WESSON – Another week brings another honor for the No. 7 ranked Copiah-Lincoln football team. Freshman quarterback Daniel Fitzwater has been selected as the MACJC Offensive Player of the Week for his performance in the 48-7 Co-Lin win over Itawamba. This is the second straight week for a Co-Lin player to receive the honor after wide receiver Casey Gladney was selected last week.

Fitzwater, a 6-6 signal caller from Shreveport, La., was 24-for-41 for 459 yards and four touchdowns. The third play of the game was a harbinger of the good things to come for Fitzwater and the Wolfpack offense. On that play Fitzwater escaped the Indian’s defensive pressure and threw a 73-yard touchdown bomb to Gladney. Fitzwater would connect with wide receiver Courtney Foy in the second quarter on a 31-yard touchdown pass. In the third quarter Fitzwater would throw a 13-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Koy McFarland and a 16-yard touchdown pass to running back Kelton Smith.

Fitzwater hit eight different receivers on the night and has his biggest passing game of the season against an Itawamba defense that was holding teams to only 164 passing yards per game.

Fitzwater, who prepped at Calvary Baptist, has thrown for 1,620 yards through six games this season. Fitzwater is 111-of-194 for 13 touchdowns and four interceptions. He ranks seventh in the NJCAA among quarterbacks in passing yardage (1,631) and in yards per game (271.8) and ninth in touchdowns (13). In the MACJC, Fitzwater ranks second in yards per game behind East Mississippi’s Dontreal Pruitt.

The Wolfpack, who moved up to No. 7 in this week’s NJCAA poll, host Pearl River on Saturday in Wesson for homecoming. Homecoming activities on Saturday begin with a 5K on the track at 7:30 a.m., the induction of the 2013 Sports Hall of Fame class at Rea Auditorium at 9:30 a.m., a tailgate party from noon until 2 p.m. in the center of the campus, and the presentation of the homecoming court at 2:30 p.m. in Stone Stadium followed by the game at 3 p.m. The complete homecoming schedule can be found at www.colin.edu/alumni/homecoming.