WEEK 6 - MILLERSVILLE VS. EAST STROUDSBURG
	Millersville Marauders Record: 1-4, 0-2 PSAC East Last Game: 21-28 L vs. Bloomsburg Coach: Greg Breitbach, 5th season Roster | Schedule | Statistics I Depth Chart
	East Stroudsburg Warriors  Record: 2-3, 1-1 PSAC East Last Game: 33-13 W vs. Cheyney Coach: Denny Douds, 44th season Roster | Schedule | Statistics I Depth Chart

 

GAME COVERAGE
Thursday, Oct. 5, 7:05 p.m. East Stroudsburg, Pa. Live Stats | Live Video Twitter | Instagram
ABOUT THE SERIES
Series vs. ESU: 25-41-1 Series Streak: ESU, 5 First Meeting: 1948 (L, 7-13) Last Meeting: 2016 (L, 23-38) Largest Margin of Victory: 34 (1997) Largest Margin of Defeat: 59 (2013) Record on the Road: 12-12 (since 1969) Most Millersville Points: 54 (1999) Most ESU Points: 66 (2013)
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
RUSHING Kobe Miranda (VILLE) 45-174, 2 TD, 3.9 YPC Jaymar Anderson (ESU) 102-520, 4 TD, 104.0 YPG PASSING Collin Shank (VILLE) 45-90, 4 TD, 3 INT, 681 yds Ben Moser (ESU) 46-94, 2 TD, 1 INT, 582 yds RECEIVING Kevin Wiggins (VILLE) 29-362, 3 TD, 72.4 YPG Tim Wilson (ESU) 23-364, 2 TD, 72.8 YPG DEFENSE Sean Dugan (VILLE) 52 tkls, 4.5 TFL, 2 sacks Dakota Everett (ESU) 51 tkls, 2.5 TFL, 1 sacks
TEAM COMPARISON
VILLE	STAT	ESU
24.0	PPG	17.4
94.4	Rush/GM	122.8
218.8	Pass/GM	168.6
313.2	Total Off	291.4
32.8	Scoring D	26.4
180.6	Rush D/GM	217.2
195.0	Pass D/GM	279.2
375.6	Total D	496.4

THE MATCH-UP
• For the fourth time in six games, Millersville is on the road, and for the third time this season, the Marauders will be playing under the lights. Millersville scored its lone win of the season on the road, beating Seton Hill 45-38 in week two. That road win snapped a streak of 23 consecutive non-Cheyney road games without a victory. Millersville is 0-2 in night games this season and is 1-9 in its last 10 night games. 
• Millersville has had three close calls this season as three losses have come by two scorers or fewer. In 2016, Millersville lost four games by 15 points or fewer. 
• Tony Staffieri returned to the lineup last week against Bloomsburg after missing all but a quarter and a half of the opener. After sitting out four-plus games, Staffieri showed little rust. He completed 18 of 32 passes for 168 yards with two touchdown passes and he also rushed for 44 yards and ran in a touchdown. Staffieri made his collegiate debut one year ago against East Stroudsburg, and what a debut it was. He totaled 408 yards of offense--coming within 39 of Drew Folmar's school record (1999). He rushed for 162 yards and threw for 246 and three scores, but he also was intercepted twice in the red zone. 
• Wide receiver Kevin Wiggins was Staffieri's favorite target in last year's meeting with ESU. He caught five passes for a career-high 144 yards and three touchdowns. In his first two match-ups against ESU, the Warriors limited Wiggins to a total of five catches for 21 yards. He has, however, totaled four career touchdowns against the Warriors.  

