Football | 10/19/2016 3:00:00 PM

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The Shippensburg University football team will be on the road for three of the final four games of the regular season, beginning Saturday at Millersville. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m., as Millersville will be holding its Homecoming. 

About the Teams
The Red Raiders were picked second in the PSAC Eastern Division preseason poll and return 16 starters from last year's team, including the entire offensive line and the entire secondary.

 The Marauders were picked seventh in the PSAC Eastern Division preseason poll and returned 14 starters, including eight on the defensive side of the football. 

Series History
• The Red Raiders lead the overall series 43-23-2. SU has won the last 12 meetings in the series and have not lost to the Marauders since 2000. The regional rivals have faced each other 20 times over the last 27 years but the first divisional entry in the series came in 2008.
• The two teams first met in 1916 with Shippensburg earning a 15-0 home victory.
• Shippensburg has out-scored Millersville 354-73 over the last seven meetings between the two squads.

Last Week
• Shippensburg scored early and often on Saturday, totaling 570 yards from scrimmage and achieving a school record for points in a 76-0 home shutout of Cheyney. SU built a 21-0 lead within the first eight minutes of play. Overall, SU ran the ball on 54 of its 75 plays from scrimmage (72 percent), including its final 14 plays of the game. The Red Raiders had 13 drives in Saturday's game and scored touchdowns on 11 of them.
• Millersville raced to a 10-0 lead Saturday at Lock Haven, but Lock Haven's Nysir Minney-Gratz changed the course of the game with a 98-yard kick return. From there, the Bald Eagles outscored the Marauders by 26 points for a 29-17 final. MU held Lock Haven without an offensive touchdown in the first half and led 10-9 at the break. Tony Staffieri went 14-for-27 for 169 yards and also gained 82 yards on the ground but was sacked eight times, cutting 56 yards off of his rushing total.

Bringing the Defense
• Shippensburg has been able to limit opponents to 111 points through seven games — its 15.9 points-per-game scoring defense ranks second in the PSAC and 12th in NCAA Division II.
• SU has yielded just 100 first downs through seven games (14.3), a total that leads the PSAC and ranks seventh in D-II. 

Stopping the Run
• SU is first in the PSAC and fifth in NCAA Division II in rushing defense (82.0). Five of SU's seven opponents have rushed for less than 90 yards against the Red Raiders this season.  

Tale of Two Halves
• Shippensburg has had markedly different results this season in the first halves of its games compared to the second half.
• Shippensburg has shutout the opposition in the second half for five consecutive weeks. SU has out-scored opponents by a 107-10 margin in the second half: 79-0 in the fourth quarter and 28-10 in the third quarter.
• Proceedings have been much closer in the first half, with the Red Raiders out-scoring opponents 130-101: 55-33 in the first quarter and 75-68 in the second quarter.
• Overall, SU has out-scored its opponents 237-111, with 68 of those 111 points (61 percent) coming in the second quarter.