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The Huskies will be holding their annual THINK PINK game on Saturday. All fans are encouraged to wear Pink to the game in support of breast cancer awareness.

QUICK SIX
• The Huskies are 2-0 on the road this season and 0-2 at home.

• Bloomsburg has yet to score more than 20 points in a game through the first four games of the season.

• Freshman Alex Gooden (Parkesburg/Octorara) topped 100 yards rushing for the first time in his career when he gained 107 yards on nine carries against Shippensburg.

• Bloomsburg has 50-11 when rushing for more than 100 yards since 2009.

• Bloomsburg is 30-9 on the road since the 2009 season.

• The Huskies have recorded a sack in 25 of the last 29 games under Paul Darragh.

LAST WEEK

Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, NY/Thomas R. Proctor) rushed for 157 yards and one score and freshman Alex Gooden (Parkesburg/Octorara) added a career-high 107 yards rushing to lead Bloomsburg to a 17-6 win over Shippensburg at Seth Grove Stadium. The Huskies improved to 2-0 on the road this season, while having dropped both of their home games. As a team the Huskies gained 352 yards on the ground and had a season-best 482 yards of total offense. Mark Collins and Toomey led the defense with eight tackles each.

The Wolves lost to Kutztown, 34-0, last week. After trailing just 6-0 at the break it was all Kutztown in the second half as the Golden Bears scored 28 unanswered points.  KU scored on their first two possessions of the third quarter to take a 20-0 lead.  The Golden Bears also posted touchdowns on their first two possession of the fourth quarter.

SERIES HISTORY
Bloomsburg leads the all-time series with Cheyney, 45-9-1 and have won 25 straight games in the series. The Huskies won last year at Cheyney, 41-7, The Wolves last win in the series was in 1989 by a 31-28 score. All-time the Huskies are 22-5 at home and 23-4-1 on the road against Cheyney. The only tie in the series occurred in 1964, 7-7.

Series Record: BU Leads: 45-9-1
Streak: BU won last year 41-7 at Cheyney
First Meeting: 1960
Last BU win: 2014; 41-7
Last CU win: 1989: 31-28
Largest BU win: 2004, 69-0
Largest CU win: 1974: 29-0

NOTES

2015 CAPTAINS
The captains for the 2015 season are Tim Kelly (Camp Hill/Cedar Cliff) (Camp Hill/Cedar Cliff) and Ryan Geiger (Southampton/La Salle) (Southampton/La Salle) again taking captaincy along with Gary Postell (Philadelphia/Bishop McDevitt)(Philadelphia/Bishop McDevitt) and Donovan Morris (Philadelphia/George Washington) (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. He also ranks fourth all-time in Huskies career passing yards with 5,955 and is fourth in touchdown passes with 50.
 
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.

FROM THE ARCHIVES With Robert Dunkelberger
The 61 points Bloomsburg has scored in its first four games are the fewest since the 1990 team scored 29, all losses, as opposed to a .500 mark this season.
 
Saturday's total of 352 yards rushing was the 64th time in the last 20 years the Huskies have surpassed the 300-yard mark. The 17 points scored however tied for the fewest in one of those games, equaling the 17 at Lock Haven in 1997. That game Bloomsburg rushed for 326 yards.  The previous low in points scored for a game in which the team rushed for more than 350 yards was 34 at East Stroudsburg in 2001.
 
The 2015 team has two road wins and two home losses in the first four games of the year. This is the first time that has happened in school history covering 117 previous seasons.
 
Bloomsburg has lost two consecutive games at home for the first time since 2009. The last time the team lost three home games in a season was in 1999 and three straight at home in 1993.
 
The Huskies have scored fewer than seven points in the first half of each of their games this season and have a record of 2-2 in those games. In the prior 22 seasons from 1993 to 2014 the Huskies did this 31 times with a record of 9-22. The most consecutive games prior to this year dating back to 1993 that so few points were scored was two and the most in one season five in 1993. They have also not scored more than 20 points in four consecutive games, the first time that has been done since the 1992 team went five straight scoring 20 or less, all losses.

FINALLY SOME FIRST QUARTER POINTS
The Huskies finally broke through into the scoring column in the first period of a game this season when Tyler Smith (Gettysburg/Gettysburg) kicked a field goal against Shippensburg. Before that the Huskies only had a pair of second quarter field goals.

DRIVING STATS
Bloomsburg has put together two, 80-yard scoring drives this season, both resulting in touchdowns. The Huskies scoring drive with the most plays was a 13-play, 50 drive against California which resulted in a field goal. The shortest scoring drive by plays was a two-play, 37-yard drive for a TD against Shippensburg, while the shortest scoring drive by yards was a 20-yard drive (four plays) against Mercyhurst. Six of the team's last seven scoring drives have resulted in TD's.

DEFENSE GETTING STINGY
Going back over the last three games the Bloomsburg University defense has allowed just three points, a fourth quarter field goal to Shippensburg, to its opponents.  Otherwise opponents are scoreless against Bloomsburg in the second half of the last three games.

WAGNER NAMED PSAC EAST SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
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, the Huskies scored the game-clinching TD.

WETTY NAMED PSAC EAST DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Joe Wetty (Downingtown/Downingtown East) (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 totalled just 8:10 in the second half.

LEADING THE PSAC
As has been the case for much of the past decade a Bloomsburg University rusher sits on top of the PSAC rushing leaders. Lawrence Elliott Jr. (Utica, NY/Thomas R. Proctor) is the latest in a long line of BU backs to be ranked number one in rushing in the PSAC. Through four games Elliott Jr. is averaging 112.8 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.

FRESHMAN DOES WELL
Alex Gooden (Parkesburg/Octorara)'s 107 yards rushing against Shippensburg was easily a career-high for the true freshman. His only other game carrying the ball was against Stonehill when he finished with 23 yards on six carries.

BIG DAY FOR ELLIOTT JR. AGAINST CAL
It was a big day for Lawrence Elliott Jr who rushed for a career-high 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.

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 32-9 career record with his 32 victories being the most among active Super Region One quarterbacks. He continues to climb up in the Huskies record books – as he ranks  fourth all-time in BU history with 6,441 yards passing. His 51 career touchdown passes are also fourth in school history with Glen McNamee's 57 next in line.

COMEBACK KIDS
The last four times 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 19-0 under head coach Paul Darragh when leading at halftime and 20-0 when leading after three quarters.