BLOOMSBURG – The Bloomsburg University football team had 10 players named to 11 positions in the 2012 Don Hansen NCAA Division II All-Super Region One squad released by the Don Hansen Football Committee Tuesday afternoon.
Junior running back
Franklyn Quiteh (Tobyhanna/Pocono Mountain West), junior offensive guard
Brian Clarke (Hanover/Hanover), and senior defensive lineman
Larry Webster (Hagerstown, MD/Elkton) were named to the first team. Senior fullback
Ryan Maggs (Beech Creek/Central Mountain), junior center
Chris Steck (Mt. Carmel/Mt. Carmel), junior offensive tackle
Matt Feiler (Strasburg/Lampeter-Strasburg), senior linebacker
Jarrett Pidgeon (Barnegat, NJ/Southern Regional), and junior punter Dan Fisher were named to the second team. Junior running back
Eddie Mateo (Bethlehem/Freedom), junior placekicker Dan Fisher, and senior safety
Dan Haverstock (York/West York) were named to the third team.
Bloomsburg led the overall squad with 11 players selected, while IUP had 10, Shippensburg and Winston Salem had nine each, with California garnering eight and New Haven and Charleston getting seven each.
Shippensburg and IUP placed five players on the first team, with Bloomsburg getting three. Eighteen teams had players on the first team.
The first-team and second-team All-Region selections advance to a national ballot from which the 2012 Don Hansen NCAA Division II All-America team will be named later this month.
The Don Hansen team carries out the legacy of long-time small college football advocate Don Hansen, who passed away at age 75 on Aug. 29, 2010. Hansen, from Brookfield, Ill., started and published Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette for three decades, selecting NCAA Division II All-America teams for the first time in 1988. Don Hansen's Football Gazette began selecting Division II All-Region squads in 2003.
Super Region 1 is compiled of universities from four conferences including the PSAC, WVIAC, NE10 and the CIAA. A total of 38 teams and 129 players are represented on this team.