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Offense
QB Bob Darnley, Sr., Brockport State
Darnley was working with new starters at wide receiver, and erased a 17-12 halftime deficit in a 42-26 win. The offense was on the field for 13:02 in the third quarter and Darnley led the Golden Eagles to TDs in three of the first four possessions of the second half. He was 16-for-26 for 295 yards and two scores, without throwing an interception.

OL Brian Slackert (LT), Zach Massell (LG), Andrew Cook (C), Frank Hodgeman (RG) Karl Constant (RT), Elmhurst
The Bluejays' line was dominant in Elmhurst's 60-14 win against Benedictine. Elmhurst's 60 points scored was the second highest total in school history. The team generated 561 total yards of offense in the game, the third-highest total in team history. Benedictine recorded just two tackles for loss in the entire game

RB Neil Suckow, Fr., Coe
Suckow scored five touchdowns and totaled 347 all-purpose yards in his first collegiate game, a 42-12 victory against Westminster (Mo.). Suckow rushed for 225 yards and four touchdowns on 20 carries (11.2 yards per carry). He averaged 25.5 yards on four punt returns including a touchdown. He also had two catches for 20 yards.

RB Scott Stephen, Sr., Franklin and Marshall
Stephen scored three touchdowns and registered 153 yards of total offense as Franklin and Marshall opened the season with a 35-7 victory against Bethany. Overall, Stephen gained 149 yards on 28 carries, including 1- and 25-yard touchdown runs, and reeled in a 4-yard pass

WR Dusty Kain, Jr., Simpson
Kain caught of 13 passes for 181 yards in a 13-7 win. He has down caught double-digit passes and gone over 100 yards in eight of his last 12 games dating to the start of the 2003 season. The Storm offense was driving once again in the fourth quarter, when Andrew Tarman picked off a Jacob Johnson pass at the Illinois Wesleyan 40. He returned the ball to the Simpson 45, but Kain forced Tarman to fumble, Kain recovered, and gave the Storm the ball back.

WR LaKendrick O'Neal, Sr., East Texas Baptist
O'Neal's 83-yard touchdown reception in the third quarter gave the Tigers a brief 21-20 lead against Division II 24th-ranked Southern Arkansas. The 83-yarder also tied a school record for longest pass completion. He finished with seven catches for 130 yards.

TE Bryan Bergman, Fr., Carthage
Bergman set a school record with four touchdown catches in a 52-14 rout of Carroll. He finished with a team-high seven catches for 58 yards.

Defense
DL Dan Ollderbing, Jr., Thomas More
Ollderbing recorded 11 tackles (nine solo), broke up a pair of passes, and blocked the extra point in overtime that gave Thomas More a 31-30 win against Hanover.

DL Jordan Johnston, So., Grove City
Made his first career start and had two sacks, forced a fumble and recovered a fumble. Helped anchor defensive effort that forced seven Manchester turnovers and limited the Spartans to just 25 rushing yards on 33 attempts. He also long-snapped superbly on all eight PAT attempts.

DL Justin Webb, Sr., St. John Fisher
Webb made nine tackles, including five solo hits and two sacks, as St. John Fisher upended King’s 28-21 in its season opener. His second sack of the game for a loss of 10 yards forced King’s back to the Cardinals’ 31-yard line with just over three minutes left to play. Webb, who finished with three tackles for loss totaling 23 yards, also forced a fumble.

LB Dortanian Blount, Jr., Millikin
Despite a 36-21 loss to No. 6 Wartburg in Iowa, Blount and the Big Blue defense responded in the second half to shut down any additional scoring by the Knights. Blount did his part by recording four tackles, inlcuding one for a loss of 2 yards, one pass defelection and returning an interception 24 yards for a TD.

LB Josh Dietz, Sr., Concordia-Moorhead
Dietz had 16 tackles (nine solo) in a 30-7 win against Division II MSU-Moorhead. Dietz was named the Power Bowl's Most Electrifying Defensive Player of the Game. He was part of the defense that held the Dragons to only 85 yards in the first half of play and a total of only 182 for the entire game.

LB Chris Howerton, So., Maryville (Tenn.)
Howerton played every defensive snap in Maryville's overtime loss to Averett. Howerton posted 17 tackles (14 solo), three tackles for loss of 7 yards and two intereceptions. The second interception was with 1:30 left in the game, which Howerton returned to Averett's 10-yard line.

LB Clayton Darlage, Jr., Franklin
Darlage helped lead the Grizzlies to a 34-33 win against visiting Ohio Wesleyan, racking up 15 tackles including ten solo stops. Darlage also recorded an interception and forced a fumble to go along with two tackles for a loss.

DB Kyle Hausler, Jr., Capital
Hausler returned an interception 98 yards for a touchdown, ending any shot of Wittenberg gaining momemtum in a 49-16 Capital victory. He added three tackles (two solo).

DB Nick Weber, Fr., Wartburg
In first start for Wartburg, shared the team lead with 10 tackles (five solo) against Millikin. Weber intercepted two passes and returned them for a total of 39 yards, the second one stopping a Millikin drive during the Big Blue's second-half rally.

DB Clint Fuller, Jr., Howard Payne
Fuller matched his career-high with 12 tackles and picked-off a pair of passes to lead the Howard Payne defense in the Yellow Jackets’ season-opening 24-13 win against Southern Nazarene. Fuller’s first pick came in the second quarter crushing a SNU drive and put HPU in position to build a 17-7 halftime lead. Fuller ended another SNU drive in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter taking away a scoring chance with an end zone interception.

DB Matt Swank, Jr., Kings Point
Swank doubled his career interceptions total with a pair in a 17-13 loss at Muhlenberg, with both picks keeping his team in a tightly-contested game. He made a diving interception at the goal line in the waning seconds of the opening half, before tying the game on a 65-yard interception return for his first career touchdown early in the third quarter.

Special teams
K Lucas Raschke, Fr., UW-Oshkosh
Raschke booted a school-record four field goals as the UW-Oshkosh football team opened its 110th season with a 33-21 victory over Upper Iowa. Raschke opened the scoring by kicking a 40-yard field goal at the 9:37 mark of the first quarter. He then extended the Titans' lead to 6-0 on a 19-yard field goal at the 1:29 mark of the first period and 16-0 on a 25-yard field goal at the 7:40 mark of the second. Raschke, who also kicked three extra points in the contest, gave UW-Oshkosh a 33-14 lead on a 22-yard field goal with 6:45 remaining in the game.

P Luke Muellerleile, Jr. Carleton
Muellerleile, despite punting into the wind for much of the day, averaged 44.7 yards on seven punts in Carleton's 16-10 loss to Lake Forest. Three of his seven attempts died inside the 20-yard line and two were more than 50 yards, with a long of 58.

RET Josh Hannum, So., Ursinus
Hannum, who transferred from Division I-A Penn State, returned the opening kickoff of the season 90 yards for a touchdown in an eventual 43-19 loss to Susquehanna. He also punted five times for a 36.4-yard average.