BUNCH SELECTED AS CDS PRE-SEASON ALL-AMERICAN

Mount Ida College junior running back and 2009 Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) Offensive Player-of-the-Year Johrone Bunch (Meriden, CT/F.T. Maloney) was one of two ECFC players to be selected to the Consensus Draft Services (CDS) Pre-Season All-American teams for the fast approaching 2010 season.  

Bunch, who has become the most decorated player in Mount Ida College football history, was showered with awards after an impressive 2009 season.  Along with his ECFC Offensive Player-of-the-Year selection, Bunch received ECFC First Team All-Conference honors in two different categories, as a running back and a punter.  He was named to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III All-Star team and selected as a New England Football Writers Division II/III All-Star. 

Bunch was third in the nation for all of Division III in rushing with 1,613 yards along with 14 touchdowns for an average of 150.6 yards a game on the ground.  Bunch broke the single season rushing record (1,613) needing 132 yards against visiting Husson University on Halloween exceeding it with 167.  He also broke the single season rushing touchdown record scoring two against the Eagles giving him 13 on the season. 

Bunch surpassed 100 yards rushing in eight out of 11 games this season and has gone over the century mark every conference bid but one (SUNY Maritime, 68).  Bunch ran for 217 against Becker College and 351 yards and five touchdowns against Castleton State College in back-to-back conference games in week five and again in week six.  351 yards against the Spartans were the second highest rushing total in Mount Ida College football program history and the highest total in all of NCAA division III this year setting the program record for touchdowns in a contest (5).   

Bunch led the conference in punting with 1,623 total yards averaging 36.9 and a long of 72 yards.

Mount Ida College football alumnus Antwan Harris ’06 currently holds the program record for career rushing yards (4061), rushing attempts (828), and rushing touchdowns (31) as Bunch heads into his junior season.  Bunch is 1778 yards behind Harris and has only nine touchdowns to tie the career TD mark. 

The Mustangs will open their season on September 4, 2010 hosting non-conference Bridgewater State College with kick-off at 1:00 p.m. 

 2010 CDS ALL-AMERICAN TEAM RELEASE HERE