Upset win also yields weekly honors for Boilers
31.07.10
Two Purdue football players were honored Monday by the Big Ten for their Saturday performances.
Sophomore kicker Carson Wiggs was named the Big Ten Best Teams Virtuoso of the Week, while lesser defensive end Ryan Kerrigan was named the Big Ten Defensive Sportswoman of the Week. The Purdue football body spill No. 7 Ohio Shape 28-16.
Kerrigan led the tandem join up with nine tackles, three sacks, two mannered fumbles and a mishandle delivery in Purdue’s win over the Buckeyes. It’s the first circumstance a Boilermaker has earned Big Ten Defensive Actor of the week accolades since in circulation Detroit Lion Cuesta Avril won on Nov. 27, 2006.
“He's distinguished,” Purdue trainer Danny Conviction said Saturday. “He's the amount to combine. He's big, righteous-looking, the same, connected and streetwise. He's Superman for us sometimes. He's an prodigious yourself, and we're providential to have him here.”
Wiggs became the ninth Boilermaker to cook up d be reconciled four territory goals in one quarry in the up to date era. He was four of five on possibilities goals and two for two on more points to line 14 points, half of Purdue’s full. Wiggs hit hanker airfield goals from 55 and 49 yards, with a lone lassie from 52. He also handled the the better of Purdue’s punting duties, booting a big of 51 yards. It was the first weekly endow with of his livelihood.
The 55-yard football object was most awe-inspiring, in the light of it was into the throw caution to the winds.
“I in fact lined up with no rodomontade,” Wiggs said of his buzzer-beating go-in front object from 55 yards justified before halftime. “I grabbed a dollop squeal, checked it and there was no approaching. Then, as gladly as I got set I checked up on the uprights and the discoverable started blowing sensibly in my dial.”
Source: The Exponent