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| Joel Perez returns one of his two kickoff returns for touchdowns from Saturday's Delaware Valley comeback win vs. Stevenson. Delaware Valley athletics photo |
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Games of Oct. 25, 2025
The Team of the Week, presented by Scoutware, is D3football.com's weekly honor roll, in its 27th season of recognizing the top performance at each position from the previous week. Players are nominated by schools.
Offense
QB Trey Feeney, Jr., St. John's
Feeney had another big day for the Johnnies, passing for 409 yards and six touchdowns in SJU's 49-10 victory over Carleton. He completed 33 of his 41 passes with a long of 46, throwing touchdowns to four different receivers. He has now thrown for 783 yards in two games since taking over as SJU's full-time starter ahead of Oct. 18's win at Concordia-Moorhead.
OL Chris Logue, Christopher Solecki, Aidan Toomey, Liam Henry, Austin Sorokanych, Franklin & Marshall
A young offensive line that features three sophomores, one junior, and one senior helped F&M to 202 yards of total rushing in a 52-20 win over Ursinus. That point total marked the highest for the Diplomats at Ursinus all-time in a series that dates back to 1894. F&M nearly doubled its rushing average of 104.2 yards per game entering the week.
RB Bryan Ferreira, Fr., Endicott
Ferreira rushed for a single-game program record 247 yards and a single-game program record-tying four touchdowns in Endicott's 56-3 road win over Nichols on Saturday. His 247 rushing yards and four touchdowns are both single-game records by a freshman, too, while his 19.0 yards per carry (13 attempts) broke the previous single-game program record of 13.6 (minimum 10 attempts).
RB Terrel Graves, So., Greenville
Graves ran for 291 yards and three touchdowns on just 23 carries, helping the Panthers move into first place in the UMAC with their win over Minnesota-Morris.
WR Robby Ballentine, Sr., DePauw
Ballentine tied a program record with 16 catches in 35-28 win at Denison, a record which was set in 1978. He also broke his own program single-game receiving yardage record with 246 yards. His three touchdown catches (11, 25, 6 yards) moved his career total to 50 which leads all NCAA levels of football.
WR Sytyn Lasconia, Fr., Lewis & Clark
Lasconia became only the third Lewis & Clark player to post four receiving touchdowns in a game in Saturday's homecoming tilt against Northwest Conference leaders Whitworth. He posted a line of 10 receptions for 166 yards and four scores. He posted the first four touchdowns of the day for Lewis & Clark and scored from 8, 42, 36 and 45 yards out. His second and third touchdowns came on fourth down.
TE Logan Frederick, Sr., Utica
Frederick logged game-highs for receptions and receiving yards with eight catches for 124 yards and a touchdown in a 51-28 win at Alfred. He was adept at catching the deep ball as well, recording receptions of 30 and 48 yards.
Defense
DE Brian Pritt, Sr., Benedictine
Pritt added two more sacks to his tops-in-the-nation total in a win over Lakeland and finished with seven tackles as part of a defensive line that put constant pressure on Lakeland's quarterback. Pritt has 12 sacks in seven games this season for the Eagles.
DT Jack Drahos, Sr., Wartburg
Drahos made his presence felt in the trenches, helping lead a Wartburg defense that held No. 14 Central to just 34 rushing yards on 22 attempts. He finished with five tackles, two and a half sacks, two and a half tackles for loss, a forced fumble and two quarterback hits.
DT John Sullivan, Sr., North Central
Sullivan led the Cardinals with six tackles and had two and a half losses and a sack, all coming in the first half as North Central routed Augustana 76-14.
DE Gaven Aldridge, So., Maryville
Aldridge finished with four tackles, all for loss, totaling 13 yards, including two sacks for 11 yards in a 44-13 win against Southwestern. He also forced a fumble and broke up a pass, constantly pressuring the Southwestern quarterbacks and collapsing the pocket. The Scots limited the Pirates to 231 total yards, 75 on the ground.
LB Colton Schreur, Sr., Hope
Schreur set a season-high in tackles vs. No. 25 Adrian, finishing with 10 tackles, five solo in the 19-17 win. He also had half a tackl for loss and a pass breakup. He helped the defense shut out the Bulldogs in the second half and allow only 217 yards of total offense for the game. Provided solo coverage on quarterback-turned-receiver on key fourth-down stop when Adrian tried to convert a halfback pass up 17-16 at the Hope 9-yard line.
LB Zeke Harris, So., Wheaton
Harris led all players with 13 total tackles on Saturday in Wheaton's 28-24 victory against WashU. Nine of this 13 tackles were solo stops. Harris made the final key defensive play of the game with an interception that stopped WashU's final offensive drive. WashU began its final drive of the game at its own 27-yard line with 6:20 remaining in the contest and methodically moved downfield on 13 plays to the Wheaton 21-yard line and on third down the Bears dropped back to pass, but Harris picked off the pass at the Thunder 15-yard line and returned it 15 yards to the Thunder 30-yard line with 28 seconds remaining in the game as the Thunder offense was able to run out the clock.
LB Noah Noland, Fr., Simpson
Noland matched his career high with 18 total tackles in Simpson's 27-7 win over Dubuque. Twelve of them were solo stops, and he had two sacks for a loss of nine yards. He helped Simpson keep Dubuque out of the end zone with a goal-line stand on third-and-goal from the 2, keeping the Spartans from being able to score before the game went to halftime.
CB Aidan Paquin, Fr., Kalamazoo
Paquin had 14 total tackles, with 10 of those being solo. He also had a forced fumble and had four pass breakups as Kalamazoo rallied to get past Albion, 30-26.
S Da'Marion Morris, Jr., Mary Hardin-Baylor
Morris totaled 14 tackles, nine solo in a 41-17 win against Howard Payne. He added two tackles for loss and grabbed an interception in the end zone. He led all players in tackles and tackles for loss in the contest.
S Chris Bergman, Jr., Alfred State
Bergman led the Pioneers on the defensive side of the ball as he tallied eight tackles (4 solo), an interception, and two pass breakups in a 54-28 win vs. Hartwick.
CB Jomar Brown, Jr., La Verne
Brown picked off the Sagehens twice in a 26-8 win at Pomona-Pitzer and finished with four tackles. His first pick set up La Verne's opening field goal. He snagged another ball in the final seconds of the first half to preserve a 19-0 lead at the break. The Leopards claimed their first win overall since 2023 and snapped a 15-game losing streak.
Special teams
K Aidan Ellison, Sr., North Central
Ellison kicked field goals of 48 and 57 yards, the latter being the longest made field goal in Division III since September 2022, and went perfect on seven extra points in a 76-14 win against Augustana.
P Vincente Lyon, Sr., Hobart
The Statesmen only called on Lyon twice, but he delivered, averaging 50.0 yards per punt and placing both of them inside the 20, one of them inside the 10. His long punt was 57 yards.
RET Joel Perez, Fr., Delaware Valley
Perez returned the opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown against Stevenson, and he wasn't done. He one-upped that with a 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the third quarter, helping Delaware Valley rally from a 31-14 deficit to win, 41-38.
ST Brehdyn Clemons, So., Anderson
Clemons recovered a fumble on a kickoff and returned it 14 yards to the 1-yard line, setting up an easy Anderson touchdown. He later blocked a punt and recovered it. The play gave Anderson the ball on the Wilmington 24, which also led to an Anderson touchdown in a 34-23 loss to the Quakers.