Football | 11/17/2025 4:00:00 PM

Week 11 PAC Honors (for events between November 10-16)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 11 of the 2025 season.

PAC Offensive Player of the Week
Brite Cannon • Westminster • Sophomore wide receiver • Parkland, Fla./Monarch
Cannon caught six passes for 113 yards and three scores in Saturday's 57-14 win at Saint Vincent … Saturday was his second three-touchdown game of the season, as he had three in a win over Thiel on Oct. 18 … It was also his fifth game of the season with 100 or more receiving yards… Cannon scored on a 65-yard pass with just over eight minutes left in the first half to push Westminster's lead to 27-0 … It was his fifth receiving touchdown to go for 50 or more yards this season… He has 10 receiving touchdowns this fall. 

PAC Offensive Honor Roll
Allegheny sophomore running back Dominic Berarducci (Erie, Pa./McDowell); Bethany sophomore wide receiver Jermain Beersingh (Miami, Fla./Hialeah); Case Western Reserve sophomore wide receiver Will Stack (Wadsworth, Ohio/Wadsworth); Geneva junior quarterback Caleb Romano (Ravena, N.Y./Mount Dora Christian Academy); Grove City junior running back Chase Rankin (Coventry Township, Ohio/Coventry); Hiram senior wide receiver Da'Vaughn Lewis (Columbus, Ohio/Lancaster); W&J senior wide receiver John Peduzzi (Hilton Head, S.C./Hilton Head Christian Academy)

PAC Defensive Player of the Week
Nicholas Ciriello • Geneva • Senior linebacker • Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada/Canisius
Ciriello was a force to be reckoned with in Geneva's big win over Case Western Reserve on Saturday, helping them hold the high-powered Spartan offense to just 16 points ... He finished the game with 12 total tackles, including a career-high 11 solo stops, and he ended the regular season as the leading tackler in the PAC with 108 on the year ... He also made two tackles for loss and registered one sack in the victory ... The highlight of his performance was a fumble recovery off a sack that he scooped up at the CWRU 10-yard line and ran in for a touchdown to put Geneva ahead 17-7 with three minutes to play in the second quarter.

PAC Defensive Honor Roll
Allegheny freshman linebacker Ryan Croston (Jefferson, Ohio/Pymatuning Valley); Bethany junior linebacker Charlie DiSaia (Wheeling, W.Va./Wheeling Park); Case Western Reserve senior defensive end Joseph Swarm (Potomac Falls, Va./Potomac Falls);  Grove City senior linebacker Jack Jollie (Jeannette, Pa./Penn-Trafford); Saint Vincent junior defensive back Keegan O'Brien (Chester, Md./Kent Island); Thiel sophomore defensive back Robert Dixie (Youngstown, Ohio/Woodridge); W&J sophomore defensive back Dante DeRubbo (Washington, Pa./Trinity); Westminster senior defensive lineman Jean Garry-Joseph (North Miami, Fla./Ebenezer Christian)

PAC Special Teams Player of the Week
Ty Vickery • Allegheny • Freshman linebacker • Andover, Ohio/Pymatuning Valley
Vickery played on Allegheny's kickoff, kick return, punt, and punt return teams during Saturday's 42-6 win over Bethany and finished with a season-high three tackles, two of which came during kick returns by the Bison in the first quarter … He also recovered a first-quarter fumble while on the punt return team following a high snap, which set the Gators up for their first touchdown by gaining possession on the Bison 17-yard line.

PAC Special Teams Honor Roll
Geneva senior kicker Ryan Reitler (Connellsville, Pa./Greensburg Central Catholic); Grove City freshman kicker/punter Brady Lane (Jefferson, Ga./Mill Creek); Thiel freshman punter Landon Jackson (Baldwin, Mich./Reed City); W&J senior kicker/punter Deven Wyandt (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle); Westminster junior punter Craig Sonson Jr. (Pittsburgh, Pa./Montour)

PAC Newcomer of the Week
Sean Siska • Allegheny • Freshman quarterback • Greenacres, Fla./American Heritage
Siska made his first collegiate start and led the Gators to a 42-6 victory over Bethany … He is only the second true freshman to start at QB for Allegheny since 2015 and finished 14-of-19 (73.7%) for 274 yards and four touchdowns without an interception … It was the most yards and passing touchdowns thrown by any of Allegheny's three starting quarterbacks in 2025 and most touchdowns thrown in a game by a Gator quarterback since Jack Johnson had five against Oberlin on 11/13/21 ... It was also the most TD passes for a Gator quarterback in their first collegiate start since Johnson had four against Thiel on 9/4/21.

PAC Newcomer Honor Roll
Bethany freshman running back Julian Burrell (Manassas, Va./Osbourn); Geneva freshman defensive back Demarean Frazier (Washington, D.C./Roosevelt); Grove City freshman running Shepherd Miller (Bradenton, Fla./IMG Academy); Westminster freshman quarterback Quentin Goode (Aliquippa, Pa./Aliquippa)

PAC Records & Milestones
Bethany's Charlie DiSaia compiled 14 tackles against Allegheny, including 4.5 TFLs, one sack and a blocked field goal ... Case Western Reserve wideout Will Stack caught a career-high eight balls for 65 yards and a 10-yard TD against Geneva ... Caleb Romano threw for 213 yards and three touchdowns against Case Western Reserve, giving him 33 TD passes on the year to break the program's single-season record ... Jack Jollie paced a Grove City defense that held Hiram to -5 yards rushing by recording nine tackles, 1.5 sacks and a forced fumble in a 63-14 victory ... Hiram's Da'Vaughn Lewis tied a season-high with seven receptions and set a new career-high with 122 receiving yards against Grove City Saturday ... Saint Vincent's Keegan O'Brien registered 11 total tackles, including three tackles for loss, in Saturday's finale against Westminster ... W&J's Dante DeRubbo had a pick-six in the first quarter against Thiel, giving him seven INTs for the year to move into the top five list for single-season interceptions in program history ... With five receptions for 122 yards and two TDs against Thiel, John Peduzzi became the second player in W&J football history to surpass 4,000 career passing yards, as the senior currently has the most receiving yards in all of the NCAA (Divisions I, II and III) with 4,020 in his career and is also second in all of the NCAA in career receiving touchdowns with 52 ... W&J completed an undefeated 8-0 run through the PAC with a 67-0 victory over Thiel to clinch sole possession of its 28th PAC title in program history ... Also earning the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, the Presidents will open the playoffs at Susquehanna in a first round game Saturday, Nov. 22nd at noon ... Grove City also earned an at-large bid to the NCAAs and will begin the playoffs on road as well with a first-round match-up at Hanover (Ind.) College Saturday at noon ... A third team making a postseason appearance is Westminster, who will play in the Opendorse Bowl Series at Tom Benson Stadium at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio ... The Titans will play in the Extra Points Bowl for the second year in a row and face off with Mount St. Joseph at 6 pm on Nov. 22nd ... For the second year in a row, the PAC will have four teams in the postseason, as Geneva received an ECAC bowl bid and will travel to SUNY Brockport to play in the Robert M. "Scotty" Whitelaw Bowl on Saturday, the GTs first postseason appearance since they won the National Christian College Athletic Association Victory Bowl in 2009.