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KUTZTOWN, Pa. – Junior quarterback Zach Zulli and sophomore wide receiver Trevor Harman each set Shippensburg and PSAC single-game records on Saturday afternoon as the undefeated and No. 16-ranked Red Raider football team tied school single-game records for points and touchdowns (10) in a 73-35 road victory at Kutztown.

With 723 yards of total offense – tied for the most by a Division II team this season – the Raiders (7-0, 4-0 PSAC East) managed to spoil Kutztown's Homecoming and overcome the lethal Golden Bears (3-4, 1-3) offense that totaled 556 yards itself.

Zulli tied the PSAC single-game record with nine touchdown passes while also setting school single-game records in each of the following statistics: 46 completions on 61 attempts for 581 yards passing (third-most in PSAC single-game history). Harman, meanwhile, set school single-game records with 18 catches, 288 yards receiving and five touchdown catches, with the receptions and touchdown marks tying PSAC single-game records.

Senior Jacob Baskerville caught the remainder of Zulli's touchdown strikes and finished with career highs of nine catches, 144 yards and four touchdowns.

The victory extends Shippensburg's winning streak to 11 games – now the longest active winning streak in Division II. The Raiders were tied with No. 1 Pittsburg State heading into the weekend, but the Gorillas lost 31-21 to No. 7 Northwest Missouri State from the Kansas City Chiefs' Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday night.

For the second consecutive season, the Shippensburg defense forced five turnovers from Kutztown quarterback and two-time PSAC East Offensive Player of the Year Kevin Morton. Junior defensive backs Mike Goode and Avery Coleman led SU with 11 and 10 tackles, respectively. Coleman was on the receiving end of two of Morton's three interceptions – the first picks of Coleman's career – while junior defensive end Jake Metz finished with two sacks and two forced fumbles.

The Red Raiders scored touchdowns on their first five drives of the game as Zulli started out the day 11-for-11 before his first incompletion. By the end of the game, SU had totaled a school single-game record 38 first downs en route to the most points ever scored against Kutztown in a single game.

SU's total offensive yards were second most in a game in school history. Running backs Blair Brooks and Mike Frenette contributed a large chunk of the 723-yard total. Brooks had a career day, finishing with 199 all-purpose yards – 58 rushing, 58 receiving and 77 on kick returns – while Frenette totaled 144 all-purpose yards with 54 rushing, 53 receiving (on a career-high-tying eight grabs) and 37 on kick returns.

The Golden Bears kicked off their Homecoming with a quick four-play drive that ended with a seven-yard touchdown run by Curtis Wortham that gave KU a 7-0 lead just 1:40 into the contest. Shippensburg responded quickly and set the tone for the day with a nine-play, 75-yard drive that ended with a 13-yard touchdown from Zulli to Harman.

Morton led the Golden Bears down to the SU 17-yard-line in the first five plays of the next possession, but facing a third-and-10, Metz sack-fumbled an unexpecting Morton. Senior defensive tackle Mark Kahlil Smith recovered the loose ball at the 31-yard-line.

Brooks totaled 38 yards in a three-play stretch during the next drive, which finished off with an 18-yard score from Zulli to Baskerville. A Shippensburg penalty on the ensuing kickoff gave Kutztown the ball at its own 43-yard-line, and Morton got KU back into the end zone seven plays later to knot the score at 14. The Golden Bears had two touchdown drives in the first quarter aided by six total flags thrown against Shippensburg.

The Raiders took the lead for good at 21-14 just seconds into the second quarter when Zulli connected with Harman, who broke a tackle en route to a 32-yard touchdown. Zulli's first incompletion of the day came a play earlier – on the final play of the first quarter – when a pass to Frenette on a wheel route up the left sideline fell incomplete.

A failed Kutztown fake punt at midfield gave the Raiders the ball back just over two minutes later. Facing third-and-10 from the same spot, Zulli completed subsequent passes of 18, 10 and 22 yards – with the final one a touchdown to Baskerville.

The Golden Bears cut their deficit to 28-21 on the next possession when Morton found wide receiver Colby Tuell for a 34-yard score – one of his 12 catches for 167 yards on the day. Five straight Zulli completions for a total of 63 yards on the next drive that finished with a six-yard Harman score was all the Raiders needed to push the lead back to 14, 35-21, midway through the second quarter.

