Michigan's Roy Roundtree, Illinois' Mikel Leshoure earn top honors
Pete Bigelow hands out game balls after Michigan's 67-65, triple-overtime win over Illinois on Saturday, with four being the best:
ROY ROUNDTREE (4): Right from the start, Roundtree dominated. The Michigan receiver caught a 75-yard TD pass on the game’s opening play from scrimmage and had set the Michigan single-game receiving record by halftime. When it was done, he amassed nine catches for 246 yards and two touchdowns.
MIKEL LESHOURE (4): The Illinois running back found a bug in the Michigan defense, exposing it not once, but twice on a wheel route that nobody bothered to cover. It wasn’t only the Wolverines D that made him look good. LeShoure finished with 123 rushing yards on the day, and five total touchdowns, including two in OT.
COURTNEY AVERY (2 1/2): Starting in place of injured J.T. Floyd, the true freshman hardly played a perfect game at cornerback, but he made a tremendous open-field tackle of Illinois QB Nathan Scheelhaasse on 3rd and 6 that stopped him a half-yard short of the first-down marker. The Illini missed a field goal on the next play.
Pete Bigelow covers the Michigan football team for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at (734) 623-2551, via email at petebigelow@annarbor.com and followed on Twitter @PeterCBigelow.
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UMguy
Mon, Nov 8, 2010 : 12:35 a.m.
MICH has 4 great receivers. Stonem also played well and made key catches as well as that big reverse on the kickoff. Personally I don't know how we can continue doing the #1 jersey tradition with the receivers if we're not going to bring back the wolverine decals on the helmets. This was a game of redemption, for Gallon, Forcier, and the entire defense.