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Games of Oct. 28, 2023
The Team of the Week, presented by Scoutware, is D3football.com's weekly honor roll, in its 25th season of recognizing the top performance at each position from the previous week. Players are nominated by schools.
Offense
QB Kaleb Blaha, Jr., UW-River Falls
Blaha led the No. 7-ranked Falcons to a 49-35 road win at UW-Stout on Saturday, breaking a school record while tying a WIAC record with six rushing touchdowns. He rushed for a career-high 301 rushing yards while accounting for all seven of UWRF's touchdowns with 535 yards of total offense. Outside of his school record scoring total, he added a 28-yard touchdown pass and had 40-yard and 65-yard touchdown runs.
OL Scott Ochsner, Joseph Delgado, Adam Montalvo, Jacob Lucier, Nicholas Kalke, Brockport
The Golden Eagles offensive line unit paved the way for a sixth straight win, as Brockport defeated Utica, 38-3. They helped the offense rack up 288 rushing yards on 56 carries to average 5.1 yards per carry for the game. Brockport found the end zone four times on the ground and dominated time of possession with a season-high 40:36 compared to Utica's 19:24.
RB Hunter Clasen, Sr., Wartburg
Clasen had 202 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns in a win against Central to clinch the automatic bid to the playoffs and a share of the conference championship. It's his fifth game this season with triple digit rushing yards.
RB Montie Quinn, Sr., Curry
Quinn went off for 259 rushing yards and three touchdowns in Curry's thrilling 48-46 win over Nichols on Saturday. He also caught two passes for 48 yards. Quinn averaged 8.1 yards per carry in Curry's come from behind victory.
WR Noah Coyne, Jr., Case Western Reserve
Coyne turned in one of the best individual receiving efforts in program history during the team's 38-33 loss at Washington & Jefferson on Saturday. Coyne finished the game with career-highs across the board, catching nine passes for 258 yards and three touchdowns. It marked the second-most receiving yards in a single game in school history behind only a 281-yard effort by Colt Morgan against St. Vincent in 2018.
WR Cornell Beachem Jr., Sr., Mount St. Joseph
Beachem set a school record with 15 catches in Mount St. Joseph's 55-0 win against Franklin on Saturday. On those 15 catches he gained 250 yards and scored four touchdowns. His TD catches spanned 12, 17, 15 and 13 yards.
TE Derek Hansen, Sr., St. Olaf
Hansen had nine receptions for 117 yards and two touchdowns for St. Olaf in a 41-40 overtime loss to Gustavus Adolphus. He caught touchdowns of 15 and 26 yards late in the third quarter and early in the fourth to give the Oles a 31-20 lead.
Defense
DE Anthony Cikasukas, So., Monmouth
Cikauskas helped the Scots defense dominate Ripon in the 45-3 win on Saturday. Cikauskas led the Scots with six tackles, four solo and had four and a half TFL and two and a half sacks. Cikauskas accounted for 29 lost yards as Monmouth limited Ripon to 55 total yards and 3 rushing yards in the game. He also forced a fumble and added three QB hurries on the day.
DT Javier Rios, Sr., Tufts
Rios had the best game of his career on Saturday at Hamilton, as the senior defensive tackle posted seven tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks in a 36-34 defeat in five overtimes, a game which was 17-17 at the end of regulation. He also posted a forced fumble in the game.
DT Chance Knight, Sr., Marietta
Knight led Marietta with 12 tackles in a 21-17 road win at Ohio Northern. He had two tackles for a loss, including half a sack.
DE Martin Egbo, Sr., North Central
Egbo matched the third-highest single-game totals for tackles for loss and sacks in North Central history on a day in which he had six TFL and three sacks. Egbo recorded nine tackles, seven solo.
LB Matt Mitchell, Sr., Hardin-Simmons
Mitchell was all over the field with 12 tackles (eight solo), three tackles for loss, two pass breakups, a quarterback hurry and half sack as the Cowboys shut down Mary Hardin-Baylor for their first win over the Cru since 2015.
LB Mike Henricksen, Jr., Mass-Dartmouth
Henricksen anchored a Corsairs defense that held Bridgewater State to just 14 points in Saturday's crucial victory. He recorded nine tackles, including four solo. Of his tackles, 2.5 were a loss of 10 yards, while he had 1.5 sacks for a loss of nine yards. Henricksen helped lead a defense that limited the previously unbeaten in the MASCAC Bears, to just 51 yards rushing and 200 total yards in the game as UMass Dartmouth won 34-14.
LB Brock Skinner, Sr., Berry
Skinner had two Interceptions for 104 total yards including a 90-yard interception return for a TD in a little over one half of play in a blowout win against Hendrix. Brock also had five total tackles (all solo), two tackles for a loss, a sack, a forced fumble and a pass breakup.
CB Ryan Schmadtke, So., Washington U.
Schmadtke returned two interceptions for touchdowns, totaling 100 yards in returns in a 66-0 win against Elmhurst.
S Taylor Stroh, Sr., Gustavus Adolphus
Stroh totaled eight tackles against the Oles, including seven solo. Stroh's biggest play came in overtime, though, as he made the tackle of the day to stop the St. Olaf 2-point attempt at the goal line which would have won the game for the hosts. Stroh's performance led the Gusties to their fourth straight win and helps the team maintain the top position in the division.
S Will Pickren, Sr., Hampden-Sydney
Pickren finished with 12 tackles, including seven solo, two tackles for loss, one sack, and one forced fumble to lead H-SC on defense during a 42-21 win at Guilford. He forced a fumble that was recovered by a teammate at the GC 32-yard line with 1:32 on the first-half clock, and the Tigers scored on the next play to lead 21-14 at the intermission.
CB Matt Jung, So., Bethel
Jung recorded six tackles and two interceptions, including a pick-six, in the Royals' 40-0 win over Carleton. He scored on his second interception of the afternoon, jumping a second-quarter pass and returning it 38 yards to the end zone.
Special teams
K Joaquin Rodriguez, Sr., Texas Lutheran
Rodriguez made all four of his field goal attempts (35, 29, 46, 45) with a long of 46 yards in addition to an extra point in TLU's 31-27 loss to Howard Payne.
P Ethan Klapatch, Jr., Millsaps
Klapatch posted a strong performance for the Majors against Trinity (Texas). He totaled 11 punts for 501 yards (45.5 yard average). He posted a long of 56 yards with four going for 50-plus yards.
RET Jailen Hobbs, Sr., Rose-Hulman
Hobbs recorded the third-most all-purpose yards in a single game in Division III this season with 320 yards. That included an 84-yard punt return touchdown in the second half to stretch the lead to 44-20 -- points the Fightin' Engineers needed in a 44-39 win against Hanover.
ST Jeremy Bours Jr., Sr., Lebanon Valley
Bours, who is Lebanon Valley's punter, also knows how to get to the opposing punter, as he blocked a punt in the Dutchmen's 34-26 win against Alvernia.