SATURDAY
The 2014 University of Mary football season concludes on Saturday, Nov. 15, when the Marauders visit the Huskies of St. Cloud State University. Game time is 1 p.m. at Husky Stadium in St. Cloud, Minn.

THE RECORDS
The Marauders are 5-5 overall and in the Northern Sun to rank sixth. U-Mary is 3-3 in the NSIC North Division and tied for fourth place... The Huskies are also 5-5 overall and in the NSIC but are 4-2 in third place in the NSIC North to hold down third place.

LAST TIME OUT
A second half rally still left the Marauders short in a 53-35 loss at #2 Minnesota Duluth... The Huskies picked up a 27-14 win at Minot State University.

LAST YEAR
U-Mary finished 6-5 overall in the NSIC (5th place) and 4-3 (3rd) in the NSIC North. It was the first winning season for the Marauders since 2007 and the 17th in 26 seasons of U-Mary football… Minnesota Duluth finished 12-2 overall, was 10-1 (T-2nd) in the Northern Sun and 5-1 (2nd) in the NSIC North Division. The Huskies advanced to the NCAA tournament and won their first two games over Henderson State and Minnesota State before losing in the quarterfinals.

HEAD COACHES
Josh Kotelnicki is just the fifth varsity head coach at the University of Mary as the Marauders begin their 27th season. Kotelnicki comes to U-Mary after serving as the associate head coach at NCAA FCS University of North Dakota for two seasons (2012-13) and as UND's defensive coordinator in 2013. A native of Litchfield, Minn., Kotelnicki won an NCAA Division II title as a player at North Dakota and has been on winning teams as a coach at the NCAA FBS, FCS, and Division II levels. After starting his coaching career at UND, he has also worked at Murray State, Truman State, and NCAA FBS Kansas State before returning to UND...  In his seventh season leading the St. Cloud State University football program, Scott Underwood has posted a winning record in each of his first six years and owns a career mark of 57-25 overall and 52-19 in Northern Sun games. He was named the 2011 NSIC Coach of the Year after leading the Huskies to a share of the conference title and getting SCSU to a second straight NCAA playoff berth. Underwood has taken SCSU to the NCAA playoffs in three of the last four year and is third all-time in wins at SCSU. The 1988 graduate of Augustana College was the SCSU defensive coordinator prior to earning the head job.