Kutztown's final three possessions of the first half ended with, in order, a missed 35-yard field goal attempt, a leaping sideline interception from Coleman at SU's own 14-yard-line and a deep interception in the end zone with no time on the clock from junior safety Tyriq Kershaw for his first interception of the season.

A Shippensburg turnover on downs and a Kutztown punt marked a strange start to the second half before the scoreboard finally lit up again midway through the third quarter on a 33-yard touchdown to Harman to put SU up 42-21. After a KU touchdown, Michael Lloyd knocked through his sixth field goal of the season on Shippensburg's next possession from 39 yards out to push the score to 45-28.

The Golden Bears then closed the deficit to 10, down 45-35, with a 25-yard touchdown from Morton to wide receiver Zack Snyder just three plays into the fourth quarter. From that point, however, Shippensburg closed out the game with touchdowns on its final four possessions – including Harman's fifth and final score of the day from two yards out, Baskerville's third and fourth scores of the day from nine and 36 yards out and a six-yard touchdown run from redshirt-freshman Chris Lawshe.

The Raiders hit the road again next weekend when they travel to West Chester for a 2 p.m. contest.

Shippensburg records tied:
Points scored in a game: 73
Touchdowns in a game: 10
Point after attempts made in a game: 10

Shippensburg records broken:
Single-game first downs: 38
Single-game completions: 46 (Zulli)
Single-game passing attempts: 61 (Zulli)
Single-game passing yards: 581 (Zulli)
Single-game touchdown passes: 9 (Zulli)
Single-game receptions: 18 (Harman)
Single-game receiving yards: 288 (Harman)
Single-game touchdown receptions: 5 (Harman)
Single-game team completions: 48
Single-game team passing attempts: 63
Consecutive games with a touchdown pass: 15 (Zulli)
Consecutive passes without an interception: 123 (Zulli)

PSAC records tied:
Single-game touchdown passes: 9 (Zulli)
Single-game receptions: 18 (Harman)
Single-game touchdown receptions: 5 (Harman)

Zulli and Harman Record Notes: Zulli's 581 passing yards are third-most in a game in PSAC history yards and second-most for a player in Division II this year …Zulli's 46 completions are the second-most in a game in PSAC history…Harman's 288 receiving yards are fourth-most in a game in PSAC history and second-most by a Division II player this season…the last and only PSAC player to record 18 receptions in a game was Millersville's Chris Pelczarski vs. Bloomsburg in 1991…Harman's 18 catches are also the most for a Division II player this season…the last PSAC player to record five receiving touchdowns in a game was East Stroudsburg's Evan Prall in 2006…the five touchdowns scored by Harman are the most by a Division II player in a single game this season...Harman's five touchdowns surpassed the previous school record of four, set by Joe Nagy against Shepherd in 1965…the last and only PSAC player to record nine touchdown passes in a game was East Stroudsburg's Jimmy Terwilliger vs. LIU Post in 2005…Zulli's passing yards and touchdown totals broke his own previous school records (six touchdowns at Cheyney in 2011 and 496 yards at East Stroudsburg this season)…Zulli's 46 completions and 61 attempts broke Mark Beans' records of 39 and 59, respectively, set vs. Edinboro in 1983…the 603 team passing yards is tied for the fourth-most in PSAC single-game history…

Game Notes: Through seven games this season, Zulli has now thrown for 33 touchdowns; he threw for 34 touchdowns in 11 games last season…Zulli also kicked his first punt of his career – a 41-yard pooch punt in the second quarter…Baskerville's four receiving touchdowns is now tied for second-most in school single-game history with Nagy...Harman's 288 yards is the fourth-highest all-purpose yardage total in school single-game history...Shippensburg has now scored 10 touchdowns in a game nine times in school history; before Saturday, the last occurrence was vs. Lock Haven in 1999...the last and only other time Shippensburg scored 73 points in a game was against Lock Haven in 1995...Lloyd is one of two kickers in school history to be perfect on 10 point after attempts in a game (Joel Yohn was 10-for-10 vs. Lock Haven in 1995).