University of Richmond Athletics
Postgame Notes: No. 7 Richmond 34, Hofstra 14
11/08/2008 | Football
Nov. 8, 2008
• At 7-3 overall this season, the Spiders will finish with a winning record for the fourth-consecutive season. Richmond was 9-4 in 2005, 6-5 in 2006, 11-3 in 2007 and can do no worse than 7-5 in 2008. That hasn't happened at Richmond since the 1937 through 1940 seasons (5-4-1, 6-3-1, 7-1-2, 6-3-0).
• Richmond improved to 10-2 in its last 12 games versus the CAA North Division and has out-scored the North 375-221 in those games.
• The win improved the Spiders to 13-13 following the bye week since switching from I-A to I-AA/FCS in the 1981 season.
• Senior TB Josh Vaughan set a new career-high with his 166 yards on 18 carries in the first half and has now surpassed 100 yards in three-consecutive games and four of the last five. He's set career highs in each of the last three games - 156 at UMass, 157 vs. Georgetown and today's 240.
• With 101 yards on his first 11 carries of the game at the 12:50 mark of the second quarter, it marked Vaughan's fastest game to 100 yards in his career. Vaughan's 11th carry of the game at VMI put him at 103 with 1:15 left in the half.
• Vaughan now stands fourth all-time in rushing at Richmond with 2,618 yards, surpassing the 2,603 by TyRonne Turner (1997-00).
• The 240 yards by Vaughan stands as the fifth-best rushing game in school history, trailing Tim Hightower's 295 yards at Bucknell last season, the 280 by Barry Redden vs. Penn in 1981, and 246 by both Hightower (at Northeastern last season) and Cordell Roane vs. Hofstra in 2001.
• Vaughan has scored two TDs in each of the last five games and now has 13 this season, which ties three other Spiders (Uly Scott, Greg Grooms, Barty Smith) for the second-most in a single season. Tim Hightower's 20 last year is the record.
• Vaughan's 25 career rushing TDs stands third all-time at Richmond, behind Hightower's 34 and Scott's 29.
• The career-long 53-yard field goal by Andrew Howard stands as tied for the second-longest in school history and ranks as the fourth-longest in the conference record books. Johnnie Jones holds the school record with a 56-yard field goal at Appalachian State on Oct. 25, 1975 and Scott Schramme drilled a 53-yarder versus Arkansas State on Oct. 6, 1979.
• Howard's field goal is the longest by a Spider since Joseph Fore's 47-yarder at Furman in 2003. The junior's previous career-best was a 45-yarder at James Madison in 2006. In the CAA books, it stands tied for the fourth-longest in history. Northeastern's Miro Kesic holds the record with his 57-yarder versus Richmond in 2002.
• The touchdown scored by Hofstra with 10:24 on the clock in the third quarter was the first TD allowed by the Richmond defense since the first half of the Massachusetts game on Oct. 18. The Spiders kept UMass out of the end zone in the second half, pitched a shutout versus Georgetown and kept Hofstra out of the end zone in the first half.
• That Hofstra TD snapped a streak of 125 minutes, 23 seconds without a TD scored against Richmond.
• Junior QB Eric Ward was 11-of-20 passing for 158 yards and with those 11 completions, moved to second on the Spiders' career list (487) past Greg Lilly's 485 completions.