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Larry English Named MAC West Defensive Player of the Week
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Sept. 24, 2007

Quote:DeKALB, Ill. - After posting a school-record five sacks Saturday at Idaho, Northern Illinois defensive end Larry English (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) has been named the MAC West Defensive Player of the Week. The junior defensive end also scored his first career touchdown in the game after forcing a fumble and recovering it in the endzone.

English broke his own school record with five sacks against the Vandals while also being credited with five quarterback pressures in Saturday's 42-35 NIU victory. In the game, he totaled a career-best 12 tackles, including 10 solo stops, and added a forced fumble, fumble recovery and pass break up.

With four minutes remaining in the first half, English sacked Idaho quarterback Nathan Enderle at the 10-yard line and forced a fumble that he recovered in the endzone for a touchdown that put the Huskies ahead 35-7. In the game, English recorded a sack in every quarter and had two in the second stanza.

English's five sacks is the NCAA's best single-game total this season and vaulted him to the top of the MAC rankings with an average of 1.50 per game (six total), a mark that ranks in a second-place tie nationally. English has 19 career sacks, a total that ties him for third on NIU's all-time list.

Definitely deserved it.

I really hoped that Boston McCornell from WMU would have gotten it, but hey... 5 sacks. Should be national defensive player of the week.

They obviously peeked at our POTW awards first...

Larry English deserved it, but so did Toledo's Barry Church. He had 19 tackles, including 4 tackles for loss against Iowa State.

I am kind of surprised they weren't co-defensive potw's.