ASC Lands Four D3Football.com Preseason All-Americans

UMHB senior offensive guard Broderick Jenkins, senior defensive end Teidrick Smith, senior safety Baylor Mullins and HSU senior punter Nico Francino were named D3football.com Preseasn All-Americans.

8/2/2016 9:18:12 AM

RICHARDSON, Texas – Four student-athletes from two American Southwest Conference member institutions were named D3football.com Preseason All-Americans, announced by the online publication Monday (Aug. 1).

Mary Hardin-Baylor received two first team members and one second team selection and Hardin-Simmons had one first team honor.

Representing the Cru on the first team is senior offensive guard Broderick Jenkins, senior defensive end Teidrick Smith and senior safety Baylor Mullins was tabbed second team. From the Cowboys, senior punter Nico Francino picked up preseason first team recognition.

Jenkins was an All-American last season as the highest-grading offensive lineman for the Cru.

Smith, the ASC Preseason Defensive Player of the Year, led the ASC in sacks (14) and tackles for loss (27) and blocked a school-record six kicks. Smith also received honors from D3football.com as a second team All-American.

Mullins posted 90 total tackles last season. He had five interceptions, broke up seven passes and returned two of those picks for touchdowns.

The ASC Special Teams Preseason Player of the Year, Francino led the league in punting (43.6), ranked fourth in scoring (50) and was named a D3football.com first team All-American.

The 2016 season gets underway September 1 as Belhaven hosts Millsaps at 7:00 p.m. The following Saturday (September 3) the rest of the ASC will take the field for their season openers. Louisiana College hosts Huntingdon at 1:00 p.m. Mary Hardin-Baylor hosts Ohio Wesleyan, East Texas Baptist travels to Texas Lutheran and Hardin-Simmons will open at Southwestern, all scheduled for 6:00 p.m. starts . At 7:00 p.m., Sul Ross State plays at Texas-Permian Basin and Howard Payne hosts Southwestern Assemblies of God.

The NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs begin November 19, with the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl national championship game scheduled for December 16 in Salem, Va.

2016 D3football.com Preseason All-Americans

Pos.	First Team	Second Team
QB	Sam Riddle, Sr., Linfield	Pete Coughlin, Sr., Washington and Jefferson
RB	Dan Andrews, Sr., Brockport	Sam Benger, Jr., Carnegie Mellon
RB	Jordan Roberts, Sr., St. Thomas	Marquis Barrolle, Sr., Texas Lutheran
WR	Bryce Shade, Sr., Wesley	Malik Adams, Sr., North Carolina Wesleyan
WR	Marcus Hudson, Sr., UW-Whitewater	Kezlow Smith, Sr., Lakeland
TE	Nick Kiourkas, Jr., Whitworth	Zach Lindquist, Sr., Wheaton (Ill.)
T	Michael LaSala, Sr., Washington & Lee	Matthew Gono, Jr., Wesley
G	Broderick Jenkins, Sr., Mary Hardin-Baylor	Jonni Cassano, Sr., Albright
C	Mitch Doraty, Sr., Mount Union	Spencer Shier, Sr., UW-Whitewater
G	Peter Gibson, Sr., Wheaton (Ill.)	Kane'ala Atchison-Keolanui, Sr., UW-Stout
T	Tony Koepnick, Sr., UW-Whitewater	Will Hilbert, Sr., St. Thomas

Defense

DE	Teidrick Smith, Sr., Mary Hardin-Baylor	William Sewell, Sr., Frostburg State
DT	Peyton Thiry, Sr., St. John's	Ryan Winter, Sr., St. Thomas
DT	Chyron Brown-Wallace, Sr., St. Lawrence	Brandon Tamsett, Sr., UW-Whitewater
DE	Ethan Buresh, Sr., Wabash	Brian Khoury, Sr., Carnegie Mellon
LB	Samer Manna, Jr., Wesley	Julian Turner, Sr., Trinity (Texas)
LB	Carter Hanson, Sr., St. John's	Marcus Jemison, Sr., Hobart
LB	Jesse Addo, Sr., St. Thomas	Connor Ludwig, Sr., Wabash
CB	Austin Davis, Sr., Kean	Austin Tennessee, Sr., Stevenson
S	Drew Fitzmorris, Jr., Carnegie Mellon	Baylor Mullins, Sr., Mary Hardin-Baylor
S	Jack Toner, Sr., Johns Hopkins	Carson Lassiter, Sr., Cortland
CB	Alec Mortillaro, Sr., St. John Fisher	Victor Bunce, Jr., Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

Specialists

K	Rehn Reiley, So., Whitworth	Andrew Tutsie, Sr., Wabash
P	Nico Francino, Sr., Hardin-Simmons	Ryan Anderson, Jr., Olivet
RET	Kennedy Johnson, Sr., Linfield	De'Eric Bell, Jr., Guilford

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