Men's Basketball | 12/8/2025 4:00:00 PM
Week 5 PAC Honors (for events between December 1-7)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 5 of the 2025-26 season.
PAC Player of the Week
Jonathan Bertovich • Geneva • Senior guard • East Palestine, Ohio/Heartland Christian
Bertovich led Geneva to back-to-back wins to start PAC play last week, averaging 19.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.5 steals per game while shooting 6-of-12 (50%) from three-point range across the two contests ... In Wednesday's win at Grove City, he scored a game-high 17 points, notched four rebounds and two steals ... In a win over Allegheny on Saturday, he shot 6-for-11 on the day, including a 4-for-7 effort from three-point land, for a team-best 22 points ... He added four assists, three rebounds and a steal versus the Gators ... He leads the PAC with 3.7 three-pointers made per game and a .465 three-point percentage.
PAC Men's Basketball Honor Roll
Allegheny senior guard Ryan Lang (Sarver, Pa./Knoch); Bethany senior guard Co Rose (Odessa, Texas/Odessa); Chatham senior forward Jake TenBerge (Los Angeles, Calif./Chaparral); Franciscan junior guard Sawyer Butler (Beaver, Pa./Beaver); Grove City senior guard/forward Mike Christenson (Oakton, Va./Trinity); Saint Vincent junior guard Maxwell Gordon (Weston, Fla./Cypress Bay); Thiel junior forward Khamari Accursio-Harris (Jupiter, Fla../Jupiter); W&J senior forward Alex Acosta (Acworth, Ga./North Cobb); Waynesburg junior guard Aiden Blake (Parkersburg, W.Va./Parkersburg South); Westminster senior forward Trey DePietro (Boardman, Ohio/Boardman)
PAC Newcomer of the Week
Pijus Latauskas • Allegheny • Freshman forward • Vilnius, Lithuania/Kiski Prep-Pa.
Latauskas averaged team highs in points (19.5) and rebounds (7.5) in a 1-1 week for Allegheny … He scored 14 points, tied for the second-most on the team, with five rebounds and one block in a 66-54 win vs. Westminster … Latauskas then netted a career-high 25 points and added 10 rebounds for his first collegiate double-double in a narrow 83-80 loss at Geneva Saturday.
PAC Men's Basketball Newcomer Honor Roll
Bethany freshman guard Jaden Stewart (Pikeville, Ky./Pikeville County Central); Franciscan freshman guard Zachary Pollaro (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Hills); Hiram freshman wing Drovinsky Ulysse (West Palm Beach, Fla./Dr. Joaquin Garcia); Thiel freshman forward Kadenne Kemp (Inglewood, Calif./Northgate-Pa.); Waynesburg freshman forward Preston Luzador (Fairview, W.Va./Clay-Battelle); Westminster freshman guard Nick Ryan (Warren, Ohio/John F. Kennedy)
PAC Records & Milestones
Allegheny's Ryan Lang averaged 18.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 4.0 assists per game while shooting 57.7% (15-26) from the field in a 1-1 week for the Gators ... Bethany's Co Rose tied a career-high with 16 points and added four boards and four assists in a 94-74 win over Penn State-Beaver ... Chatham's Jake TenBerge recorded a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds against W&J ... After posting a 25-point, 11-rebounds double-double in a win at Waynesburg, Franciscan's Sawyer Butler scored 24 in an OT loss against W&J and eclipsed 1,000 career points, becoming the fastest Baron to reach that mark (56 games) ... Following a 26-point outburst in a 65-57 win at Hiram, Grove City's Mike Christenson now has 920 career points ... Hiram's Drovinsky Ulysse averaged 13 points on 56 percent (9-16) shooting from the field and six rebounds in a pair of games last week ... Saint Vincent's Maxwell Gordon was 7-for-13 from the floor and a perfect 10-for-10 from the foul line for a game-high 24 points in SVC's 84-80 win at Waynesburg ... Thiel's Khamari Accursio-Harris tied for the team high with 13 points, including the go-ahead free throws with 16 seconds left, snatched a game-high-tying seven rebounds, dished out a game-and-career-best five assists and blocked a pair of shots in the Tomcats' 61-58 win over Hiram Wednesday ... W&J's Alex Acosta averaged 17.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals in wins over Chatham and Franciscan, highlighted by a 30-point outing in OT victory at Franciscan ... Waynesburg's Aiden Blake averaged 16.5 points and 9.0 rebounds over a pair of contests last week, highlighted when he logged a 19-point, 10-rebound double-double against Franciscan ... Trey DePietro went 12-for-18 from the floor and erupted for a career-high 30 points Saturday in Westminster's 77-67 PAC victory over Thiel.