College Sports Madness Names Kenny Cook Its Big South Offensive Player of the Week
November 03, 2013 | Football
Cook (Cross Hill, S.C. / Clinton HS / Garden City CC) hauled in eight passes for a career-high 179 yards in Gardner-Webb's 51-14 romp over Warner (Fla.) University, catching scoring tosses of 25 and 52 yards. He had five of his catches and 111 yards by intermission.
The 6-foot-4, 210-pound standout caught a nicely thrown, 25-yard touchdown from Chandler Browning early in the second quarter, and closed out the first-half scoring with a 52-yard strike from Lucas Beatty - outrunning the secondary after the catch to paydirt.
Seven of Cook's catches went for first downs, as Gardner-Webb piled up a season-best 570 total offensive yards and 28 first downs.
The redshirt junior leads the Big South Conference this season with a career-high 53 catches for 719 yards and seven touchdowns. Cook now has 101 career receptions for 1,385 yards and 14 touchdowns in just 20 career games in Boiling Springs.
Saturday's outing against Warner was the fourth 100-yard game of the 2013 for Cook.
Gardner-Webb (5-4, 0-2 Big South) gets back into league play this weekend, traveling to face VMI at 1:00 pm on Saturday, November 9. The game will be the 11th meeting between the two teams, with Gardner-Webb holding a 9-1 edge in the series. The matchup has always been competitive, however, with only four of the previous 10 meetings decided by more than a touchdown.
VMI held off Gardner-Webb for a 34-27 win in the 2011 season finale in Lexington.
Saturday's game will be broadcast live by ESPN3 (WatchESPN.com), with Evan Lepler and Stan Lewter calling the action for the Big South Game of the Week. WGWG-FM (88.3 / wgwg.org) will also carry the game, with Fabian Fuentes providing the audio call.
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