All-NCAC Football Teams

November 21, 2007

ALL-NCAC FOOTBALL SQUADS ANNOUNCED;
CARROLL, PYNENBERG TAKE TOP HONORS

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CLEVELAND -- Oberlin junior R.V. Carroll (Perry, OH/Perry) and Wabash senior Adrian Pynenberg (Montgomery, IL/Oswego) have been honored for outstanding seasons by being named North Coast Athletic Conference Players of the Year. Carroll receives the Mike Gregory Award as the NCAC’s Offensive Player of the Year. The award is presented by Richard Gregory of Columbus, in honor of his father, a multi-sport standout at Denison in the 1920s. Pynenberg, meanwhile, is the Defensive Player of the Year for the second time and receives the Hank Critchfield Award, commemorating the 1927 Wooster graduate.

Carroll, a junior tailback, led the Yeomen to a third-place finish in the North Coast, pacing the league in rushing (103.8 yards per game), scoring (9.8 points per game), and touchdowns (16). He is the first Oberlin player ever to lead the conference in any of those three categories. Carroll, who moves to the first team after earning second team recognition in 2006, was the only 1,000-yard rusher in the NCAC this season, compiling 1,038 yards on the ground.

Pynenberg, a senior inside linebacker, helped the Little Giants to their third straight NCAC championship by dominating opponents again this season with a league-best 150 total tackles. He racked up 82 solo stops, 23 tackles for a loss of 104 yards, and seven sacks for a loss of 51. Pynenberg, a three-time first-team performer, has led Wabash in tackles his entire career and is the Little Giants' all-time career leader in the category. He has 150 career stops.

Wittenberg freshman inside linebacker Brad McKinley (Hilliard, OH/Davidson) is the North Coast’s Newcomer of the Year. He led the Tigers in tackles and finished second in the North Coast behind Pynenberg with a total of 120 stops, 53 of them solo.

Wabash’s Chris Creighton has been named Coach of the Year for the third time after guiding his team to its third straight North Coast crown and the fourth in his seven-year tenure. The Little Giants made their second NCAA Division III tournament appearance since 2005, and have advanced to Saturday's second round game at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland. Creighton is 62-14 (.816) in seven seasons as head coach at Wabash, 94-21 (.817) in 11 seasons as a collegiate head coach.

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