YSUsports.com- Mays Named Gateway Offensive Player of the Year

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Nov. 28, 2001
Football: Mays Named Gateway Offensive Player of the Year
     St. Louis, Mo. -- Youngstown State junior tailback P.J. Mays was named the Gateway Football Conference’s Offensive Player of the Year, the league announced on Wednesday. The Penguins, who finished the year 8-3 and finished third in the Gateway, had 11 players named to the all-conference teams.
     Joining Mays on the first team were senior offensive tackle Pat Crummey, senior defensive back LeVar Greene, senior safety Bruce Hightower and junior return specialist Jerald Burley. Selected to the second-team were YSU senior quarterback Jeff Ryan, senior center Dave
Tesniarz and junior Russell Stuvaints. Earning Honorable-Mention accolades were sophomore placekicker Jake Stewart, senior linebacker Bob Sivik and senior defensive back Antulio Aroche.
     Mays becomes the first Penguin to win Gateway Football Conference Offensive Player-of-the-Year honors in school history. The only other players to be named as a league’s offensive player of the year were Trenton Lykes (1987) and Paris Wicks (1982) when YSU was a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. The 11 players who were named to the
all-conference teams are a school record.
     Mays has had one of the best regular season’s by a YSU running back in school history in 2001. He finished the year with 1,446 yards setting a school regular-season record for rushing yardage and his 131.5 yards per game average was the best in school history. He scored 22 total touchdowns which rank third in the nation and he has scored 132 points to average 12 points per game. He ranks 12th nationally in rushing yards per game.
     Mays became the second player in YSU history to rush for more than 200 yards in three separate games this season. His last effort was a 201-yard three-touchdown performance against Marshall on Nov. 24. He also had a 226-yard effort against Lock Haven and a 218-yard performance against Southwest Missouri State. He has rushed for more than 100 yards in six games this season. He has scored touchdowns in nine of 11 games and had eight multi-touchdown games. He scored four rushing touchdowns against Indiana State, the first time a Penguin had four touchdowns -- and 26 points -- in a game since September 1992. His 83-yard run against Clarion is the third-longest rush in school history and is the longest in 20 years at Stambaugh Stadium.