MORAVIAN’S RECKENBEIL EARNS HONORABLE MENTION PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS FROM ECAC

CAPE COD, MA --- Senior kicker Brian Reckenbeil (Branchburg, NJ/Somerville HS) of the Moravian College football team has earned Division III Southwest Honorable Mention honors from the Eastern College Athletic Conference for his performance in the Greyhounds’ 33-10 victory versus Johns Hopkins University last Saturday.

Reckenbeil, who also earned Centennial Conference Special Teams Player of the Week honors this past Sunday and on September 7th, set a pair of school records in the victory over Johns Hopkins.  He connected on four field goals, a new school mark, in five attempts, and Reckenbeil made all three of his extra-points to extend his streak to 51 straight makes and to give him a school record 15 points in the game.  Reckenbeil, who was also earned ECAC Southwest Honorable Mention honors on September 10th, made field goals of 22, 28, 30 and 26 yards and was wide right on a 41-yard attempt in the second quarter.  Reckenbeil, the school record in all but one kicking category, has moved into third in school history in overall scoring with 185 points in his career on 34 field goals and 83 extra-points.  Reckenbeil averaged 55.6 yards per kickoff in the game on seven kickoffs. 

The Greyhounds will return to action on Saturday, October 4th in a Centennial Conference game at Dickinson College with kickoff slated for 1:00 p.m. in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.