Posted by Joey Mullins on 2007-09-26

Samford freshman place-kicker Mark Prevost was named one of four National Special Teams Players of the Week by Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette, the publication released on Wednesday.

Prevost played a big part in Samford's come-from-behind 26-21 win over Southeast Missouri Saturday night. After struggling early, Prevost kicked four second-half field goals to help bring the Bulldogs back.

Prevost kicked a career-long 47-yard field goal with 7:50 to go in the third quarter. He also kicked a 37-yarder late in the third quarter, and he kicked field goals from 41 and 34 yards out in the fourth quarter.

The 47-yard kick in the third quarter was the longest field goal by a Samford player in an Ohio Valley Conference game.

Prevost and the Bulldogs will travel to Richmond, Ky., to take on the Eastern Kentucky Colonels on Saturday, Sept. 29. The game is scheduled for a 2 p.m. Central kickoff.

 
Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 6,101 students from 45 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks 6th nationally for its Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.