Here at the Recruiting Recap we like the easy ones.

Easy like Sunday morning. Easy like dehydrated macaroni n’ cheese. Easy like, well, you get the idea.

So we want to thank some schools who’ve made our job easier by providing lists of their recruits.

We’ve seen releases from Centre and Hampden-Sydney in the South region.

Plus we noticed the recruiting class for the Tigers’ ODAC rival Bridgewater (VA) is posted on Eagles fan site Bridgewaterfootball.com. In fact, you could add that release to this tentative roster for a complete glimpse (if there is such a thing) of their potential lineup.

The Pittsburgh Tribute Review listed a handful of recruits who will join new head coach Jeff Hand at Westminster (Pa.). OregonLive.com is tracking local kids’ college plans, including a healthy dose headed to Linfield.

That’s not to say that everyone on these lists will play the position mentioned or even play at all since Division III schools can’t tie financial aid to athletic participation. And there will probably be other first year players who are not on these lists but will play at these schools next season. But the lists give fans get a better flavor for an incoming class.

So if you’re an SID or coach who is in the know about your school’s recruiting class and you want to share, please feel free to do so by emailing us at news@d3football.com. Or you can follow the lead of Concordia (Wis.) which posted its recruiting class as a comment on the last recap.

Isn’t that Special?

What do you get when you cross Reggie Roby with Reggie White?

The answer is Steve Jones, a 6-5, 300-pound Annapolis (Md.) HS grad headed to Wesley. Jones received regional punting honors in his first season at the position while also playing on both sides of the line.

The Manteca (Calif.) Bulletin highlighted another special teams recruit, Brandon Gresham who will take his kicking talents to Menlo. The Ceres High School punter and kicker heads to Atherton where he wants to study law enforcement. “I want to become a cop like my dad,” Gresham told the Bulletin.

Though Gresham likely doesn’t know it, he has a kindred spirit in Illinois.

The Morris (Ill.) Daily Herald reports that Harvey VanCleave III plans to attend Aurora as his grandfather and father did before him. Harvey the Third and his father played the same position (defensive tackle) wearing the same number (72) for the same coach (Dan Darlington) at Morris High School.

The father-son comparisons don’t stop there as the youngest VanCleave hopes to follow his dad’s professional footsteps by entering law enforcement. “I want to model my life after my dad. I’d like to be exactly like him,” he told the Herald.

With Father’s Day in less than 10 days, that testimony is a very nice gift from one VanCleave to another.

In other recruiting news:

—Augustana has landed Eric Smith from Flanagan (Ill.) HS, Dan Rosenkrans from Pecatonica (Ill.) HS and Matt Todd from Lena-Winslow (Ill.) HS.

–Notre Dame (N.Y.) HS has three soon-to-be alums headed to Division III schools: Chris Harrison to Hartwick, Luke Burris to St. Lawrence and Jesse Scott to Wheaton.

— Lawrence (N.J.) HS does Notre Dame one better by sending four guys to D3 colleges: Neal Amato to Gettysburg, Cameron Barker to Montclair State, Adam Oliszewski to New Jersey and Mark Lenarski to Rowan.

— Mark Kapraun goes from Harvard (Ill.) HS to Loras while teammate Raul Meza goes to Rockford.

— Perry Welch of Eastland-Pearl City (Ill.) HS will attend North Central while his high school teammate Travis Calzavara will become a college rival at Illinois Wesleyan.

Special thanks to NJAC guru and D3football.com columnist Tom Wilson for sharing the NJAC news with us. We don’t often hear much recruiting news from that conference so we value the input. You can get more NJAC tidbits from Tom’s blog here.

If you’ve got recruiting news, feel free to share but please include the newspaper URL so we can verify the story.

“This game will be won in the trenches” goes the old cliché extolling the value of a powerful offensive and defensive line.

And while some clichés are more useful than others (See: “He really came to play today”), this one has some heft to it in more ways than one.

Just ask the Mary Hardin-Baylor Crusaders whose offense mashed its way to last year’s Stagg Bowl behind three D3football.com All-American linemen. Or, for that matter, ask the Linfield Wildcats whose front five only allowed 13 sacks last year.

And so this week we turn our eyes to recruits who could specialize in pancake blocks and pass protection next season.

Washington University announced that Danny Luce — a 6-foot-2, 235-pound senior at Stanwood (Wash.) High School — will come to St. Louis next fall. Bears coach Larry Kindbom offered a promising review of Luce to The Daily Herald of Everett, Wash., calling him “an outstanding athlete and a very good football player.”

Of course, size isn’t everything. That’s why the Recruiting Recap smiles happily on Augustana recruit Travis Morgan who did a little bit of everything for Pecatonica (Ill.) High School. According to the Rockford Register Star, Morgan played fullback, defensive end, outside linebacker and center while weighing in at 5-10, 185 pounds.

Morgan probably won’t play all those positions for the Vikings when he arrives in Rock Island this fall.

One recruit expecting such a change is Frankie Herrera who will reportedly play safety for Texas Lutheran after suiting up as a full back and linebacker at Port Isabel (Texas) High School. Herrera told the Brownsville Herald that he’s not worried about the move since “The coach told me I (get to) hit a lot and that’s what I like doing.”

Meanwhile South Fork (Fla.) High School is dishing out recruits across Division III’s landscape. Easton Gunnoe and John LeMaster head to John Carroll in Ohio, Adam Pawlak goes to Concordia (Wis.), and Zack Brumfield is bound for Ferrum in Virginia.

Other recruiting announcements from the previous week include the following:

– Paracelete HS (Lancaster, Calif.) product Zach Anderson to Augustana

– Mike Whitmore of Rockford (Ill.) East HS to Beloit

– Joel Sienicki of Northridge (Ind.) to Bluffton

– Jeremy Winter of Madison (Wis.) East HS to Carroll

– Paul Skidmore of Arundel (Md.) HS to Franklin & Marshall

– Joseph Sinyard of Pace (Texas) HS to Hardin-Simmons

– Joel Hawkins of Fairfield (Ind.) to Manchester

– Belvidere (Ill.) HS graduate Anthony Goranson to Monmouth

– Jager (Ill.) HS graduate Kevin Conway to North Central

– NorthWood (Ind.) HS teammates Jason Hochstetler and Andrew Huber to Tri-State

– Bay Port (Wis.) HS tight end Dan Bassindale to UW-Stevens Point

Before we close, the voices of college professors past remind me to cite my sources, so thanks to Cat11 for the story on Herrera. And thanks to another Recap reader who emailed us about Iroquois (N.Y.) HS running back Steve Mamak who will lace up cleats for Muskingum next year.

If you want to join the fun by posting recruiting news, you can use the comments feature below. But you must include a newspaper URL to verify the story like these two contributors did. Otherwise it’ll disappear faster than free cake in a football press box.

For more passive forms of entertainment, here is the list of all the recruits we’ve heard about so far.