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JSU Football Sweeps OVC Player of the Week Awards

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Jacksonville State became the first school in Ohio Valley Conference history to win all four football Player of the Week awards after the Gamecocks claimed a 31-21 win over Murray State, the league office announced on Sunday.

Ryan Perrilloux was named the Offensive Player of the Week, Alexander Henderson was named Defensive Player of the Week, Gavin Hallford earned co-Special Teams Player of the Week with Tennessee State's Eric Benson, while Perrilloux was named co-Newcomer of the Week with EIU's Desmin Ward.

Since the OVC began playing football in 1978, only five other times has a school claimed three OVC Player of the Week awards during the same week and this marks the first time since Tennessee Tech won three awards during the 2001 season.

Perrilloux posted the highest completion percentage in a single game this season in FCS on Saturday after connecting on 18-of-20 passes for 189 yards with a career-high four touchdowns. The junior signal caller had touchdown passes of 49, 10, 21 and 3 yards to run his season total to 13. He tied the all-time school record with his 90.0 completion percentage, which was set in 1981. Perrilloux has now won six OVC Players of the Week awards this season.

Henderson
became just the second player in JSU's Division I school history to record more than 20 tackles after finishing with 21 total tackles, including 16 solo stops, in the win over Murray State. The Mobile, Ala., native also added one forced fumble and had two tackles for loss. It was the most tackles since Natarsha James had 18 vs. Samford in 2000 for a JSU player.

Hallford set the Ohio Valley Conference career scoring record by a kicker after scoring seven points in JSU's 31-21 win over Murray State on Saturday. The Phenix City, Ala., native had a 45-yard field goal and four PATs to give him 287 career points and is just three points behind Jacksonville State's all-time scoring leader David Gulledge. The 45-yard field goal tied his career-long and was the longest this season for the place kicker.

Jacksonville State returns to action in a nationally televised game on Thursday at Tennessee-Martin. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. and will be carried live by ESPNU from Martin, Tenn.
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