University of Richmond Athletics
Football Hosts First-Place Maine On Homecoming
10/18/2011 | Football
| No. 18 Maine (3-3, 0-3) vs. No. 9 Maine (5-1, 3-0) | |
| Game 7 | Saturday, October 22, 2011 |
| Location | Robins Stadium (8,700) | Richmond, Va. |
| Kickoff | 3:30 p.m. ET |
| Radio | ESPN 950 | Listen Live |
| TV | None |
| Webcast (Video) | SpiderTV |
| Live Stats | Link (Available at kickoff) |
| Social Media | Twitter | Facebook |
| Game Notes | Richmond (PDF) | Maine (PDF) |
SpiderTV Receives Upgrades
The Athletic Department would like to apologize to our Spider TV live streaming viewers for the technical and production problems experienced during the previous home football games at Robins Stadium. Since the Spiders' last football home game September 24th vs. New Hampshire, SpiderTV has made technical and production changes in order to provide an improved viewing experience for fans, beginning with Saturday's 3:30pm Homecoming Game vs. Maine. Although SpiderTV delivers the Robins Stadium SpiderVision video board feed online, production enhancements will be made with the intent to give the internet viewer more of an at-home, television-style viewing event, with multiple camera angles, replays and audio from the Spider/IMG Sports Network. Click here for subscription information and to sign up for SpiderTV.
The Game
• A grueling stretch of Top-25 opponents continues when No. 18 Richmond welcomes unlikely CAA Football leader No. 9 Maine Saturday on Homecoming Weekend.
• The Spiders are coming off a much-needed bye week and have won their last five post-bye week games by an average of 13 points.
• Richmond leads the all-time series with Maine 12-10 and has won three consecutive by a combined 59 points in the rivalry that dates back to the Yankee Conference days.
• The Spiders are 14-13 since 1981 on Homecoming and have won three of their past four. The Black Bears have twice been a Homecoming foe at Richmond, falling 17-14 in 1997 and 17-6 in 2000.
Quick Slants
• Richmond enters the game ranked No. 18 in the Sports Network/Fathead.com Top 25, having appeared in the poll every week this season.
• Saturday's game marks the Spiders' fourth-consecutive versus a Top 25 team and all five of Richmond's remaining opponents are currently in the Sports Network/Fathead.com Top 25.
• Richmond has scored first in five of the six games this season and is out-scoring the opposition 37-7 in the first quarter this season.
• Senior QB Aaron Corp is coming off a record-setting game at Towson where he broke both the school and the all-time FCS marks for completion pct. (min. 30 att.). Corp was 31-of-34 (91.2%) with a career-high 353 yards and two TDs and was named the CAA Off. Player of the Week.
• Corp has not thrown an interception in 103 pass attempts, dating back to Sept. 24 vs. UNH. • Corp's favorite target, senior WR Tre Gray, is leading the league and ranked fourth in the FCS in both yards (113.8) and catches (8.0).
• Gray needs three catches and 73 yards to break the Spiders' respective career records. • Gray put up career numbers (16 catches, 194 yards) versus New Hampshire on Sept. 24 and has been called the “best receiver in the league” by both UNH head coach Sean McDonnell and JMU head coach Mickey Matthews.
• Gray and redshirt freshman Stephen Barnette are the league's top two “clutch” WRs this season, with Gray accounting for a league-leading 33 first downs or TDs on his 48 catches, while a league-high 88% of Barnette's catches have resulted in either first downs or TDs.
• Barnette and Gray also rank first and second in the league on third-down catches.
• Junior FB Kendall Gaskins has scored a TD in every game this season and nine of the last 11 (dating back to last season). In his career, Gaskins is ninth all-time at Richmond with 19 rushing TDs (20 overall).
