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D3football.com Team of the Week

Sep 06, 2016
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Games of Sept. 1-4, 2016

Offense

 QB Conor Feckley, Jr., Dubuque

Feckley tied the Iowa Conference mark of eight passing touchdowns in a game and broke five school offensive records in the game as the Spartans defeated Bethel 70-53. Feckley threw for 634 yards and completed 31 of 47 passes in the win. He also ran for a two-point conversion.

OL Tyler Scott, C.J. McGill, Torrence Leonard, Bryston Parker, Tony Jones, East Texas Baptist

The Tigers' offensive line dominated the Texas Lutheran defense for 407 yards of total offense. ETBU had 24 first downs and averaged 4.5 yards per rush while only allowing one sack in a 44-20 win.

RB Sam Benger
Jr., Carnegie Mellon

Benger recorded 251 yards on the ground and three touchdowns in a 41-34 overtime setback to Washington U. The junior averaged 6.0 yards per touch on a career-high 42 carries. 

RB Joey Valdivia
Sr., Lake Forest

Valdivia ran for 224 yards on just 23 carries and scored three touchdowns, two of them on the ground, in the Foresters' 34-20 win vs. Beloit. 

WR Najee Toomer
Sr., Dubuque

Toomer had TD catches of 18, 65, 11, 63 and 81 yards to finish with 297 yards receiving on 10 catches in the Spartans' 70-53 win vs. Bethel. Toomer scored three TDs in five and a half minutes to give Dubuque its final lead.

WR Stephen Beahn
Jr., Framingham St.

Beahn established a school record with 248 yards receiving on six catches and scored three touchdowns in the Rams' 32-21 win vs. Endicott. He scored on receptions of 87, 81 and 36 yards in the win.

TE Matt Page
Sr., Washington U.

Page had eight catches for 150 yards and two TDs in a 41-34 OT win at Carnegie Mellon. It was his first start after being converted from quarterback. He grabbed the game-tying two-point conversion with 12 seconds left, and then caught the game-winning 29-yarder in OT.

Defense

DE Mamadou Soumahoro
Jr., Berry

Soumahoro racked up five tackles, three and a half tackles for loss, a sack and forced and recovered a fumble. Soumahoro had a sack on third down that forced Maryville to punt and one of his shared tackles for loss forced a third-and-long on which the Scots threw an interception. 

DT Joe Krimm
So., Thiel

Krimm registered nine tackles, seven of them solo, in a 44-21 win vs. Allegheny. He had three tackles for loss, two of them sacks, while forcing and recovering a fumble.

DE Gibson Ziah, Jr.
Guilford

Ziah had a career-high eight tackles and three sacks in the Quakers' 69-0 win vs. Greensboro. He also forced a fumble, recovered a fumble and broke up a tipped pass in the Gate City Soup Bowl.

 

LB Victor Johnson
Jr., Benedictine

Johnson recovered three fumbles as Benedictine forced four turnovers in the season opening loss at No. 8 Wheaton. He finished with six tackles, three of them solo, including a tackle for loss.

LB Jakob Frederick
So., Kalamazoo

Frederick had 15 tackles, all of them solo, in a 36-29 win vs. Oberlin. He had two tackles for loss and two sacks as well as a pass breakup.

LB Pat Minogue
So., Ithaca

Minogue had nine total tackles, including three for a loss and one sack in a 14-9 win vs. Union. Minogue also forced a fumble which was returned for the game-winning TD to open the fourth quarter, and he ended the contest with an interception.

 

CB Billy Lewis
Sr., Stevenson

Lewis finished with three interceptions in a 42-28 win vs. North Carolina Wesleyan. He had a 38-yard pick six in the fourth quarter that put the Mustangs up for good.

S Shawn Miller
Jr., Delaware Valley

Miller was dominant with 14 tackles and a school record-tying three interceptions in 21-14 upset of No. 7 Wesley. Two of Miller's three picks came in the fourth quarter, one of them in the end zone.

S Joel Reighard
So., Juniata

Reighard made six tackles, picked off two passes totaling 62 yards, and broke up two other passes. His second interception came in the end zone with time expiring to help seal Juniata's 31-26 victory over Grove City. 

S Sean Wetherell
Sr., Elmhurst

Trailing 27-15, Wetherell picked off a Loras pass and returned it 80 yards for an Elmhurst TD. He recovered a fumble that led to Elmhurst's go-ahead scoring drive. He added a game-high 15 tackles, including a tackle for loss. Wetherell accounted for two of the team's three takeaways in the fourth quarter.

CB Pat Cravens
Jr., North Central (Ill.)

Cravens established a career high in tackles and sealed the Cardinals' victory over Robert Morris-Chicago with a 27-yard interception return for a touchdown with 2:06 to play. He had 13 tackles, 11 of them solo.

Special teams

K Cameron Cook, Jr.
Adrian

Cook converted 100 percent of his attempts on field goals of 41, 46 and 24 yards and all three extra points to help Adrian defeat Pacific 30-28.

P Christian Witchey, Fr.
St. Vincent

Witchey averaged 40.2 yards per punt, including three punts inside the 20 and two inside the 10 in a 47-24 win at Alma. The day included a long punt of 58 yards. None of the punts was returned.

RET Justin Phan, So.
Case Western Reserve

Phan returned a punt 85 yards for a touchdown to help the Spartans top the University of Chicago 45-17. Phan's return was the second-longest in program history. He added four catches for 62 yards.

ST Justin Paige, Sr.
Catholic

Paige turned the momentum in an improbable rally vs. McDaniel. Trailing by 15 with 3:26 to go, Paige blocked a punt near the Green Terror goal line that was recovered for a TD. He also picked off a pass and broke up another, adding four tackles, three solo.






Pat Minogue made nine total tackles, including three for a loss and one sack in Ithaca's season-opening, 14-9, win over Union. Minogue also forced a fumble which was returned for the game-winning touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter, and he ended the contest with an interception. 
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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