Scots coach Scott Browning is expected start Erie native Maleek Toran (#26) in place of James Jackson (#11) for Saturday's noon game against No. 22-ranked Indiana (Pa.). Jackson is serving an one-game suspension after being ejected from last week's game./Photo by Christopher Millette/Erie Times-News

EDINBORO – Earlier this week, Edinboro coach Scott Browning said he’ll start Erie native Maleek Toran for Saturday’s key PSAC West game against No. 22-ranked IUP (5-1, 2-1).

A Central Tech graduate, Toran will replace junior cornerback James Jackson, who is serving  one-game suspension after getting ejected from last week’s 44-24 loss to Gannon.

“Right now, Maleek Toran is in that spot,” Browning said. “We’ve got to coach him up.”

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Akeem Satterfield played his final college game in his hometown last Saturday as Slippery Rock lost at Mercyhurst, 38-23./Photo by Christopher Millette/Erie Times-News

Mercyhurst’s 38-23 PSAC West win against Slippery Rock was more than just a homecoming win for the Lakers.

It was Akeem Satterfield’s his final college game in his hometown.

An Erie native, Satterfield ran for 90 yards for the Rock in the loss. Satterfield, who played for Cathedral Prep, is one of four players from Erie playing for Slippery Rock this season.

“It’s bittersweet. man,” Satterfield said. “Bittersweet. Played a good game, but we didn’t win. So that’s just it. Wish it would have turned out the other way, but it didn’t.”

To add insult to injury, no pun intended, Satterfield also hurt his shoulder in the first half, but returned to the game.

“Oh man, I had a real bad stinger,” he said. “I couldn’t feel anything. I thought my shoulder was dislocated, but it was just a stinger.”

This season, Satterfield is eighth in the PSAC in rushing with 361 yards and two touchdowns. He is sixth in career touchdowns at Slippery Rock with 33, eighth in scoring with 198 points and 10th all-time in rushing with 2,575 yards.

The Rock also have three players out of Strong Vincent High in junior receiver Bobby Joyce, senior defensive back Marquis Knight and sophomore defensive back Kevin Green, a transfer from Edinboro.

In Saturday’s loss, Joyce had two catches for 25 yards and Knight had eight total tackles. According to the participation chart, Green didn’t play.

Here’s a look at highlights of Ohio senior tailback Donte’ Harden, a fifth-year senior out of Strong Vincent High School in Erie, Pa., who will play in tonight’s Mid-American Conference title game against Northern Illinois (9-3) at Ford Field in Detroit.

Leading the Bobcats (9-3) in rushing with 866 yards, Harden has four total touchdowns. Check out his 81-yard touchdown run against Temple.

Let us recap Week 10, shall we?

No. 1 LSU (9-0, 6-0 SEC) at No. 4 Alabama (8-1, 5-1 SEC)

Pregame rant: Doesn’t get any better than this. 1 vs. 2. The winner will put itself in great position to play in the BCS title game, but because both teams are in the SEC West, the loser may wind up in the title game, too, if it doesn’t lose again. Alabama has the smash-mouth style and home crowd to beat LSU, but the Tigers have the look a national championship team. Who to watch: Tailback Trent Richardson of Alabama. So strong. So tough. Tigers better buckle up their chinstraps. Tightly.

Postgame commentary: The Tigers were pushed to the brink, but pulled out an overtime win, 9-6. It wasn’t the game of the century, but it was a great defensive battle. Although Richardson had 89 yards rushing and 80 yards receiving, LSU kept him out the end zone. The Tigers got it done.

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Gannon dropped to 3-5 after losing, 35-7, at Indiana (Pa.) today.

The Knights had beaten the Crimson Hawks the past two seasons. Gannon (3-5, 2-3 PSAC West) has already matched its loss total from a season.

Gannon has finished 6-5 the last two seasons. Next week, the Knights play at Clarion before closing out PSAC West play at home against PSAC West leader Slippery Rock.

Cathedral Prep graduate Javon Rowan had four catches for 111 yards and a touchdown for IUP (5-2, 4-1) today. The senior receiver has had a touchdown catch in each of his last two games.

Rowan also had four punt returns for 39 yards against Gannon.

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In a continuing series of Q&As with local players who are playing area college football, Duane Rankin caught up with Indiana (Pa.) senior strong safety Andre Henderson to talk about several topics.

A Strong Vincent graduate, Henderson has returned from a serious right arm injury that cost him the 2010 season and is having a big senior year for IUP (4-2, 3-1), which faces Gannon (3-4, 2-2) in a 1 p.m. PSAC West game at George P. Miller Stadium in Indiana.

The 6-foot, 200-pound Henderson returned a blocked field goal 83 yards for a touchdown in IUP’s 38-7 win against Clarion last week. This season, Henderson has 34 total tackles, an interception and a forced fumble. Talking to Henderson on the phone this week, Rankin asked the playmaking safety about his 83-yard return, coming back from injury and new IUP coach Curt Cignetti

When was the last time you ran 83 yards for a touchdown? Ah man. I had to have been in a uniform playing for Strong Vincent. Against Thomas Jefferson in the Western finals. It’s been that long. Back in 2005.”

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Ian Wild had a great game in a losing effort last week against Gannon./ETN file photo.

Mercyhurst College senior Ian Wild had some day last Saturday.

