long-term success.
• Only one of the last 11 Marauder coaches won their debut. Joe Trainer defeated Indiana (Pa.) 28-9 in 2005. Before Trainer's victory, the last coach to win his Millersville debut was Philip Aines in 1923. At that time, Millersville was known as Millersville State Normal School and his team defeated Stevens Trade School 13-7.

RETURN OF THE STATE GAME
• One of the biggest changes to the PSAC this season is the return of the “State Game.”
• This will serve as the conference championship game and will be contended between the two division winners on the final day of the season. It will be the first time that the State Game has been contested since 1987.

MAKING CHANGES
• Not only did Millersville introduce a new head coach in Greg Colby and several new assistant coaches, but the PSAC picked up three new members in Mercyhurst, Gannon and C.W. Post.
• Mercyhurst and Gannon, both formerly of the GLIAC, will compete in the PSAC Western Division, and C.W. Post joins Millersville in the Eastern Division. The expansion brings the total number of football schools in the PSAC to 16, making it the largest football playing conference in Division II.
• In the wake of the PSAC expansion, the NCAA decided to create four “Super Regions.” These Super Regions pull together two regions. In the past, PSAC, NE-10 and WVIAC combined to create the Northeast Region. The PSAC, WVIAC and CIAA now make up the Atlantic Region and are a part of the East Football Super Region with the NE-10, NYCC and CACC of the New England Region.

NICE TO MEET YOU
• In addition to Greg Colby, Millersville football has added some new faces to the coaching staff. Among the newcomers are offensive line coach Derrick Roche, wide receivers coach Dave Keeny, tight ends coach Corey Adderly and intern Dondre Gilliam who will be helping with wide receivers and the return game.
• Roche was an All-American offensive lineman at Washington State and played in the 2003 Rose Bowl. He also spent the last three seasons at UTEP as a special teams assistant and program coordinator.
• Keeny served as the head coach at Kutztown from 1998-2005 and became the third winningest coach in school history.
• Gilliam was an All-PSAC wide receiver and returner while at Millersville from 1999-00.
• Also, changing responsibilities on the staff was Ron Rankin, who switched from the offensive line to the defensive line. Aubrey Kelly is now defensive backs coach instead of cornerbacks coach.