SEWANEE, Ga. – Burt Pereira, a 6-foot, 160-pound senior receiver for Millsaps has been named the SCAC Football Offensive Player of the Week for games played Saturday, September 27. 

The weekly award is the first for the Bush, La., native and it comes three days after hauling in a career-high 10 catches for 138 yards and two scores to pace Millsaps to a 49-2 win over SCAC-foe Rhodes.

The TD catches for Pereira spanned five and seven yards and gave him his fifth and sixth career touchdowns receiving, while the 138 yards was the most by a Major receiver in a single-game this season. Pereira is averaging 12.4 yards-per-catch with 14 total catches and 174 yards.

The Majors face one of the conference's top teams in DePauw University this Saturday in Jackson with kickoff set for 1 p.m. Pregame begins at 12:45 on www.atwsportscast.com.