PINEVILLE - Two Louisiana College football players have been named to the 2009 D3football.com All-South Region team.
Junior wide receiver Jordan Rideaux (Carencro, La./Carencro High) and senior linebacker Donovan Williams were both named to the third team.
Rideaux was one of the most versatile offensive weapons, racking up 1,857 all-purpose yards (a new single-season record for LC) and scored 14 touchdowns.
He caught 78 passes for 1,157 yards and 11 touchdowns (two more single-season records), rushed eight times for 23 yards and a touchdown, returned 17 punts for 281 yards and one touchdown, returned 17 kickoffs for 400 yards and one touchdown and completed one pass for 22 yards.
He also became the first player in LC history to score a touchdown via a reception, rush, punt return and kickoff return in the same season.
Williams, an equally-versatile defensive player who recently became the Wildcats' first ever participant in the D3 Senior Classic All-Star game, accounted for 59 tackles, six tackles for loss, four sacks, one interception, five pass breakups, four forced fumbles and one tackle for a sack.
Also the team's jumbo package tailback, Williams rushed 20 times for 70 yards and four touchdowns.
DePauw quarterback Spud Dick and Wesley defensive end Chris Mayes lead the D3football.com 2009 All-South Region team. Mayes was named South Region Defensive Player of the Year, while Dick was named the South Region Offensive Player of the Year.
Johns Hopkins coach Jim Margraff, whose team won the Centennial Conference title and won two road games in the NCAA playoffs before falling at Wesley 12-0 in the national quarterfinals, is the 2009 D3football.com South Region Coach of the Year.
Dick, a senior from Indianapolis, threw for 2,785 yards and 27 touchdowns over nine games in leading DePauw to the NCAA playoffs for the first time in the program's history. He completed 71.3 percent of his passes.
Mayes, a sophomore from Waldorf, Md., has 32 and a half tackles for loss and 13 sacks for the Wolverines, who play at Mount Union on Saturday in the Division III football national semifinals. He has broken up eight passes and intercepted another, while forcing three fumbles and recording 63 tackles, 39 solo.
The teams, selected in balloting by South Region sports information directors and D3football.com staff, were chosen from 205 nominations by Division III member schools. A total of 78 players were chosen.
To view the entire All-South Region team click here.