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| GAME COVERAGE |
Saturday, Oct. 14, 2 p.m.
Lock Haven, Pa. | Hubert Jack Stadium
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| ABOUT THE SERIES |
Series vs. LHU: 9-19-1
Series Streak: LHU, 3
First Meeting: 1928 (T, 6-6)
Last Meeting: 2015 (L, 28-36)
Largest Margin of Victory: 35 (2006)
Largest Margin of Defeat: 32 (1958)
Record at LHU: 3-1 (since 1968)
Most Millersville Points: 35 (2006)
Most LHU Points: 33 (1948) |
| INDIVIDUAL |
RUSHING
Phil Overton (VILLE)
82-328, 1 TD, 4.0 YPC
Roberty Healy (ESU)
108-736, 11 TD, 6.8 YPC
PASSING
Tony Staffieri (VILLE)
15-40, 3 TD, 2 INT, 248 yds
Caleb Walton (LHU)
128-239, 12 TD, 4 INT, 1900 yds
RECEIVING
Kevin Wiggins (VILLE)
30-442, 5 TD, 73.7 YPG
Shawn Seif (LHU)
40-800, 6 TD, 160.0 YPG
DEFENSE
Sean Dugan (VILLE)
64 tkls, 4.0 TFL, 1.5 sacks
Kevin Chapple (LHU)
51 tkls, 9.5 TFL, 2.0 sacks
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| TEAM COMPARISON |
| VILLE |
STAT |
LHU |
| 17.7 |
PPG |
26.5 |
| 82.0 |
Rush/GM |
105.7 |
| 223.0 |
Pass/GM |
323.8 |
| 305.0 |
Total Off |
429.5 |
| 35.7 |
Scoring D |
38.5 |
| 207.8 |
Rush D/GM |
167.3 |
| 242.0 |
Pass D/GM |
306.8 |
| 449.8 |
Total D |
474.2 |
THE MATCH-UP
• Millersville plays four of its final five games on the road, and that stretch starts Saturday against a Lock Haven team that ranks fourth in the PSAC in passing offense. The Marauders are coming off a 38-23 loss to East Stroudsburg in which it generated its most rushing yards (226) and most yards of offense (472) of the season.
• The Millersville and Lock Haven series has been closely contested in recent years with the last six games being decided by no more than 14 points and three of the last four have been decided by seven points or fewer. Lock Haven has won three in a row including a last-minute thriller at Millersville in 2015. Trailing 28-24, Cameron Tobias led Lock Haven on a drive that covered 57 yards in 2:34 and ended with two seconds left on the clock when a tipped pass was hauled in by Del-Vaughn Dennis in the end zone.
• Millersville and Lock Haven have met just 29 times despite the series starting in 1928. The two programs did not meet from 1960-1995. Since the series resumed in 1996, Millersville leads 6-3 and has won three of four games at Hubert Jack Stadium.
• Last season,
Kevin Wiggins tied a school record with four touchdown catches against Lock Haven. In his two career games against Lock Haven, Wiggins has 18 catches for 211 yards. Wiggins has been hard to stop of late, totaling five or more catches in five of six games and three games with 99 yards or more. He's coming off a five-catch, 144-yard, three-touchdown game against East Stroudsburg.
• Throwing those three touchdowns to Wiggins was redshirt freshman quarterback
Tony Staffieri, who made his first career start in the place of an injured
J.J. Paige. Despite throwing two interceptions in the end zone, Staffieri exhibited play-making abilities, throwing for 246 yards and rushing for 162. His 408 yards of total offense were 39 shy of the school record set by Drew Folmar in 1999. The last Marauder quarterback to rush for 100 yards was Ted Stachitas in 2012, and no quarterback in the "Statcrew Era," which dates to 2002, has totaled as many rushing yards.
• Millersville's
Greg Breitbach and Lock Haven's Dave Taynor know each other well. The two worked together on the Wisconsin-Stevens Point staff. Breitbach was the offensive coordinator.
