ELON, N.C. -- The Elon Phoenix football team will make its final road stop of the season when it visits The Citadel Bulldogs for a 2 p.m. kick on Saturday afternoon in Charleston, S.C.  Elon will be looking for its second consecutive victory after knocking off 20th-ranked Chattanooga on the road last weekend.

Site: Charleston, S.C.
Stadium: Johnson Hagood Stadium
Surface: Natural Grass
Capacity: 21,000
Radio: WPCM 920 AM – David Hibbard (play-by-play) and Taylor Durham (color)
Series: The Citadel leads 6-3

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Noteworthy
• Quarterback Scott Riddle is among the players on the Watch List for the 2010 Walter Payton Award which is presented to the top offensive player at the FCS level.
• Aaron Mellette’s 68 receptions, 819 receiving yards and 10 receiving TDs this year all rank among the top-10 single-season marks during the program’s NCAA Division I history.
• Elon has gotten on the scoreboard first in five of its eight games this season.
• Elon nearly doubled its season interception total last week at Chattanooga. The Phoenix entered the game with six picks on the year and then picked off the Mocs five times.

The Coaches
Elon: Pete Lembo (Georgetown '92) is 76-36 in his 10th season as a head coach.  He is 32-22 in his four-plus years at Elon.
The Citadel: Kevin Higgins (West Chester ‘77) is 82-64-1 in his 14th season as a head coach and is 26-39 in his sixth season at The Citadel.

SoCon Showing Support for the Gulf Coast
Southern Conference football teams will show their support for those being impacted along the Gulf Coast by wearing helmet decals with the initials “GC” during the 2010 football season. More than 170 SoCon football players come from states that share a coastline being affected by the oil spill. The nine institutions that play SoCon football agreed to display the decals to express their support and encouragement for the people living in the region.

“Pete Lembo of Elon approached me with the idea while we were at our annual coaches’ meetings in June,” noted Southern Conference Commissioner John Iamarino. “I lived in Louisiana for six years and my son was born there, so when Pete mentioned it, the concept really resonated with me.”

Use of the decal was approved by the NCAA’s rules committee and supervisory officiating organization upon request by the conference.

Elite Company
Quarterback Scott Riddle has led the league in passing yards in each of his first three seasons in the league. No player has ever led the SoCon in passing for four consecutive years. Marshall’s Michael Payton (1990-92) is the only other player to have led the league in passing for three straight seasons.

2010 SoCon Passing Leaders
1. Scott Riddle, Elon - 2,486
2. B.J. Coleman, UTC - 2,257

Picked Apart
In Elon’s 49-35 victory at No. 20 Chattanooga, the Phoenix defense picked off five passes – nearly doubling the squad’s season total of six. The last time that Elon picked off five passes in a game came on Sept. 11, 1993 when Elon defeated West Virginia State 60-13. The school record is six interceptions set in both 1971 (vs. Gardner-Webb) and 1973 (vs. Carson-Newman).

Harris, Brant Collect SoCon Accolades
After Elon’s 49-35 victory over No. 20 Chattanooga, Phoenix running back #A.J. Harris# was named the SoCon’s Offensive Player of the Week. He scored a personal-best four rushing touchdowns on runs of 14, three, 25 and one yard. Harris also set career-highs with 31 carries and 163 rushing yards. He added three receptions for another 17 yards to finish with a career-best 180 all-purpose yards.

Harris was also recognized as the SoCon Offensive Player of the Week by SouthernPigskin.com and as an honorable mention running back of the week by CollegeFootballPerformance.com.

Brandon Brant, a red-shirt freshman from Stone Mountain, Ga., claimed the league’s freshman of the week distinction after he posted five tackles, including the first sack of his career in the victory over the Mocs. Brant also recovered one fumble and tallied one quarterback hurry.

Wide receiver Sean Jeffcoat, who hauled in seven passes for a career-high 154 yards and two touchdowns, was recognized as an honorable mention wide receiver of the week by CollegeFootballPerformance.com. Jeffcoat’s 57-yard touchdown reception was a personal-best and was Elon’s longest pass play of the season this season.

Tightly Contested
Despite sporting a record of 3-5, the Elon Phoenix has been in some very close contests. Elon has actually outscored its opponents by a point on the season.

Four of the five defeats have come against teams ranked in the FCS top-25. In fact, all but one of Elon’s games against FCS competition have been against a top-25 foe.

Mellette Making His Mark
Eight games into his sophomore season, Aaron Mellette is etching his name into the Elon record book. Mellette’s 68 receptions for 819 yards and 10 touchdowns all rank among the top-10 on the program’s single-season charts at the FCS level. The 68 grabs rate seventh, the 819 receiving yards also rank seventh, the 10 total TDs are tied for third while 10 receiving TDs put him in a tie for third.