He made 14 total tackles (11 solo stops), forced a fumble, blocked a punt that was returned for a touchdown, caught a touchdown pass and made a direct snap on a punt to the up man, his younger brother Garrett Wild, who threw a pass for a first down.

And he wasn’t happy because the Lakers lost 30-27 to Gannon.

“I played well in high school and we lost a lot of games, too,” said Wild after the game. “It wasn’t fun. It’s not fun when you lose. Especially to a rival on homecoming. Kind of ruins the weekend. It’s really not that gratifying for me at all, actually.”

It gets worse.

A linebacker, Wild was not named PSAC individual honors for the week, either. Wild was the PSAC Defensive Player of the Week last week, but he was just as deserving of it after the game he had against Gannon.

Not knocking what Andre Henderson did to help Indiana (Pa.) knock off No. 25-ranked Edinboro because he made eight tackles, recovered a fumble and had an interception that lead to a touchdown drive to earn PSAC West Defensive Player of the Week honors.

Love to see the guys from Erie get rewarded as Henderson played at Strong Vincent, but man, Wild had the game of games. Being part of a losing effort didn’t help Wild’s chances, but he certainly had a great game.

So for Wild, a Pittsburgh native, let’s give him the DIA (Did It All) Award. He earned it.

Drew Herrell rushed for a game-high 76 yards to help No. 19 Edinboro win 27-0 at Gannon./Photo by Christopher Millette of the Erie Times-News.

Sophomores Drew Herrell, D’Andrea Vaughn and senior Brian Davis all had their moments in Edinboro’s 27-0 win at Gannon today.

Herrell had a game-high 76 yards on 10 carries, Davis had 61 yards on 12 carries in mostly relief duty and Vaughn, who started the game, had 52 yards on 11 rushes. Together, they accounted for 189 of the team’s 193 rushing yards to help the No. 19-ranked Scots (4-0, 1-0) stay perfect and open PSAC West play with a win.

The Knights (1-3, 0-1) were without junior defensive tackle Ian Jeffers and junior defensive end Matt Jones, whom were both injured. Senior Wesley Smith had six total tackles in place of Jones and redshirt freshman Sean Herron, a Strong Vincent graduate who is 6-3 and weighs a whopping 360 pounds, had two assisted stops in place of Jeffers.

So Gannon’s defensive unit wasn’t full strength, but it may have struggled to stop Herrell, Vaughn and Davis running behind a veteran offensive line even if it was.

Herrell broke the longest run of 45 yards on a play in which he hid behind the lineman as if someone was trying to get him across the kitchen table, moved left and then roared to the right for the long gainer.

Vaughn brought his usual spin moves and elusiveness to his runs while Davis just plows people with power, but sophomore quarterback Cody Harris had his wheels going, too particularly early in the game.

On the game’s first drive, Harris had five rushes for 29 yards and capped it with an 8-yard touchdown pass to senior receiver David Bostic. Now Harris just had a net six yards rushing because he was sacked three times, but his ability to run kept Gannon off balance early.

Rock junior tailback Akeem Satterfield is one of several Erie players who will factor into the outcome of Saturday's Indiana (Pa.)-Slippery Rock game./ETN file photo.

Saturday’s 7 p.m. Indiana (Pa.)-Slippery Rock game at Mihalik-Thompson Field in Slippery Rock will feature key players from Erie.

For the Rock (2-1), junior tailback Akeem Satterfield, a Cathedral Prep graduate, has 286 yards rushing and five touchdowns this season.

Senior safety Jayson Nickson, an Mercyhurst Prep graduate, has eight total tackles and an interception return for a touchdown. Chad Noce, a senior tight end out of McDowell High, has played in every game this season, but doesn’t have a catch.

Bobby Joyce, a Strong Vincent graduate, is being redshirted. He’ll be a redshirt junior in 2012.

For IUP (1-1), senior safety Andre Henderson, a Strong Vincent graduate, has nine total tackles and senior receiver Javon Rowan, a Cathedral Prep graduate, has one catch for 16 yards and five punt returns for 29 yards.

The Crimson Hawks have two more players from Erie in true freshmen Mario Sanders, a Cathedral Prep graduate, and Jacob Breakstone, a McDowell graduate.

Sanders, a defensive back, and Breakstone, an offensive lineman, haven’t played this season.

IUP senior receiver Javon Rowan will look to make big plays for first-year IUP head coach Curt Cignetti./Photo by Janet B. Campbell of the Erie Times-News.

Erie natives Javon Rowan and Andre Henderson are both listed first on the depth chart for Indiana (Pa.) heading into Saturday’s opener against East Stroudsburg. Game is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. at IUP.

The Warriors (1-0) won their season opener, 56-14, against Pace.

Both seniors, Rowan is a wide receiver out of Cathedral Prep and Henderson is a  strong safety out of Strong Vincent. Henderson sat out last season with an injury as his shoulder has been bothering him since 2009.

Rowan, who has had hamstring issues in his time at IUP, had just 12 catches for 128 yards last season.

The Crimson Hawks have two freshmen from Erie in defensive back Mario Sanders, a Cathedral Prep graduate, and offensive lineman Jacob Breakstone, a McDowell graduate.

The four Erie natives will return home for an Oct. 22 game at Gannon. The Crimson Hawks also play at nearby Edinboro on Oct. 1.

Mercyhurst plays at IUP this season Oct. 8.