GREENVILLE, Pa. -- Washington & Jefferson football head coach Mike Sirianni has earned Presidents' Athletic Conference Co-Coach of the Year honors and 15 student-athletes were recognized on the All-PAC teams for 2017.

In his 15th season as head coach, Sirianni led the Presidents to a 10-0 record and 8-0 PAC mark, their 13th undefeated regular season (third under Sirianni) and 25th PAC championship (seventh under Sirianni). Saturday's NCAA Division III Football Championship First Round game against Johns Hopkins at Cameron Stadium will mark W&J's 25th all-time appearance in the tournament field and the 10th under Sirianni's leadership. Thanks to a perfect 10-0 record in the regular season, the 15th year head coach surpassed W&J Hall of Famer John Luckhardt (1982-1998) atop the program's all-time wins list at 138 last Saturday against Waynesburg.

Six Presidents garnered First Team All-PAC recognition: senior cornerback O'Shea Anderson (Rochester, Pa./Rochester), senior defensive end Tom Marra (Moon Township, Pa./Our Lady of the Sacred Heart), senior safety Luke Merhaut (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine-Richland), senior linebacker Nick Murgo (Warren, R.I./Mount Hope), senior offensive lineman Andrew Reo (Canton, Ohio/Canton McKinley) and senior wide receiver Jesse Zubik (Sewickley, Pa./Avonworth). Second Team recognition went to senior offensive lineman Matt Babbit (Export, Pa./Franklin Regional).

Anderson leads the conference with 16 passes defended and six interceptions, including two taken back for touchdowns, with those numbers good for 15th and 13th in Division III, respectively. Marra is tied for second in the PAC with a team-leading and career-high 16.0 tackles for loss, while ranking eighth in the conference with 5.0 sacks. Merhaut is currently second for W&J with 63 tackles, including 46 solo and 1.5 TFLs. Murgo, who has the third most career tackles among all active Division III players (391), leads the Presidents and is sixth in the conference with 87 tackles, plus 11.5 TFLs, 3.0 sacks, three interceptions, three pass break-ups, two fumble recoveries and a forced fumble.

Zubik, one of the most prolific wide receivers in Division III history, has had another strong season for the Presidents in which he has broken the PAC career yards and receiving touchdowns records as well as the W&J career receptions mark. Through 10 games, Zubik has 65 receptions for 1,210 yards and 14 touchdowns to go with career numbers of 272 catches, 4,558 yards and 51 touchdowns in 42 games. Reo and Babbit are integral parts of an offensive line that paved the way for the number two offense in the league (476.0 yards per game) and number three scoring offense (38.0 points per game).

Eight from W&J landed on the Honorable Mention All-PAC teams: junior offensive lineman Phillip Bobich (Aliquippa, Pa./Aliquippa), senior tight end Jake Cullen (Orchard Park, N.Y./Orchard Park), senior wide receiver Cody Hearst (Clarion, Pa./Clarion), senior defensive lineman Freddie McKissick (Carnegie, Pa./Carlynton), sophomore defensive lineman Jeffrey Oxner (Silver Spring, Md./Bullis School), junior linebacker Zac Quattrone (White Oak, Pa./Serra Catholic), senior quarterback Alex Rowse (Beaver, Pa./Beaver) and junior safety Zach Royba (Beaver, Pa./Beaver).

Bobich joins Reo and Babbit on the offensive line that tops the conference in first downs (25.4 per game). Hearst (32) and Cullen (22) are third and fourth, respectively, for the Presidents in receptions, with Hearst's 467 yards and four touchdowns second on the team behind only Zubik. Rowse leads the team with 1,981 passing yards and 21 touchdowns on 149-of-227 passing in seven games before missing the final three games of the regular season with an injury. McKissick (32 tackles, six TFLs, 2.5 sacks) and Oxner (25 tackles, seven TFLs, 3.5 sacks) have combined to contribute 57 stops, 13 TFLs and six sacks up front, while Quattrone is fourth on the team with 45 tackles, while his 7.5 TFLs are tied for third. He also has two interceptions, eight pass break-ups, a fumble recovery and forced fumble. Royba is the fifth leading tackler for the Presidents, making 39 stops, 2.0 TFLs, an interception and forced fumble.

For the first time this season, the PAC introduced a Sportsmanship Team to recognize student-athletes in each PAC sport that show the highest levels of sportsmanship on and off the field. W&J's representative was senior wide receiver Benjamin Waugh (Olean, N.Y./Portville Central).

No. 14/10 W&J hosts No. 21/19 Johns Hopkins on Saturday, Nov. 18 at Cameron Stadium in the First Round of the 2017 NCAA Division III Championship. Kick-off in the first playoff game in Washington since 2008 is set for 12 p.m.