2012 D3FOOTBALL.COM ALL-REGION TEAMS
MINNEAPOLIS -- Four Augsburg College football players were named to the D3football.com All-West Region Team for their performances during the 2012 season, it was announced on Tuesday. Tight end
Adam Carl (JR, Eagan, Minn.) was named to the first team, while quarterback
Ayrton Scott (FY, Minneapolis, Minn./Southwest HS), safety/wide receiver
Hakeem Bourne-McFarlane (JR, Bloomington, Minn./Kennedy HS) and offensive lineman
Brian Rud (SR, Lonsdale, Minn./Montgomery-Lonsdale HS) each earned third-team honors.
A total of 75 players were selected to the three All-West Region squads from 215 nominations by Division III schools to
D3football.com, a national website that covers NCAA Division III football. Nationwide, a record 928 players were nominated for the awards this season.
It's the second straight year that Carl has earned All-West Region honors, after being named to the second team last season. It's the first all-region honors for Scott, Bourne-McFarlane and Rud, with Scott as one of only two first-year players among the 75 players earning All-West Region honors.
All four Auggies also earned All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors in November, with Carl, Scott and Rud earning first-team All-MIAC honors and Bourne-McFarlane earning second-team All-MIAC honors.
The four all-region honorees are the most for Augsburg's football team in a single season. Augsburg has had at least one member named to the All-West Region team every year since the squad was first named in 2005 by D3football.com, and has now had 17 all-region honorees in the award's history.
Carl finished fourth among MIAC players in receiving yardage in overall statistics, with a team-best 640 receiving yards on 53 catches (second-most among MIAC players). His eight touchdown receptions were fourth-most among MIAC players, with all three totals tops among conference tight ends. Carl had four 100-yard receiving games this season, while he scored touchdowns in five of his 10 games. In his 28-game collegiate career, Carl has 112 receptions for 1,257 yards and 15 touchdowns (14 receiving, one rushing).
During the 2012 preseason, Carl was named to the
D3football.com Preseason All-America squad as a second-team tight end, and to the
Lindy's preseason All-Division III Team as a second-team tight end.
Carl has earned All-MIAC and all-region honors in both football and baseball in his Augsburg career. In his first year as Augsburg's starting shortstop in 2012, Carl earned
All-MIAC and
American Baseball Coaches Association All-Midwest Region second-team honors.
Scott had one of the most dynamic seasons of any first-year player in the nation in 2012, setting a single-season school record for rushing yardage, rushing for 1,436 yards on 209 carries. His 143.6 rushing yards per-game average ranks him eighth
among NCAA Division III players nationally (the only first-year player among the top 29 rushers nationally). Combined with his 2,245 passing yards, Scott's 368.1 yards of total offense per-game were third-most among Division III players nationally this season. He had 300-plus yards of total offense in seven games this season.
Scott led the MIAC in rushing yardage (overall games), as one of only two conference players to record more than 1,000 rushing yards this season. His 209 carries were tops among MIAC players (fourth-most in a single season in school history) and his 12 rushing touchdowns were third-most among MIAC players. Scott rushed for 100-plus yards in nine of his 10 games. In league games-only, Scott had 1,114 rushing yards – the lone MIAC player to record 1,000 rushing yards or more in eight conference games.
Scott's 224.5 passing yards per-game were second-most among MIAC quarterbacks this season, while his 26 touchdown passes led the league. He completed 173-of-283 passes and had just 12 interceptions.
A wide receiver his first two seasons as an Auggie, Bourne-McFarlane shifted to defense this season as a defensive back. He played on both sides of the football, as both a defensive back and as a receiver, later in the season. This year, he finished fifth on the team in tackles with 50 (28 solo), while recording a team-best five interceptions and eight passes defensed (three pass breakups), including one interception returned for a touchdown. His five interceptions were tied for second-most among MIAC players in overall statistics this season.
On offense, Bourne-McFarlane caught 14 passes for 202 yards and two touchdowns. He also served as one of Augsburg's primary kick and punt returners this season, returning 17 kicks for 381 yards (22.4 yards per-return, third-best among MIAC players) and a touchdown, while returning 11 punts for 117 yards (10.6 yards per-return, third-best among MIAC players). His 776 all-purpose yards were third-most on the team this season. In his 30 career games as an Auggie, Bourne-McFarlane has 98 receptions for 1,304 yards and 10 touchdowns, while claiming 53 tackles (30 solo) and six interceptions in his career.
A three-year starter, Rud was part of an Auggie offensive line that had one of its best seasons in recent history in 2012. As a team, Augsburg produced 4,712 yards of total offense – the second-best per-game average among MIAC teams in overall statistics and 19th-best per-game average among NCAA Division III squads nationally. Augsburg's 237.9 rushing yards per-game was third-most among MIAC teams and 26th-most nationally, while its 233.3 passing yardage per-game was third-most among MIAC teams. Augsburg's 38.0 points per-game were tops among MIAC teams and 20th-best nationally among Division III squads. Augsburg produced 400-plus yards of total offense in nine of its 10 games, eclipsing the 500-yard barrier five times. Augsburg's rushing offense eclipsed the 200-yard mark in six games this season.
Augsburg's offensive line allowed just 31 tackles for-loss this season – third-fewest among NCAA Division III teams nationally – and its six sacks allowed this year (0.6 per-game) were tied for seventh-fewest among Division III teams nationally.
Under eighth-year head coach
Frank Haege, Augsburg finished 7-3 overall, 5-3 in MIAC play in 2012 -- the best overall record for the Auggies since finishing 10-2 overall (9-1 MIAC) in its 1997 MIAC championship season. The 7-3 record also marks Augsburg's second straight above-.500 overall finish -- the first time Augsburg has finished above-.500 in consecutive seasons since a three-year stretch from 1997 to 1999.
