WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Midwestern State running back Keidrick Jackson's outstanding performance at West Alabama has once again made him the Lone Star Conference Offensive Player of the Week.
 
The LSC office made the announcement on Monday.
 
The 5-9, 210 pound junior from Arlington/Bowie, the leader in rushing and scoring in the Lone Star Conference, set a new personal high as he recorded the seventh best rushing game in Midwestern history with 193 yards and three touchdowns on 21 carries to lead the Mustangs to a 42-27 win at then 18th ranked West Alabama in the LSC-Gulf South Conference First and Ten Challenge.
 
Jackson's 193 yards against the NCAA Division II's seventh ranked defense marked his third consecutive 150-plus rushing game.
 
Jackson, who now has 2,087 yards in his career, became the fifth 2,000-yard rusher in MSU history and ranks fifth all-time at Midwestern.
 
His three touchdown runs – all in the second half – keyed a 28-3 second half run by MSU.  His final score was a tackle-breaking bounce out on fourth-and-one that gave MSU an eight-point lead in the fourth quarter.
 
Jackson ranks second in NCAA Division II in scoring with 13.2 points a game and is 18th in rushing with 122.8 yards a game.
 
He's joined by West Texas A&M junior cornerback Curtis Slater, named the LSC Defensive Player of the Week, and Abilene Christian freshman return man Cade Stone, who was selected the LSC Special Teams Player of the Week.
 
 
Notables
 

• The Mustangs tallied their third straight win over a Gulf South Conference team with last Thursday's 42-27 win over then 18th ranked West Alabama.
• Junior running back Keidrick Jackson's career-high 193 rushing yards were the seventh most in a single game in school history and the most since Daniel Polk ran for 290 yards against Abilene Christian on Nov. 10, 2007.
• Jackson became the fifth 2,000-yard rusher in MSU history while moving past Henry Anders (1,957 rushing yards/1991-92) into fifth place on the school's all-time rushing list with 2,087 yards.
• Jackson recorded his third consecutive 150-plus rushing game, joining Dominic Rhodes in 2000 and Daniel Polk in 2005 with the feat.
• Jackson posted his second 3 TD or more game this season and the fifth in his career.  He leads the LSC in scoring and is second nationally with 13.2 points a game.
• Senior quarterback Brandon Kelsey rushed for 117 yards on 16 carries, his sixth 100-yard rushing game.  He also scored three touchdowns rushing, the second time he's done that in his career.
• Kelsey jumped past former quarterbacks Craig Pettigrew (1,516 rushing yards/1991-93) and Phillip Boggs (1,590 rushing yards/1999-03) into ninth place on MSU's all-time rushing list with 1,614 yards. Only MSU all-time rushing leader Daniel Polk (3,590 yards/2004-07) has more rushing yards from the quarterback position.
• With his six point-after-touchdown kicks, junior kicker Greg Saladino moved into eighth place on MSU's all-time scoring list with 132 points to equal Jerry Holstrom (132 points/2002-03) and tied for third most by a place kicker.
• Saladino also has tied Holstrom for the fourth-longest consecutive PAT string of 27.
• Neiko Conway's 54-yard punt return in the third quarter of Thursday night's 42-27 win at West Alabama matched the 10th longest in program history. It was the longest punt return since BeeJay Mathis went 66 yards against Angelo State on Sep. 27, 2008.
• The MSU defense held West Alabama to 364 total offensive yards and 188 rushing yards, the Tigers second-lowest offensive output behind the 248 total yards and 21 rushing yards allowed by Division I-FCS Samford.
• Taiyon Jackson's 11 tackles is just the second time this season that MSU has recorded a double-digit tackle game.
• Thursday's game was the first this season that MSU did not intercept a pass.
• With the win over West Alabama, Midwestern has now won five straight games played on Thursday night.
• The win also gives MSU an 11-1 record against Division II regular season non-conference opponents in the Bill Maskill Era.
• Saturday's game with Angelo State is part of Homecoming activities for MSU.  The Mustangs are 8-2 on Homecoming in the Maskill Era and 14-10 since reinstating the football program in 1988.  MSU has won three straight Homecoming games and eight of the last nine.
• Through the first half of the season, the Mustangs are 23-of-24 in the red zone (.958), with 17 touchdowns and six field goals.  Defensively, MSU has allowed the opponents to score on 10-of-15 red zone appearances (.667), with seven touchdowns and three field goals.