COMPLETE GAME NOTES
Bloomsburg-East Stroudsburg Game Notes

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BLOOMSBURG: Roster  |  Schedule |  2015 Stats
EAST STROUDSBURG: Roster |  Schedule | 2015 Stats

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QUICK HITTERS
• Bloomsburg held West Chester to 74 yards rushing on Saturday, the fifth time this year the team has held an opponent to less than 100 yards on the ground.

• The Huskies held a slim 20-second advantage in time of possession on Saturday against West Chester. It was the sixth time this season the Huskies have had the edge in time of possession.

• Bloomsburg is 53-11 when rushing for more than 100 yards as a team since 2009.

• Bloomsburg is 31-10 on the road since the 2009 season.

• The Huskies have recorded a sack in 28 of the 33 games under Paul Darragh.

LAST WEEK FOR BOTH TEAMS
 After trailing 19-0 in the first quarter, the Bloomsburg University football team rallied and took a fourth period lead, 22-19. However, the West Chester Golden Rams scored two late touchdowns to come back and post a 33-22 win over the Huskies in West Chester on Saturday in a PSAC Eastern Division matchup. Defensively Donovan Morris (Philadelphia/George Washington)  had a big game with 14 tackles, 11 solo, with one forced fumble, while Garrett Pope (Northumberland/Shikellamy) had nine tackles. Bloomsburg's defense limited the Golden Rams to just 255 yards of offense. Tim Kelly (Camp Hill/Cedar Cliff) finished with 106 passing yards with Joe Parsnik (Wilkes-Barre/Coughlin) gaining 55 yards on the ground for Bloomsburg.

Kutztown jumped out to 21-0 lead after the first quarter on its way to a 63-17 win over East Stroudsburg University in PSAC East football on Saturday afternoon. Chad Barton was 26-for-36 for 321 yards, four touchdowns and one interception and Kutztown (4-4, 3-2) ran for 301 yards on 33 carries. For the Warriors, redshirt senior quarterback Matt Soltes was 23-for-48 for 322 yards and one touchdown, and redshirt senior wide receiver Jon Schnaars had 10 catches for 147 yards and a TD for ESU (4-4, 3-2).

SERIES HISTORY
The upcoming game with East Stroudsburg is the 87th in the series between the two
schools, dating back to the first meeting in 1907.  Bloomsburg's record in the previous 86 games is 41-43-2, with a mark of 21-22-1 at home, 20-19-1 on the road, and 0-2 at a neutral site.  Since 1994, however, the Huskies are 19-3 versus the Warriors and have won nine consecutive games in the series. The Huskies last loss in the series was a 52-39 loss in the NCAA playoffs in 2005. East Stroudsburg's longest winning streak in the series was 11 from 1973 to 1983.

Series Record: ESU Leads: 43-41-2
Streak: BU, Nine Straight
First Meeting: 1907
Last BU win: 2014; 34-13
Last ESU win: 2005: 52-39 (NCAA playoffs)
Largest BU win: 2000: 28-0 (modern era); 41-0 in 1913
Largest ESU win: 1980: 70-15

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• 6 - The number of Bloomsburg players who have scored their first career points this season (Lamont Veal (Upper Darby/Cardinal O'Hara), Alex Gooden (Parkesburg/Octorara), Wade Mastrog (Chester Springs/Downingtown East), Eric McCracken (Bloomsburg/Central Columbia), Nate Hoenl (Whitehall/Whitehall), Ryan Abbott (Hagerstown, MD/Saint James School)).

• 17.5- Points per game allowed by the Huskies, number one in the PSAC.

• 16 - The Huskies have recorded 16 straight winning seasons with seven wins or more each of those seasons.

• 21- The number of consecutive times the Huskies have scored inside the red-zone this season dating back the previous five games.

• 90.3 - The percentage for the Huskies scoring in the red zone this season (28 of 31).

• 97 - Number of rushing yards needed by Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, NY/Thomas R. Proctor) to reach 1,000 for the season. He would be the ninth BU running back to surpass 1,000 yards in a season since 1993.

• .771 - BU has compiled a .771 overall winning percentage in 18 seasons with head coach Paul Darragh on staff.

• 1,000 - Bloomsburg has had a 1,000-yard rusher in 13 out of the last 15 seasons.

FROM THE ARCHIVES With Robert Dunkelberger
Bloomsburg's loss on Saturday was by the unique score of 33-22. In the 1047 games played thus far in school history it was only the second time that score has been reached.  At Homecoming in 1989, the Huskies defeated Millersville, 33-22.  This game also marked only the 10th time in history that Bloomsburg scored 22 points in a game, the last being a 22-0 win at Wayne State in 1997.  The record in the previous nine was 7-2, with the only losses to East Stroudsburg and Lock Haven in 1970 and 1972.  It was the 11th time the team has surrendered 33 points in a game.  Its record in the previous 10 games was 1-9, the only victory coming at Kutztown in 1999 by a score of 42-33.
 
