FOOTBALL 2014 GAME NOTES Frostburg State vs. Shenandoah GAME 2 Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014 ● 7:00 pm Shentel Stadium ● Winchester, Va. Live Stats/Video: www.suhornets.com Setting the Scene Frostburg State (1-0) Frostburg State Stat Leaders Frostburg State hits the road for week two and will visit Winchester, Va. Rushing G Att Net TD YPG Sept. 6 Geneva W/24-19 to face Shenandoah University. The two schools are seperated by just Ken Emmons 1 9 74 1 74.0 Sept. 13 at Shenandoah 7:00 pm over 70 miles but will meet for the first time on Saturday night.The Bob- Chuky Iweh 1 13 43 0 43.0 Sept. 20 at Utica * Noon cats and Hornets both enter the matchup with 1-0 records after winning Sept. 27 St. John Fisher * 1:00 pm their respective season openers last weekend. Passing G C-A-I Pct. Yds TD Oct. 4 Buffalo State * 1:00 pm Ken Emmons 1 9-21-1 42.9 143 1 Oct. 11 at Brockport * 1:00 pm Frostburg defeated Geneva 24-19 last Saturday night at Bobcat Stadium, while Shenandoah shutout Gallaudet 20-0 on Sunday after the Oct. 18 Ithaca * - Homecoming 1:00 pm Receiving G Rec Yds TD YPG game was postponed on Saturday night due to lightning in the Washing- Oct. 25 at Alfred * Noon Myles Burgess 1 4 76 0 76.0 ton, D.C. area. Nov. 1 at Hartwick * 1:00 pm Haydan Roberts 1 4 47 1 47.0 Nov. 15 Salisbury * ! 1:00 pm The Series Defense G TT SKS TFL Int. * Empire 8 Conference Opponent Saturday’s matchup between Frostburg and Shenandoah will be the first Rowan Pinkett 1 12 - 1-16 - ! 16th Annual Regents Cup for the two schools. FSU has played collegiate football since 1961, while Keith Smith 1 10 - - - SU started its program prior to the 2000 season. Location: ......................Frostburg, Md. William Sewell 1 8 2-18 2-18 - Enrollment: ............................5,400 It’s A New Day Nickname:...........................Bobcats DeLane Fitzgerald was named Frostburg’s 13th head football coach fol- Shenandoah Stat Leaders Colors: ........................Red and Black lowing a national search in January 2014. Upon his arrival at Frostburg, Rushing G Att Net TD YPG Stadium: ................Bobcat Stadium (4,500) Fitzgerald quickly filled out his coaching staff and began recruiting his Drew Ferguson 1 13 55 0 55.0 Head Coach:.................DeLane Fitzgerald first class. He also set about raising the team’s G.P.A through new study Cedrick Delaney 1 9 47 0 47.0 Record at FSU ...........................1-0 hall rules. Career Record: ...................25-30/5 yrs. Passing G C-A-I Pct. Yds TD Sports Information Dir. .............Noah Becker On the field, Fitzgerald guided Frostburg to a 24-19 victory over Geneva Drew Ferguson 1 13-21-0 61.9 76 0 in his first game as head coach. The Bobcats opened up a 17-0 lead Contact: ..301-687-4371 / [email protected] through the first quarter of action and finished with 302 yards in total Receiving G Rec Yds TD YPG offense. Defensively, Frostburg limited Geneva to just 26 yards rushing Miles Green 1 4 37 0 37.0 Shenandoah (1-0) and 222 yards of offense. Cedrick Delaney 1 3 20 0 20.0 Sept. 7 at Gallaudet W/20-0 Fitzgerald came to Frostburg following an eight-year stint at Southern Sept. 13 Frostburg State 7:00 pm Defense G TT SKS TFL Int. Virginia in Buena Vista, Va., including the last five seasons as head Sept. 20 Ferrum 7:00 pm Jake Shaffer 1 9 - 1.5-3 - coach. Prior to his arrival, SVU averaged just two wins per season and Michael Messick 1 8 - 0.5-3 - Oct. 4 at Bridgewater * 7:00 pm after his fifth year, Southern Virginia finished 8-2 and was ranked No. 1 Ian Griffin 1 7 1-6 1-6 Oct. 11 Guilford * 1:00 pm in the United States Collegiate Athletic Conference coaches’ poll. Oct. 18 at Catholic * 1:00 pm Oct. 25 Hampden-Sydney * 1:00 pm Fitzgerald also has coaching stints at Bethel University (Tenn.), Tennes- Team Comparisons Nov. 1 Randolph-Macon * 1:00 pm see-Martin, James Madison and the Bridgton Academy (Maine). FSU Category SU Nov. 8 at Emory & Henry * 1:00 pm 159.0 Rushing Offense 196.0 Nov. 15 at Washington & Lee * 1:00 pm Frostburg Football History 143.0 Passing Offense 99.0 Frostburg is in its 54th year of collegiate football in 2014 and the Bob- * Old Dominion Athletic Conference Opponent 302.0 Total Offense 295.0 cats have an overall record of 236-268-8. The Bobcats appeared in the 24.0 Scoring Offense 20.0 Location: .....................Winchester, Va. 1993 NCAA Playoffs and have played in seven ECAC Bowl Games, the Enrollment: ............................4,003 last coming at Bobcat Stadium against Moravian in 2005. 