Justin Estes News

Marietta High School assistant football coach Ben Schenkel always has been true to his school, but he knows in the high-pressure world of NCAA Division I sports that loyalty doesn't always extend both ways.

Starting Saturday at Marshall, the Southern Miss football team begins a three-game stretch which will decide the fate of its season.

Whether it's mistakes in the kick return game or on place-kicks, frustrations are starting to mount for Southern Miss in the special teams area.

Southern Miss junior placekicker Justin Estes was named to ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA All-Academic District 6 first team today.

Southern Miss has found a wide variety of ways to lose each of its four road games this season.

Southern Miss dominated all three phases of Saturday's 43-6 Conference USA victory over Tulane, but the Golden Eagles need to clean up one aspect of the kicking game before playing at 15th-ranked Houston this week.

This week is the start of a four-game Conference USA gauntlet for Southern Miss as it looks to finish strong and earn a berth in the league title game.

Martevious Young threw for 127 yards and two touchdowns, as the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles defeated the Tulane Green Wave, 43-6, in Conference-USA action at MM Roberts Stadium.

Martevious Young threw a pair of touchdowns and Southern Miss scored in all three phases of the game en route to a 43-6 win against Tulane Saturday before an announced M.M. Roberts homecoming crowd of 30,541. The Golden Eagles, now 5-3 overall, moved into a three-way tie in Conference USA's East Division at 3-1 with East Carolina and Marshall.

Memphis receiver Carlos Singleton had 12 catches for 160 yards and four touchdowns in previous two games against Southern Miss, but the 6-foot-9 player was held in check Saturday night in the 36-16 win for the Golden Eagles.

WHEN IT COMES to athletics, it's difficult to understate the value of momentum. Momentum can crush you if the other team has it, and in some cases it can save your season.

Quarterback Martevious Young stepped up and played well in Austin Davis' absence, and the rest of his teammates gave him credit for putting the Eagles in position to win the game.

Placekicking appeared to be a problem for the Southern Miss football team headed into the season, and those concerns seemed realized with a pair of short misses by Justin Estes early in the campaign.

Stunned by the death of a teammate and reeling from the loss of its starting quarterback and three straight defeats, Southern Miss will try to get back in the win column Saturday against an old nemesis, the Memphis Tigers.

Southern Miss place-kicker Justin Estes started the 2009 football season a little shaky, missing two of his first three field goal attempts.

HATTIESBURG - Peter Wilkes enjoyed being a part of the Southern Miss football team.

Funeral services for Southern Miss football player Peter Wilkes, 18, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Union City Second Baptist Church in his hometown of Union City, Tenn.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The 25-23 loss to Louisville on Saturday night ruined a chance for Southern Miss to go 3-1 for the first time in nonconference play since 2000.

First-quarter troubles continued for Southern Miss on Thursday as UAB held a 10-0 lead after the first 15 minutes.

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