THE MARAUDERS-HUSKIES SERIES HISTORY (SCSU leads the series 8-0)
An annual contest for the Marauders since beginning NCAA Division II play in 2006, U-Mary has faced SCSU eight times with the Huskies winning all eight... 2006: In the first meeting between the two schools, the Marauders used scoring runs of 81 yards by Justin Fleck and seven yards by Blair Sandy to take a 14-13 lead in the third quarter. The Huskies exploded for 21 points in the fourth to take a 37-14 win. Matt Wall caught six passes for 100 yards and Fleck ran for 99... 2007: Brian Christan booted the game-winning field goal with 55 seconds left in the game from 36 yards in a SCSU 16-13 win. Sandy threw for 230 yards and Roman Penirian had five catches for 127 yards to lead U-Mary....  2008: Darius Dotch returned an interception 30 yards for the winning touchdown with three minutes left in the game in a 14-7 SCSU win. U-Mary pulled even in the third when Jesse Kozak connected with Erik Kruse from 15 yards out. Lamal Lomax ran for 77 yards to pace the Marauders offense. RB Brandon Geiss gained 124 of SCSU's 193 yards in the game... 2009: Joey Bollinger threw for 267 yards in his first collegiate start and Lomax scored two touchdowns but SCSU ran for 371 yards in a 35-17 Huskies win. Stripling led SCSU with 154 yards and two TDs, one of three Huskies to run for over 100 yards... 2010: John Oyloe returned an interception for a TD and Mo Burrough blocked a punt that was returned for a score by Marcus Parence, the Marauders only points in a 30-14 road loss to SCSU. The Huskies ran for 291 of their 403 yards. Burrough also knocked down three passes... 2011: U-Mary intercepted four passes and held #18 SCSU to 99 yards passing but the Huskies ran for 354 and scored the last 14 points in a 45-24 road win. The Marauders held a 14-7 lead before the Huskies took a 31-14 advantage. Dante Steward led SCSU with 134 yards rushing, Michael Walker added 101 and Geiss had 87 yards and two touchdowns. Craig Bagnell threw for 235 yards and a score to Bryan Sandy. Mo Burrough and Andrew Richter each had two interceptions with Burrough returning one for a score... 2012: The Huskies turned four U-Mary interceptions into 28 second quarter points in a 55-13 SCSU home win. Elby Pope led the Marauders with seven catches for 81 yards and a touchdown and Dariouse Gravely ran for 68 yards, including a 24-yard score. SCSU rushed for 307 yards with Michael Walker running for 166, including an 80 yard TD run. Phillip Klaphake as 12-of-14 for 187 yards and four TDs... 2013: U-Mary fumbled the ball away twice and St. Cloud State took advantage of the Marauders miscues in a 20-14 Huskies win. SCSU turned the first U-Mary fumble of the game into a first quarter touchdown before a Phil Klaphake scoring strike early in the second doubled the SCSU lead to 14-0. Hoping to cut into the deficit, the Marauders fumbled at the SCSU 5 yard line. A Tyler Ryan 34 yard field goal for U-Mary was answered by Michael Walker's second 1 yard scoring run of the day to increase the SCSU lead to 20-3 with 7:14 left in the game. The Marauders used a Craig Bagnell to Jeremy Mayfield touchdown pass and another Ryan field goal with 1:59 left but the Marauders couldn't the ball back for a chance to knot the game. Troy Guptill led the Marauders with 3.0 sacks and 4.0 tackles for loss and Grant Singer added three tackles for loss. Bagnell passed for 269 yards and a score.

PAST MARAUDERS-HUSKIES MEETINGS (SCSU leads 8-0)
2006        SCSU 37             U-Mary 14                St. Cloud, MN
2007        SCSU 16             U-Mary 13                Bismarck, ND
2008        SCSU 14             U-Mary   7                Bismarck, ND
2009        SCSU 35             U-Mary 17                St. Cloud, MN
2010        SCSU 30             U-Mary 14                 St. Cloud, MN
2011        SCSU 45             U-Mary 24                Bismarck, ND
2012        SCSU 55             U-Mary 13                St. Cloud, MN
2013        #25 SCSU 20    U-Mary 13                Bismarck, ND

QUICK LOOK AT ST. CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY
Eleven seniors play their final game for SCSU on Saturday and have been a part in one of the most successful runs in Husky football history. Over the last four seasons the Huskies are 33-14, including 15-6 at home, have twice qualified for the NCAA playoffs and won a share of an NSIC title. SCSU has not had the success this season as in the previous years, sitting with a 5-5 record overall and a 4-2 mark in the NSIC North. Offensively, Ledell White leads the Huskies with 757 yards rushing. He averaged 5.3 yards per carry and has scored seven TDs (6 rush, 1 receiving). QB Nate Meyer has ran for 309 yards and eight touchdowns while passing for 1,819 yards and 14 scores. The sophomore signal caller completes 51.9 percent of his passes and has tossed 11 interceptions. Matt Hentges has 37 receptions for 499 yards and two scores. Grant Thayer has caught 17 passes for 253 yards and five TDs. Defensively LB Bo Putrah is the big play maker for the SCSU defense. The junior has a team-high 10 tackles for loss, including 4.0 sacks. DE Jeff Bias anchores the defensive line, posting 9.5 tackles for loss and 4.0 sacks. LB Adam Josephson has a team high 68 tackles and has three pass breakups. FS Kyle Risinger has four interceptions and four breakups.

