POPLARVILLE, Miss. — A day after being named the MACCC’s Special Teams Player of the Week, Pearl River football’s Morgan Craft (Picayune) has taken home the same award from the National Junior College Athletic Association.
Craft is the first PRCC football player to be named an NJCAA Player of the Week since October 20, 2021, when Justin Jefferson won the defensive award.
The kicker wins the award after being a significant reason that Pearl River erased a 13-0 deficit at East Central. The freshman had three field goal attempts and a pair of extra-point attempts and was perfect on all five kicks. After field goals from 34 and 38 yards, Craft had one more opportunity with two seconds remaining in the game. He was sent out for a 32-yard game-winning attempt and sent it perfectly between the posts to earn the 23-20 victory.
Through four games, Craft is 4-for-6 on his field goals and 8-for-8 extra point attempts. His 38-yarder against East Central was his career-long.
NEXT UP
The Wildcats make the trip to Perkinston Thursday night for a 7 p.m. matchup with archrival Gulf Coast.
TICKETS
Tickets for PRCC’s game at Gulf Coast are available now at MGCCCBulldogs.com/Tickets or at the gate. Tickets purchased online are $10 per adult and $7 per child. Tickets purchased at the gate are $15 per adult and $10 per child.
TUNE IN
All Pearl River football games are livestreamed for free at PRCCMedia.com/Gold. Fans who have Roku, Amazon Fire or Apple TV devices can also watch the Wildcat broadcasts by downloading the “Pearl River CC” channel from their app stores.
Games can also be heard at WRJW 1320-AM, 106.9 FM and WRJWRadio.com.
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