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Week 11 PAC Honors (for events between November 11-17)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 11 of the 2024 season.
 

PAC Offensive Player of the Week

Jacob Pugh • Washington & Jefferson • Senior quarterback • Jefferson Hills, Pa./Thomas Jefferson Pugh headed the Presidents' offensive efforts in a 45-0 PAC Championship-clinching victory over Allegheny ... Pugh recorded five touchdowns on the day with 295 yards through the air with an 86.4 completion percentage (17-for-22) ... Pugh's four first-half touchdowns put W&J up 35-0 at the half ... With his 92nd career passing touchdown, Pugh now holds sole possession of fourth all-time at W&J in passing touchdowns and sits three away from third ... Pugh also holds the second-most passing touchdowns thrown in a single season at W&J (39) only behind Bobby Swallow '08 (46).

PAC Offensive Honor Roll

Carnegie Mellon graduate student RB Tre Vasiliadis (Great Falls, Va./Langley); Case Western Reserve junior QB Aaron Filips (Medina, Pa./Highland); Geneva junior RB David Reid (Goldsboro, N.C./Charles B. Aycock); Grove City junior RB Ian Demeri (Pittsburgh, Pa./Penn-Trafford); Thiel senior RB Deon Logan (Richmond, Va./James River); Waynesburg junior RB Zayne Cawley (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown); Westminster senior WR Jalen Washington (Orlando, Fla./Dr. Phillips)

 

PAC Defensive Player of the Week

Evan Roper • Carnegie Mellon • Senior linebacker • Barrington, Ill./Barrington Community Roper helped the Tartans to a 37-30 win over Case Western Reserve in the 38th Academic Bowl on Saturday ... Roper headed a defense that held Case Western Reserve to 93 yards on the ground, marking the ninth time the Tartans defense has held their opponent to under 100 yards rushing this season ... Roper finished the game with a team-high 10 tackles (six solo) and added a sack and another tackle for loss in the win.

PAC Defensive Honor Roll

Allegheny senior LB Azary Matsuda (Roseville, Calif./Granite Bay); Bethany junior LB Sonny Fox (Barberton, Ohio/Barberton); Case Western Reserve graduate student LB Gabe Troch (Raleigh, N.C./Millbrook); Geneva sophomore DL Coltin Hill (New Castle, Pa./Laurel); Grove City senior SS Shay Aitken (McDonald, Pa./South Fayette); Thiel junior LB Jake Badger (Mercer, Pa./Mercer); W&J fifth-year LB Justin Johns (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional); Waynesburg senior S Brennan Boron (St. Marys, W.Va./St. Marys); Westminster junior LB Dylan Sleva (Moon Twp., Pa./Moon)

 

PAC Special Teams Player of the Week

Jayveerh White • Thiel • Sophomore kick returner • Sharon, Pa./Sharon White reeled off a 95-yard kickoff return for a touchdown early in the first quarter to give the Tomcats a 12-7 lead at Bethany, a lead Thiel would never relinquish as they went on to a 30-23 victory ... White's return for a touchdown is the first for the Tomcats since 2022 and the longest runback of the season in the PAC.

PAC Special Teams Honor Roll

Allegheny junior WR/KR Chris Gisewhite (Corpus Christi, Texas/Flour Bluff); Carnegie Mellon junior kicker Justin Caputo (Bridgeville, Pa./South Fayette); Geneva freshman P/K Evan Baker (Beaver, Pa./Beaver); W&J K/P Deven Wyandt (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle); Westminster freshman K Andrew Caranna (Copley, Ohio/Revere)

 

PAC Newcomer of the Week

Noah Wheeler • Grove City • Freshman cornerback • McKinney, Texas/McKinney Christian Wheeler had a team-leading seven tackles and two pass breakups Saturday in Grove City's 36-9 win at Westminster … Both of his break-ups came on third down plays to stop Westminster drives in Grove City territory, which helped the Wolverines limit Westminster to three field goals.

PAC Newcomer Honor Roll

Allegheny freshman LB Jihad Muhammed (McDonough, Ga./Eagle's Landing); Geneva freshman LB Wyman Shaheen (Mableton, Ga./Whitefield Academy); Thiel freshman DB Chris Bloomfield (Boynton Beach, Fla./Boca Raton); Westminster freshman WR/DB Brite Cannon (Parkland, Fla./Monarch)

 

PAC Records & Milestones

For the second time in conference history and first time since 1998, the PAC has football tri-champions, as W&J, Grove City and Carnegie Mellon all finished with 9-1 records ... W&J earned the conference's automatic bid through a tiebreaker, while Grove City and Carnegie Mellon earned at-large bids to the NCAA Playoffs, the first time the PAC has ever had three teams make the national playoffs ... Allegheny's Azary Matsuda tied a season-high with 11 tackles against W&J ... With nine tackles Saturday against Thiel, Bethany LB Sonny Fox finished with 110 stops this year to lead the PAC ... Case Western Reserve QB Aaron Filips threw for a career-high 315 yards and two TDs against #13 Carnegie Mellon ... In Geneva's season-ending win over Waynesburg, Coltin Hill had seven tackles, including 2.5 TFLs, a sack, a forced fumble and a blocked kick ... Grove City's Ian Demeri ran for a career-high 163 yards and three TDs at Westminster and his 88-yard run in the third quarter tied Phil Yancheff for the longest run from scrimmage in program history ... Thiel's Deon Logan accounted for all four Tomcat offensive TDs in their win at Bethany and also became the first Thiel running back to have three rushing TDs in a game since Nick Barca in 2016 ... W&J's Justin Johns posted five tackles in the Allegheny win to reach 350 career stops and move past former W&J program leader Eric Field '04 (348 career tackles) ... Waynesburg's Brennan Boron had a career-high 17 tackles against Geneva ... Waynesburg's Zayne Cawley rushed for 118 yards against Geneva for his seventh 100-yard rushing game of the season, which gave him 1,225 rushing yards this season, the most for a Waynesburg running back since Robert Heller led NCAA Division III with 2,176 rushing yards in 2007 ... Westminster kicker Andrew Caranna made field goals from 35/28/34 yards against Grove City and is the first Titan kicker to make three field goals in a game since Joshua Byers hit three in a 31-6 win over Geneva on Nov. 13, 2021.