COLUMBIA, Ky. - Lindsey Wilson student-athlete Davontaye Saunders has been selected as the Mid-South Conference Football Offensive Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday.
 
Saunders, of Eminence, Kentucky, earns his second weekly honor this season and seventh in his career.  He ran the ball 20 times for 175 yards and two touchdowns in the Blue Raiders' 30-21 victory over Campbellsville.
 
The senior averaged 8.8 yards per carry and went over 150 yards for the 10th time in his career. Saunders' first touchdown went 59 yards on the first play of the drive late in the third quarter, giving Lindsey Wilson a 20-14 lead. His second score of the day was for four yards and was the go-ahead touchdown giving the Blue Raiders a 27-21 lead with 12:28 to play.
 
Saunders now has 3,016 yards in his career and is just the second Blue Raider in program history to surpass 3,000 yards. He now has 37 career touchdowns and is just four touchdowns from breaking the career touchdowns record.
 
He and the Blue Raiders are back in action on Saturday hosting No. 24 Georgetown (Ky.) at 1:30 p.m. CT at Parnell Family Stadium.