RICHARDSON, Texas – Eastern New Mexico football claimed all three weekly Lone Star Conference Player of the Week Awards as Paul Terry was named the Offensive Player of the Week, Mazin Richards was named Defensive Player of the Week and Tyler Vargas was named the Special Teams Player of the Week.

This week marks the first week all season that the Lone Star Conference has awarded all three weekly awards to players from a single school on the heels of an impressive performance for the Hounds in a 20-17 overtime win against #21 Angelo State. The win pushed the Greyhound’s record to 6-4 on the year and allowed the team to finish 4-4 in Lone Star Conference play.

Terry once again proved to be the difference maker for the Hounds on the offensive side of the ball, matching the school record he broke earlier in the season with 40 carries and totaled 233 yards and a touchdown to earn his second Offensive Player of the Week award for the year. No run proved as important for the senior fullback than his 14-yard score early in the fourth quarter that capped off a 23-play, 90-yard drive for the Hounds and also broke the school record for rushing yards in a single season previously held by E’lon Spight back in 2014.

That record-breaking run for Terry finished off the incredible drive for the Hounds that lasted 12:04, tied the contest up at 10-10 and allowed the Rams just a single possession throughout the third quarter of action. Terry’s 233 yards on Saturday night stands as a career-high for the Amarillo, Texas native and is his second game of 200 yards or more rushing throughout the season.

Terry is the only player in Division II football to rush for 100 yards or more in every single game this season and ranks second in the country with 1,681 yards on the ground. He leads the nation with 292 carries on the year and has scored 10 touchdowns with next week’s game against Western Oregon still remaining.

As vital as Terry was in the upset for the Hounds, freshman Mazin Richards once again rose to the occasion and was tabbed the Defensive Player of the Week for his efforts. Richards totaled 3.5 of the team’s seven sacks during a game in which the Hound defense limited the league’s second-best scoring offense to just 17 points and 265 yards of total offense.

The freshman totaled six tackles for the game, 2.5 of which were for a loss on top of the 3.5 sacks he produced, and was in on one of two sacks for the Hounds in the final Angelo State possession of regular time that started at the Eastern New Mexico 35-yard line. Those sacks by the Hounds forced a punt by the Rams and allowed the Hounds to force overtime.

Richards leads the Lone Star Conference as a freshman with 10.0 sacks and has totaled 11.5 tackles for a loss this season. He now has two games in which he has totaled three or more sacks for the year after totaling 3.0 sacks back on Sept. 28th against Texas A&M-Kingsville.

Vargas joined Terry with his second Player of the Week honor by the conference after kicking what would end up being the game-winning 39-yard field goal following the Hound’s first possession of the overtime period. The San Diego, Calif. native made both field goal attempts for the game, converting on a 46-yard field goal at the 13:18 mark of the second quarter on top of the game-winning field goal in overtime.

He continued to handle the punting duties as well for Eastern New Mexico, averaging 40.7 yards per punt and pinned the Rams inside their own 20-yard line once. Vargas has totaled the most field goals on the year in the Lone Star Conference with 13 and ranks fifth in the league in punting average with an average of 39.6 yards per punt.

Eastern New Mexico will finish the 2019 regular season on Saturday afternoon as they take on Western Oregon on the road at 2 p.m. MST.