University of Richmond Athletics
University of Richmond
at Towson
18-Ranked Richmond Tops Towson, 48-21
11/12/2005 | Football
Nov. 12, 2005
TOWSON, Md. (AP) - Stacy Tutt ran for a career-high 144 yards and two scores and threw a pair of touchdown passes, helping Richmond rout Towson 48-21 Saturday afternoon for its sixth consecutive victory.
Tim Hightower and David Freeman also scored rushing touchdowns for the Spiders (7-3, 6-1 Atlantic 10), who clinched the conference's South Division title.
Sean Schaefer was 27-of-44 for 332 yards and three touchdowns for Towson (6-4, 3-4 A-10), which had won four of five. Rocky Brown, Ryan Meehan and Eric Yancey had touchdown receptions for the Tigers, who were held to a season-low 58 yards rushing.
Richmond had a season-best seven sacks and posted its largest point total since a 56-3 win over Virginia Military Institute on Sept. 20, 1997.
The Spiders moved 53 yards on the game's first drive, with Hightower's 16-yard run capping the nine-play march. Schaefer's 16-yard touchdown pass to Brown tied the game on the first quarter's final play.
Joseph Fore's season-long 44-yard field goal put Richmond up 4:13 into the second quarter and the Spiders exploited a turnover and a shanked punt to build a 20-7 halftime lead.
Richmond's Dan Mangiero recovered an Andrae Brown fumble, setting up a 40-yard TD run by Freeman four plays later. The Tigers' next possession stalled, and an 18-yard punt by Stephan Toth gave Richmond the ball at the Towson 35, leading to Fore's 33-yard field goal.
Early in the second half, Schaefer fumbled after being sacked and Richmond's Sherman Logan recovered at the Towson 27.
Tutt scored on a 59-yard keeper three plays later for a 27-7 lead. Tutt, who was 14-for-22 for 185 yards passing, later added a career-long 75-yard TD run, making it 41-14.