SCOUTING BY THE NUMBERS
• The first team to 21 may have the edge on Thursday. East Stroudsburg ranks 14th in the PSAC in scoring offense at 17.4 points per game while Millersville is 10th at 24.0 points per game. The Marauders have scored at least 20 points in four of five games. ESU has topped the 20-point mark just once, scoring 33 against East Stroudsburg. 
• The teams are evenly matched in terms of offensive production. ESU ranks 14th in total offense and Millersville ranks 13th. 
• ESU's Jaymar Anderson is one of five running backs in the PSAC averaging over 100 yards rushing per game. He is also one of only three with over 100 carries, so expect a heavy workload for Anderson again Thursday. 
• Ben Moser took over the quarterback role in week three and has not made many mistakes, throwing just one interception in 94 attempts. 
• Millersville will look to get its running game untracked Thursday. The Marauders averaged 2.3 yards per carry in the last three weeks combined. East Stroudsburg's defense ranks 15th in the PSAC against the run, allowing 5.3 yards per carry and 217.2 yards per game. Each of the last three opponents have rushed for at least 158 yards, and IUP and Shippensburg eclipsed 300 yards rushing against ESU. The ESU defense has a knack for forcing fumbles, however. It has recovered all 11 fumbles it has forced. 
• Millersville's defense has climbed to seventh in the league in total defense, allowing 375.6 yards per game. The Marauders are especially strong against the pass, ranking second in the league, allowing just 195 yards per game. ESU has had 24 passes defended this season. 
• ESU's Marquis Fells was named the PSAC East Special Teams Athlete of the Week on Monday, recording a 67-yard punt return for a touchdown and a 31-yard kick return. The Warriors returned both a kickoff and a punt for touchdown last week against Cheyney and rank second in the PSAC in punt return average this season at 18.7. 

BROADCAST INFORMATION
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• ESPN College Extra (Live TV available to AT&T Uverse, DirecTV, Bright House Networks, Cox, Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS and select NCTC  subscribers)
• WLVT 39.4 (39.4 over-the-air, Comcast 266, Comcast Princeton 136, Service Electric 112, RCN 8, Blue Ridge 153, Verizon 472,) Philadelphia/Lehigh Valley
• WHP 21.2 (21.1 over-the-air, Comcast 19, Armstrong 15, Blue Ridge 133, Nittany 99, Verizon 21, DirecTV 22) Harrisburg/Lancaster/York/Carlisle/Lebanon
• BLUE RIDGE CABLE NETWORK (BRC 113, BRC 11, BRC 13) Poconos, Eastern and Northern PA
• DELAY/REPLAY: Thursday October 5 Midnight, Friday October 6 9 am & Saturday October 7 7 am
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THE LAST MEETING (ESU 38, Millersville 23, 10/15/16)
• Tony Staffieri rushed for 162 yards and threw for 246 yards and three touchdowns in his first collegiate start, but Millersville came up empty on five separate trips into the red zone, and East Stroudsburg converted 11-of-16 third downs in topping the Marauders, 38-23.
• East Stroudsburg's (4-2, 2-1 PSAC East) 11 third-down conversions totaled 259 yards, hitting nine plays of 10 yards or more. Three of the team's five touchdowns came on third down. Millersville's offense churned out 472 yards of total offense--its most since the 2014 season opener--and picked up 23 first downs.

ABOUT THE SERIES
• The series between Millersville and East Stroudsburg dates to 1948 and the teams have played once each season since. Millersville trails the all-time series 42-25-1 and scored 19 of those 25 wins between 1972 and 2000--when Dr. Gene A. Carpenter was at the helm. Since then, Millersville is 2-14 against East Stroudsburg. However, both of those wins have come on the road. The Marauders are 12-12 at ESU since 1969. Millersville's last win against ESU came in 2011 (31-17). The magic number for the Marauders seems to be 30. Millersville has never lost (11-0) to ESU when scoring at least 30 points.
• In the last 17 meetings, ESU has averaged 37.5 points per game, and has scored at least 34 points in eight of the last nine meetings, including five in a row. 

QB PRESSURE
• Millersville has recorded six quarterback sacks in the last three games and registered a season-high three against Bloomsburg. Tommy Halloway has recorded three sacks, registering two against California and one against Kutztown. 
• Against Bloomsburg, Marcel Mingo and Cameron Boykin recorded their first career sacks while Sean Dugan recorded the ninth of his career.

TAKE IT AWAY
• After not forcing a turnover at Pace, the Millersville defense has generated 10 takeaways in the last four weeks. Millersville picked off Seton Hill three times in week two, recorded two INTs and two fumbles forced and recovered against California, forced and recovered a fumble against Kutztown, and forced and recovered two fumbles against Bloomsburg. Millersville has successfully recovered each of the last five fumbles it has forced. Millersville is ninth in the PSAC in interceptions.
• Brendan Sherman's interception return for touchdown against Seton Hill was his first career INT and first career touchdown. All five of Millersville's interceptions have been made by different players. 
• Against Bloomsburg, Sean Dugan returned a fumble 50 yards. 

MINIMIZE THE MISCUES
• After committing nine turnovers in the first four games, Millersville has gone back-to-back games without with just one turnover total and did not commit a turnover against Kutztown. Since 2013, Millersville is 6-11 when not throwing an interception. In that span, Millersville has won only one game in which it did not throw an interception. 

