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Two of Nation’s Leaders on Display
Two of the NCAA Division III statistical leaders will be featured when the
Muhlenberg football team travels to Collegeville, Pa., for a key
Centennial Conference game against Ursinus on Saturday.
Jon Eddy and Mike Loughlin will call the game live on WMUH 91.7 FM. To
listen in,
click here.
The broadcast starts at 12:30 with the Mules Kickoff pregame show.
The Mules (2-2, 2-1) will be looking to win their third straight game,
while the Bears (3-2, 0-1) are seeking their first CC win since 2001.
Ursinus came close against McDaniel, falling 24-20, and has already topped
its win total from all of last year.
Muhlenberg senior Kodi Shay enters the game as the leading kickoff
returner in Division III, averaging 36.0 yards per return. He also ranks
third in all-purpose yards (233.5 per game), 11th in punt returns (16.3
yards per return) and 16th in receiving yards per game (109.8). Shay has
scored three touchdowns in each of the last two games.
On the other side of the ball, Ursinus defensive lineman Josh Kemp is the
Division III leader in sacks with 11½. The Mule offensive line will
try to keep him away from CC offensive player of the week Tom
Kelleher, who threw four touchdown passes in his first career start
last week.
Muhlenberg leads the all-time series, 36-23-7, including a 43-0 shutout
last year that was out of character for recent series history. Twelve of
the last 14 meetings were decided by a touchdown or less, and two games
went into overtime.
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First Place on the Line at Varsity Field
There will be a lot of similarities when the women’s soccer teams from
Muhlenberg and Gettysburg square off with the Centennial Conference lead
on the line Saturday at Varsity Field.
The Mules (9-3-1, 5-1) enter the game ranked eighth in the Mid-Atlantic
Region, while the Bullets (10-3, 6-0) are sixth.
In addition to both being ranked, both teams are on a roll: Muhlenberg has
won five in a row, and Gettysburg has a six-game winning streak. Both
teams are coming off 2-1 road wins against 2002 CC playoff teams, the
Mules at Franklin & Marshall and the Bullets at Johns Hopkins. In both
games, the winning team went up 2-0 before the home team scored a late
goal to end a long shutout streak (504 minutes for Muhlenberg and 561
minutes for Gettysburg).
Gettysburg’s three losses are to regionally ranked teams, two from the
Mid-Atlantic (Messiah and Lebanon Valley) and one from the South
(Christopher Newport). Two of Muhlenberg’s losses are to Mid-Atlantic
ranked teams (Messiah and Scranton), and its tie is against a South Region
ranked team (Greensboro). The Mules’ other loss was 2-1 to McDaniel, a
team the Bullets defeated, 1-0 in overtime.
The series is a lot closer, particularly in recent years, than
Gettysburg’s 10-2-1 all-time lead would indicate. Since 1997, four of
the seven meetings have gone into overtime, and only one was decided by
more than one goal. That was in last year’s regular-season meeting,
when
Muhlenberg scored its first win ever at Gettysburg, 2-0. The Bullets
returned the favor in the first round of the CC playoffs, ending the
Mules’ season with a 1-0 double-overtime win.
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