SCOUTING BY THE NUMBERS
• Millersville's offense received a spark with the running of Staffieri last week but still ranks 16th in the 16-team PSAC in rushing offense. The Marauders are ninth in passing, and top target
Kevin Wiggins is 14th in yards per game. Wiggins' 30 catches rank 13th as well, and he's tied for eighth in touchdowns.
• While Staffieri threw three touchdowns, he completed just 16-of-40 attempts. Millersville has allowed 40 sacks--16 more than any other team in the league, but Lock Haven's defense has tallied just four. Millersville has totaled more than 100 yards just twice in six games. Lock Haven's defense allows 167 yards per game on the ground.
• Lock Haven ranks 15th in the league in rushing offense but that's largely because it runs a pass-heavy system. Lock Haven is fourth in passing offense at 323.8 yards per game, and it ranks fourth in passing attemps. Quarterback Caleb Walton has 12 touchdown passes to just four interceptions. However, his 53.6 completion percentage ranks 12th out of the 16 qualifying quarterbacks. His favorite target is Shawn Seif, who leads the league in catches, yards and yards per game. Seif and Millersville's
Jarrid Satterfield make an intriguing match-up as Satterfield is among the PSAC leaders in pass breakups with eight.
TARGETS FOR TIGHT END
• Tight end
Tyler Zilen has been among the team's top targets this season. His seven catches against Bloomsburg were the most by a Marauder tight end in more than 15 seasons, and he has caught 20 passes and is second on the team with two touchdowns. Zilen has now caught 35 passes and four touchdowns in 26 career games. His 20 catches are already the most by a Marauder tight end since Chris Hemmert's 26 in 1998. 34 of Zilen's catches have come in his last 13 games.
ACTIVE BACKS
• Millersville's starting secondary has broken up 24 passes in six games.
Jarrid Satterfield leads the way with eight, ranking third in the PSAC.
• Both starting safeties,
P.J. Santos and
Kendall Marks, have recorded interceptions. Santos' 89-yard INT return against Kutztown was the longest in the PSAC this season by 20 yards. Millersville's three defensive touchdowns (two scored by linebacker
Jaleel Robinson) lead all PSAC teams. California ranks second with two.
DUGAN'S DEFENSE
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Sean Dugan is the PSAC leader in tackles per game at 10.7. He also ranks 13th in Division II. Dugan has recorded double-digit tackles in four of six games and in two in a row.
• He was named PSAC East Defensive Player of the Week after totaling a career-high 19 tackles against Seton Hill. Dugan's 19 stops were the most by a Marauder in the "Statcrew Era" (since 2002). He was one shy of the national high for the season.
• Dugan has been making plays since his redshirt freshman season. Over his last 20 games, he has piled up 21 1/2 tackles for loss and 7 sacks.
WIGGINS WATCH
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Kevin Wiggins, now a junior, has caught a pass in 27 consecutive games dating back to the start of his freshman season. Now with 118 career grabs in 27 games, Wiggins was the second-fastest to 100 catches in program history, trailing only Millersville all-time leader Sean Scott. Wiggins recently moved into seventh place on Millersville's career receptions list and sixth in career touchdowns.
• Wiggins has two 100-yard games in 2016 and three in his career.
• Wiggins ranks 10th in the PSAC in catches after tying for 11th in the PSAC in touchdowns and 20th in catches in 2015.
• Wiggins was voted the team's offensive MVP in 2015.
• Since 2001, only three wide receivers have caught 40 or more passes in two consecutive seasons. Wiggins joined Jamal Smith (2009-10) and Andy Neupauer (2003-04).
BIG BOOT
•
Evan Stahl ranks second in the PSAC in punting average at 41.7 yards per punt. In game one against Pace, he averaged 49.3 yards on six punts. He's landed five inside the 20 and has seven punts of 50 or more, which is the most of any punter in the PSAC. His 63-yarder against Pace was the second-longest of his career and his best since a 69-yard punt in 2013. The last Marauder punter averaged more than 40 yards per punt for an entire season was John Banzhof (40.8) in 2008. That averaged stands as the school record.
