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BREVARD, N.C. - Three Brevard College Tornado football seniors earned All-Region honors from D3football.com in Region 3. Steffon Canady and Stamati Damalos were selected to the Second Team, while Jerome Bass earned Third Team honors.
The selections give BC four total All-Region honorees since the Tornados became eligible for the distinction at the DIII level last season. This season’s trio of Tornados join Toby Naylor, who earned All-Region Second Team accolades last season.
BC’s three All-Region selections will now be put up for consideration on D3football.com’s All-American team. The 2021 D3football.com All-
Canady, a Glendale, Arizona senior linebacker became the first Tornado to earn USA South football defensive player of the year honors in the program's short time in the Conference in November. He tied for the conference lead in sacks with 10.5 and was second with 18.5 tackles for a total loss of 95 yards. He totaled 66 tackles, broke up three passes, recovered two fumbles while causing a co-League-high four fumbles this season. Against USA South opposition, Canady finished the year with a league-best 17.5 tackles for a loss and four forced fumbles. Canady's behind-the-line of scrimmage disruptions caused 93 total lost yardage and included 10.5 sacks of opposing quarterbacks. For his efforts, Canady was named an All-Conference linebacker for the third consecutive year. Finally, he collected USA South Defensive Player of the Week accolades twice this fall en route to his Defensive Player of the Year and All-Conference First Team honors.
The senior linebacker has put together a stellar three-year career at BC, beginning with 2019. Canady totaled 66 tackles and a single-season school record 11 ½ sacks that were a part of 14 tackles-for-loss. Canady was selected to the USA South All-Conference Second Team before earning First Team All-ECAC honors. Canady was one of two Tornados who earned a nomination for the Cliff Harris Award that season. The then-junior linebacker helped lead the Tornados to a program-best 8-2 record and the school's first-ever bowl game appearance. Canady tied a school single-game record in the Scotty Whitelaw Bowl in Pittsburgh with four sacks en route to a Scotty Whitelaw Bowl MVP trophy as the Tornados defeated Carnegie Mellon. This season, Canady was selected to D3football.com's Team of the Week twice.
All told, Canady's 23 ½ career sacks and 38 ½ career tackles-for-loss are both school records, while his six forced fumbles place hin atop the BC football career record books as well. Canady's 18 ½ tackles-for-loss in Fall 2021 are the second-most in a single season behind his teammate Bass, who tallied 20 this season. Canady's 18 ½ tackles-for-loss was 10th in all of Division III football.
Bass, a senior defensive lineman from Red Springs, North Carolina, helped lead BC's dominant defense that led the USA South in many team statistical categories including points allowed-per-game (15.4), total points allowed (154), total yards allowed-per-game (234.9), rushing yards allowed-per-game (67.5), sacks (36), and defensive touchdowns (three). BC's defense was third in the country for team tackles-for-loss (92), second for solo TFL's (70), fifth for TFL yardage (366), fourth for TFL-s per-game (9.2), tied-for-fifth in team sacks (36), and tied-for-fifth in sacks-per-game (3.6).
Bass led all Tornados with a school-record 20 tackles-for-loss in Fall 2021 to go along with 58 total tackles and eight sacks, which ranked fourth in the conference. Additionally, Bass' 20 tackles-for-loss ranked tied-for-fifth in the entire country at the DIII-level, while his TFL's per game ranked top-10.
Bass proved himself to be a versatile asset to the Tornados, recording snaps on offense and special teams along with his defensive duties. The senior had five rushing attempts for 42 yards, caught two passes for nine yards that included a goal-line shovel-pass TD, and even had a pair of kickoff returns for 40 total yards.
Over the course of his three-year playing career at Brevard, Bass was honored by D3football.com's Team of the Week in 2019 and earned an All-West Division Team selection in the Spring of 2021 to go alongside this Fall's All-Conference First Team honor.
Damalos, a senior place-kicker from Tarpon Springs, Florida, broke out for a career season in Fall 2021 en route to his first-career All-Conference First Team selection. Damalos accounted for 69 total points, leading the USA South, with a perfect 27-of-27 mark on point-after-tries to go alongside a 14-of-19 mark on field-goal attempts.
Over the course of his career, Damalos has totaled 24 made field goals on 36 attempts with a school-record long of 47 set on Senior Day vs. Averett, has made 68 extra-points on 76 attempts, and has scored 140 points. Damalos has made the most field goals, attempted the most field goals, and has the longest field goal in school history. Additionally, Damalos ranked second in all of NCAA DIII Football in field goals-per-game (1.4) and total field goals made (14) in the Fall 2021 season, while also leading the USA South in several statistical categories.
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