FOOTBALL
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.
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Western Division Athlete of the Week
Cassidy Snider
Clarion
Outside Hitter
Senior
Harmonsburg, Pa. / Conneaut
Snider earned All-Tournament honors for the third straight week after a superlative effort at the Atlantic Region Crossover hosted by Wheeling and West Liberty. The senior outside hitter averaged 5.27 kills per set, totaling 79 total kills in the span of 15 sets, as the Golden Eagles went 3-1 at the tournament. She powered the Golden Eagles in a comeback effort against West Virginia State in the first match of the weekend, recording 27 kills and 12 digs for a double-double. She added 15 kills in four sets against West Liberty and 17 kills in three sets against Fairmont State - both victories - and finished the weekend with 20 kills at Wheeling. In the process, Snider became just the second player in program history to top 1,600 kills in a career, and her 1,633 kills is just 12 behind the lead for active career leaders nationally.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
PSAC Western Division Athlete of the Week
Hannah Scardina
IUP
Forward
Graduate Student
Indiana, Pa. / Indiana Area
MEN'S SOCCER
PSAC Western Division Athlete of the Week
Julian Marker
Seton Hill
Midfield
Junior
Frankfurt, Germany / Rackow Schule
Julien Marker led the Griffins to a 1-0-1 week with three goals. He scored a goal in the 5-5 tie with Roberts Wesleyan and then added a pair of goals in the win over WV Wesleyan. Julien scored the game-winner against WV Wesleyan.
PSAC Western Division Defensive Athlete of the Week
Brady Freiwald
Lock Haven
Goalkeeper
Senior
Altoona, Pa. / Altoona
Brady Freiwald made four saves in a shutout to lead the Bald Eagles to an impressive 3-0 victory over PSAC reigning champions Millersville on Saturday. The shutout is the second of the season for Freiwald, who is riding a two-game winning streak in net.
PSAC Eastern Division Athlete of the Week
Peter Tichy
West Chester
Forward
Redshirt Sophomore
Bethlehem, Pa. / Freedom
Peter Tichy scored a pair of goals on Saturday afternoon to help lead the West Chester University men’s soccer team to a 4-2 victory over Bloomsburg to open PSAC East play. Tichy scored the first goal of the game just over 13 minutes into the match before scoring the eventual game-winner early in the second half off a beautiful assist from Maksym Komperda to help West Chester open PSAC East play with a victory once again in 2024.
PSAC Eastern Division Defensive Athlete of the Week
Helgi Hermannsson
East Stroudsburg
Goalkeeper
Junior
Keflavík, Iceland / Fjölbrautarskóli Suðurnesja
In a 1-0-1 week, he allowed just a goal per game, making six combined saves against Bloomsburg and Shepherd, and holds a .786 save percentage and a .76 GAA through four games.
FIELD HOCKEY
PSAC Field Hockey Co-Athlete of the Week
Aydan McFarland
Bloomsburg
Forward
Senior
Bloomsburg, Pa. /
Bloomsburg Area
McFarland posted eight goals and four assists for 20 points during the Huskies' 3-0 week. She matched her career-high for points in a game with eight (three goals, two assists) in Bloomsburg's 7-1 victory over New Haven. McFarland posted her third hat trick of the season two days later in a 4-0 victory over Roberts Wesleyan. On Sunday, the senior registered two goals and an assist in a 7-0 win against D'Youville. McFarland is the first Husky to record multiple goals in three-straight games since Jenna DiSabatino in 2012. She currently leads the nation in goals (15), goals per game (1.67), points (35), points per game (3.89) while being tied for second in assists (5).
PSAC Field Hockey Co-Athlete of the Week
Agus Garibaldi
Shippensburg
Forward
Junior
Recoleta, Argentina /
Colegio San Augustin
Garibaldi scored three goals and handed out a pair of assists during a 2-0 week for the Raiders. In a prominent early-season matchup between the two top-ranked teams in the country, the Ship forward had a hand in both SU goals in a Raider victory at No. 1 Kutztown, 2-0. Garibaldi provided an assist on the game's opening goal, then added a fourth-quarter tally to seal the Raider win. Garibaldi wrapped up her week with two goals and an assist in SU's rout of Slippery Rock Saturday at Robb Sports Complex, 10-1. Her second goal of the game was one for the highlight reel, as she gathered a penalty corner insert and danced past three SRU defenders before lifting her shot over the SRU goalkeeper. The solo effort was her team-leading seventh goal of the season.
PSAC Field Hockey Defensive Athlete of the Week
Emma Albee
Shippensburg
Goalkeeper
Redshirt Junior
Basking Ridge, N.J. / Ridge
Albee had a major impact in a clash between the two top-ranked teams in the country Wednesday at Kutztown, making three saves for the then-No. 2-ranked Raiders in a 2-0 victory over the then-No. 1-ranked Golden Bears. The win was Albee's fourth shutout of the season. Later in the week, Albee got the start in the cage and did not allow a goal in SU's 10-1 win over Slippery Rock at home.
CROSS COUNTRY
PSAC Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Week
Anna Igims
Slippery Rock
Graduate Student
Pittsburgh, Pa. / Avonworth
Igims remained unbeaten on the year with a win at the Inaugural YSU Alumni XC Meet hosted by Division I Youngstown State. She won the 5,000-meter race with a time of 17:49, topping a Division I runner from YSU in second place. Slippery Rock was the top Division II team in the event and took down the defending regional champions and No. 1 ranked team in the region, Charleston, which entered the meet as the only team ranked higher than SRU in the latest regional rankings.
PSAC Men's Cross Country Athlete of the Week
Troy Hart
Slippery Rock
Senior
Fredonia, Pa. / Reynolds
Hart was the third overall finisher at the Inaugural YSU Alumni XC Meet hosted by Youngstown State, crossing the line in 26:05 behind two runners from the top ranked team in the Atlantic Region, Charleston. Hart led SRU to a third-place finish in the team standings and has now been the top finisher for SRU in each of the first two meets this fall.
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