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D3football.com Team of the Week

Sep 25, 2018
Zach Bloomquist runs away from a Gustavus Adolphus would-be tackler in a Sept. 1, 2018, file photo. (Martin Luther athletics file photo)
Zach Bloomquist threw touchdown passes of 84 yards and 45 yards and ran for three touchdowns as well before Martin Luther removed him from the game in the third quarter.
Martin Luther athletics file photo
 

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Games of Sept. 21-22, 2018

Offense

QB Zach Bloomquist, So., Martin Luther

Bloomquist completed 18 of 22 passes for 289 yards and two touchdowns. He also ran 15 times for 79 yards and three scores as MLC won 63-28 at Greenville. Bloomquist and the Knights set school records for passing yards (405) and total yards (711) in the game.

OL Chris Neu, Thomas Olausen, Bobby Boos, Rick Denboske, Aaron Castillo, RPI

In a 44-14 win over Buffalo State, the offensive line helped nine rushers gain at least one yard with three at more than 65 yards. Nick Cella had 131 yards on 12 attempts for a 10.9 average and Joe Scaglione averaged 9.0 yards per attempt. As a team, the Engineers averaged 7.1 rushing yards per attempt (48 att. for 343) en route to gaining 501 yards of total offense. Additionally, RPI's quarterbacks were not sacked nor intercepted in 13 attempts.

RB Hjavier Pitts
Sr., Thomas More

Pitts helped lead the Saints to a 38-35 win over Huntingdon. He had 21 carries for 176 yards and a touchdown and added two catches for 27 yards and another touchdown.

WR Ryan Gleeson
Sr., Oberlin

Gleeson hauled in two 75-yard touchdowns and added a third that went 69 yards in the Yeomen's 52-27 loss to Denison. Gleeson totaled 238 yards on just four catches. He has five TDs of 69 yards or longer in his career.

WR Sam Gillison
Jr., Misericordia

Gillison had a team-high eight catches for a school-record 223 yards in a 47-45 win at Wilkes, tying a school record with three TD receptions. His touchdown catches covered 37, 68 and 77 yards.

WR Andrew Wolf
So., Washington & Jefferson

Wolf took over the NCAA all-divisions lead in receiving yards and TDs on the season when he hauled in six passes for four TDs and 196 yards. He scored on receptions of 66, 20, 80 and 15 yards to push No. 13 W&J past Grove City 62-10.

TE Matt Kopp
Jr., Coe

Kopp caught four passes for 60 yards, including a pair of touchdowns in Coe's 35-14 win over Buena Vista.

Defense

DE Garvin Brooms
Sr., McDaniel

Brooms was at the center of the team's 25-0 win at Gettysburg, helping the team post its first shutout since 2010. He recorded four tackles, including two sacks -- the second of which went for a safety in the final 1:40 to preserve the shutout.

DT Ian Henderson
Sr., Case Western Reserve

Henderson helped the Spartans stifle Thiel in a 63-20 win. He finished the game with four tackles (two solo), including a career-high 2.5 sacks. Henderson's play helped lead a Spartan defensive effort that held the Tomcats to minus-10 rushing yards.

DT Jackson Ross
So., Chicago

Ross totaled a team-high 10 tackles with half a sack and an interception in a 56-9 victory over Illinois College. He also stuffed a runner in the red zone, forced the fumble and recovered it all on the same play.

DE Marcus Davenport
Sr., Allegheny

Davenport totaled eight tackles, including five tackles for loss and two sacks in a 25-17 win vs. Ohio Wesleyan. His 5.0 TFLs accounted for 22 yards, and were the most for an Allegheny player since the statistic was officially tracked beginning in 2001.

 

LB DJ Warkenthien
Sr., North Central

Warkenthien recorded three of North Central's nine tackles for loss in a second straight shutout of North Park. He accounted for nine total tackles, six of them solo in the win, including a sack.

LB Ashton Leschke
Sr., Stevenson

Leschke had 10 tackles (five solo), three pass breakups and a forced fumble and fumble recovery in a 38-17 win at King's. His fumble recovery came at midfield with 5:48 to go in the game, allowing the Mustangs to run the clock down and kick a final field goal.

LB Cody Milsom
Sr., Washington & Jefferson

Milsom totaled a career-best 12 tackles, including 11 solo stops, and also added three solo tackles for loss as in the victory, also a career high. The Presidents defeated Grove City 62-10.

 

CB Brandon Greer
Sr., Elmhurst

Greer led Elmhurst's defense in the Bluejays' 16-14 loss to Carroll. Greer totaled 11 tackles, including a game-high nine solo tackles. Greer also recorded a game-best four tackles for loss while also tallying the Bluejays' lone sack of the game. Greer also intercepted a pass and returned it 73 yards, setting up a fourth-quarter TD.

S Jeff Marek
Sr., Washington U.

Marek returned an interception 81 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter to seal WashU's 51-31 win over Carthage. The win for WashU was its first in the CCIW. Marek also made four tackles, including one for loss in the victory.

S Lane Barnes
Jr., Ripon

Barnes recorded 12 tackles, nine solo, intercepting two passes and forcing two fumbles as Ripon defeated Knox 28-3. He had three tackles for loss and a sack in the win.

CB Trevor Smith
Sr., Central

Smith broke up eight Spartan attempts, the second most in a single game in Division III history. Three of the breakups came on third down and one came on a fourth. He added five tackles, including two solo stops.

Special teams

K Nick DiCairano, Jr.
Endicott

DiCairano contributed nine points to Endicott's 27-24 win over Hobart. He was perfect on three extra points and on two field goals, from 27 and 41 yards, in a three-point victory.

P Joey Cornwell, Sr.
McDaniel

Cornwell averaged 41.5 yards on eight punts in the Green Terror's 25-0 win over Gettysburg. On his first punt of the day, he unfurled a program-record-tying 71-yard punt. He dropped three of his punts inside the 20, including pinning the Bullets at the 2-yard line to set up a safety with 1:40 to play.

RET Kevin Bragaglia, So.
Alfred

Bragaglia had two pivotal plays on special teams. The first was a 77-yard kickoff return in the second quarter, that set AU up for a game-tying touchdown only two plays later. In the third quarter, Bragaglia returned a punt 92 yards for a TD, putting the Saxons up 38-21, sealing the game.

ST Malik Morris, Jr.
Frostburg State

Morris came around the outside of the line and blocked a Rowan punt. The ball stayed inbounds and Morris pounced on the rolling ball for his second special teams score in as many games. He also had a 68-yard TD catch in the 34-7 win.
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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