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Big pick puts opponent on edge

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When you're reduced to playing spoiler, then the best thing to do is embrace the role and give it your best shot. In Christopher Newport's case, the Captains were trying to end a six-game losing streak, and Mic Edwards got up to make sure that Salisbury couldn't get back into the game. It's the D3football.com Play of the Week.

We solicit video of top plays from every Division III football program and this was our top clip.

Week 9 Play of the Week finalists

Here are some great plays which deserved extra mention:


Jamarkis Holmes hits the pile but squirts out before he gets wrapped up and finishes a 30-yard run to the end zone to give LaGrange a 21-14 lead. Maryville went on to win 38-31.


Wooster's Derrick Florence II spun out of a tackle and returned Kenyon's kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown early in the second quarter, firmly cementing this game as a back-and-forth battle which Wooster eventually won 49-42.


Jessie Ramos gets behind the defense and it's all she wrote as he scored on a 57-yard touchdown pass with 3:12 left to lift Hardin-Simmons past Mary Hardin-Baylor 29-26.


Hamline and St. Olaf went back and forth a couple of times on Saturday, but watch here as Jamian Maes fights off the defender to bring in a 20-yard TD pass from Justice Spriggs with 20 seconds left in a 31-30 win.

You can see more nominated plays on our Week 9 highlights playlist below, and even more top plays on the D3sports.com YouTube channel.

Week 9 Play of the Week nominees

Use the forward and back buttons to scroll through the list below.

Sep. 4: All times Eastern
7:00 PM
Brockport at Buffalo State
7:00 PM
Carroll at UW-Eau Claire
Sep. 5: All times Eastern
6:00 PM
Concordia (Wis.) at Thiel
7:00 PM
Moravian at Muhlenberg
7:00 PM
Juniata at Gettysburg
Sep. 6: All times Eastern
TBA
Ohio Northern at Franklin
TBA
John Carroll at Waynesburg
TBA
Case Western Reserve at Rowan
TBA
Kenyon at Bluffton
TBA
TCNJ at Lycoming
TBA
Crown at Hamline
TBA
Macalester at Grinnell
12:00 PM
Grove City at Cortland
12:00 PM
Union at Susquehanna
12:00 PM
Johns Hopkins at Ithaca
12:00 PM
Utica at Washington and Jefferson
12:00 PM
Calvin at Oberlin
1:00 PM
Wooster at Wilmington
1:00 PM
Alfred State at Anderson
1:00 PM
Salisbury at Washington and Lee
1:00 PM
Ky. Christian at Brevard
1:00 PM
Carnegie Mellon at Chicago
1:00 PM
Alma at UW-River Falls
1:30 PM
Wheaton (Ill.) at Mount Union
2:00 PM
Baldwin Wallace at Wittenberg
2:00 PM
Denison at Allegheny
2:00 PM
Central at Illinois Wesleyan
2:00 PM
Wabash at St. Norbert
2:00 PM
Albion at UW-Stevens Point
2:00 PM
Augsburg at Valley City State
2:00 PM
Carleton at UW-Whitewater
2:00 PM
Millikin at Luther
2:00 PM
UW-Platteville at Aurora
2:00 PM
Beloit at Rockford
4:00 PM
UW-Oshkosh at Linfield
4:00 PM
Gustavus Adolphus at Whitworth
6:00 PM
Huntingdon at Berry
7:00 PM
DePauw at Rose-Hulman
7:00 PM
Hanover at Centre
7:00 PM
Augustana at Simpson
7:00 PM
Carthage at Lakeland
7:00 PM
North Park at Ripon
8:00 PM
Mayville St. at Concordia-Moorhead
8:00 PM
Monmouth at Wartburg
8:00 PM
Rhodes at Washington U.

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