(CLARION, PA): Shippensburg fullback John Kuhn rushed for 111 yards and five touchdowns to lead #17 ranked Shippensburg to a 44-0 win over Clarion at Memorial Stadium on Saturday night.

Shippensburg, also ranked #2 in the Northeast Region, upped their overall record to 8-1 and 4-1 in the PSAC-West. Clarion dropped to 3-6 overall and 1-3 in the PSAC-West.

Shipp recovered a Clarion fumble on the Golden Eagle 18 yard line in the first quarter and Kuhn capped the drive with a 1-yard run to give the Red Raiders a 7-0 lead at 3:46 of the first.

Shipp took advantage of another Clarion miscue in the second quarter when the punt snap was high for Eagle punter Joe Farkas and the Raiders took over at the Clarion 37. Eight plays later Kuhn capped the short drive on a 3-yard run and Shipp led 14-0 with 6:28 left before intermission.

Shippensburg’s Jamie Reeder booted a 26-yard field goal with 39-seconds left before intermission to give Shipp a 17-0 lead.

Kuhn came on in the third quarter and scored three more touchdowns on runs of 6, 5 and 7 yards to stake the Raiders to a 38-0 third quarter lead.

Matt Acri finished the scoring for Shippensburg on a 1-yard run in he fourth quarter.

The Golden Eagles ventured into Shipp territory three times but could not score.

Clarion managed only 90 yards of offense including 16 rushing yards and 74 passing. Marcus Lowe had 24 rushing yards on 8 carries, while Brandon Dando completed 6 of 17 passes for 74 yards. Pierre Odom caught 4 passes for 49 yards.

Shippensburg had 376 yards of offense including 228 rushing and 148 passing. Kuhn led the running game with 24 carries for 111 yards and 3 td’s, plus caught 1 pass for 17 yards. Quarterback Tony Gomez copleted 8 of 14 passes for 148 yards.

Clarion’s defense was led by free safety Bo Busch who had 13 tackles and 1 tfl. Matt Morris had 11 stops and 1 tfl, while Ben Heisel had 2 sacks.

Clarion travels to IUP next week, while Shippensburg returns home to play Slippery Rock

Box Score (Final)

Shippensburg vs Clarion (Oct 23, 2004 at Clarion, Pa.)

Score by Quarters 1 2 3 4 Score

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Shippensburg........ 7 10 21 6 - 44 Record: (8-1,4-1)

Clarion............. 0 0 0 0 - 0 Record: (3-6,1-3)

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Scoring Summary:

1st 03:46 SHIP - John Kuhn 1 yd run (Jamie Reder kick), 2-18 0:32, SHIP 7 - CLAR 0

2nd 06:28 SHIP - John Kuhn 3 yd run (Jamie Reder kick), 8-37 4:10, SHIP 14 - CLAR 0

00:39 SHIP - Jamie Reder 26 yd field goal, 7-42 2:45, SHIP 17 - CLAR 0

3rd 13:31 SHIP - John Kuhn 6 yd run (Jamie Reder kick), 4-76 1:22, SHIP 24 - CLAR 0

03:49 SHIP - John Kuhn 5 yd run (Jamie Reder kick), 1-5 0:03, SHIP 31 - CLAR 0

02:22 SHIP - John Kuhn 7 yd run (Jamie Reder kick), 2-12 0:46, SHIP 38 - CLAR 0

4th 06:42 SHIP - Matt Acri 1 yd run (Jamie Reder rush failed), 10-37 6:17, SHIP 44 - CLAR 0

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SHIP CLAR

FIRST DOWNS................... 20 9

RUSHES-YARDS (NET)............ 58-228 31-16

PASSING YDS (NET)............. 148 74

Passes Att-Comp-Int........... 14-8-1 22-6-0

TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS..... 72-376 53-90

Fumble Returns-Yards.......... 0-0 0-0

Punt Returns-Yards............ 4-64 2-4

Kickoff Returns-Yards......... 1-17 7-93

Interception Returns-Yards.... 0-0 1-7

Punts (Number-Avg)............ 3-49.0 8-36.2

Fumbles-Lost.................. 1-1 3-3

Penalties-Yards............... 4-30 8-65

Possession Time............... 35:38 24:22

Third-Down Conversions........ 6 of 14 3 of 13

Fourth-Down Conversions....... 2 of 3 0 of 2

Red-Zone Scores-Chances....... 7-10 0-0

Sacks By: Number-Yards........ 2-12 3-20

RUSHING: Shippensburg-John Kuhn 24-111; Andre McLaurin 5-43; Dante Poole

9-40; Walter Crump 6-25; Kyle Fogarty 2-11; Tony Gomez 4-7; Matt Acri 3-5;

TEAM 1-minus 2; Rick Henshaw 2-minus 6; David Wilkerson 2-minus 6.

Clarion-Marcus Lowe 8-24; Lance Fink 4-19; Josh Province 3-9; Erik Yonish

4-3; Brandon Dando 10-minus 8; Ronald Rivage 1-minus 9; TEAM 1-minus 22.

PASSING: Shippensburg-Tony Gomez 8-14-1-148; Rick Henshaw 0-0-0-0.

Clarion-Brandon Dando 6-17-0-74; Erik Yonish 0-5-0-0.

RECEIVING: Shippensburg-Pat Ferguson 4-105; Joel Gamble 2-28; John Kuhn

1-17; Walter Crump 1-minus 2. Clarion-Pierre Odom 4-49; Marcus Lowe 2-25.

