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SATURDAY  l  12:00 p.m.  l  GANNON UNIVERSITY FIELD

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Radio: Live on WVPO (ESPN Poconos) 840 AM for the 52nd season, and redzonemedia.com. Chuck Seese, the 2009 PSAC Heaslip Media Award recipient, is in his 26th season as the voice of the Warriors, with Bob Brittain in his 14th year providing the color commentary. Pre-game begins at 11:30 a.m.


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1 • ESU (6-4) travels to Gannon (8-2) for the Warriors' 2014 season finale. The Warriors will look for a season-ending victory for the first time since 2011, and finish the year in Erie for the 2nd time in 3 years. ESU fell 52-45 at Mercyhurst in 2012.

2 • ESU head coach Denny Douds, in his 41st season, has 250 career wins - 1st in PSAC history, 3rd in DII history, 20th in NCAA history and 3rd among active NCAA coaches.
2a • Douds has coached in 428 career games - 1st in PSAC and DII history, 9th in NCAA history and 1st among active NCAA coaches.

3 • Douds meets Gannon's Brad Rzyczycki for the 1st time - the 107th different head coach to face Douds on the sidelines. Rzyczycki is in his 3rd year as head coach of the Golden Knights.

4 • ESU will finish with a .500+ record for the 12th time in the last 15 years. The Warriors had their first 5-game, single-season winning streak since 2008 from Sept. 20 to Oct. 18 and opened with a 6-1 record before losses to Kutztown, Bloomsburg and West Chester the last 3 weeks.
4a • ESU finished t-3rd in the PSAC East standings, its 25th time finishing in the top 3 in the division in 41 years under Douds.

5 • ESU has 17 seniors who will play their final game for the Warriors. The group includes 9 players who have made at least 10 career starts for the Warriors, and 12 who have made at least one career start (along with P Jordan Bair).

6 • ESU R-Jr. QB Matt Soltes - the PSAC leader in passing, total offense and pass efficiency - has not played the last 2 games due to injury suffered early in the 3rd quarter vs. Kutztown on Oct. 25.

7 • Soltes is the only QB in Division II to rank in the top 10 nationally in total offense (3rd - 381.8 ypg), passing yards (3rd - 347.3 ypg) and pass efficiency (6th - 165.5).
7a •  Among active DII players, he is 1st in career total offense per game (342.3), 2nd in career passing per game (298.1), 2nd in career pass efficiency (163.7) and 1st in yards per play (8.3).

8 • R-So. TB Robert Healy is one of 2 players in college football with 500 yards both rushing (705) and receiving (558). In 21 career games, Healy is averaging 123.6 yards from scrimmage and has 19 career TD (11 rushing, 8 receiving).

9 • R-Jr. WR Jon Schnaars leads the PSAC with 13 receiving TD. He is one of 3 active Warriors with 1,000+ career yards and 20+ TD [1,718 yds, 22 TD], along with Sr. WR Dusty Reed (2,675 yds, 24 TD) and R-Sr. TE Steven Jones (1,413 yds, 20 TD).
9a • Reed enters his final career game ranked 3rd at ESU in receptions (175), 4th in yards (2,675), 5th in TD (24) and 4th in all-purpose yards (3,743).

10 • R-Sr. DE Brandon Gattelli (22.5) and R-Sr. DL Bryan Thomson (21.5) are the only active teammates in DII with 20+ career sacks. They rank t-5th and 7th at ESU in career sacks. R-Sr. S Anthony Singlar is 10th with 279 career tackles, and Thomson is 1st with 16 career blocked kicks.


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THE SERIES: ESU meets Gannon for the 3rd time on the gridiron in the 2014 season finale in Erie. The Warriors won the first two meetings, 23-10 at ESU in 2008 and 38-21 at Gannon in 2009. ESU finishes its season in Erie for the 2nd time in 3 years, falling 52-45 at Mercyhurst in the final game of the 2012 season. ESU (6-4 overall) finished tied for 3rd in the PSAC East (5-4), while Gannon (8-2 overall) tied for 1st in the PSAC West (7-2) but lost out on its first-ever trip to the State Game, losing a tiebreaker with Slippery Rock due to a 31-28 loss at the Rock on Oct. 4.

5 TAKEAWAYS FROM 35-24 L vs. WEST CHESTER
1. ESU rallied from a 21-0 2nd-quarter deficit against No. 18-ranked West Chester with 17 straight points, and pulled within 28-24 entering the 4th quarter, before falling 35-24.
2. R-So. QB Bruce Campbell was 21-for-51 for 266 yards, 3 TD and 3 Int. against West Chester's No. 1-ranked passing defense in the PSAC (155.0 ypg entering the game).
3. R-Jr. WR Jon Schnaars had a TD catch for the 6th straight game - the 2nd-longest streak in ESU history. He scored on a 22-yard catch from Campbell with 3 seconds left in the 1st half for the Warriors' first points of the day.
4. Sr. WR Dusty Reed had 10 catches for 152 yards for his 10th career 100-yard game (3rd-most at ESU). He went over 100 yards receiving for the 3rd straight game against WCU (2011, 2012, 2014).
5. Fr. K Matt Smith made a season-long 38-yard FG in the 3rd quarter. Smith is 5-for-6 on FG this season.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR vs. GANNON
1. Jr. QB Liam Nadler is one of the top signal callers in DII. He ranks 2nd in the PSAC in total offense (317.2 ypg) behind ESU's Matt Soltes (381.8 ypg), 3rd in passing (284.6 ypg) and 5th in pass efficiency (151.8).
2. Nadler has accounted for 80 career TD in 31 games - 56 passing and 24 rushing (19 pass, 9 rush in 2014).
3. Jr. TB Brock Jones leads the PSAC and is 8th in DII in rushing (145.2 ypg) and leads the PSAC with 224 carries.
He has almost identical numbers to Jansen Jones in 2013 (144.4 ypg - 7th in DII).
4. Sr. WR Justin Caliste is 2nd in the PSAC in receptions (8.4 per game) and receiving yards (102.6 ypg). One of the top multi-purpose players in DII, Caliste ranks 3rd among active DII players in career all-purpose yards (5,314).
5. The Golden Knights rank 11th in DII in rushing defense (91.1 ypg) but 117th in pass defense (237.2 ypg).

