McCoy, Sawyer Win Region Award
December 2, 2008
WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s Ruzell McCoy and Joe Sawyer continued to win wide-spread acclaim for their performances on the football field for the recently completed season.
McCoy, a senior from Frederick, Okla., was voted to the first-team Daktronics All-Super Region 4 team at linebacker while Sawyer, a junior from Ogden, Utah, was a second-team choice at tight end.
The team, which is sponsored by Daktronics, Inc., an acknowledged leader in scoring, timing and programmable display systems, is nominated and voted on by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
As a first-team selection, McCoy will continue on the ballot and will be up for consideration for All-American honors later this month. Selections for the Super Region 4 team were made from 36 football-playing schools participating in the Lone Star Conference, Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, the Great Northwest Conference, and selected Independents.
McCoy was SWOSU’s record-setting linebacker who was twice selected to the LSC North Division first-team squad. He was chosen as North Division Linebacker-of-the-Year and led the Bulldogs in tackles and finished second in the entire conference with 107.
He led LSC in tackles for lost yardage with 20.5 stops for 65 yards and broke school record for most career stops behind the line of scrimmage with 49. He finished his career with 283 career tackles, which rank him among the top five in school history.
Sawyer who transferred this season from Snow Junior College in Utah was a first team LSC North selection at tight end. He ended the year catching 46 passes for 519 yards and five touchdowns, second best among tight ends in LSC. His best game was a seven-catch, 116-yard effort in opener against Northwestern Oklahoma which he caught a 61-yard TD pass in the fourth quarter to help secure a 27-15 win.
He had 6 catches for 80 yards and 1 TD against nationally-ranked Tarleton State and had 5 catches for 71 yards and one TD against Southeastern Oklahoma State.