MILLERSVILLE VS. WEST CHESTER
	Millersville Marauders 2014 Record: 18-3 Last Game: 2-0 W vs. Shippensburg Coach: Shelly Behrens, 7th season Roster | Schedule | Statistics
	West Chester Golden Rams 2014 Record: 18-2 Last Game: 3-0 W vs. Millersville Coach: Amy Cohen, 4th season Roster | Schedule | Statistics
	Game Information Date: December 4, 2014 | Start Time: 1 p.m. Location: Trager Stadium, Louisville, Ky. Tickets Live Stats | Live Video Twitter | Instagram | #HoistTheColors NCAA Bracket Series Record: 5-10 (.333) Streak: West Chester, 2 First Meeting: 1948 (WCU 5, Ville 1) Last Meeting: 2014 (WCU 3, Ville 0)

Complete Game Notes

GAME OVERVIEW
•     Millersville, the No. 2 seed from the NCAA Atlantic Region, is making its second consecutive trip to the NCAA Semifinals, marking the first time that Millersville has reached the sport's final four in back-to-back seasons. The 37 wins and .860 winning percentage are the best two-year marks in program history. This is only Millersville's second appearance in the NCAA Division II Tournament after playing in the Division III version six times from 1984-1990. The Marauders reached the title game in 1985. The Marauders have also reached the PSAC Championship game in each of the last three years, but in 2012 and in 2014, West Chester won the championship on its home field by 4-0 and 3-0 scores.
•    Millersville was the preseason NFHCA No. 1-ranked team as eight of the 11 starters for the 2014 team also started in the NCAA Semifinal against Shippensburg in 2013. All four of Millersville's 2013 All-Americans are also on the 2014 team. West Chester finally unseated the Marauders for the No. 1 spot on Oct. 27 following the Golden Rams' 2-1 overtime win the previous week.

THE MATCH-UP
•    Thursday's game marks the fourth of the season between Millersville and West Chester and the and the eighth over the last two seasons. Last season, Millersville beat the Golden Rams four times including in the PSAC Semifinals and the NCAA Quarterfinals. It was the first time Millersville had ever beaten a team four times in a season. The teams have met 10 times since the start of the 2012 season and Thursday's game will be the fifth postseason meeting. The teams split the last four postseason games. It is the second NCAA Tournament meeting in the last two seasons. Millersville won last season's NCAA Quarterfinal at home by a 1-0 score on a Rachel Dickinson goal.
•    West Chester holds a 2-1 edge in the 2014 season series with two of the games going into overtime. Millersville held opponents to no more than one goal in 17 of 21 games. West Chester scored at least two goals in all three games. In the first meeting of the season at Millersville, West Chester took a 2-0 lead on goals from Alexis Versak and Rachal Toppi. Courtney Weaver scored to tie the game just before the half, and Hannah Whitman scored the game-tying goal early in the second. In double overtime, Champayne Hess scored on a breakaway to give Millersville a 2-1 win. In the second regular season meeting, Dayle Paustian scored on a penalty stroke in the first half and assisted on Hannah Davies' game-winner 8:07 into overtime. In the PSAC Championship game, the Golden Rams took a 1-0 lead 7:18 in on a goal from Marnie Kuskavitch and added a goal just 55 seconds before the half. Rachal Toppi scored her second goal against Millersville of the season in the second half.
•    In the three games, West Chester holds a 36-30 lead in shots and a 21-16 lead in shots on goal. West Chester also has a 33-24 edge in penalty corners. Five of West Chester's seven goals have come in the first half. Champayne Hess leads Millersville with nine shots and six shots on goal against West Chester. Lauren Sotzin has made 14 saves for a .667 save percentage. Her counterpart Sarah Krause owns a .750 save percentage. West Chester is the only team that has shut out Millersville this season. In Millersville's four wins over West Chester in 2013, Sotzin posted three shutouts and a .960 save percentage with 24 saves. In 2012, Sotzin totaled 13 saves with 10 goals allowed in three losses. In her career against West Chester, Sotzin is 5-5 with a .739 save percentage. This is slightly below her overall career numbers, which is .821 (first among active Division II goalkeepers).
•    West Chester boasts the nation's second-best offense with 4.05 goals per game. West Chester allows 1.00 goals per game, but has allowed only one goal in its last five games. It has outscored its opponents by a 24-1 margin in those games.

ALL ABOUT DEFENSE
•    Millersville is once again at the top of the national rankings in defensive performance. The Marauders are best in Division II with 12 shutouts, which matches the 2013 school record. The Marauders' 0.62 goals against average is the best in Division II and is second in all divisions behind only Division III Bowdoin (0.60). The Marauders led the nation in goals against average in 2013, and it is on the verge of posting a sub-1.000 goals against average in back-to-back seaosns for the first time since 1987-88.
•    Since the start of the 2012 season, Millersville has shutout 35 of its 64 opponents and allowed a total of 50 goals--an average of 0.78 per game.