PSAC CHANGES: PSAC crossover games vs. Slippery Rock (Sept. 13) and Edinboro (Sept. 20) counted towards the PSAC's divisional standings for the first time in 2014, creating a 9-game PSAC schedule. Saturday's final crossover game against Gannon does not count.

TRENDING UP: ESU notched a 7-4 record in 2013, building on a 5-5 campaign in 2012 after consecutive 3-8 seasons in 2010 and 2011. Since 2000, the Warriors are 101-63 (.616) with a .500+ record in 12 of 15 seasons.

DOUDS' FOES: Douds faces Gannon's Brad Rzyczycki for the 1st time on Saturday ... he is the 107th head coach Douds has faced in his career at ESU ... Douds is 70-36 against first-time foes ... he faced Cheyney's Anthony Johnson (W 49-21) on Oct. 11 and Kutztown's Jim Clements (L 31-16) on Oct. 25 ... Douds faced Millersville's Gene Carpenter 27 times, and faced Danny Hale 26 times between his career at WCU and Bloom ... Among active coaches, his most frequent opponents are West Chester's Bill Zwaan (13), SRU's George Mihalik (9) and LIU Post's Bryan Collins (9).

PROGRAM WINS: ESU has a 466-311-19 (.597) record in its 87th year of varsity football. West Chester (568), IUP (527) and Slippery Rock (472) are the only other PSAC programs with at least 450 wins ... As head coach, Douds is responsible for 53.8 percent of the program's games (428 of 796), and 53.6 percent of its wins (250 of 466). Including 68 games and 45 wins as an assistant coach under Charlie Reese from 1966-73, he has coached in 496 of the 796 games (62.3 percent) and 295 of the 466 wins (63.3 percent) in program history. There have been at least 4 head coaches at every other PSAC school since Douds was named head coach in 1974.

WARRIORS SENIORS: ESU has 17 seniors who will play their final game on Saturday:
3     Sr. P Jordan Bair (6-4, 220) - Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin
6     Sr. LB Cody Simcox (6-2, 230) - Sinking Spring, Pa./Wilson West Lawn (Maine)
8     R-Jr. OLB Jamyl Aminu (5-9, 195) - Bethlehem, Pa./Liberty (California, Pa.)
15   R-Jr. TE Shane MacNamara (6-4, 255) - Montgomery, N.Y./Valley Central
20   Sr. WR Dusty Reed (5-11, 195) - Hanover, Pa./Delone Catholic
22   Sr. TB Derrick Dyer (5-9, 185) - Pennsauken, N.J./Palmyra (Seton Hill)
23   R-Sr. S Anthony Singlar (5-11, 190) - Bensalem, Pa./Conwell-Egan
28   R-Sr. DB Konrad Mims (5-11, 180) - Trenton, N.J./Notre Dame (Sacred Heart)
33   Sr. WR Ray Dominguez (6-2, 200) - Scranton, Pa./West Scranton
38   Gr. S Shane Brady (6-1, 205) - Plymouth Meeting, Pa./La Salle College HS (Lafayette)
48   R-Sr. OLB Brian Abel (5-9, 200) - Ewing, N.J./Ewing (Erie CC)
72   R-Sr. DE Sam Trunzo (6-1, 235) - Bethlehem, Pa./Bethlehem Catholic
79   R-Sr. DL Bryan Thomson (6-1, 290) - Keyport, N.J./Keyport
84   Sr. WR Rich Irving (6-0, 205) - Kresgeville, Pa./Pleasant Valley
88   R-Sr. TE Steven Jones (6-4, 255) - Harleysville, Pa./La Salle College HS
92   R-Sr. DL Josh Przywara (6-0, 265) - Thornhurst, Pa./North Pocono
98   R-Sr. DE Brandon Gattelli (6-2, 240) - Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem

RETURNING ALL-PSAC EAST: ESU has 7 players who have earned All-PSAC East status in their careers:
QB - R-Jr. Matt Soltes (2013 2nd team, 2012 Freshman of the Year)
TB - R-So. Robert Healy (2013 2nd team, 2013 Freshman of the Year)
WR - Sr. Dusty Reed (2011 and 2012 1st team)
TE - R-Sr. Steven Jones (2013 1st team)
DL - R-Sr. Bryan Thomson (2012 and 2013 1st team, 2012 Defensive Player of the Year)
LB - Sr. Cody Simcox (2013 2nd team)
P - Sr. Jordan Bair (2013 2nd team)