Scott Eaton -- 3rd-team d3football.com all-region

TERRE HAUTE, IND. - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology junior Scott Eaton (Fishers/Hamilton Southeastern) captured third-team honors on the d3football.com all-North Region Team, in results released today by the website.

Eaton ranked second in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference with 112 tackles and led the Rose-Hulman defense with 10 tackles-for-loss this season.  He also finished second on the team with four sacks.

The mechanical engineering major has earned first-team all-HCAC honors for two straight seasons and has also led the Fightin' Engineer defense in tackles for the last two years.

Eaton has amassed career totals of 209 tackles and 15 tackles-for-loss as a two-year starter and three-year letter winner for the team.  His efforts included four consecutive games with 15 or more tackles, highlighted by a 17-tackle performance against Hanover and 14 solo hits against Defiance.

Eaton becomes the fourth all-region selection by d3football.com in the last two years and is part of a program that has compiled four straight winning seasons and the first streak of four consecutive six-or-more victory seasons in school history.

Rose-Hulman finished 6-4 last season and compiled a 4-3 record in HCAC play.  The Engineers open the 2010 season at DePauw University on Sept. 11.