Vincent Dotson earns Southland special teams honor
11/16/2009 2:00:00 PM | Football
Vincent Dotson, redshirt freshman from DeSoto, has been named as Southland Conference football "Special Teams Player of the Week" after making a game-breaking punt block in Sam Houston's 17-14 victory over Central Arkansas Saturday.
With the Bearkats trailing UCA 7-3 in the third quarter, Dotson blocked a Central Arkansas punt from the SHSU 49, picked it up at the UCA 36 and ran it in for the go-ahead touchdown. The freshman walk-on, who earned a spot on the Bearkats' special teams unit this year, got a hand on an earlier punt and made three tackles on special teams. This is the first player of the week award for Dotson, who has nine tackles this season.
McNeese State linebacker Malcolm Bronson, was named Southland Conference Defensive Player of the Week and quarterback Jeremy Moses of Stephen F. Austin won the offensive honor.
Dotson's two blocks in the UCA game keeps alive the Sam Houston State "block party" tradition. Since the 1991 season, Sam Houston special teams have blocked 90 kicks including 64 punts, 18 field goals and eight point after attempts. The Kats have gone 19 consecutive seasons with at least one block during the year.
Sam Houston State will close out its 2009 football schedule with a 2 p.m. contest Saturday at Texas State. A victory would clinch a winning season for the Bearkats for the fourth time in the last six years.
Bearkat fans already are looking ahead to the 2010 season and the "Battle of the Piney Woods" game with Stephen F. Austin at Reliant Stadium on October 23, 2010. Tickets for the "Battle of the Piney Woods" contest at Reliant go on sale Monday.
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