WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Midwestern State junior Greg Saladino was selected as the Lone Star Conference Special Teams Player of the Week for the second consecutive week for his outstanding play on Saturday against Incarnate Word.
 
The 5-10, 170 pound kicker/punter equaled the longest field goal by at Midwestern State kicker at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls when he split the uprights from 47-yards, the longest in the Lone Star Conference this season.  It was part of his 10 points in the Mustangs 34-7 win over Incarnate Word.
 
The 47-yard field goal in the second quarter matched the longest by an MSU kicker at Memorial Stadium, Lee Scott's 47-yarder againt Northeastern State on Sep. 12, 2009. Saladino's previous long at home was 43 yards against Texas A&M-Kingsville on Sep. 24, 2011.
 
Saladino also connected on a field goal from 30 yards out and was 4-of-4 in PATs for the game.  He improved to 7-of-7 in field goals and 16-of-16 in PATs this season.
 
The junior leads the LSC in kick scoring with 9.2 points a game, which is second in overall scoring in the conference.  He also punted three times with a 34.3 average, with two punts inside the 20 and none returned.
 
He's joined as a player of the week by West Texas A&M running back Khiry Robinson on the offensive side and Texas A&M-Commerce linebacker Danny Mason as the defensive player.
 
No. 13 Midwestern State is back in action on Thursday night when it meets No. 18 West Alabama in Livingston, Ala., as part of the Lone Star Conference-Gulf South Conference First and Ten Challenge.  Kickoff is set for 6:30 and will be televised as part of the GSC-TV Live package and available on ESPN3.
 
Notables
* The Mustangs chalked up their fourth straight win over Incarnate Word with the 34-7 victory.  MSU has never lost to the Cardinals.
* Junior running back Keidrick Jackson chalked up his ninth career 100-yard game with 173 yards on 24 carries. With the 156 he collected last week, Jackson had the first back-to-back 150-yard rushing games by an MSU player since Ulysses Odoms did the trick against Eastern New Mexico (203) and Abilene Christian (155) in 2006.
* Jackson raced past Derrick Waggoner (1,781 yards from 1991-92) and Jerrold Fuqua (1,822 yards from 2002-03) into sixth place on MSU's all-time rushing list. He now has 1,894 yards and needs 64 yards to eclipse Henry Anders (1,957 yards from 1991-92) to move into fifth.
* With two rushing touchdowns Saturday, Jackson has 204 points to became just the third player in program history to amass 200 career points joining kicker Jose Martinez (291 points/2007-10) and quarterback Daniel Polk (266 points/2004-07).
* Thanks to his 10 points (two field goals and four PATs), junior kicker Greg Saladino moved into 10th place on MSU's all-time scoring list with 126 points which are the fourth most by a place kicker.
*Junior defensive lineman Elijah Winston celebrated his 22nd birthday in style by becoming the sixth player in school history to notch 4.0 tackles for loss in a game and the first since Kellen Belcher had four stops for loss against Texas A&M-Kingsville on Oct. 20, 2007.
* Winston's 3.0 quarterback sacks are the most since Frank Brown's three against East Central on Sep. 22, 2007.
* Midwestern plays at West Alabama on Thursday night, the first time MSU has visited a Gulf South Conference opponent.
* MSU is 2-0 against the GSC, both games during the Bill Maskill Era (a 35-26 win over then GSC member Southern Arkansas on Aug. 31, 2002 and a 27-12 win over then GSC member Arkansas Tech on Aug. 28, 2003).
* The Thursday night contest is the second this season for Midwestern, a first in program history.
* MSU had never played on Thursday other than a season opener before this season and will have done so twice this season.
* The contest is the farthest away from Wichita Falls for the Mustangs under coach Bill Maskill.  The previous long trip was to Nebraska-Omaha in 2002, the first season of the Maskill era.
* The Midwestern-West Alabama game will be televised as part of the GSC-TV Live package and available on ESPN3.
* It is the third game televised live featuring MSU this season, with the CBS Sports Network national telecast against A&M-Commerce and last week's Time Warner Texas Channel telecast against Incarnate Word.