Lock Haven, Pa. - Millersville football rallied from a 10-point deficit to tie Saturday's game with Lock Haven late in the fourth quarter. The homestanding Bald Eagles, however, responded immediately with a touchdown drive and then held off Millersville for a 17-10 win.

Lock Haven (2-6, 2-5 PSAC) scored twice in the first quarter to take a 10-0 advantage, but Millersville (0-8, 0-7 PSAC) chipped away using an Evan Stahl 20-yard field goal with 18 seconds left in the second quarter. And David Coates scored on a three-yard run with 7:49 left in the fourth quarter to even the score.

The Bald Eagles answered, however. In six plays, Lock Haven drove 71 yards and scored the eventual game winner on Beau Swales' 21-yard scamper.

Millersville could muster little on its final two opportunities. On the ensuing drive, J.J. Paige completed his first two attempts, but a sack on first down put the Marauders off schedule and eventually, they turned the ball over on downs at their own 38. The defense forced a Lock Haven punt, and Millersville took over from its own 6-yard line with 1:57 to go. Paige was sacked on both first and second down and a pair of incomplete passes ended Millersville's comeback hopes.

Millersville out-gained Lock Haven 321 to 274 and totaled 22 first downs to Lock Haven's 14. P.J. Santos and Joey Pham both recorded interceptions for the Marauders and the defense generated three sacks.

Millersville's first scring drive was an 11-play, 89-yard piloted by back-up quarterback J.J. Paige, who entered on the team's third drive of the game. On the first play of the series, Paige hooked up with Malont'a Patterson for 32 yards, and the duo connected for 24 more to the Lock Haven 3-yard line later in the drive.

But the Marauder drive fizzled there. Two incomplete passes and a rush for no gain forced Millersville to settle for three.

Millersville drove into Lock Haven territory six times in the second and third quarters. Near the five-minute mark of the third, the Marauders pushed to the Lock Haven 10 after a 12-yard scramble by Paige. Millersville, however, lost 16 yards on the next three plays, and Stahl missed a 43-yard attempt wide right.

The Marauder kept the Marauders within striking distance, and with 11:01 left in the game, Paige led the game-tying drive. It started with three completions to Kevin Wiggins and was aided by a roughing the passer and pass interference call. On second down from the Lock Haven three, Coates plunged in for his second TD of the season.

Paige led Millersville with 64 yards rushing on 19 carries. He went 15-of-30 for 199 yards through the air. Patterson and Wiggins split 12 receptions, and Patterson totaled his second 100-yard game of the season.

The Marauders host Shippensburg in the home finale next Saturday.