BREAKING IT UP
• Millersville has broken up 17 passes in five games and has 22 passes defended. The team broke up seven passes against Kutztown. Brendan Sherman recorded three of those break ups himself. Jarrid Satterfield broke up eight passes in just six games in 2016 and has three break ups through five games this season. Jhet Janis and Colin Suhr has three passes defended with one INT. It has been a full team effort with 11 different players defending a pass. 

NO LUCK AT QUARTERBACK
• Only five games into the season and already three players have taken snaps at quarterback for the Marauders. Millersville has had three different quarterbacks start and no player has played two full games in a row. Unfortunately for Millersville, the quarterback position has not been its most stable over the last six-plus seasons. Since Bill Shirk graduated in 2010 with 30 career starts, Millersville has seen 14 players play the position. Only Dan Miller (10), Matt Misley (10) and J.J. Paige (10) have double-digit starts in that span. Each season since 2011, Millersville has had at least two players attempt at least 50 passes. And in 2010, three different players attempted at least 26 passes. So far in 2017, three three QB's have combined to complete 54.6 percent of passes with six interceptions and eight touchdowns. The trio  has also rushed for 166 yards and six touchdowns. Shank accounted for four passing TDs, four rushing TDs, three INTs and 681 of the 926 passing yards. 

DUGAN ON DEFENSE
• Dugan opened his 2017 season right where he left off in 2016, totaling 10 tackles against Pace and following that effort with a career-high 21 tackles against Seton Hill. IIn his last 15 games, Dugan has recorded double-digit tackles eight times. Dugan has also recorded at least one TFL in eight of the last nine games, and he has 32 TFL in his last 30 games played.
• Dugan now ranks 21st in Division II in tackles with 52 and he has at least eight tackles in four of five games this season. He is third among PSAC players. 
• With 153 career solo tackles, Dugan ranks eighth in Millersville history. 
• Dugan was named PSAC East Defensive Player of the Week following the Seton Hill game. It was the second time in his career he won the award. Both awards came after playing Seton Hill.
• In 2016, Dugan's 19 tackles against Seton Hill were the most tackles by a Marauder in the Statcrew Era dating back to 2002. He topped that mark with 21 in week two of 2017.
• Dugan's 111 tackles were the most by a Marauder since 1999 and his 69 solo tackles were the most since 1996.

WIGGINS WATCH
• Kevin Wiggins has caught a pass in 37 consecutive games dating back to the start of his freshman season. Now with 162 career grabs in 37 games, Wiggins ranks fourth in career receptions, fifth in touchdowns (21) and fifth in career yards (2,045). He is one of just six Marauders to ever eclipse the 2,000-yard mark. He is two touchdown catches shy of Kevin Gannon for fourth and eight shy of Sean Scott's school record.
• With 29 catches, Wiggins is tied for fifth in the PSAC in receptions. If he maintains his current pace of 5.8 catches per game, he will finish the season with 64 catches which would rank fifth all-time in a single season and would put him close to becoming the third Millersville player ever to reach 200 career catches. 
• Wiggins was named All-PSAC East Second Team in 2016, becoming Millersville's first all-conference wide receiver since Jamal Smith in 2010.
• Wiggins is the first Marauder since hall of famer Mike McFetridge (1996-98) to lead the team in receiving in three consecutive seasons and one of only two players ever to record 40-plus catches in each of his first three seasons.
• Wiggins has ranked in the top 25 in the PSAC in catches each of his three seasons.

RELIABILITY
• Since making his debut in week one of the 2014 season, Drew Seaburg has started 38 consecutive games on the defensive line. Only eight players in the PSAC entered 2017 with 30 career starts, and only Slippery Rock's Marcus Martin has more (42) career starts than Seaburg. Kevin Wiggins, with 37 career starts, is tied for fourth with Lock Haven's Trent Fielding and West Chester's Vince Lostracco. Wiggins and IUP's Jay Watkins (CB) are the only non-lineman with 30 or more starts.

EXPERIENCE UP FRONT
• There is no shortage of game experience for the Marauders on the defensive line. Among returning players listed on the depth chart, Logan Kinser (38), Drew Seaburg (38), Tanner Dean (37), Morgan Faughnan (27) and Tommy Halloway (16) have combined for 156 games played.