WEEK TEN REWIND: #2 Bulldogs 53 Marauders 35
Zach Roberson passes for 408 yards and four touchdowns and Elby Pope caught 10 passes for 183 yards and two scores but the Marauders were unable to overcome a 27 point halftime deficit in a 53-35 loss at #2 University of Minnesota Duluth. The Bulldogs and Marauders traded early touchdowns with U-Mary scoring on a 13-yard pass from Ben Jolliffe to Zach Podoll on a fake field goal. The Bulldogs scored the next 26 points and entered halftime leading 34-7.
Refusing to roll over to the Bulldogs, the Marauders opened the second half by scoring three of the first four touchdowns. Podoll caught a 19-yard TD pass from Roberson - his second TD of the day - on the opening drive of the second half. After UMD scored again, Roberson tossed 20 yard scoring passes to Pope at the end of the 3rd quarter and to Jake East early in the fourth to pull the Marauders within two possessions at 41-28. Minnesota Duluth stemmed the U-Mary run with a 75 yard touchdown drive that claimed 5:09 on the clock. Continuing to push the Bulldogs, Roberson found Pope all alone on a fourth down play for a 65-yard touchdown pass at 7:03, closing the gap to 47-35. Once again the Bulldogs rebuilt their lead, posting the final points of the day on a Beau Bofferding 3 yard run at 4:49 to seal the game. Myron Baldoz-McArn had five grabs for 60 yards and VaShawn Pope caught four passes for 43 yards. Austin Bolton posted his best career numbers for U-Mary, making 14 stops, including six solo tackles. Troy Guptill had 2.0 tackles for loss and shared a sack. Jacob Parker had his third interception of the season. Logan Lauters ran for 147 yards and two scores to lead UMD and Bofferding had four touchdown runs on seven carries and totaled 44 yards. Drew Bauer ran for 70 yards and passed for 250 yards and two scores, completing 23-of-34 passes.

MEANINGFUL
Both U-Mary and SCSU enter Saturday with overall records of 5-5. One team will leave with a winning record for the season. A win for the Marauders would give U-Mary its first back-to-back winning seasons since 2006-07. A win for SCSU gives the Huskies seven straight seasons with a winning record.

HEY, DON'T I KNOW YOU?
Several members of the U-Mary coaching staff are very familiar with the St. Cloud State co-offensive coordinator from shared days at the University of North Dakota. Marauders head coach Josh Kotelnicki, defensive coordinator Jason Thier and offensive line coach Kyle Myers all coached at UND last season, where Huskies assistant coach Chris Mussman was the head coach. Additionally, Marauders offensive coordinator Tim Belmore coached with Mussman earlier at UND.

PRODUCTIVE POPE
In the nine seasons U-Mary has played NCAA Division II competition,  there have been just 14 times where a player has caught 10 or more passes in a single game. Elby Pope has reached double digit catches four times in his career, the most by any Marauders player during that span. He also has reached that plateau in each of his last three games. The senior team captain caught 11 passes for 169 yards and two scores against MSU Moorhead. He followed up against Northern State with 11 receptions for 129 yards. Against #2 Minnesota Duluth Pope posted 10 catches for 183 yards and two touchdowns. With 32 catches in the past three games for 481 yards and four touchdowns, Pope is now listed among the NSIC leaders in receptions (5th) and receiving yardage (7th). The Grand Forks, N.D., native has 63 catches for 849 yards and eight touchdowns. The all-around threat is now 9th in the nation and 2nd in the NSIC in punt return average (16.4 yards/return), 31st NCAA/2nd NSIC in all-purpose yardage (156.5 yards/game), 32nd NCAA / 5th NSIC in receptions/game and 36th NCAA / 6th NSIC in receiving yards. Additionally, Pope has scored nine touchdowns, caught two 2-point conversion, ran the ball eight times for 30 yards, completed 1-of-2 pass attempts for 51 yards, is averaging 20.7 yards/kick return, has four tackles (three solo) and a fumble recovery.

POPE 2ND IN CAREER RECEPTIONS AND YARDS
After catching double digit passes and reaching triple digits in yardage for the third straight game, Elby Pope is now second all-time in receptions  and receiving yardage at U-Mary. The senior wide receiver has 182 catches, trailing only Seth Maier with 191. With 2,582 career receiving yards, Pope only trails Jake Pfau (2,682 career yards).  