The Huskies have lost three regular season games for the first time since 2009, when the team won eight straight before losing the final three.  Bloomsburg is now 5-3 after eight games for the first time since 2007, when it won its last two to finish 7-3.
 
The game this Saturday will be the 15th time Bloomsburg has played a football game on Halloween, the first in 1903.  Its record in the previous 14 is 6-8, with a record of 4-4 at home and 2-4 on the road.  The two road victories were 14-12 at New Haven in 1953 and 24-23 at Slippery Rock in 1987.  The Huskies record with East Stroudsburg is 1-1 in two home games, losing 7-0 in 1959 and winning 50-39 in 1998.

SHORTS
• In the Huskies current nine game winning streak against the Warriors, Bloomsburg has scored over 30 points seven times; more than 40 points three times and more than 50 points, once.

• The Huskies are second in the PSAC in fewest first downs allowed with opponents averaging just 16.1 a game.

• Bloomsburg leads the PSAC in total defense allowing 300.4 yards per game.

• The 19 points scored in the first period by West Chester were the most points scored in quarter against the Huskies since allowing 20 to Shippensburg on Sept. 27, 2014.

• With 106 yards passing against West Chester, Tim Kelly (Camp Hill/Cedar Cliff) became just the third quarterback in school history to surpass 7,000 career passing yards (7,059).

• Placekicker Tyler Smith (Gettysburg/Gettysburg) connected on a career-long 47-yard field goal in the game with Millersville.

• Since 1993 the Huskies have 227 individual, 100-yard rushing performances.

• 27 of the Huskies last 30 scoring drives have resulted in touchdowns.

STINGY DEFENSE
Earlier this season the Bloomsburg defense limited Cheyney to just 62 total yards of offense, including 17 through the air. The total offense figure was the fourth least in a single game since 1993.  The only lower totals were 24 versus Wayne State in 1996 and 55 for Cheyney and 65 for Lock Haven, both in 2004.  The 17 yards passing allowed tied for the fourth lowest, after nine for Kutztown in 1997, 16 for both Cheyney and Lock Haven in the 2004 games, and 17 versus Mansfield in 2006.

The Huskies defense has recorded a shutout in back-to-back seasons.  This is the first time that has been done in a decade since the 2004 and 2005 teams combined for six shutouts in those two years.

CLIMBING THE LADDER
Paul Darragh now has 26 victories in his first 33 games as head coach, the second highest total in school history behind Robert Redman's 27.  The only other coaches to win at least 20 times in their first 30 games were Pete Adrian with 22 and Jack Yohe with 21.

OFFENSE MAKING SOME NOISE
The 63 points scored by the Huskies against Cheyney was two more than Bloomsburg had combined to score in the first four games of the season. The 63 points were the most scored by the team since scoring 61 points against Kutztown in 2010.

GETTING ON THE BOARD EARLY
Bloomsburg didn't score its first, first quarter touchdown of the year in a game until it faced Cheyney. In the game with the Wolves the Huskies put up two touchdowns in the opening 15 minutes.

FIRST CAREER TOUCHDOWNS
Three players scored their first career touchdowns in the win over Cheyney. Eric McCracken (Bloomsburg/Central Columbia), Wade Mastrog (Chester Springs/Downingtown East) and Lamont Veal (Upper Darby/Cardinal O'Hara) all reached the end zone for the first time as a collegiate player. Quarterback Chris Palubinsky (Ringtown/Shenandoah Valley) also threw his first career TD pass when he connected with Veal on a score. Also, kicker Ryan Abbott (Hagerstown, MD/Saint James School) connected on his first career extra point.

DRIVING STATS
So far in 2015 Bloomsburg has produced seven scoring drives of 10 or more plays, the longest being a 13-play, 50-yard drive against Cal that resulted in a field goal. The Huskies also have seven drives of 80 or more yards with the longest being a 95-yard, seven play drive against Cheyney. In the game with West Chester the Huskies had a 93-yard scoring drive, while against Kutztown the Huskies had scoring drives of 81 and 87 yards, the only game this season with more than one 80 or more yard scoring drive. In terms of time, the Huskies longest drive was 6:18 against Millersville resulting in a touchdown.

WAGNER NAMED PSAC EAST SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK (9/26)
Will Wagner (Wernersville/Conrad Weiser) was named the PSAC (Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference) Eastern Division Special Teams Player of the Week for his play in week four of the season. Against Shippensburg Wagner punted four times for an average of 38 yards with three of his punts going inside the 20-yard line. His last punt pinned the Red Raiders inside their five-yard line. After a three and out and a short SU punt, BU scored the game-clinching TD.

WETTY NAMED PSAC EAST DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK (9/12)
Joe Wetty (Downingtown/Downingtown East) was the week two PSAC (Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference) Eastern Division Defensive Player of the Week. Wetty helped the Huskies rally from a 13-0 deficit to post a 20-13 win. The redshirt junior made six tackles on the day, five of them solo, including three sacks for 22 yards in losses. Two of his three sacks came in the fourth quarter. One was a three-yard loss on fourth down which ended a drive. The second was on Cal's last possession for a 12-yard loss which pushed the Vulcans back deep in their own territory.

