University of Richmond Athletics
Postgame Notes: No. 6 Richmond 56, VMI 16
10/04/2008 | Football
Oct. 4, 2008
• Richmond's win evened the all-time series at 40-40-5 in the 85th meeting between Commonwealth rivals. The Spiders have now won seven straight over VMI, 11 of 12 and 18 of 21.
• Richmond has out-scored VMI 186-33 over the last four meetings. The Spiders blanked the Keydets, 56-0, in the team's last meeting in 2006 at UR Stadium.
• The victory improved Richmond to 44-26 as a ranked team since 1993 and 13-4 since the start of last season.
• Since 2005, Richmond is now 23-5 when scoring first and 23-1 when scoring 30+ points.
• With Justin Rogers' fumble recovery returned 41-yards for a touchdown, the sophomore now has five TDs in his career (two by kickoff return, two by interception return). Both interception returns came earlier this year for the sophomore.
• Rogers picked off a pass in the game and now has four career interceptions - all coming this season to lead the team. He needs one more to move into a tie for eighth on the Spiders' single-season interceptions chart.
• In the game, Eric Ward moved into a tie for second all-time at Richmond in TD passes (37) and stands third all-time in completions (441). He tied both Greg Lilly and Charlie Richards in career TD pass, while overtaking Stacy Tutt in third-place for completions.
• The Spiders have now scored points on 16 of its last 17 possessions in the Red Zone, with 10 of the scores being touchdowns. Richmond was a season-high five-for-five versus VMI - all TDs.
• Richmond forced three turnovers in the game, generating 14 points off VMI's miscues and have now cashed in on nine of its last 11 forced turnovers. Through five games this season, Richmond has scored 64 points off its 15 forced turnovers after scoring 63 points off 25 turnovers all last season.
• With 123 yards rushing, Josh Vaughan posted the second-best ground game of his career. The senior was nine yard shy of his career-best 132 yards that came last season versus William & Mary. His two-TD effort tied a career-high he's set four other times.
• Vaughan now has 19 career rushing TDs, moving him into eighth all-time at Richmond.
• Now with 2,011 career rushing yards, Vaughan moved pass Jarvis Jennings (2.002 yards) into ninth on the Spiders' all-time list.
• Andrew Howard drilled all eight PAT attempts to tie the career high he originally set versus VMI in 2006. The junior, who is Richmond's all-time leading scorer by a kicker (210 points), has made all 117 PATs in his career and continues to close in on the NCAA record for consecutive PATs made of 126.
• The Spiders continue to dominate the second half and out-scored VMI 28-6 on Saturday. For the season, Richmond owns a 107-42 edge in the second-half scoring.
