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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - With 16 wins already in his first three years as head coach at Lycoming College, Mike Clark has already won a Middle Atlantic Conference title and he has beaten six of the seven opponents in the league. However, his clubs have never beaten Wilkes. On Saturday, Clark and the Warriors will look to end the jinx and take control of second place in the league in a television battle at the newly remodeled Ralston Field.

Coming off their first shutout since 2007, the Warriors (5-2 overall, 3-1 MAC) will look to get their offense back on track against the Colonels (4-3 overall, 3-1 MAC), but it won’t be easy, as Wilkes leads the MAC with a +2.43 turnover margin. Meanwhile, the Colonels’ offense have averaged 29.8 points per game in their past four and the Warrior defense has allowed just 14.3 points in its last three games.

Warrior Notes
• The Warriors are second in the MAC in scoring defense at 17.9 points per game.
• Senior #T.J. Chiarolanza# and Wilkes’ Chris Horn are the top scoring kickers in the conference, with Horn averaging 7.1 points and Chiarolanza averaging 6.1 points per game.
• Senior Ryan Wagaman became the fourth player in school history to post 500 yards in three seasons with his final catch at Delaware Valley.
• Junior Ray Bierbach leads the MAC with 12 passes defended and five interceptions.
• Senior Josh Kleinfelter leads the MAC in rushing and is seventh nationally, averaging 146.0 yards per game.
• Kleinfelter needs one more all-purpose yard to pass Brian Thompson (1995-98, 4,281 yards) for the school record. The pair are currently tied for the record.

Scouting Lycoming
Offense: Multiple/Pro-Style
After being shutout for the first time since 2007, the Warrior offense will look to get back to its rolling ways that still have it sitting third in the MAC in scoring at 27.9 points per game.

Senior Josh Kleinfelter will have much to say about that, as the MAC’s leading rusher will have to rebound from a 27-yard game at Delaware Valley. However, he has run for 100 yards in five games this season and his 146 yards per game average is still the best in the league by 11 yards.

Sophomore Zach Klinger will also play an important role in the Warrior offense, as the quarterback is fifth in the MAC in passing average at 160.0 yards, third in pass efficiency at 126.5 and fifth in completion percentage at 51.6 percent.

Defense: 4-3
Second in the league in defensive scoring at 17.9 points per game and yards allowed per game at 301.4, the Warriors are once again one of the stingiest defenses in the East Region.

The Warrior defense is one of the most aggressive in the nation, as the team has forced 20 turnovers, 10 through interception and 10 on fumbles, and that has helped the Warriors stand in the nation’s top 10 in turnover margin at +2.14.

Junior Ray Bierbach has led the way in takeaways, making five interceptions and adding a fumble recovery while sophomore Ryan Fenningham has added three interceptions (third in the MAC) and two fumble recoveries. Sophomore defensive end Dillin Rudloff has also added two fumble recoveries.

Scouting Wilkes
Offense: Multiple
With an offense that has averaged 29.8 points over the last four games, the Colonels seem to have found a balanced offensive scheme in the mid-part of the 2010 season.

Auxence Wogou ran for 114 yards and a touchdown and Tyler Berntsen added two rushing scores in Wilkes’ 28-23 win over FDU-Florham.

The Colonels finished the day with 219 yards and four scores on the ground, as Zach Tivald added 79 yards to Wogou’s and Berntsen’s totals. Berntsen was 15-of-24 for 168 yards through the air, as David Kratzter and Anthony Dorunda each caught four passes.

Tivald is fifth in the MAC in rushing, averaging 74.57 yards per game and Berntsen is fifth in passing efficiency at 101.84.

Defense: Multiple
With two of the most active tacklers in Division III and the top turnover margin in the nation, the Wilkes defense has helped pace the team to three wins in the last four weeks.

The Colonels are led by freshman linebacker Tate Moore-Jacobs, who leads the MAC and is tied for fifth in the nation with an average of 13.57 tackles per game. Safety Kevin Gerhart is not far behind, as he is 11th in the nation in the category, averaging 12.29 tackles per game.

The defense has also helped the team post a nation-leading +2.43 turnover margin, thanks in great part to forcing eight turnovers against Delaware Valley and three against FDU-Florham. Gerhart leads the team with five takeaways (three interceptions, two fumble recoveries) and Moore-Jacobs has added four takeaways (one interception, three fumble recoveries).

Record Book Domination
Already the school’s leader in career rushing yardage (3,475) and rushing attempts (738), senior Josh Kleinfelter can now turn his eyes to dominating the school’s record book. With 26 rushing touchdowns, he is three shy of the school record of 29 set by Tim Deasey (1998-01) and he is one yard shy of breaking the school’s all-purpose yardage record of 4,281 set by Brian Thompson (1995-98).

Also climbing several single-season all-time charts, Kleinfelter is just the second player in school history to rush for 1,000 yards twice in his career, where he joined Deasey. He is 424 yards shy of the school’s all-time rushing record set by Thompson in 1997 as he currently sits sixth in the single-season record book with 1,022 yards, just four yards shy of passing Tim Deasey’s fifth-best mark set in 2000. He is also 101 yards shy of his own fourth-best mark of 1,123 yards set in 2008.

The Ryan Express
Senior Ryan Wagaman became the fourth receiver in school history to post three 500-receiving-yard seasons on Oct. 23 at Delaware Valley when he hauled in a 15-yard third quarter pass from sophomore Zach Klinger. Wagaman, who has earned All-MAC honors in each of the last two seasons, posted 570 yards and four touchdowns as a sophomore before adding 671 yards and five touchdowns as a junior. This season, despite catching just 27 passes so far, he already has 500 yards and five touchdowns, posting career-best averages of 18.5 yards per catch and 71.4 yards per game.

Wagaman joined a group that includes former All-Americans Tim Dumas (2001-04) and Steve Verton (1993-96) and two-time All-MAC selection Rich Kessler (1983-86). All three receivers are members of Lycoming’s Athletics Hall of Fame.

Hitman Reaches Double-Digits Again
Senior Chuck Bellitto posted 11 tackleds against Delaware Valley, reaching double-figures in tackles for the second time this season. Bellitto has eight 10-tackle games in his career.

A Fast Start
Head coach Mike Clark has won 16 career games as he moves through his third season with the Warriors. Clark is well above the pace set by the program’s three other coaches since it was reinstated in 1954. David Busey won seven games from 1954-56 en route to 41 career wins,  Budd Whitehill won five from 1967-69 en route to 10 wins and Frank Girardi won seven from 1972-74 en route to a 257-win, 36-year career. All three coaches have been inducted into the Lycoming College Athletics Hall of Fame.