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Week 6 PAC Honors (for events between October 7-13)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 6 of the 2024 season.
 

PAC Offensive Player of the Week

Jacob Pugh • Washington & Jefferson • Senior quarterback • Jefferson Hills, Pa./Thomas Jefferson Pugh dialed up his third six-touchdown performance of the season in a 73-21 win over Geneva ... He threw for 324 yards on 17-for-24 passing and distributed six touchdowns through the air ... Pugh completed 60+ yard touchdowns to John Peduzzi (62) and Owen Petrisek (60) among his scoring tosses, as he led the Presidents to their highest scoring output since 2007 ... Also in the game, Pugh surpassed 6,000 career passing yards (6,201).

PAC Offensive Honor Roll

Case Western Reserve senior QB Alex Fromberg (Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan); Geneva sophomore RB Landon Smith (New Castle, Pa./Laurel); Grove City senior WR Scott Fraser (Butler, Pa./Knoch); Thiel senior QB Daniel Rennie (Cape Coral, Fla./Oasis); Westminster junior QB Ty McGowan (Moon Township, Pa./Moon)

 

PAC Defensive Player of the Week

Ben Bladel • Grove City • Junior linebacker • Coraopolis, Pa./Moon Bladel had a sack, forced fumble and three tackles for loss Saturday in Grove City's 17-10 win over Carnegie Mellon … His forced fumble in the third quarter resulted in Ryan Montgomery's recovery in the end zone that gave Grove City a 17-3 lead … With four minutes remaining, Bladel's sack for an 11-yard loss on 3rd and 10 from the Grove City 16 helped preserve the Wolverines' 17-10 lead … He finished with six total tackles while helping Grove City hold Carnegie Mellon to minus-9 net rushing yards.

PAC Defensive Honor Roll

Allegheny senior LB Azary Matsuda (Roseville, Calif./Granite Bay); Case Western Reserve junior LB Henry Busch (Concord Township, Ohio/Riverside); Geneva graduate student DB Dante Caputo (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny); Thiel senior DL Luke Faber (Greenville, Pa./Reynolds); W&J junior LB Nathaniel Kadosh-Harris (Irwin, Pa./Norwin); Westminster junior LB Dylan Sleva (Moon Township, Pa./Moon)

 

PAC Special Teams Player of the Week

Dan Berube • Grove City • Senior punter • Chesapeake, Va./Greenbrier Christian Berube averaged 46.2 yards per punt on five kicks Saturday against Carnegie Mellon, including the first two 50-yard punts of his career … His career-long 59-yarder in the third quarter pinned the Tartans at their own 3 … That led to a Grove City defensive touchdown on the next scrimmage play … His final punt of the day, a 45-yarder, forced Carnegie Mellon to start a potential game-tying drive from the 26 with 3:05 left.

PAC Special Teams Honor Roll

Allegheny fifth-year DT Nigel Williams (Buffalo, N.Y./Cardinal O'Hara); Thiel senior CB Justin Logan (North Chesterfield, Va./James River); W&J junior kicker/punter Deven Wyandt (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle); Westminster senior DB Brice Butler (Farrell, Pa./Farrell)

 

PAC Newcomer of the Week

Brite Cannon • Westminster • Freshman wide receiver/defensive back • Parkland, Fla./Monarch A two-way standout, Cannon contributed in every phase of Westminster's 49-7 victory at Bethany ... He scored a special teams touchdown for the third straight week with his 57-yard punt return and also scored on a 61-yard shovel pass less than two minutes into the game… Cannon finished with four catches for 105 yards and also had a seven-yard first-quarter rush… He added two solo tackles, a tackle for loss and forced a fumble on a dropped snap by the punter early in the third that led to a recovery in the end zone for a Titan touchdown.

PAC Newcomer Honor Roll

Allegheny freshman RB Dominic Berarducci (Erie, Pa./McDowell); Case Western Reserve freshman RB Andy Kavcic (Kirtland, Ohio/Gilmour Academy); Thiel freshman DB Robert Dixie (Youngstown, Ohio/Woodridge)

 

PAC Records & Milestones

Allegheny's Dominic Berarducci ran for a game- and season-high 142 yards against Thiel, becoming the first Allegheny freshman running back to run for at least 100 yards in a game since Jamie Sye '05 in 2001 ... In their win over Saint Vincent, Case Western Reserve matched its season high with 529 total yards for the second straight week, while the 97 total yards allowed are the fewest by the Spartans’ defense over Head Coach Greg Debeljak’s 21 years at the team’s helm ... Thiel QB Daniel Rennie threw for 226 yards and three TDs in the victory over Allegheny, the most passing yards in a game for the Tomcats since Marko Bakovic threw for 227 yards against Saint Vincent in 2019 ... One of Rennie's TD passes was a 95-yard strike to senior Blake Joseph (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan), which is tied for the fourth-longest passing TD in PAC history ...  Westminster's Brice Butler returned a punt 60 yards for a TD against Bethany, his second punt return this season and seventh career return for a score (five INTs, two punts).