Seven Muleriders Earn All-GSC Honors

Offensive linemen Michael Boster and Trey LaValle and linebacker Eddie Key of Southern Arkansas University were named first-team 2000 All-Gulf South Conference in a release from the conference office today. Boster, a 6-4, 315-pound senior tackle from Van Buren, was selected as a guard where he previously played before sitting out the 1999 season with shoulder surgery. He was named first-team All-GSC in 1998 at guard. LaValle, a 6-1, 260-pound junior center from Farmerville, La., was a second-team All-GSC pick last year and also made second-team on the 1999 Sophomore All-America Team. Key, SAU’s leading tackler, was rewarded with first-team honors this year. He is a 6-2, 206-pound junior from Longview, Tex.

Muleriders earning second-team All-GSC honors were quarterback Tim Barrington, a 5-10, 205-pound senior from Lafayette, La.; linebacker Marco Board, a 6-2, 220-pound senior from Dallas, Tex.; cornerback Tony Jennings, a 5-9, 170-pound senior from New Boston, Tex.; and punter Garron Spickard, a 6-0, 168-pound senior from Bauxite. Barrington repeated second-team honors he won in ’99 in spite of an injury sustained in the sixth game of the season, forcing him to miss one game and playing the final three games with a limp. Board was first-team All-GSC as a sophomore and junior but was did not receive the votes necessary for a three-peat. This was the first post-season honor for Jennings in his three-year starting and four-year lettering career and Spickard was a second-team choice in 1997 as a kicker.

Tight end Adam Creek, a first-team All-GSC selection as a junior, did not receive the votes his senior year for either the first or second team and kicker Jason Williams, not only a first-team All-GSC selection but first-team All-America in 1998 and a second-team All-Conference choice in 1999, also was shut out of post-season honors.

The 2000 All-GSC Team was selected by conference head football coaches who were not allowed to vote for their own players.