The Lock Haven University football team returns home this Saturday (Nov. 10) to close out the 2012 season vs. Cheyney. It marks just the 16th meeting between the two schools, that will meet annually starting in 2013 when LHU moves to the PSAC's Eastern Division. Cheyney won the last meeting between the two schools, 30-19 in 2007.
Full Game Notes (PDF)
Week #11
Cheyney (1-9, 0-7 PSAC East) at Lock Haven (0-10, 0-7 PSAC West)
2012 season finale / Bald Eagles Senior Day
PSAC Standings: Cheyney, 8th (East) / Lock Haven, 8th (West)
1 p.m. kickoff / Hubert Jack Stadium (3,000 / Artificial Turf)
Setting the stage:
Following a 35-7 loss at Slippery Rock last week, Lock Haven returns home to close out the season with PSAC East foe Cheyney. Saturday marks just the 16th meeting between the two schools and first since 2007.
Saturday also marks Senior Day as the Bald Eagles will honor 13 special student-athletes.
The Bald Eagles will be looking to snap a 52-game losing skid and pick up their first win since the 2007 season finale.
Cheyney is coming of a 61-9 loss to No. 7 Shippensburg and the Wolves went winless in PSAC East action this year.
The series:
Lock Haven leads the all-time series 14-1 with Cheyney's only win coming the last time the two schools met in 2007, 30-19.
Watch/Listen/Live Stats:
Live Video - The game will be streamed at the following link (Joe Vitale, play-by-play / Andre Brown, analyst)
http://mediasite.lhup.edu/Mediasite51/Viewer/?peid=4a69ecbef0084368b60d615e8ea967ab1d
Live Stats –
http://www.sidearmstats.com/lhup/football/xlive.htm
Live Audio – Fans can listen locally on AM 1230 WBPZ (John Lipez, play-by-play / Tom Elling, analyst). Click here to listen.
http://tunein.com/radio/WBPZ-1230-s27572/
Live Audio – ESPN Williamsport will also broadcast the game. Fans can listen locally on Y106.9 (Joe Putnam, play-by-play / Doug Byerly, analyst).
Click here to listen.
LHU storylines, streaks and sidebars:
• Saturday is Lock Haven's 2012 season-finale and Senior Day.
• LHU will honor 13 seniors.
• It is just the 16th meeting between LHU and Cheyney. The two schools will beginning to play annual starting in 2013 as Lock Haven moves to the PSAC Eastern Division.
• Lock Haven dropped a PSAC West clash at Slippery Rock last Saturday, 35-7.
• The loss to SRU marked the 52nd straight loss for The Haven. The 52 straight losses are the most in Division II history and it marks the longest active losing streak in college football.
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Brandon Brader carried the ball 25 times for 62 yards. Coming into the game, Brader needed just four yards to move into sole possession of eighth-place on Lock Haven's all-time career rushing list. He's now just 134 away from seventh.
• The Lock Haven defense recorded a two-interception game for the third straight week. The Bald Eagles only had three INTs all of last year. The Haven now has nine on the year, the most since the 2007 season (14).
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James Goins and
Tashawn Bunch led LHU with eight and six tackles, respectively. George Christas and
Derrick Watkins each had an interception.
• Lock Haven's last win came in the 2007 season-finale at Clarion (17-14, OT).
• Goins and Christas lead the team in tackles on the year with 64 and 59, respectively.
Ryan Good has 57.
• Senior QB
Jarrett Kratzer made his 23rd career start last week. He's averaging 145.3 yards/game and has six TD passes.
• Brader is second on the team with 20 catches.
• WR
Jesse Hoover leads all receivers with three TD catches.
• WR and Lock Haven native
Frankie Probst caught his first career TD pass last weekend at SRU.
• Last week Lock Haven was featured by YAHOO! SPORTS in a segment called, “The Road to Saturday.”
Haven honors seniors:
Lock Haven will honor 13 senior student-athletes prior to kickoff on Saturday.
Keith Dockery
Noah Heimer
Jarrett Kratzer
Ian Smith
Zach Pitkin
James Goins
Kurt Ledebur
Mike Holland
Skyler Wool
Jonathan Engroff
James Goins
Cheyney at a glance:
QB Blaze Wasserleben leads the way for the Wolves. He averages 49.9 yds./game on the ground (3 TDs) and 60 yds/game through the air (4 TDs). Running back Marcus Jones averages 65.9 yds./game on the ground and has two TDs.
Defensively, Cheyney is led by Isaihah Fleming, who has 94 tackles. He had 15 last week in the loss to Shippensburg.
Brader 8th all-time in career rushing yards:
Brandon Brader carried the ball 25 times for 62 yards at Slippery Rock, which was all he needed to further etch his name into the LHU record books. Coming into the game, Brader needed just four yards to move into sole possession of eighth-place on Lock Haven's all-time career rushing list. He's now just 134 away from seventh.
Last time out (11/3/12):
The Lock Haven University football team dropped a PSAC West clash on the road last Saturday at Slippery Rock, 35-7.
SRU (6-4, 5-2 PSAC West) jumped out to a 28-0 lead just 8:35 into the game, paving the way for the win.
Lock Haven (0-10, 0-7 PSAC West) put its only points on the board when
Frankie Probst caught his first career TD pass. Probst hauled in a 19-yard pass from quarterback
Jarrett Kratzer. The TD made it 28-7, SRU.
Kratzer passed for 155 yards and the Probst touchdown capped off an eight-play, 80-yard drive.
Slippery Rock quarterback Nigel Barksdale was the game's biggest story. With 6:25 left in the first quarter, he already had four TD passes. He finished the game with a 178 yards passing and accounted for all five Rock touchdowns. Barksdale rushed for a TD in the second quarter.
Brandon Brader carried the ball 25 times for 62 yards.
The Lock Haven defense recorded a two-interception game for the third straight week. The Bald Eagles only had three INTs all of last year. The Haven now has nine on the year, the most since the 2007 season (14).
James Goins and
Tashawn Bunch led LHU with eight and six tackles, respectively. George Christas and
Derrick Watkins each had an interception.
Allen's second year as head coach:
2012 marks the second season for head coach
John Allen. The 1996 James Madison graduate was no stranger to LHU when he took over the program in March 2011, as he was previously on the Bald Eagle coaching staff as an assistant from 1996-2003. While at LHU, he assisted in all phases of the game including wide receivers and special teams' coordinator (1996-99), defensive backs coach and recruiting coordinator (1999), offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach (2000-03). Allen served as the head coach of NFL Europes Berlin Thunder in 2007 and prior to coming to LHU he was the coordinator for player development at Penn State.
Heading East:
The PSAC announced earlier this week at Lock Haven is moving to the Eastern Division for the 2013-14 academic year.
Lock Haven will join the PSAC East for football, men's and women's basketball, baseball and softball. The Haven volleyball team began playing in the Eastern Division in 2008 and will remain in the East as the league moves forward following the addition of two schools in August.
In August, the PSAC announced that the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and Seton Hill University accepted invitations to join the league at the start of the 2013-14 season.
Located approximately 50 miles apart in Southwestern, Pennsylvania, both Pitt-Johnstown and Seton Hill will play in the PSAC West.