INTERCEPTIONS: Shippensburg-None. Clarion-Dwaon Woodard 1-7.

FUMBLES: Shippensburg-David Wilkerson 1-1. Clarion-Brandon Dando 2-2;

Jhermel Goss 1-1.

Stadium: Memorial Stadium Attendance: 1200

Kickoff time: 6 pm End of Game: 8:47 Total elapsed time: 2:47

Officials: Referee: Jack Tachoir; Umpire: Wayne Freed; Linesman: Rick Druschel;

Line judge: Ralph Livsey; Back judge: Ray Toth; Field judge: Todd Moss;

Side judge: Steve Quigley; Scorer: Chris Rossetti;

Temperature: 52 Wind: NE 15 Weather: Cloudy

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Shippensburg vs Clarion (Oct 23, 2004 at Clarion, Pa.)

SACKS (UA-A): Shippensburg-Chris Wolf 1-0; Brandon Cook 1-0. Clarion-Ben

Heisel 2-0; Brock Luke 1-0.

TACKLES (UA-A): Shippensburg-Frank Duffy 5-3; Chris Leonetti 1-5; John

Sharbaugh 4-1; Ryan Hoffman 3-2; Ted Lipford 2-3; Chris Wolf 2-2; Jaron

Nalewak 2-1; Dan Walsh 2-1; Mike Street 1-2; Jacques St. Vil 2-0; Brent

Grimes 2-0; Kirsten Gamber 1-1; Brandon Cook 1-1; Kevin Boyle 0-2; Pat

Ferguson 1-0; Antonio Williams 1-0; Chris Minner 1-0; Will Morrison 0-1;

Ryan Penaroza 0-1; Dante Poole 0-1; Demetrius Roberts 0-1. Clarion-Bo Busch

3-10; Matt Morris 4-7; Zach Gourley 3-3; Tim Connolly 2-4; Corey Shaner 2-3;

Ben Heisel 2-3; Kevin Rigby 1-4; Zach Gueth 1-4; Jhermel Goss 3-1; Jordan

Hicks 2-2; Brock Luke 2-2; Donald Brown 2-1; Herb Carraway 2-0; Dwaon

Woodard 0-2; Jamar Sargent 1-0; James Charles 1-0; Brandon Whitman 1-0;

Cedric Bowling 1-0; Matt Niedbala 1-0; Lance Fink 0-1; Michael O'Brien 0-1;

Elijah Evans 0-1; Jared Faith 0-1.

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Player participation:

Shippensburg: 1-David Wilkerson, 2-Andre McLaurin, 3-A. Williams, 4-Jon Aldridge, 5-Matt Kosciolek, 7-Tony Gomez, 8-Brent Grimes,

9-Tim Devanney, 10-Kyle Fogarty, 11-Matt Acri, 13-Todd Updegraff, 14-Ted Lipford, 15-Denver Brydon, 16-Rick Henshaw,

19-John Sharbaugh, 21-Mike Street, 22-Scott Lafferty, 23-Walter Crump, 24-Tye Cooper, 25-Jamie Reder, 26-Terrance Askins,

29-Pat Ferguson, 32-Chris Wolf, 33-John Kuhn, 34-Steve Martin, 35-Dante Poole, 39-Howard Chavous, 42-Frank Duffy,

45-Will Morrison, 47-Kevin Boyle, 50-Josh Sands, 51-Chris Leonetti, 52-Justin Kina, 53-Chris Whittle, 54-C. Levenworth,

55-Justin Yahner, 56-Dan Walsh, 58-Jacques St. Vil, 59-Arlan Johnson, 66-Greg Sones, 68-Andrew Moses, 72-Jeb Keller,

77-Greg Hutchinson, 79-Ed Armstrong, 82-Joel Gamble, 85-Jaron Nalewak, 90-D. Roberts, 91-Brandon Cook, 92-Ryan Penaroza,

93-Kirsten Gamber, 94-Chris Minner, 95-Ryan Hoffman.

Clarion: 1-Herb Carraway, 2-Brock Luke, 3-Pierre Odom, 4-Ronald Rivage, 5-Corey Shaner, 7-James Charles, 8-Dwaon Woodard,

12-Jewell Stephens, 13-Erik Yonish, 14-Richard Cerro, 15-Kyle Snoke, 18-Brandon Dando, 19-Jhermel Goss, 21-Zach Gourley,

22-Adam Podojil, 23-Donald Brown, 24-Marcus Lowe, 25-Greg Mahaffey, 27-Tom Schreppel, 29-Kevin Rigby, 32-Bo Busch,

33-Brandon Whitman, 34-Zach Gueth, 38-Josh Province, 42-Jordan Hicks, 43-Brett Heller, 46-Elijah Evans, 47-Lance Fink,

51-Colin Brubaker, 55-Ben Heisel, 59-Cedric Bowling, 60-Sean Finnerty, 61-Adam Shaffer, 65-Bill Johnson, 68-Matt Morris,

71-Eric Deliere, 73-Joshua George, 76-Zack Snyder, 77-Josh Bozsan, 81-Dan Tucker, 82-Trent Scott, 86-Joe Farkas, 87-John Dominic,

89-Michael O'Brien, 90-Matt Niedbala, 91-Jared Faith, 94-Matt Ritter, 96-Tim Connolly, 98-Jamar Sargent.

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