Lycoming will make a three-hour-plus bus ride.

It will wear its white road jerseys and play on an unfamiliar field.

But Saturday's game at Widener may still feel like a home game for the Warriors.

Several members of Lycoming's football team will return home this weekend when the Warriors meet The Pride.

Widener is located near Philadelphia, near the hometowns of several Warriors.

Sophomore linebacker Anthony Marascio is a graduate of Father Judge High School in Philadelphia and lives 20 minutes from Widener.

"It's almost like a second homecoming for us beacuse we'll probably have a big crowd down there this week and it will be fun playing in front of everybody," Marascio said.

Marascio is Lycoming's second leading tackler with 33 and also had an interception return for a touchdown that sparked a win against King's two weeks ago.

"It's like a homecoming, like another home game," Marascio said. "You get to play in front of all your friends. You tell your friends and then they all show up and people are there that you went to school with. It's pretty cool."

For other players on the team, it's another chance to play on Widener's field. Junior linebacker Pat McAfee, from Archbishop Wood in Philadelphia, played twice at Leslie C. Quick Jr. Stadium during high school.

"I'm very excited because I know a lot of my family and friends are going to be there," McAfee said. "I'm excited to have them see me play. They really don't have to drive three hours to come up here."

Senior lineman Jon Buell, from Central Bucks East in Doylestown, gets one more chance to come home in his college career.

"When I found out my senior year we wouldn't be playing Delaware Valley at Delaware Valley, because I live right next to Delaware Valley, it was kind of upsetting but we'll have more fans there than they will," Buell said. "It's great. All of my family gets to come out, all of my old teammates, so it's like a home game."

It's not only the players that get to come home. Lycoming coach Mike Clark is a native of Ridley Park, right near Widener. Clark's parents live 10 minutes from the Widener campus.

Clark says a return to the area is a great opportunity for his players.

"That's something that we sell on," Clark said. "People that recruit against us try to say that we're really far away but we play down there at Widener, we play down there at Delaware Valley, Albright's not far from down there, we had Rowan on the schedule which is right across the river, so that area is big for us and going back down there for those kids is like going home."