#1 MILLERSVILLE VS. #2 SHIPPENSBURG
	Millersville Marauders 2014 Record: 1-0 Last Game: 6-0 W vs. Lindenwood Coach: Shelly Behrens, 7th season Roster | Schedule | Statistics
	Shippensburg Raiders 2013 Record: 2-0 Last Game: 6-0 W vs. Southern Connecticut State Coach: Bertie Landes, 16th season Roster | Schedule | Statistics
	Game Information Date: September 9, 2014 | Start Time: 4 p.m. Location: Robb Field, Shippensburg, Pa. Live Stats | Twitter | Instagram | #HoistTheColors  Series Records: 29-43-8 (.413) Series Streak: Ship, 1 First Meeting: 1945, (Ville 5, Ship 0) Last Meeting: 2013 (Ship 3, Ville 1) - NCAA Semifinals

 
GAME OVERVIEW
· Tuesday's field hockey match-up at Shippensburg is a meeting of the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in Division II as well as a rematch of the 2013 PSAC Championship game and NCAA Semifinal. This is Millersville's first time ranked as the No. 1 ranked team in the nation. Shippensburg's won the NCAA Divison II Championship last year. Shippensburg has won 49 consecutive regular season home games dating back to Oct. 8, 2008. 
 
SERIES HISTORY
· Tuesday the 80th time Millersville and Shippensburg match up. Shippensburg leads the all-time series, 43-29-8. For Millersville, the 2013 series consisted of a road loss, 1-0 in overtime, a win at Shippensburg 1-0 in the PSAC Championship game, and then a season-ending 3-1 loss in the NCAA Semifinals. Millersville was shutout only twice in 2013, and one of those came in the Oct. 12 contest. 

THE LAST MEETING
·  Millersville, playing it its first-ever NCAA Division II Semifinal game, concluded a 19-3 campaign with a 3-1 defeat against Shippensburg on Nov. 22, 2013. Shippensburg received an early goal from Lauren Taylor and a late offensive burst pushed Shippensburg into the national championship game against LIU Post. The Marauders hadn't allowed a single goal in the first three postseason games, and Shippensburg became the first team to score three on the Marauders all season. Even with a slow start, the Marauders tied the game at 1-1 3:46 into the second half on a goal from Samantha Ruane and assist from Hannah Whitman. The Marauders and Raiders remained deadlocked until just over 14 minutes left when Ari Saytar scored off of a penalty corner. With the Marauders pressing for an equalizer, Shippensburg caught the Marauders in transition just over seven minutes left and Bre White put the third goal on the board. Shippensburg recorded seven penalty corners and five shots in the first half alone, while Millersville struggled to push the ball into its offensive end. The Marauders picked up just one shot off its one penalty corner. Ship goalkeeper Carenna Neely faced only one shot the entire game, and that came on Ruane's goal. 

STRONG SENIOR START
· Millersville won its first game this season by a 6-0 score against Lindenwood, and five of the six goals scored in this game were scored by seniors. Three of the six goals were also assisted by seniors. Champayne Hess scored two of the goals and assisted with another. Alicia Youtz had two goals and one assist. Katelyn Zapp scored one goal and Hannah Whitman had one assist. Goalkeeper Lauren Sotzin posted a shutout. 

SOTZIN STOPS 'EM
· Sotzin posted her 20th career shutout and set a Millersville record with her 35th win in a 6-0 blanking of Lindenwood Friday afternoon. Sotzin has an imressive 0.85 career goals against average. With that wn she surpassed Millersville University Hall of Fame member Stacey Hollinger '89 for career wins. Sotzin led Division II in goals against average and shutouts a season ago and through one game, ranks at the top of the nation again. 

SCOUTING SHIP
· Shippensburg has won its first two games of the season with shutout. Bertie Landes had to find a replacement for starting goalkeeper Carenna Neely and has used a different goalkeeper in each of the first two games. The first game was started by Ally Mooney, a freshmen, and the second was started by junior Taylor Webster. Both players are still untested, though, as Shippensburg did not surrender a single shot and only one penalty corner in the two games combined. Shippensburg is young, though, with four of its seven goals having been scored by freshmen Emily Barnard, Lizzie Frombach, Madison Scarr and sophomore Cassie Kawa. 21 of the 26 team members are freshmen and sophomores.

LOCAL CONNECTIONS
· A majority of the athletes in this exciting match-up are local and some were at one point even teammates. Of both the teams playing in the game there are 17 players--nine from Millersville and eight from Shippensburg--who played high school field hockey in the Lancaster-Lebanon League. Four players are from Manheim Central: Sarah Bomberger, Erin Jury and Randi Boyd (Millersville)and Katelyn Grazan (Shippensburg).  The Mid-Penn League is represented by 10 Millersville players and six Raiders.