Bryce Hayes
SEGUIN, Texas — Texas Lutheran senior kicker Joaquin Rodriguez (San Antonio/Smithson Valley) has been named to the D3football.com Team of the Week for Week 5, as announced by the publication Tuesday morning.
Rodriguez was one of a number of special teams standouts for Texas Lutheran in their 43-34 victory over Austin College on Saturday, making all three of his field goal attempts and accounting for 13 points in total. The San Antonio native connected on kicks from 26, 40, and 37 yards giving the Bulldogs nine points that proved to be the difference in Saturday’s game. The three field goals fell one shy of his career-best outing last season that saw him make four in a single-game. Rodriguez would add three touchbacks on kickoff, kicking for a total of 557 yards on nine kickoffs.
For the season, Rodriguez has made five of his eight field goal attempts and 19 out of 20 extra point attempts racking up a SCAC-leading 34 total points. After last week’s performance, Rodriguez sits in sixth place all-time in TLU’s NCAA Division-III history for field goals made with 20 in his career.
This is Rodriguez’s second D3football.com Team of the Week honor of his career after being named to the team last October for his four field goal performance against Howard Payne. Rodriguez is the second Bulldog and second TLU specialist to earn D3football.com Team of the Week honors this season.
This is the 26th season that D3football.com has selected the Team of the Week, which honors the top player nationally at each position from the previous week.
The full D3football.com Team of the Week for Week 5 can be viewed here.
Up next, Texas Lutheran will have a bye week before beginning the second round of the double round robin format of the SCAC with a rematch with the ‘Roos on the road in Sherman on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 1 PM. All streaming and live stats links can be found on tlubulldogs.com.
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