Walker honored by conference
Junior defensive back earns special teams award
ABILENE -- ACU junior defensive back Kendrick Walker was honored Sunday as the Lone Star Conference South Division Special Teams Player of the Week after returning a punt for a touchdown Saturday in ACU's 21-20 win over Midwestern State.
ACU trailed the Indians 20-7 midway through the third quarter when Walker fielded a Toby Zachary punt, avoided a tackle, cut left and outran the rest of the Indians to the end zone. Eben Nelson's extra point made it 20-14 with 7:04 to play.
The Wildcats added a fourth-quarter touchdown and then ran out the final 5:26 of the game to win their fourth straight and improve to 4-3 overall, 4-1 in the LSC and 3-0 in the LSC South.
Walker is the fourth Wildcat to be honored as player of the week this season, joining quarterback Colby Freeman (twice named Offensive Player of the Week), Nelson (twice named Special Teams Player of the Week) and linebacker Shawn Taylor (named Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 22).
The Wildcats have a huge stretch of three games coming up, starting with Saturday's
2 p.m. home game against Texas A&M-Commerce. If ACU can win that game, it will go to Kingsville on Nov. 9 to play Texas A&M-Kingsville in what would be the Wildcats' biggest game in more than 20 years.
A win there and a win the following week over winless West Texas A&M in the regular-season finale would give the Wildcats the LSC championship, a 7-3 record and a possible berth in the NCAA Division II football playoffs for the first time ever.
