BATON ROUGE — Southeastern Louisiana quarterback Brian Babin for a big night of passing and LSU linebacker Jacob Cutrera for returning a miss aimed pass highlight the first naming of the 2009 Louisiana Sports Writers Association Players of the Week.
Also honored were two special teams’ players in a tie vote for kickers Radi Jabour of ULM and Southeastern’s Beau Mothe.
Babin earned offensive honors after completing 37-of-55 passes for 379 yards and three touchdowns in a 41-7 win in Hammond over Texas A&M-Commerce. Babin’s 379 yards was the ninth-best single-game mark in school history, the third time Babin was over 300 yards in his career. The game also put him over 5,000 yards passes (5,182), the second in school history to top the 5,000 figure. Babin tosses a pair of second-quarter touchdown passes to Simmie Yarborough before adding a nine-yard scoring pass to Chris Wilson in the fourth quarter.
Babin is a senior from St. Amant.
Cutrera, a senior linebacker from Lafayette, tipped and intercepted a pass and then returned it 29 yards for a touchdown to give the Tigers a 10-7 lead early in the first quarter of the 31-23 Tiger win in the opener at Washington this past Saturday. The interception came on Cutrera’s first play of the game (which was the first play on Washington’s second offensive series). He finished with five tackles, including a tackle for a four-yard loss in the LSU win.
On the special team’s side, Jabour hit field goals of 24 and 21 yards and made both extra points in ULM’s loss to No. 2. The sophomore kicker is from LaPlace. Freshman Mothe of SLU, who hails from New Orleans, had four punts for a 40-yard average in his first collegiate game and the true freshman knocked three of them down inside the 20-yard line (13, 10 and 8) with one touchback and no returns.