UNSTOPPABLE
Since returning from an injury that sidelined him for six games, junior quarterback Zach Roberson has been unstoppable, passing for over 400 yards in three consecutive games. The Sonora, Calif., native opened the season by completing 32-of-57 passes for 366 yards and two TDs in a 19-18 win over Southwest Minnesota State. Though he was hurt in the contest, Roberson finished the game by hitting Jake East with the winning touchdown with 23 seconds left in the. He returned in a 52-45 win over MSU Moorhead in which he completed 27-of-45 passes for 460 yards and a school record-tying six scoring passes. He also ran for a touchdown. Against Northen State, Roberson was 29-of-46 for 409 yards and two scores. He again ran for a touchdown. Last Saturday at #2 Minnesota Duluth, Roberson completed 31 of 56 passes for 408 yards, four touchdowns and his first interception of the season on his 204th pass of the season. In the Marauders NCAA era, there seven instances of passing for over 400 yards in a game. Roberson is the first to do so in consecutive games. Craig Bagnell and Roberson have both passed for over 400 yards three times in his career and Blair Sandy did it once... For the year (four games), Roberson is completing 58.3 per cent of his passes for an average of 410.8 yards per game. He has thrown for 14 TDs, ran for two, and thrown just a single interception.

BOLT OF LIGHTNING
Sophomore linebacker Austin Bolton has reached double digit tackles each of the past two games. The native of Joliet, Ill., posted 10 tackles against Northern State University, including four solo stops. Last week at #2 Minnesota Duluth he registered 14 tackles, with six being solo. Earlier this season Bolton returned a fumble 57 yards for a touchdown at Winona State University.  

TENACIOUS TACKLER: Junior All-NSIC safety Preston Tescher has been on a tackling tear and just missed a third straight week of double digit stops. The Bismarck, N.D, native posted 12 tackles (ten solo) against MSU Moorhead. He followed with a career-high 14 tackles (ten solo) against Northern State, along with an interception and two pass breakups against the Wolves. At Minnesota Duluth last weekend Tescher made nine tackles (four solo). For the year Tescher is second on the team with 79 tackles (54 solo). He has 3.0 tackles for loss, a fumble recovery, an interception and six pass breakups.   

SENIORS: Sixteen seniors play their final football game in the Blue & Orange for the Marauders Saturday against the Huskies. The 2014 seniors are: DL Ethan Bakken (Lakeville, Minn.), WR Myron Baldoz-McArn (Elk Grove, Calif.), OL Julian Craig (Tujunga, Calif.), WR Jake East (Clovis, Calif.), RB Vince Ferrante (Martinez, Calif.), RB Dariouse Gravely (Las Vegas, Nev.), DE Troy Guptill (Quinn, S.D.), OL Jeremiah Herman (Bismarck, N.D.), WR Nick Jolliffe (Bismarck, N.D.), DB Lukas Katers (Green Bay, Wis.), DL Tylar Kist (Winnipeg, Manitoba), TE Peter Luton (Miramar, Fla.), OL Michael Mortenson (Dickinson, N.D.), C Don Pask (Savage, Minn.), WR/KR Elby Pope (Grand Forks, N.D.) and LB Grant Singer (Turtle Lake, N.D.).

GONZO GUPTILL
The Marauders all-time tackles for loss leader with 49, SR DE Troy Guptill moved into third place in sacks with 26.5.  The Quinn, S.D., native is second in the NSIC and 21st in the NCAA with 9.0 sacks. His 15.0 tackles for loss is 5th in the NSIC and 39th in the NCAA. He now has three of the top ten tackles-for-loss single season totals in school history (21.5 in 2013, 15.0 in 2014 and 12.5 in 2012).  

MARAUDERS CAREER SACKS
David St. Clair (1998-99)             30
John Oyloe (2010-13)                     27.5
Troy Guptill (2011- )                        26.5  

CLEAN LAUNDRY
U-Mary is 1st in the NSIC and 4th in the NCAA in fewest penalty yards per game (36.3) and 5th in fewest penalties/game (4.3).