26.0 Rushing Defense 69.0 Nickname:...........................Hornets 196.0 Passing Defense 45.0 Colors: .........................Blue and Red Prior to joining the Empire 8, FSU competed in the Atlantic Central Football Conference for 12 seasons from 1999-2010, capturing league 222.0 Total Defense 114.0 Stadium: .....................Shentel Stadium titles in 1999, 2003 and 2004. Head Coach:......................Scott Yoder 7 / 20 (35%) 3rd Down Conv. 3 / 14 (21%) Record at SU ............................5-6 2 / 4 (50%) 4th Down Conv. 1 / 1 (100%) Career Record: ..........................5-6 A Win Would .... Sports Information Dir. .............. Scott Musa - Lift the Bobcats to 237-268-8 overall 3 - 30 Penalties - Yards 6 - 70 Contact: .........540-665-5417 / [email protected] - Be the first time Frostburg has started 2-0 since 1999 34:01 Avg. Time of Poss. 27:05 /FrostburgStateAthletics @FrostburgSports /FrostburgSports FOOTBALL 2014 GAME NOTES 2014 Empire 8 Standings - Hand FSU its 43rd win over a school from the state of Virginia (42-34-1) Perfect Empire Overall Conference All nine Empire 8 football schools opened their 2014 seasons with a victory last weekend. St. John Fisher, Utica and W L W L Buffalo State all kicked off at 12:00 pm, while Frostburg closed out the action on Saturday night with its win over Geneva. Alfred 1 0 0 0 Hartwick wrapped up the weekend on Sunday with a 43-38 win over Western Connecticut State. Brockport 1 0 0 0 Buffalo State 1 0 0 0 This Week In The Empire 8 Frostburg State 1 0 0 0 Seven of the nine Empire 8 teams are in action in week two of the 2014 football season. Alfred travels to RPI, Buffalo Hartwick 1 0 0 0 State travels to Manchester and Brockport hosts Cortland at 12:00 pm. For the second-straight week, Frostburg will cap Ithaca 1 0 0 0 Saturday’s action with its night game at Shenandoah (7:00 pm). Salisbury 1 0 0 0 Alfred at RPI - 12:00 pm St. John Fisher 1 0 0 0 Buffalo State at Manchester - 12:00 pm Utica 1 0 0 0 Cortland at Brockport - 12:00 pm Utica at Union (N.Y.) - 1:00 pm 2014 D3football.com Top 25 Morrisville at Hartwick - 1:00 pm - 2014 Preseason - Wesley at Salisbury - 6:00 pm Frostburg at Shenandoah - 7:00 pm No. Team Record Pts. Prev. 1 UW-Whitewater (25) 1-0 625 1 Empire 8 Preseason Poll The Frostburg State football team was picked to finish ninth in the 2014 Empire 8Athletic Conference Preseason Coaches 2 Mary Hardin-Baylor 1-0 588 2 Poll released in late August. St. John Fisher received eight of the nine first-place votes along with 64 points and was picked 3 Mount Union 1-0 576 3 to win the league title. Salisbury (53 pts.) and Ithaca (52 pts.) round out the top three. 4 Wesley 1-0 521 5 5 Linfield 0-0 514 4 The Coaches 6 North Central (Ill.) 0-0 505 6 Fitzgerald hit the ground running following his hire at Frostburg State and he quickly filled out his staff with some of the 7 Bethel 0-0 503 7 nation’s top coaches. Tye Hiatt (OC/QB), John Kelling (DC/LB) and Peter Mayer (ST/DB) will serve as the Bobcats’ coor- 8 UW-Platteville 1-0 451 8 dinators. Joining them are Ben Crowder (RB), Sam Daniels (DT), Pete Hansen (DE), Angelo Luvara (T/TE), Nate Sievers 9 St. John Fisher 1-0 384 9 (OL), Tyler Condiff (Asst. LB), Kenny Johnson (WR), Tyler Stevens (Asst. WR), Dernard Bryan (Asst. OL), Victor Andersen 10 John Carroll 1-0 368 10 (Asst. DB) and Tim Arnold (Asst. RB). 11 St. Thomas 1-0 325 11 Preseason All-American 12 Hobart 1-0 319 12 Frostburg has had several players named Preseason Division III All-Americans by USA College Football over the last few 13 Johns Hopkins 1-0 300 14 years and this summer junior linebacker Rowan Pinkett was named to the preseason third-team defense. 14 Wabash 1-0 294 16 15 Wartburg 1-0 267 17 Pinkett had a breakout season last fall after leading the Bobcats and finishing fifth in the Empire 8 with 104 total tackles. 16 Wittenberg 0-1 225 13 For his efforts, he was named to the All-Empire 8 Second Team. He averaged 10.4 tackles per contest and finished with 10 17 Pacific Lutheran 0-0 194 19 or more tackles in five games. 18 Heidelberg 1-0 158 20 19 Ithaca 1-0 154 23 Pinkett picked up in week one where he left off a year ago, finishing with 12 total tackles, one tackle for loss with a forced and recovered fumble against Geneva.