ALL YOU NEED IS TWO
•     Since the start of the 2012 season, Millersville is 41-0 when scoring at least two goals in a game. Millersville has allowed two or more goals in four games this season and is 1-3 in those games. Since 2012, Millersville is 4-10 when allowing two or more goals in a game.

GET IT TO OVERTIME
•     The Marauders have a knack for winning games in extra time. Millersville won the NCAA Quarterfinal over Shippensburg in double overtime, which improved it to 5-1 in overtime games this season. Millersville is 11-3 in overtime games since 2012. Champayne Hess and Rachel Dickinson lead the team with two overtime goals apiece.

COMPLETE TURNAROUND
•     Before Shelly Behrens arrived at Millersville in 2008, the Marauders had been without a winning record since 1998. The program went 40-122 (.247) that nine-year span. Behrens has won 83 in her seven seasons. Now with a 83-56 (.597) record as Marauder coach, Behrens is third on Millersville's all-time wins list behind Sandra Peters (98-68-30), who coached for 17 seasons from 1968-84, and Carol Miller, who led the team to an 86-51-18 record over eight seasons from 1985-92. Behrens' .597 winning percentage is fourth all-time. She, however, became the head coach in a time when the program needed a major rebuilding effort.  She has won at least seven games in each season. When she took over, Millersville hadn't won seven games in eight seasons. Her 51 wins and  .797 winning percentage over the last three seasons is the best three-year stretch in program history.

BRINGING HOME THE HARDWARE
•    Shelly Behrens was named PSAC Coach of the Year for the third year in a row, and Rachel Dickinson became the first Marauder ever to win the PSAC's Defensive Player of the Year award. Dickinson was also a first team selection, making her the first Marauder since 1994 to earn first team honors three times and she is also the first four-time honoree. Sarah Bomberger (first team), Champayne Hess (third team) and Lauren Sotzin (first team) were both honored by the conference for a third time. Megan Donlan (second team) and Katelyn Zapp (second team) both scored All-PSAC recognition for the first time.
•    Millersville's six honorees were the most for the program since 1989. Millersville and West Chester tied for the most honorees with six apiece.

ON THE ROAD
•     Millersville has been nearly unbeatable at home over the last two seasons, posting a 18-1 record. The Marauders have still been productive away from home, posting a 7-2 record this season and a 30-9 mark since the start of the 2012 season. This season, however, the Marauders are averaging a goal fewer per game on the road (2.11) and while they outscored opponents 46-7 at home, they have managed a 19-6 margin away from home.

ELECTRIFYING YEAR
•     Katelyn Zapp became a big-time goal scorer as a senior, totaling a team-best 16 goals. Zapp's previous best was the seven she scored in 2013. Her 16 this season are the most by a Marauder since Dena Gockley set the school record at 19 in 1994. Her five game-winning goals are a team-best. She has scored six goals on the last six games.

TEAMING UP
•     It is no coincidence that Millersville plays the game as a team. The connections run to the high school ranks. Millersville has 11 players from three high schools. Alicia Youtz, Margaret Thorwart, Kierstyn Smith and Lauren Sotzin all attended Central Dauphin. Lauren Gerhart, Abby Spanos and Megan Donlan graduated in the same class from Lower Dauphin, and Randi Boyd and Sarah Bomberger graduated Manheim Central together. Sophomore Taylor Parker and freshman Katie DeLuca were teammates at Stroudsburg High School.
•    The team connections don't stop there. Behrens is a Lower Dauphin graduate herself and  her high school coach was Millersville field hockey legend Linda Kreiser.

SAVED BY SOTZIN
•    Goalkeeper Lauren Sotzin has put together a hall of fame career. In addition to being an All-PSAC selection three times and a 2013 All-America honoree, Sotzin was the 2013 PSAC Tournament MVP. Following the first game of the season, she set the program record for wins and has totaled 52, which is 16 more than the previous record holder. Sotzin recorded only one of those wins as a freshman. She also set a Millersville record with 31 shutouts.
•    Sotzin entered the NCAA Tournament ranked first in Division II in goals against averag and fifth in Division II in save percentage.
•    Sotzin is Division II's active career leader in save percentage (.821) and goals against average (.80). No other player in Division II owns a goals against average under 1.00. She ranks second regardless of Division in career goals against average.

DICKINSON SHOWS VERSATILITY
•    Rachel Dickinson is Millersville's first four-time All-PSAC honoree, a former conference and national rookie of the year, and is bidding to be Millersville's first three-time first team All-American. While she has played her entire career as a defender, she has made a significant impact on the offensive end. Dickinson ranks third on the team in points (22) after totaling seven goals and eight assists. Dickinson has totaled 14 goals and 16 assists in the last two seasons and now ranks second at Millersville in career assists with 21. Dickinson has totaled nine career game-winning goals, including four this season.