JAELAN MATHEWS | BRIDGEWATER | GR. | LB | COLUMBIA, MD.
Mathews, a graduate student from Columbia, Md., put together a big performance to help Bridgewater win at Millsaps College, 28-14, on Saturday. Mathews registered eight total tackles including six solo stops. He posted 2.5 tackles for a loss that included 1.0 quarterback sacks costing the Majors nine yards of offense. Mathews, who also broke up a pass, came up with quite possibly the biggest play of the game at the outset of the fourth quarter. With Millsaps on the BC 1-yard line on 1st-and-goal, Mathews jarred the ball loose from the ball carrier with teammate Chase Jacobs recovering to preserve the Eagles 21-14 lead. The momentum shift helped keep the Majors off the board for the remainder of the contest with BC tacking on one more touchdown.

ETHAN DOWDY | HAMPDEN-SYDNEY | SO. | WR | POWHATAN, VA.
Dowdy, a sophomore from Powhatan, Va., etched his name in the Hampden-Sydney and ODAC record books in helping the Tigers post a 38-34 victory over Centre College in a contest that featured seven lead changes. Dowdy posted career-highs of nine receptions for 101 with four touchdown catches. The latter total ties both the H-SC and ODAC single-game records. He joins former standouts Drew Smith and Kyle Vance in Tigers history  to achieve that total and is the ninth player in conference history to haul in four TD passes. He is the first since 2016 to hit that mark. Dowdy pulled in a 15-yard scoring pass in the first quarter before adding three in the second half of 28 and 16 yards followed by the game-deciding 15-yard scoring catch midway through the fourth quarter.

ELIJAH SWETT | HAMPDEN-SYDNEY | SR. | PK | MATTHEWS, N.C.
Swett, a senior from Matthews, N.C., put up eight points in helping Hampden-Sydney notch the first home win for head coach Vince Luvara in the Tigers 38-34 triumph over Centre College. Swett connected on all five of his point after attempts and made his first field goal of the season on his lone attempt, a 37-yard boot in the first quarter that gave H-SC its first edge in a contest that featured seven lead changes. Swett is now 13-of-13 on PATs and 1-of-2 on field goal tries this season.

• OFFENSE
  • Bridgewater running back Brendan Robinson posted 180 yards of total offense and 227 all-purpose yards with touchdown; he ran for a career-high 161 yards on 23 carries including both TD; he caught two passes for 18 yards, and returned the lone kickoff directed to him 47 yards.
  • Ferrum quarterback Zach Wyatt was 14-of-19 for 283 yards and two touchdowns passing while also running seven times for 40 yards.
  • Guilford back Malik Woodard squashed his previous career-highs with 167 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries.
  • Shenandoah back Jalen Redfearn ran for career-highs of 88 yards and touchdowns on 12 carries.
• DEFENSE
  • Ferrum defensive end Will Hairston made six stops with a sack that cost AU four yards of offense.
  • Hampden-Sydney linebacker James Townsend finished with career- and game-highs of 10 tackles with 1.5 for a loss and two pass breakups; he intercepted the Centre's final pass of the game with 0:15 to go at the Centre 41-yard line.
  • Randolph-Macon defensive tackle Wade Grubbs returned an interception 60 yards in the second quarter of RMC's loss to Berry.
  • Shenandoah defensive back Ahvyon Boothe tied his career-high with 11 total tackles and forced a fumble in the Hornets victory over Rhodes.
  • Washington and Lee linebacker Jalen Todd posted a season-high 13 tackles with 1.5 for a loss and one sack at Trinity.
• SPECIAL TEAMS
  • Ferrum punter William Hutton averaged 37.5 yards on four kicks with three placed inside the 20-yard line and one booth over 50 yards.
  • Guilford kicker Adriana De Castro was 5-of-6 on PATs and booted a 23-yard field goal to account for eight points in the Quakers' win.
  • Shenandoah kicker Scott Martin made all five of his PATs and allowed just 101 yards on six kickoff returns (16.8 avg.).
• GENERAL NOTES
  • Guilford is 3-0 for the first time since the 2016 season; the Quakers have already posted their most wins since the 2018 campaign
  • Guilford racked up 527 yards of total offense with 397 coming via the ground as backs Malik Woodard (167) and Evan Sullivan (118) both cracked the century mark.
  • Randolph-Macon saw its 28-game regular season winning streak come to a close on Saturday; it had been the fourth-longest streak in all of collegiate football
  • Randolph-Macon had also beaten 12 straight non-conference opponents in the regular season