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D3football.com Team of the Week

Sep 18, 2018
Amani Dennis skies in front of a Carroll receiver to intercept a pass. (Carthage athletics photo)
Amani Dennis skies in front of a Carroll receiver to intercept a pass. He intercepted a second one as well.
Carthage athletics photo
 

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Games of Sept. 14-15, 2018

Offense

QB Chaiten Tomlin, Jr., Mount St. Joseph

Tomlin led Mount St. Joseph to a 54-35 win over Rose-Hulman. He completed 26 of his 39 passes for 558 yards with one interception, averaging 14.3 yards per attempt. Tomlin threw for seven touchdowns and had an eighth called back because of penalty.

OL Jared Jones, Jordan Gembarski, Dan Barrett, Chase Bouschor, Lige McKinney, Albion

Albion rushed for 442 yards at Concordia-Chicago, the ninth-highest total by a D-III team in a game this season this season. The crew opened the way for running back Doug Freeman to rack up 206 yards on the ground, while Markell McCoy added 148.

RB Austin Hoover
Sr., Wabash

Hoover ran for the fourth-best single-game total in Wabash history with 255 rushing yards and tied for the third-most rushing TDs with four against Kenyon. Hoover produced three runs of 40 yards or more, including a 44-yard run for his fourth TD of the game.

RB Markeith Miller
Sr., Mary Hardin-Baylor

Miller ran for 213 yards and three touchdowns on just 19 carries, averaging 11.2 yards per carry. He sat out the entire second half with the game vs. Sul Ross State no longer in doubt.

WR Andrew Wolf
So., Washington & Jefferson

Wolf needed less than 10 minutes to find the end zone three times in W&J's 36-14 win over Carnegie Mellon. He scored on passes 39, 66 and 67 yards from quarterback Jacob Adams. In total, Wolf racked up 186 yards on five catches.

WR Erik Knaack
So., Central

Knaack only had three catches in Central's 63-14 win, but they a were a 40-yard TD catch, 41-yard TD catch and a screen pass that he took for 71 yards. He averaged 50.7 yards on his three receptions.

TE Ben Smithson
Sr., St. Olaf

Smithson only had 32 yards on three receptions, but all three of them went for touchdowns in a 33-14 win vs. crosstown rival Carleton. Smithson also caught a two-point conversion pass, meaning he accounted for 20 of the Oles' 33 points.

Defense

DE Tristan Smith
Sr., Pacific

Smith was a menace in the backfield, recording three sacks as the Boxer defense had 10 sacks in the 21-16 win vs. Cal Lutheran. For the game, he had five tackles for loss for minus-19 yards.

DT Jordan Bartholomew
So., St. Olaf

Bartholomew recorded six tackles, including three solo stops and 2.5 tackles for a loss for St. Olaf in a 33-21 victory at Carleton. His play helped the Oles limit an offense that entered the game second in D-III in passing yards per game (393.5) to just 216 in the game.

DT Bryson Lamboy
Sr., Berry

Lamboy racked up seven tackles, a career-high, a sack and 2.5 tackles for a loss. Lamboy anchored the Berry defensive line that surrendered just 3.4 yards per rush and forced four turnovers.

DE Joe Granahan
Sr., Franklin & Marshall

Granahan was the leader of a defense that held McDaniel to just 61 rushing and 216 total yards in a 21-14 victory. He registered nine tackles, including five solo stops, with 2.5 sacks, 3.5 tackles for loss and a forced fumble.

 

LB Mauro Altamura
Sr., Montclair State

Altamura registered 14 total tackles, including 12 solo stops and three tackles for a loss as Montclair State defeated Southern Virginia 24-3. He also tallied a sack and a fumble recovery in a defensive effort which saw MSU hold the Knights scoreless in the final three quarters.

LB Derek Breunig
Sr., Maine Maritime

Breunig recorded a game and team-high 14 tackles, including seven solo stops and three tackles for a loss of 5 yards to keep the Mariners close in a 22-7 loss to Massachusetts Maritime during the 46th Annual Admiral's Cup game.

LB Matthew Brown
Jr., Millikin

Brown's interception and return to the North Park 13 helped the Big Blue jump out to an early 14-0 advantage. He finished with seven tackles, five of them solo and two sacks in a 48-27 win.

