BOCA RATON (CBS12) \u2014 Florida Atlantic\u2019s winning streak is bringing home some hardware.<\/p>\n
FAU senior Easton Messer has been named the American Conference\u2019s Special Teams Player of the Week after returning a punt 73 yards for a touchdown in the Owls\u2019 45-17 victory at Louisiana-Monroe.<\/p>\n
The win marked FAU\u2019s third straight victory and gave the Owls their first three-game winning streak since 2020.<\/p>\n
After opening the season with a difficult loss at Florida, FAU has responded with three consecutive wins, including an impressive performance at Louisiana-Monroe in which the Owls scored 28 points in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
Now, FAU will look to make it four straight when Texas Southern visits Boca Raton on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Senior edge rusher Jonathan Bax said the season-opening loss to Florida served as an important wake-up call for the Owls.<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially after Week One against Florida, it wasn\u2019t a good outing for either defense or offense, so I feel like that was a great wake-up call for us,\u201d Bax said. \u201cAfter that, we made the commitment to just be the best defense we could be and limit explosive plays.\u201d<\/p>\n
Texas Southern presents a different challenge for FAU, particularly with its size at the skill positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have big athletes, like their receivers and tight ends \u2014 big dudes,\u201d FAU head coach Zach Kittley said. \u201cWe just gotta play some football there, and we had to tackle really, really well. That\u2019s gonna be our challenge this week, is getting the ball down and tackling really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Owls will host Texas Southern at 6 p.m. Saturday at Flagler Credit Union Stadium, looking to extend their winning streak to four games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOCA RATON (CBS12) \u2014 Florida Atlantic\u2019s winning streak is bringing home some hardware. FAU senior Easton Messer has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-415291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}