Men's Soccer | 9/29/2025 4:00:00 PM
Week 5 PAC Honors (for events between September 22-28)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 5 of the 2025 season.
PAC Offensive Player of the Week
Noah Gray • Grove City • Junior midfielder • Glen Mills Pa./The Christian Academy
Gray helped Grove City start conference play with two wins by scoring four goals and adding a pair of assists last week … Saturday, Gray posted a hat trick and assisted on a fourth goal in the Wolverines' 5-1 victory over visiting Allegheny … Tuesday night, Gray tallied a goal and an assist in a 4-1 win at Bethany … He leads the Wolverines with seven goals, three assists and 17 points this year.
PAC Offensive Honor Roll
Allegheny junior midfielder Will Gruca (Baden, Pa./Ambridge); Chatham sophomore midfielder Izeyah Romo (Newark, Calif./Newark Memorial); Franciscan senior forward Lucas Cross (Clarkston, Mich./Everett Collegiate); Geneva senior midfielder Wil Dunda (Sewickley, Pa./North Allegheny); Thiel sophomore forward Mitchell Strauss (Bradford, Pa./Bradford); Waynesburg junior forward Zachary Johnson (Raceland, Ky./Saint Joseph Central Catholic)
PAC Defensive Player, Goalkeeper of the Week
Deven Patel • Waynesburg • Freshman goalkeeper • Columbus, Ohio/St. Francis DeSales
Patel logged shutouts five and six on the season this past week, moving him into the top spot in the PAC ... He logged two saves in Waynesburg's 0-0 tie with Westminster on Wednesday ... Patel played a key role in the Yellow Jackets' 2-0 victory over Bethany on Saturday, piling up a season-high 12 saves to blank the Bison, including three in the final 15 minutes after Waynesburg added their second goal.
PAC Defensive, Goalkeeper Honor Roll
Allegheny sophomore goalkeeper Cadan Bennett (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine-Richland); Chatham junior goalkeeper Maxwell Cottrill (Pittsburgh, Pa./CAPA); Grove City junior defender Theo Campbell (Robinson Township, Pa./Robinson Township Christian); Thiel junior goalkeeper Bryce Stefanowicz (Greenville, Pa./Greenville)
PAC Newcomer of the Week
Noah Buchanan • Geneva • Freshman goalkeeper • Evansville, Ind./Mater Dei
Buchanan followed up an excellent debut week with two more solid performances this week, garnering his second consecutive clean sheet in Geneva's 1-0 win over W&J on Wednesday before helping Geneva to a 3-1 victory over Westminster on Saturday ... He finished with five saves across the two matches, allowing just one goal, for a .833 save percentage ... He has now allowed just one goal through the four matches he has played in this season.
PAC Newcomer Honor Roll
Chatham freshman defender Garrett Peterson (Dublin, Ohio/Dublin Coffman); Franciscan freshman forward Andrew Goduti (Naples, Fla./Barron Collier); Grove City freshman midfielder Owen Whitehead (Mesa, Ariz./Arete Prep); Hiram freshman goalkeeper Derek Ufholz (Mentor, Ohio/Mentor); Saint Vincent freshman forward Daniel Maddock (North Huntingdon, Pa./Norwin); Thiel freshman forward Maxwell Kovacik (Slippery Rock, Pa./Slippery Rock)
Records & Milestones
Chatham's Garrett Peterson played all 90 minutes in both matches of a 0-1-1 week, which saw the Cougars allow just six shots on goal overall ... Franciscan's Lucas Cross scored two goals at Saint Vincent and struck for the game-winner with 1:58 to play in a 1-0 triumph at Chatham as the Barons opened PAC play with two road wins ... Wil Dunda was the catalyst in Geneva's 2-0 week to start PAC play, scoring the lone goal in a 1-0 victory over W&J and posting one goal and one assist in a 3-1 win at Westminster ... Hiram's Derek Ufholz recorded his second and third career shutouts this past week against Thiel (one save in 2-0 win) and W&J (three saves in 0-0 tie) ... After scoring Saint Vincent's lone goal against Franciscan, Daniel Maddock had three points (1g/1a) in a 4-0 win over Thiel ... Waynesburg's Zachary Johnson had both goals in a 2-0 victory over Bethany.