LB Nick Getz
Jr., Washington & Jefferson

text hereGetz made a career-high 13 tackles in W&J's 36-14 win over Carnegie Mellon, including 11 in the second half. The junior showed he is back from an injury that forced him to miss 2017 by contributing three tackles for loss and two sacks, plus a pass breakup.

 

CB Robert Grant
Jr., Rochester

Grant's four interceptions vs. Alfred State are the second-highest total in a single game in school history. He had two picks at midfield, one at the 5-yard-line and another in the end zone. Two of the interceptions set up field goals in the 20-14 win.

S Amani Dennis
Sr., Carthage

Dennis had four solo tackles and two interceptions to lead a Carthage defense that allowed just 155 yards in a 31-0 win vs. Carroll. His two interceptions gave him three on the season through two games.

CB Cal Lewellyn
Jr., Centre

Lewellyn led Centre's defense in a 45-6 victory against Hendrix, totaling six tackles, two interceptions and a fumble recovery. He picked off a pass in the second quarter and returned it to the opponent's 22-yard line, setting up Centre's second touchdown of the afternoon.

Special teams

K Todd Spirt, Jr.
Muhlenberg

Spirt kicked three field goals, including the game-winning 37-yarder in overtime, in Muhlenberg's 37-34 win at Susquehanna. His field goals covered 27, 37 and 37 yards, and he also was perfect on four extra point attempts.

P Pat Minogue, Sr.
Ithaca

Minogue punted four times in Ithaca's 21-13 victory at Alfred, averaging 51.0 yards per punt. Three of his attempts landed inside the 20, at the 10, 12 and 13. He tied a school mark with a 65-yard punt and added a 56-yarder to boot.

RET Will Toonen, Jr.
St. Thomas

Toonen had three touches and returned two for touchdowns in a 62-0 win vs. Hamline. He recovered a blocked punt and took it 2 yards for his first career TD in the first quarter, then returned a fourth-quarter punt 42 yards for another.

ST Jordy Borman, Jr.
Central

With Luther lined up to punt from its own 45-yard line, Borman gets in to block the punt. He then returns it 27 yards for a touchdown to give the Dutch a 35-0 lead en route to a 63-14 win.
Sep. 4: All times Eastern
TBA
Pacific at Howard Payne
6:00 PM
Averett at N.C. Wesleyan
7:00 PM
Brockport at Buffalo State
7:00 PM
Franklin and Marshall at Lebanon Valley
7:00 PM
King's at Wilkes
7:00 PM
Marietta at Westminster (Pa.)
7:00 PM
Carroll at UW-Eau Claire
8:00 PM
Coe at Cornell
Sep. 5: All times Eastern
TBA
Hobart at Alfred
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
John Carroll at Waynesburg
TBA
Case Western Reserve at Rowan
TBA
Kenyon at Bluffton
TBA
TCNJ at Lycoming
TBA
Plymouth State at New England College
TBA
McDaniel at Catholic
TBA
Coast Guard at University of New England
TBA
RPI at WPI
TBA
Geneva at Widener
TBA
Misericordia at Endicott
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
12:00 PM
Hampden-Sydney at Delaware Valley
12:00 PM
Morrisville State at Kean
12:00 PM
Minnesota-Morris at Concordia-Chicago
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
Trine at Christopher Newport
1:00 PM
Apprentice at Southern Virginia
1:00 PM
Methodist at Shenandoah
1:00 PM
Carnegie Mellon at Chicago
1:00 PM
Alma at UW-River Falls
1:00 PM
Maryville (Tenn.) at Hendrix
1:30 PM
Ohio Northern at Franklin
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
2:00 PM
Dubuque at UW-Stout
2:00 PM
Westminster (Mo.) at Manchester
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
7:00 PM
Trinity (Texas) at Texas Lutheran
7:00 PM
Adrian at Valparaiso
7:00 PM
Kalamazoo at Austin
8:00 PM
Mayville St. at Concordia-Moorhead
8:00 PM
Monmouth at Wartburg
8:00 PM
Rhodes at Washington U.
8:00 PM
Nebraska Wesleyan at Dakota St.
9:00 PM
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at Lake Forest
@ Chandler, Ariz.
10:00 PM
Hardin-Simmons at Chapman
10:00 PM
George Fox at Redlands