EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. - East Stroudsburg relied on its running game and a smothering defense to improve earn a 27-7 Homecoming victory over Millersville Saturday afternoon. 

East Stroudsburg averaged 6.3 yards per carry on the ground, finishing with 257 yards and a pair of touchdowns from the PSAC's leading rusher, Gunner Anglovich. Anglovich entered the game averaging better than 100 yards per game and he finished Saturday with 139 yards, including an 11-yard TD run in the second quarter and a 55-yard run on the first series of the third. 

The ESU defense gave the Marauders few opportunities. Millersville ran the ball 44 times for 100 yards (2.3 per carry) and totaled just 96 yards passing. 56 of those yards came on one fourth-quarter drive from Cole Klayman. Klayman was the third Millersville quarterback to play in the game after Jared Jenkins and Anthony Butler both exited because of injuries. East Stroudsburg sacked Millersville's quarterbacks eight times. 

East Stroudsburg improved to 4-2 (2-1) while Millersville fell to 2-4 (1-2). 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Millersville held up in the red zone earlier, holding East Stroudsburg to a Devin Bartholomew 27-yard field goal in the first quarter and a 35-yard Bartholomew field goal in the middle of the second quarter. But Millersville ran three of fewer offensive plays on seven of its first nine offensive drives. Seven of the first eight drives ended in punts and the one that didn't was a third-quarter interception by ESU. 
• East Stroudsburg scored points on three consecutive first-half possessions. Following the two field goals, ESU took over on a short field and needed just two Jake Cirillo completions and an Anglovich rush to cap a 37-yard drive and take a 13-0 lead. Anglovich's second score came on the second snap of the second half. 
• At the start of the fourth quarter, Butler led a 10-play, 56-yard drive that pushed to the ESU 4. But on fourth-and-two from the fourth, Butler was stopped short of the first-down marker. The ESU offense then faced a third-and-eight from their own 4, and Rece Bender sneaked behind busted coverage and Cirillo hit him in stride for a 96-yard touchdown. 
• With 6:40 left in the game, Klayman started a drive that led to Millersville's lone touchdown. He found Cliff Harris III and Mekhi Alexander for passes of 13 and 16 yards, and freshman running back Timmy Smith had four carries for 23 yards. He put the Marauders at the ESU 24, and on second-and-six, Klayman found freshman T'iar Young for a 24-yard touchdown strike. 

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
• Redshirt freshman Jaheim Morris led Millersville with 76 yards on 17 carries (4.5). 
• Tyler Patron-Penn intercepted a pass for the second week in a row. Chase Alisauckas recorded the Marauders' lone sack. ESU's Deshawn McCarthy had 3 1/2 sacks. 

NOTES
• Millersville's Garrett Cox had a career-high 12 tackles.
• Young's fourth-quarter touchdown was the first catch and first touchdown of his career. 
• Morris totaled a career-high in rushing yards. 

UP NEXT
• Millersville hosts its own Homecoming game next Saturday, Oct. 16 against Shepherd. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m.