Sports News: Fall 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007

MORAVIAN’S BRAXMEIER EARNS CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS
Robinson & Reckenbeil Named to Weekly Honor Rolls

LANCASTER, PA --- Junior quarterback Marc Braxmeier (Center Valley, PA/Allentown Central Catholic HS) of the Moravian College football team has been named the Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Week while junior defensive back Carl Robinson (Boothwyn, PA/Garnet Valley HS) and junior kicker Brian Reckenbeil (Branchburg, NJ/Somerville HS) earned spots on the Weekly Honor Roll for their performances in the Greyhounds’ 44-41 victory at Johns Hopkins University last Saturday.

Braxmeier, who was also the Centennial Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Week on September 2nd, completed 18 of 28 passes for a career high 279 yards and tied the school record with four touchdown passes for the second time this season in a 44-41 victory at Johns Hopkins University. Braxmeier, pictured at right, threw scoring passes of 14 yards, 22 yards, 40 yards and seven yards and also had a one-yard touchdown run on Moravian’s first series of the second half to extend the team’s lead to 27-16 at that point. He also drove Moravian down the field in the final 1:20 to set up the game winning field goal with under a second on the clock.

Robinson, pictured at left, registered a game high 11 tackles and also had one of five forced fumbles by the Greyhound defense at Johns Hopkins.  Robinson had six solo tackles in the game from his free safety position.

Reckenbeil, pictured at bottom right, kicked a game-winning 34-yard field goal with three tenths of a second remaining on the clock to give the Greyhounds the win.  The game-winning field goal was Reckenbeil’s second career game-winning kick in the final five seconds of a game.  Reckenbeil also extended his school record with his 22nd career field goal, and he added five extra-points to improve his career point total to 122, just nine points shy of breaking the all-time Moravian record.  Reckenbeil did miss a 35-yard field goal attempt, which was wide left, in the first quarter at the same end of the field where he kicked the game-winner.

Moravian returns to action on Saturday, September 29th in a Centennial Conference showdown versus Dickinson College with kickoff slated for 1:00 p.m. at Rocco Calvo Field in Bethlehem.