UL football – weekly award winners, Phillip Nevels, Running Men, Odds & Ends

Coming off UL’s 42-19 win last weekend over Southern University, the Ragin’ Cajun coaching staff named their weekly award winners on Monday. 

The offensive players of the game were sophomore quarterback Chris Masson, senior running back Undrea Sails, senior wide receiver Louis Lee and junior lineman Jonathan Decoster.

Masson completed 18-of-24 passes for 283 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another. Sails rushed for 114 yards and one touchdown and scored on a 56-yard screen pass. Lee led the team with four catches for 86 yards.

The defensive players of the game were senior end Hall Davis, junior end Terrell Richardson and sophomore nose guard Derreck Dean.

Davis had his first college INT. Richardson broke up a key pass attempt. Dean made four tackles.

The coach’s scout team players of the week were freshman wide receiver Ashton LeBlanc, a Teurlings Catholic graduate, on offense and redshirt freshman defensive tackle Ben Duhon and freshman linebacker Andrew Rumney on defense.

The Big Hit Awards went to Sails on offense and senior free safety Gerren Blount and linebacker Antwyne Zanders on special teams.

Making headlines

UL senior safety Phillip Nevels has been featured in the Sun Belt Conference’s first football magazine.

Copies can be ordered online for $4.99 plus tax and shipping at www.collegesportsmags.com.

Running men

If Sails is unable to play much or at all Saturday against Kansas State, Bustle said that the Cajuns will rely on sophomore Julian Shankle and redshirt freshman Draylon Booker.

Sails is recovering from a clavicle injury suffered last week. Earlier in the week, Bustle said Sails is "questionable" for the game. He accounted for 170 yards and two touchdowns last week against Southern.

Shankle ran five times for 16 yards last week and scored on a 6-yard run in the fourth quarter. Booker had two carries for two yards.

Odds and Ends

K-State’s second-string center is senior Eric Benoit, a native of Church Point. He was expected to join the Cajuns as a transfer from Compton (Calif.) Community College in the fall of 2007 — and was listed in UL’s 2007 media guide — before joining the Wildcats "» K-State has lost its past three non-conference road games in the regular season, although that happened during the tenure of former coach Ron Prince, who was fired last winter. The Wildcats have won seven straight non-conference road games under coach Bill Snyder "» Under Snyder from 1992-2005 and now this season, K-State is 43-3 in games played in September "» UL is 0-3 all-time against K-State. The Cajuns lost on the road against the Wildcats in 1994 (34-6), 2004 (40-20) and 2008 (45-37).

Daily Advertiser September 9, 2009