MORAVIAN’S ROBINSON & RECKENBEIL EARN ECAC DIVISION III SOUTHWEST FOOTBALL ALL-STAR HONORS

CAPE COD, MA --- Senior defensive back Carl Robinson (Boothwyn, PA/Garnet Valley HS) and senior kicker Brian Reckenbeil (Branchburg, NJ/Somerville HS) of the Moravian College football team have been named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Southwest Football All-Star Team announced Monday. 

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.

Robinson, a three-year starter at safety and a two-year captain for the Greyhounds, was tied for third on the Moravian defense this fall with 66 tackles, three tackles for loss, a sack, 13 passes defended including a team high five interceptions, two fumble recoveries and a forced fumble.  Robinson, who was on the All-Centennial Conference First Team this fall and the All-Centennial Conference Honorable mention last year, finished his career with 169 tackles and 25 passes defended including 14 interceptions.

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 in 2008.  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.