Stony Brook, NY - The Wagner football team, fresh off a 27-7 win over Robert Morris, takes to the road to meet the nationally-ranked Stony Brook Seawolves on Saturday, November 11 in a 1:00 p.m. kickoff at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium. Stony Brook, which competes in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), enters Saturday's game ranked 12th in the STATS FCS Top-25 and 15th in the Coaches Poll.

WAGNER, STONY BROOK FORMER NEC RIVALS

This will be the 14th all-time meeting between the schools in a series that began in 1985 and Wagner is 9-4 in these matchups. The Seahawks won the first two meetings, prior to becoming fellow NEC members, with those wins coming in 1985 and 1995. Them from 1999-2006, the Seahawks and the Seawolves were rivals in the Northeast Conference (NEC). As NEC rivals, Wagner was 7-4 vs. Stony Brook, having won the first five of the 11 NEC meetings before Stony Brook won four of the final six meetings.

ABOUT WAGNER

Wagner (3-6, 1-4 NEC) snapped a three-game losing streak and earned their first NEC win of the season last week in running past Robert Morris 27-7 on Senior Day at Hameline Field. The Green & White recorded a season-high eight sacks vs. the Colonials and lead the NEC with 27. Quintin Hampton (Moultrie, GA / Colquitt County / UCF) continues to lead the Seahawks. Hampton is tied for fourth in the NEC with 72 total tackles (43 solo, 29 assisted), in addition to ranking No. 3 in in both sacks (7) and tackles for loss (11).  Coming off a 22-carry, 152-yard day vs. RMU, junior RB Ryan Fulse (Fort Meade, FL / Fort Meade / Hudson Valley CC) is now just seven yards shy of 1,000, with 993, which ranks sixth nationaly in all of FCS. At quarterback, junior Luke Massei (Cary, NC / Green Hope) is third in the NEC with a 59.8% completion rate, having connected on 107-of-179 passes for 1,139 yards, seven touchdowns and six interceptions.

WAGNER VS. THE COLONIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ALL-TIME (CAA)

Reigning Northeast Conference (NEC) Offensive Player of the Week Ryan Fulse (Fort Meade, FL / Fort Meade/Monroe) ran for 152 yards on 22 carries with one touchdown and the Seahawks' defense limited Robert Morris to 210 total yards while recording eight sacks. Fulse, who rushed for a career-high 228 yards the week before against Bryant (10/28), has now gained 380 yards in his last two games, which leaves the 5-11, 195-pound sparkplug just seven yards shy of a 1,000-yard season heading into the final two games of the season. Fulse got things started early against the Colonials when he bounced an inside handoff to the outside, and raced 65 yards untouched, skirting the right sideline in the process, for the game's first score. On RMU's ensuing possession, sophomore linebacker Cameron Gill (Douglasville, GA / Chapel Hill) recorded a strip-sack of quarterback Mathew Barr, which was recovered by redshirt-junior defensive lineman Maurice Diawara (Lakewood, NJ / Lakewood) at the Colonials' 27-yard line. The turnover led to the first of graduate student James Cooper's (Linwood, NJ / Mainland Regional/ Temple) two first-half field goals, a 36-yard boot with 5:21 left in the opening quarter that extended the Seahawk lead to 10-0. After senior linebacker Mathieu Louiselle (Quebec, Canada / Vermont Academy) recorded his first of two sacks on the day, Wagner received another field goal by Cooper, this one from 39 yards out, with 1:19 to play in the first period which made it a 13-0 game and the Seahawks coasted from there.

ROCKET RYAN FULSE RANKED 6TH NATIONALLY IN RUSHING YARDS

When junior running back Ryan Fulse (Fort Meade, FL / Fort Meade / Milford Academy) exploded for 228 yards on 25 carries against Bryant (10/28), this marked the top rushing game by a Seahawk in six years, en route to claiming NEC Offensive Player of the Week honors. Following his 228-yard performance, which was the first 200-yard game by a Seahawk since former NFL running back Dominique Williams gained 216 yards at Robert Morris on November 12, 2011, Fulse now ranks sixth nationally in the FCS with 993 yards rushing. His performance against Bryant was also the 11th-best single-season rushing game by an FCS player this season. 

WAGNER HEAD COACH JASON HOUTAGHLING 

Jason Houghtaling (say it Ho-tal-ling) is in his third season as the head coach of the Seahawks and, at age 36, is the third-youngest head coach in the FCS. He took over for Walt Hameline, who announced at the end of the 2014 season that he would be stepping down as head coach while remaining as Seahawk athletic director. Houghtaling, who guided Wagner to a 6-5 record (4-2 in the NEC, third place) in 2016, was the Seahawks' associate head coach and offensive coordinator when the Green & White claimed a share of the 2014 NEC title (with Sacred Heart), and overall, has spent seven years as a Wagner assistant. In his final three seasons as offensive coordinator (2011, 2012, 2014), the Seahawks amassed a 16-6 NEC record with league titles in two of those three years. In 2014, the Seahawks' offense ranked No. 4 nationally in time of possession and did not commit a turnover in the final three games of the season. Houghtaling served as offensive coordinator at Cornell in 2013 before returning to Grymes Hill as associate head coach/offensive coordinator.

STONY BROOK WR COACH MARCUS EDWARDS A FORMER SEAHAWK ASSISTANT
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