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Football gets big win over West Chester
Photos courtesy of Bill Smith/SU Sports Info.
Shippensburg football picked up its first victory over West Chester University since 2015 when the score was 27-11. The Raiders won 34-18 this year. Isaiah Snead Sports Editor
Running back Bill Williams reaches out for a score.
The Shippensburg University football team picked up its first win over West Chester University in six years on Saturday, defeating the Golden Rams 34-18. SU (5-1, 2-1 PSAC) was led by its defense that forced five turnovers in the game and the offense scored 17 points off those turnovers alone. West Chester entered the game with the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference’s (PSAC) No. 1 rushing offense and the No. 9 rushing offense in the nation. However, the Raider defense managed to hold the Golden Rams to just 100 rushing yards and just 239 total yards on the day. Shippensburg totaled eight tackles for loss (TFLs), forced three fumbles, intercepted two passes and broke up four other passes. Redshirt-sophomore linebacker Tyler Petucci posted a team high nine tackles and forced a fumble, and senior Trey Paul had seven tackles and an interception — his fourth of the season. Redshirt-sophomore Aaron Alphee also tallied seven tackles and led the
team with three TFLs. The Raiders had a successful day carrying the ball as fellow redshirt-sophomores Bill Williams and Khalid Dorsey combined for a net of 160 rushing yards. Williams ran 15 times for 96 yards while Dorsey had 19 carries for 74 yards. Redshirt-junior quarterback Brycen Mussina was 12-21 on the day with 168 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. Graduate Evan Morrill finished with three catches for 83 yards, with most coming on a 71-yard touchdown pass from Mussina in the fourth quarter. WCU’s first fumble of the game came in the first quarter when the snap went over punter John George’s head and Raider redshirt-freshman Matt Feeney fell on the ball. Mussina found freshman fullback Jake Deluccia three plays later for a score. The Golden Rams decided to enter quarterback Zach Gilbert with 90 seconds remaining in the first quarter, but on his only play of the game he fumbled after a Petucci hit. The turnover led to Mussina scampering into the endzone from five yards out four plays later.
The game slowed entering halftime, but on the first drive of the second half junior Mike Brewer picked off a heave downfield from quarterback Desman Johnson. The very next drive for West Chester resulted in another forced fumble from junior Dante Witcher, but the Golden Rams fell on it in the endzone. With 13 minutes remaining in the game and West Chester hanging around only down five, Mussina found Morrill over the middle and Morrill did the rest, sprinting to the endzone to put SU up 31-18 and put the game out of reach. Freshman kicker Jaxson Montross finished 2-3 on field goals and is now 10-15 on the season. He has the most field goals in a single season since Billy Deane was 12-21 in 2016. Saturday, the Raiders will head to Kutztown for a 5 p.m. showdown with the PSAC Eastern Division-leading Golden Bears.
Field hockey blanks West Chester, gets past Kutztown in overtime
Photo courtesy of Bill Smith/SU Sports Info.
The Shippensburg field hockey team celebrates after Jenna Sluymer scored in the first period of their match with West Chester. SU moved to 10-0 on the year. Isaiah Snead Sports Editor
The No. 1-ranked Shippensburg University field hockey team stayed unbeaten after picking up two wins over No. 2 West Chester and No. 5 Kutztown University this week. SU (10-0, 5-0 PSAC) got the first win over West Chester on Tuesday in a 4-0 shutout behind goals from seniors Jenna Sluymer and Jazmin Petrantonio, and the first collegiate goal from freshman Tess Jedeloo. The Raiders controlled the first half of the game, not allowing the Golden Rams to attempt a shot. At halftime SU led 1-0 thanks to a Sluymer score in the first quarter after a penalty corner taken by graduate Caitlyn
Wink. The third quarter saw Shippensburg score two more goals to extend their lead to 3-0. A restart and pass from senior Adrienne McGarrigle to Petrantonio at the top of the arc led to the first of those goals being scored. The second goal was tapped in by Jedeloo after a penalty shot by Petrantonio. The Raiders did not let up in the fourth quarter, totaling seven shots on goal and getting another goal from Sluymer after a Golden Ram deflected in her shot. SU had 14 shots on goal and 13 penalty corners in the game, compared to WCU’s two shots on goal and four penalty corners. This was just the fourth time in the last 40 years that Shippensburg has shut out West
Chester and equaled their largest margin of victory over the Golden Rams in modern history. On Saturday, the Raiders traveled to Kutztown to take on the No. 5-ranked Golden Bears and picked up a 2-1 victory in overtime. Three minutes into the contest, SU got out in front with a tip-in goal from Sluymer that was entered by graduate Anna Gruber. The score would stay at 1-0 all the way until there was just 1:08 remaining in the contest, when KU knotted the game at one and sent it into overtime. Three minutes into the overtime period Sluymer scored again off an assist from Petrantonio, giving Shippensburg the victory. Kutztown goalkeeper Katie Dotterweich
had 13 saves in net play for the Golden Bears. The Raiders finished with a 16-5 shots on goal advantage. This was the third straight game that these two teams have gone into overtime at Kutztown. Seniors Sluymer and Petrantonio sit at Nos. 1 and 2 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) in shots, goals, shots on goal, game-winning goals and points this season. The dynamic duo and the rest of the No. 1 ranked Raiders team will return to the field on Tuesday at home to take on Millersville University at 4 p.m.
