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Week 7

Offense

QB Austin Holter, Sr., Wooster
Holter rushed for a career-high 152 yards, capped by a 27-yard TD on a busted play with 2:18 remaining to lift Wooster past Wash. U. 24-20. With another 272 yards passing, he combined for 424 yards of total offense. Holter also set a school record for completion percentage (min. 25 attempts) for his 26-of-34 performance (.765). On the game-winning drive, the Fighting Scots put the ball in Holter's hands as he completed five of six passes for 38 yards and ran it the other five plays for 46 yards.

OL LT James Monreale, LG Mike Smith, C Dan DiStefano, RG Alex Bonder, RT Kyle DiVito, Gettysburg
Gettysburg's line helped the Bullets set a school and Centennial Conference record with 525 rushing yards and eight rushing TDs in a 59-14 win over Juniata. The line, which did not allow a sack for the second game in a row, helped the Bullets, ranked No. 1 in the nation in total offense, outgain Juniata 687-292. Three Bullets rushed for more than 100 yards as Gettysburg posted its highest scoring total since a 61-6 win over Averett in 2001.

RB Marcus McKinney, So., William Paterson
McKinney gained 224 yards and scored four touchdowns on a school-record 42 carries as William Paterson beat New Jersey 43-28. McKinney’s two second-quarter touchdowns tied the score at 14-14 with 3:47 left in the first half, and his 4-yard run gave WP its first lead at 29-28. With the Pioneers holding a 36-28 lead late in the fourth, he carried on 13 of the 14 plays of a 94-yard drive (one incompletion), gaining all 94 yards while burning 6:38 and scoring from 1 yard out for the final points with 1:10 left.

RB Dave Paveletz, Sr., Susquehanna
Paveletz rushed 36 times for a game- and season-high 188 yards and three touchdowns to help Susquehanna top RPI 35-30. He broke SU's all-time rushing TD mark in that game with the 46th of his career. He also caught a 14-yard pass.

WR Michael Zweifel, Jr., Dubuque
Zweifel had 20 receptions and 330 receiving yards to help lift Dubuque to a 36-33 win at Simpson. His longest catch of the day was a 46 yard touchdown strike with just 16 seconds left of the first half to give the Spartans a 16-13 halftime edge. He finished just shy of the NCAA record set with 23 catches in a game by Sean Munroe of Mass-Boston on Oct. 10, 1992.

WR Frank Ross, Sr., John Carroll
Ross hauled in a school-record 17 receptions for 228 yards in JCU's 28-20 loss to No. 16 Capital. One of his catches was for a 27-yard touchdown.

TE Renard Ellis, Sr., Mississippi College
Ellis helped the Choctaws to a 17-14 win over Mary Hardin-Baylor by hauling in eight passes for a career high 137 yards. Ellis' 49-yard touchdown reception in the first half tied the score at 7-7.

Defense
DL Joe Pricone, So., Randolph-Macon

Pricone, converted from tight end just three weeks ago, recorded five tackles and a sack to go with an interception and one other pass breakup in a 19-0 win against Emory and Henry. Pricone’s sack was one of two by the Jackets following a lost fumble that gave E&H the ball in R-MC territory. His interception set up a Josh Storm field goal that gave the Yellow Jackets a 16-0 lead late in the third quarter.

DL Bryan Wiley, Sr., Cortland State
Wiley had a team-high nine tackles in Cortland's 35-6 win vs. Western Connecticut State. The Red Dragons held the Colonials to 9 yards net rushing and 157 total yards.

DL Alex Glasenapp, Sr., Augsburg
Glasenapp recorded 10 tackles (six solo), including two and a half sacks, in Augsburg's 27-20 win at Concordia-Moorhead on Saturday. After Augsburg scored in its overtime session, Glasenapp registered two sacks, including a 16-yarder on fourth-and-10 from the Augsburg 11 on the final play of the game. On the season, The win over Concordia broke a nine-game losing streak to the Cobbers.

DL Matt Krause, Fr., Waynesburg
In his first collegiate start, Krause made a game-high 12 tackles, including six solo hits, against Geneva. He also had two tackles for loss and recorded a sack.

LB Quartez Ashmore, Sr., Mississippi College
Ashomore was all over the field for 12 tackles, 11 solo, as MC beat UMHB 17-14. His work against UMHB's quarterback LiDarryl Bailey in the option game helped hold the Cru to no points in the second half.

LB Trenten Tully, Sr., Rochester
Tully led a dominating Rochester defense which held Merchant Marine to 62 yards rushing and 260 overall in a 52-21 victory. The Yellowjackets had six sacks (three by Tully), 10 tackles behind the line (four by Tully), six forced fumbles (one by Tully), and six turnovers forced (three fumbles, three INTs).

LB Andrew Ross, Sr., Willamette
Ross recorded 19 total tackles, eight solo, in a 35-17 win against Pacific Lutheran. He also intercepted a pass -- the first of four for Willamette on the day -- as he picked off the PLU quarterback at the WU 19-yard line with the Lutes leading 7-0 in the first quarter.

CB Braden Klingler, Jr., Susquehanna
Klingler made a team-high eight tackles, including a team-high seven solo stops, intercepted a pass in the end zone and broke up two other passes in Susquehanna's 35-30 win against RPI. He tied for the game-high with two tackles for loss.

S Kendrick Thomas, So., Louisiana College
Thomas had eight tackles, four solo, a pair of interceptions and a fumble recovery in a 42-28 win against East Texas Baptist. His fumble recovery came just before half when ETBU, which had blocked a punt, was on the LC 2. This sent LC to the half with a 28-13 lead instead of perhaps 28-20. With five minutes to play, his secured his second interception of the contest to halt a drive that would have brought ETBU to within one score of the lead.

S Addrian Frederick, Sr., Wabash
Frederick picked off four Wittenberg passes to keep the Little Giants in the game until a last-second field goal by the Tigers gave Wittenberg a 10-7 victory. Frederick is one interception away from tying the Wabash record of eight in a single season. Frederick has a takeaway in each of the Little Giants' last five games with interceptions against Chicago, Kenyon, and Allegheny and a fumble recovery against Washington U.

CB Anthony Sierra, Fr., Defiance
Sierra picked off a Rose-Hulman pass and ran it back 30 yards for the game-tying score in the fourth quarter and added three tackles. He had two interceptions and three tackles, all solo.

Special teams
K Jake Heaphy, Sr., Ohio Northern
Heaphy made a 50-yard field goal and a 44-yard field goal, was 5-for-5 on PATs, averaged 57.8 yards on his 7 kickoffs and had a 40-yard punt in No. 19 Ohio Northern's 41-10 win at Marietta on Saturday. Heaphy is now 7-for-11 in his career on field goals of 40 or more yards.

P Kyle Trella, Fr., Trinity (Texas)
Trella averaged 48.8 yards per punt on five punts in a 40-0 win over Sewanee. Trella had kicks of 61 and 60 yards in the game.

ST Christian Verley, Jr., Trine
Verley blocked a field goal and an extra point won at Olivet, 42-17.

RET Justin Autera, Fr., Cortland State
In a 35-6 win vs. Western Connecticut State, Autera returned the opening kickoff of the second half 79 yards for a TD and scored again on a 59-yard punt return early in the fourth quarter. He is the first Cortland player in 76 years to score on both a kickoff return and punt return in the same game.

Dec. 15: All times Eastern
Final
Cortland 38, at North Central (Ill.) 37
@ Salem, Virginia
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Dec. 9: All times Eastern
Final
North Central (Ill.) 34, at Wartburg 27
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Final
Cortland 49, at Randolph-Macon 14
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