MORAVIAN’S MORRISSEY & RECKENBEIL EARN D3FOOTBALL.COM ALL-SOUTH REGION THIRD TEAM HONORS

MINNEAPOLIS, MN --- Senior linebacker Andrew Morrissey (Emmaus, PA/Emmaus HS) and senior kicker Brian Reckenbeil (Branchburg, NJ/Somerville HS) of the Moravian College football team have been named to the D3football.com All-South Region Third Team announced Tuesday.  The complete team can be viewed at http://www.d3football.com/all-region/2008_d3football_all-south_region.pdf.

Moravian finished the 2008 campaign with an 8-3 record and hosted Salisbury University in the 2008 ECAC Division III Southwest Bowl Championship game, falling 21-17.  The eight wins marked just the fourth time in 84 seasons that Moravian had won at least eight games in one year.  The Greyhounds were tied for second in the Centennial Conference with a 6-2 mark, and Moravian had been selected fifth in the preseason poll in its second year as a member of the conference.

Morrissey, a four-year starter at linebacker and a two-year captain for the Greyhounds, was second on the Moravian defense this fall with 92 tackles, six and a half tackles for loss, a sack, a pass break-up, an interception with a 13-yard return versus Muhlenberg College and four forced fumbles, two of which came in Moravian’s 27-24 overtime upset win over nationally-ranked Muhlenberg.  Morrissey, who was on the All-Centennial Conference First Team this fall and the All-Centennial Conference Second Team last year, finished his career eighth in school history with 325 tackles.

Reckenbeil, pictured at left, continued to rewrite the Moravian record books with the best season as a kicker in school history, setting the school mark with 72 points on 30-of-30 extra-points and 14-of-20 field goals with a school record and career long of 47 yards.  Reckenbeil, who was a high school soccer player and didn’t kick a football until arriving in Bethlehem, is the all-time leading scorer at Moravian among all players with 226 career points, and he made 100 extra-points and 42 field goals in four seasons.  Reckenbeil, who was on the All-Centennial Conference First Team this fall and the All-Centennial Conference Second Team a year ago, set the conference record with 59 straight extra-points over the last two seasons, and he made his final 68 career extra-points dating back to September 2006.