Bloomsburg survives last second scare from Marauders

Saturday, October 24

Bloomsburg, PA

2:00 PM

Millersville University

0-8 , 0-6

Bloomsburg

6-2 , 3-1

Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Final F
Millersville	0	7	7	0	14
Bloomsburg	7	13	0	0	20

10/24/2026 5:11:00 PM | Football

Box Score

By: Ethan Hulsey, Director of Athletic Communications

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – Millersville put a serious scare into the Bloomsburg on Saturday, but Eddie Corkery's last second toss to the end zone landed incomplete, and the Huskies survived for a 20-14 Homecoming win.

Millersville blanked Bloomsburg in the second half but could not find the scoring play it needed down the stretch against the PSAC's second ranked defense. Wide receiver Caileb Howse had a hand in both of Millersville's scores, throwing a 64-yard touchdown pass to Nakhi Bullock to even the score at 7-7 in the second quarter, and he caught a one-yard pass from Tommy Hunsicker in the third that pulled the Marauders within a score.

The loss was Millersville's fourth this season by seven points or fewer, and victory for the Marauders seemed one play away on several occasions. Bloomsburg nearly ran out the final five minutes of clock with its deliberate running game, but on fourth-and-one from the 19, Declan Clancy ran into a wall led by Damonte Foreman, giving Millersville one last shot.

With no timeouts remaining and just 29 seconds to work with, Millersville faced a tall task. Hunsicker's first down pass fell incomplete. On second down, Hunsicker evaded pressure, rolled to his right, and just a step in bounds, he floated a pass down the sideline to Kyreek Bradshaw who sprinted to the Bloomsburg 23 before being pushed out of bounds with nine seconds on the clock. Hunsicker, under pressure on first down, took a shot at the end zone on first down but it missed out of bounds. Only three seconds remained, and Corkery, run onto the field to take the final snap, heaved a pass into a crowd in the left corner on the end zone. It was broken up by a Bloomsburg defender with time expired.

"The kids never gave up," said Millersville head coach Drew Folmar. "They got the fourth down stop, got the ball back and gave us a shot. We generated an explosive play and got two cracks at the end zone, which is all you can ask for in a game like that. At the end, we went through the end of game calls that we prepare for during the week, and just came up short. But the players keep playing for 60 minutes."

With Bloomsburg bent on running the ball and shortening the game with a 20-7 halftime lead, Millersville's offensive opportunities were few. The Marauders had one drive in the third quarter that consumed 7:08 off the clock and resulted in Howse's TD catch. Bloomsburg responded by draining more than eight minutes off the clock before Kai Stiansen recovered a Justin Wolfe fumble at the Millersville 9 with 14 minutes remaining. With a chance to take the lead, Millersville picked up four first downs and pushed into Bloomsburg territory. The drive stalled, and on fourth-and-four from the 35, Millersville rolled Hunsicker to his right with a run-pass option. Hunsicker elected to keep and his lunge forward was stopped less than a yard from the marker. Bloomsburg then ran 12 plays, taking five minutes off the clock before Foreman's fourth down stop. Earlier in the drive, a Foreman sack of Zayd Etheridge had the Huskies looking at third-and-10, but a pass interference call on the next snap extended the drive, forcing Millersville to burn its timeouts.

In a game decided by one score, those were among the missed opportunities Millersville had. Late in the second quarter, trailing 14-7, Millersville drove from their own 18 to the Bloomsburg 11 before Hunsicker was sacked on third down. The Marauders missed a 39-yard field goal try, and Bloomsburg capitalized. The Huskies raced downfield using four Etheridge completions, and Coyle's four-yard TD run capped an opportunistic scoring drive with nine second remaining in the half.

"There is no doubt that this one was about one or two plays and missed opportunities," said Folmar. "We knew coming in that Bloomsburg held the ball for 42 minutes against Shepherd, so we had to be efficient and aggressive on offense and score touchdowns when we had chances. There will be a time we do take advantage of those opportunities, and that's going to be the difference. We are going to get over the hump, and it will be one or two of those plays that does it. We just couldn't get that one more play today."

Bloomsburg finished with 360 yards on 64 snaps while Millersville totaled 247 on 56 snaps—just under Bloomsburg's average of 266.6 yards per game allowed. Bloomsburg entered the game as the PSAC's No. 2 run defense, allowing fewer than 3.0 yards per carry, and it bottled up Millersville. Mekhi Ashby totaled 60 yards on 21 carries. Hunsicker also had 10 carries and finished with nine yards factoring in lost yards from sacks. Howse led the Marauders with four catches. Nakhi Bullock's 64-yard catch from Howse was one of his two receptions. Hunsicker went 12 for 20 for 118 yards while throwing one touchdown and one interception.

Bryce Beutler led Millersville's defense with 10 stops. Foreman and Toni Vazquez both recorded sacks.

"I told the team today that the fight they are putting forth is laying the foundation for the future," said Folmar. "They are giving it their all, especially for the seniors. When we do get over the hump, it is going to feel that much better and these guys will know, looking back five, 10 years from now that they were the start of making it better. It stings today, and it hurts to know you are right there, but we know where we are and know what we need to do, and we are learning what we need to do. We are right at the tip of it."

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Millersville travels to Lackawanna on Oct. 31 for the first ever meeting between the programs.