SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University football team blanked Millersville for the second consecutive season, posting a 27-0 shutout of the Marauders on Saturday to celebrate Homecoming from Student Association Field at Seth Grove Stadium.
 
Shippensburg (2-5, 2-2 PSAC East) controlled the ball for more than 35 minutes and built a 20-0 halftime lead, limiting Millersville (2-5, 1-3) to just 32 first-half yards. The Red Raiders finished with 61 more rushing yards (236) than the Marauders had total yards (175) on offense.

Graduate Luke Durkin and redshirt-senior Tig Spinelli were named the Shippensburg VFW Post #6168 Homecoming MVPs. Spinelli finished with six tackles, including one tackle-for-loss (TFL), while the SU defense compiled nine TFLs, including six sacks.
 
Durkin, meanwhile, totaled the most rushing yards by a Red Raider in a single game since John Kuhn ran for 234 yards against Millersville 15 years ago. He finished with 31 carries, a career-high 213 yards and two touchdowns – becoming just the second PSAC running back to surpass 200 rushing yards in a game this season. Eight of his carries went for 10 or more yards. Durkin also had 12 rushes that resulted in first downs, the same amount of first downs that Millersville totaled as a team.
 
The scoring opened just more than a minute into the second quarter with a 38-yard touchdown run by Durkin on a fourth-and-1 play. Durkin also book-ended the scoring with a 25-yard run midway through the third quarter on a third-and-4.
 
Redshirt-senior Kyle Haines finished with a career-high 120 receiving yards and equaled single-game bests with eight receptions and two receiving touchdowns. Haines had seven catches for 108 yards in the first half – while the rest of his team had totaled just three catches for 21 yards at halftime.
 
Haines caught a 15-yard touchdown on a play-action pass less than four minutes after Durkin's first score, and later hauled in a nifty 30-yard touchdown with 17 seconds left in the half.
 
Redshirt-sophomore quarterback Brycen Mussina finished 18-of-26 for 223 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. Mussina moved past Chad DiFebbo (4,591 pass yards) and SU Hall of Famer (and PSAC 150 selection) Tim Ebersole (4,597 pass yards) on the school's career passing yards list into seventh place all-time.
 
Defensively, redshirt-freshman Anthony Kwiatanowski led the Red Raiders with eight tackles – all in the second half. Redshirt-junior Tim Bradley had a hand in two sacks, and redshirt-freshman Quill Adams recorded two second-half sacks.
 
Redshirt-freshmen Tyler Simon and Michael Farrell also had sacks, while redshirt-senior Eric Dzieniszewski and redshirt-sophomore Trey Paul achieved pass breakups.
 
Millersville's minus-29 rushing yards (which includes yards lost on sacks) marks the third time in the last five years and the ninth time in school history that the Red Raiders have forced an opponent into negative rushing yards. Cheyney had minus-23 rushing yards in 2017, and Millersville also had minus-29 rushing yards against SU back in 2015.
 
Shippensburg has now won 16 consecutive meetings over Millersville dating back through 1997. In nine career meetings against Millersville, head coach Mark Maciejewski's Red Raiders have out-scored the Marauders by a 430-62 margin.
 
Shippensburg travels next weekend to nationally-ranked Kutztown for a divisional clash with the Golden Bears.

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