LOCK HAVEN, Pa. - The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced its Football Athletes of the Week for Week 3 of the 2024 season. In the Western Division, Seton Hill's Ky'Ron Craggette was named the Offensive Athlete of the Week while Slippery Rock's Todd Hill was selected as Defensive Athlete of the Week and Edinboro's Gage Galuska was chosen as Special Teams Athlete of the Week. In the Eastern Division, Bloomsburg's KJ Riley (Offensive) and Cole Turner (Defensive) along with Shepherd's Ryan Barrick (Special Teams) earned the honors.
PSAC Western Division Offensive Athlete of the Week
Ky'Ron Craggette
Seton Hill
Running Back
Redshirt Junior
Connellsville, Pa. / Connellsville
Craggette ran for 132 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the Griffins 27-24 PSAC Crossover victory over West Chester. He scored the final two touchdowns for the Griffins, including the game-winning 12-yard TD run with 1:03 left in the contest to give Seton Hill the lead for good. Craggette, who averaged 5.1 yards per carry, also had a five-yard TD run earlier in the fourth quarter to bring the Griffins within three points, 24-21.
PSAC Western Division Defensive Athlete of the Week
Todd Hill
Slippery Rock
Defensive End
Graduate Student
Homestead, Pa. / Steel Valley
Hill was dominant on the defensive line in leading No. 9 Slippery Rock to a 33-7 win at Shippensburg. He started the scoring for SRU by recording a safety in the first quarter and went on to finish the game with 4.5 tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks, six total tackles, and the safety. His 4.5 TFL are the most by any player in the PSAC in a single game this season. No other player in the PSAC West has recorded more than 3.0 TFL in a single game. Hill leads all players in the PSAC with 2.5 TFL per game through three games.
PSAC Western Division Special Teams Athlete of the Week
Gage Galuska
Edinboro
Wide Receiver
Junior
Pittsburgh, Pa. / Hampton
Galuska had an incredible day (and an incredible second quarter) on special teams for the Fighting Scots. In a scoreless game, Galuska blocked a KJ Riley punt and recovered it in the endzone for Edinboro's first touchdown of the game --giving the Scots a 6-0 lead. He blocked his second punt later in the quarter, recovered at the Bloomsburg 10 yard line, which led to Edinboro's second score and a 12-0 lead.
PSAC Eastern Division Offensive Athlete of the Week
KJ Riley
Bloomsburg
Quarterback
Junior
Danville, Pa. / Danville Area
Riley went 16-for-21 for a career-high 278 yards, two touchdown passes, and nine rushing yards on four carries. He engineered Bloomsburg's first touchdown drive to cut the lead to 12-6 before halftime and put together a seven-play, 75-yard drive that took just 38 seconds and was the game-winning drive in the 4th quarter that made the score 32-27. Riley also did all of the punting (and one kick off) and tallied 260 punting yards, an average of 43.3, and a long of 58. He had two punts inside the 20 and one touchback.
PSAC Eastern Division Defensive Athlete of the Week
Cole Turner
Bloomsburg
Defensive Back
Redshirt Sophomore
Royersford, Pa. / Spring-Ford
Turner was a huge part of the 32-27 win over Edinboro and finished the day with 8.0 total tackles for the Huskies in addition to a forced fumble, fumble recovery, broken up pass, and game-ending interception. The interception came as time expired in regulation to seal the win on the Bloomsburg 1-yard line. It was Turner's first career pick and spoiled a potential game-winning Hail Mary attempt by the Fighting Scots. He made a critical tackle in the first quarter as he stopped Jerry Dinkins on the Bloomsburg 3 on fourth down to flip possession and deny the points. He also recovered an Edinboro fumble in the end zone for a touchback to keep the Fighting Scots off the board in the first quarter. Turner almost had his second fourth-down stop for the Huskies as he forced a fumble after Reed Martin caught a pass on 4th-and-7 but the ball just scooted out of bounds before the Huskies could recover it.
PSAC Eastern Division Special Teams Athlete of the Week
Ryan Barrick
Shepherd
Punter
Senior
Frederick, Md. / Tuscarora
Barrick punted seven times for a 48.0 average to help Shepherd pick up the 27-9 victory over Clarion last Saturday. He placed a pair of punts inside the 20-yard line and had three punts of 50 yards or more, with his longest going for 54 yards.