A TALE OF TWO HALVES VERSUS CALIFORNIA
After allowing 243 yards of total offense to the Vulcans in the first half of their week two matchup, the Huskies defense stepped up and made a big turnaround in the second half. Bloomsburg gave up just 115 yards of total offense and no points to Cal in the second 30 minutes. Cal had 12 first half first downs and just five in the second half. In time of possession the Vulcans had the ball for just 8:10 in the second half.

AMONG THE LEADERS
The Huskies rushing attack has been among the best in the PSAC for many years. This year the Huskies Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, NY/Thomas R. Proctor) is fourth in the PSAC in rushing yards per game with 112.9 yards per game.

TWICE AS NICE
When Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, NY/Thomas R. Proctor)  (157) and Alex Gooden (Parkesburg/Octorara) (107) both rushed for 100 yards against Shippensburg it marked the sixth time under coach Paul Darragh that a pair of BU backs both rushed for more than 100 yards in a game.

CAREER DAY FOR GOODEN
Against Cheyney Gooden gained 128 yards and scored one TD a week after gaining 107 yards against Shippensburg.

BIG DAY FOR ELLIOTT JR. AGAINST CAL
It was a big day for Lawrence Elliott Jr who rushed for 166 yards and one score against Cal. Ellliott, who had just 28 yards in the Huskies opener versus Stonehill, had 70 yards at the half, including a 53-yard run to set up a field goal. In the second half he gained 96 yards and scored the game winner TD on a 24-yard run with 2:40 to play. It was his first career 100-yard game.

KELLY UNDER CENTER
Senior quarterback Tim Kelly (Camp Hill/Cedar Cliff) has been tremendously successful over his first three years as the starter, posting a 34-10 career record with his 34 victories being the most among active Super Region One quarterbacks. He continues to climb up in the Huskies record books – as he ranks third all-time in BU history with 7,059 yards passing. His 54 career touchdown passes are fourth in school history with Glen McNamee's 57 next in line.

REBOUNDING FROM LOSS
The last four times that the Huskies dropped their season opening game the team went on to have a successful season. In 2010 the team went 10-3 reaching the NCAA playoffs; while in 2006 the Huskies posted a mark of 12-2 and reached the NCAA semifinals. In 2002 the team rebounded by going 8-2. In 2000 the Huskies started 0-2, but came back and reached the NCAA title game, while in 1999 the Huskies put up a mark of 7-4.

SEEKING A THREE-PEAT
Bloomsburg has won the PSAC East title in each of the past two years and will look to win the division for a third consecutive year this fall. The Huskies have accomplished that feat multiple times, winning four division championships in a row from 1994-97 and again from 2000-03. The 2013 and 2014 seasons represent the fifth time that the program has won the East in back-to-back seasons – 1984-85; 1994-97; 2000-03; 2005-06; 2013-14.

GEIGER NAMED PRESEASON ALL-AMERICAN
Senior center Ryan Geiger (Southampton/La Salle) was tabbed a preseason All-American by The Sporting News. Geiger, a captain for the second year in a row, has started every game over the past two seasons. He moved to center last year from left guard and was named All-PSAC East as well as First Team Daktronics All-Super Region 1. Geiger helped the Huskies to over 223 yards per game on the ground in 2014 while he and his offensive line mates surrendered a PSAC-low six sacks.

SCORE FIRST AND WIN
Bloomsburg has never lost when scoring first under head coach Paul Darragh - the Huskies are 15-0 when scoring first during the Darragh Era.

PUTTING UP THE POINTS
The Huskies are 111-3 when scoring 40 points all-time. Bloomsburg tied the school record of seven games with 40+points in 2013 (2005, 2007, 2012, 2013).

CLOSING THE DEAL
The Huskies are 20-0 under head coach Paul Darragh when leading at halftime and 20-0 when leading after three quarters.

2015 CAPTAINS
The captains for the 2015 season are Tim Kelly (Camp Hill/Cedar Cliff) and Ryan Geiger (Southampton/La Salle) again taking captaincy along with Gary Postell (Philadelphia/Bishop McDevitt) and Donovan Morris (Philadelphia/George Washington).
 
It will mark the second season for Kelly and Geiger as captains while Morris and Postell have been elected to the positions for the first time. A three-year starter at quarterback, Kelly has led the Huskies to a 30-6 record in 36 starts going into the season.
 
Geiger was named first team All-PSAC East and first team Daktronics All-Super Region 1 after moving to center from guard this past season.
 
Postell has earned all-conference honors the past two seasons including a first team nod in 2014. He has accumulated 161 career tackles with four forced fumbles in three seasons as a starter at cornerback.
 
Morris earned a spot on the All-PSAC East Second Team last year after starting all 13 games at safety and finishing with 65 tackles, 10 pass deflections and a team-high five interceptions.