Football | 10/27/2025 4:00:00 PM
Week 8 PAC Honors (for events between October 20-26)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 8 of the 2025 season.
PAC Offensive Player of the Week
Kellan Stahl • Washington & Jefferson • Senior quarterback • Johnstown, Pa./Richland
Stahl had a record-setting performance in his two and a half quarters of play in a 56-0 victory over Waynesburg ... Stahl broke the NCAA Division III record for highest completion percentage in a game with a minimum of 20 attempts, going 27-for-28 (96.4%) on the day for 408 yards and five touchdowns ... The record was previously held by two John Carroll quarterbacks, most recently Nick Semptimphelter, who broke the record this season with a 96.2% completion percentage (25-for-26).
PAC Offensive Honor Roll
Allegheny sophomore wide receiver Devin Larry (Loganville, Ga./Loganville Christian); Case Western Reserve junior quarterback Sam DeTillio (Avon, Ohio/Avon); Geneva junior quarterback Caleb Romano (Ravena, N.Y./Mount Dora Christian Academy); Grove City junior wide receiver Seth McGroerty (Middletown, Del./Red Lion Christian); Hiram sophomore wide receiver Jordan Stapleton (Mentor, Ohio/Mentor); Thiel senior running back Deon Logan (Richmond, Va./James River)
PAC Defensive Player of the Week
Keagan Fraser • Grove City • Senior free safety • Butler, Pa./Knoch
Fraser intercepted two passes Saturday in Grove City's 14-7 win over Westminster ... His first interception late in the first quarter at the Grove City 1 kept the game scoreless ... He intercepted his second pass in the fourth quarter and returned the theft 22 yards to the Westminster 18, which set up the eventual game-winning touchdown run with 6:49 left in the game ... Fraser also had five tackles and his work in run support helped Grove City limit the conference's No. 1 rushing attack to 57 yards.
PAC Defensive Honor Roll
Allegheny sophomore defensive end Aizik Campbell (Mobile, Ala./Mary G. Montgomery); Case Western Reserve senior defensive end Joseph Swarm (Potomac Falls, Va./Potomac Falls); Geneva senior linebacker Nicholas Ciriello (Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada/Canisius); Thiel junior defensive back Matt Jordan (New Castle, Pa./Kennedy Catholic); W&J sophomore linebacker Brock Sherman (Copley, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit); Waynesburg junior defensive back Joanes Polynice (Winter Garden, Fla./West Orange); Westminster senior linebacker Dylan Sleva (McDonald, Pa./Moon)
PAC Special Teams Player of the Week
Gabriel Petrozzi • Case Western Reserve • Junior kicker • Wilmette, Ill./Loyola Academy
Petrozzi accounted for 12 points during the Spartans’ 55-7 win at Thiel on Saturday, including a career-long 50-yard field goal ... Petrozzi’s 50-yard boot with 6:10 left in the third quarter matched the eighth-longest by a Division III kicker this season and was the longest by a PAC kicker since Carnegie Mellon's Tyler Kohman hit a 50-yarder against Westminster on Oct. 4, 2014 ... It was also the second-longest field goal in program history behind a 51-yard kick by Joe Brenner against WashU on October 25, 2003, exactly 22 years prior to Petrozzi’s kick ... Petrozzi also made a 31-yard field goal with 9:54 left in the first quarter to put CWRU in front 10-0 at the time, and was successful on all six of his extra point attempts.
PAC Special Teams Honor Roll
Allegheny freshman punter Dylan Reid (Loxahatchee, Fla./Seminole Ridge); Geneva senior kicker Ryan Reitler (Connellsville, Pa./Greensburg Central Catholic); Grove City freshman kicker/punter Brady Lane (Jefferson, Ga./Mill Creek); Thiel senior kicker Benjamin Paserk (Batavia, N.Y./Batavia); W&J senior kicker/punter Deven Wyandt (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle)
PAC Newcomer of the Week
Nick Barker • Allegheny • Freshman quarterback • Cleveland, Ohio/Padua Franciscan
Barker entered off the bench in the third quarter and helped the Allegheny offense solidify a 28-13 victory at Hiram … He came in with the Gators up 7-6 midway through the third quarter and completed 7-of-9 (77.8%) through the air for 133 yards and two touchdowns while also running for 22 yards on four attempts ... Barker threw a two-yard touchdown to Will Griffin (Hingham, Mass./Hingham) and a 59-yard score to Devin Larry, turning the one-point lead into a 21-6 advantage in the third quarter.
PAC Newcomer Honor Roll
Case Western Reserve freshman running back Joel Hancock (Cincinnati, Ohio/Wyoming); Geneva freshman wide receiver Damien Lacks (Hanover, Pa./South Western); Grove City freshman linebacker Nick Clemens (Moon Township, Pa./Moon); Thiel freshman wide receiver Riley Dunbar (Lyons, Ohio/Evergreen); Westminster freshman wide receiver Lawrence Grayson (Washington, D.C./Paul Laurence Dunbar)
PAC Records & Milestones
In Saturday's 28-13 win over Hiram, Allegheny's Aizik Campbell posted career-highs with eight tackles, four tackles-for-loss (TFL) and three sacks, the first Gator with 3.0 sacks in a game since Colten Buzard finished with 3.0 sacks against Hiram on 9/30/17 ... Despite playing only 30 minutes before subbing out with Case Western Reserve holding a comfortable lead, Sam DeTillio accounted for three Spartan TDs, throwing for two and running for another in a 55-7 win at Thiel ... Geneva's Caleb Romano, who leads all of Division III in passing yards (2,941) and TD passes (29), threw for 475 yards and six scores in a 75-28 win over Bethany, giving Geneva three straight games with 50+ points scored for the first time in the program's 130-year history ... Hiram's Jordan Stapleton recorded career-highs with 10 receptions and 135 receiving yards, including a 49-yard TD catch, in Saturday's game with Allegheny ... Thiel's Deon Logan posted his second 100-yard rushing performance of the season with 118 yards on 24 carries and scored the Tomcats' TD against Case Western Reserve ... W&J's Brock Sherman totaled 10 tackles, including four TFLs and a sack, in the win at Waynesburg Saturday ... Waynesburg's Joanes Polynice recorded his fourth straight game with nine tackles and added a game-high 3.0 tackles-for-loss and a fumble recovery against W&J ... With 11 tackles in Saturday's game at Grove City, Westminster's Dylan Sleva now has four games with 10 or more tackles this season.