Keith Lucas
0
8-4 , 6-2
41
9-3 , 6-2
0
41
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2nd |
third |
4th |
F |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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10 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 41 |
Sport Recap: Soccer |
Richmond, Va.— The College of Richmond soccer workforce will proceed its playoff journey following a 41-0 victory over Davidson at Robins Stadium Saturday. The Spiders will journey throughout the nation to play No. 2 Sacramento State Saturday at 5 p.m. japanese time at Hornet Stadium.
Richmond (9-3) jumped to a convincing lead early and by no means seemed again because it routed Davidson for the workforce’s first-ever playoff shutout and first in any sport since 2017. The Wildcats finish their season at 8-4.
The Spiders excelled in all phases, with the Richmond offense choosing up 482 yards whereas the protection restricted Davidson to simply 226. Reece Udinski (North Wales, Pa.) was practically good, connecting on 29 of 32 move makes an attempt for his highest completion proportion (90.3%) this season.
Discovering the endzone in every quarter, Aaron Dykes (Knoxville, Tenn.) began the Richmond scoring spree with a 12-yard rush earlier than Andrew Lopez (New Orleans, La.) knocked in a 35-yard subject purpose within the first quarter. The second noticed Udinski join on two landing throws— a 25-yard move to Jakob Herres (Easton, Pa.) and a 30-yard completion to Jerry Garcia Jr. (Hope Mills, N.C.)— earlier than Jake Larson (Baltimore, Md.) kicked a 46-yard subject purpose to make it 27-0 on the half.
The Richmond run sport picked up much more after the break with Milan Howard (Charlotte, N.C.) operating in two touchdowns for the primary multi-score sport of his profession. Howard led the Spiders floor assault, racking up career-highs on each yards (73) and carries (12).
Aaron Trusler (Melbourne, Australia) averaged a season-high 46.50 yards per punt and booted a career-high 63-yarder within the contest.
“Actually comfortable to select up a win right here,” mentioned head coach Russ Huesman. “I feel we performed very well in all three phases… on offense we had been actually environment friendly and hung onto the ball and defensively, to pitch a shutout towards a workforce [like Davidson] is actually good.”
Main the Spiders with eight tackles together with 2.0 for loss (-5) Tristan Wheeler (Bethlehem, Pa.) eclipsed the 100 tackles mark this season, making it his third-consecutive full season of soccer with over 100 tackles. Xavier Marshall (Charlotte, N.C.) and Philip O’Connor (Philadelphia, Pa.) adopted with six every, whereas Marlem Louis (Venice, Fla.) picked up a sack for a lack of 12 yards. Defensive sort out Matei Fitz (Leesburg, Va.) snagged his first-career interception on a wild move within the second quarter.
Previous to the competition, Davidson led the nation in dashing offense, choosing up 350.5 yards per sport on the bottom.
“I feel everybody did an ideal job honing in on what their project was,” mentioned Wheeler. “We’re tremendous excited and tremendous blessed to be on this place to be enjoying in these massive video games, and we will strategy [the game at Sacrament State] the identical manner we do every week and go in and play Richmond soccer the best way we’ve got been.”
Saturday’s sport marks the primary assembly between the Spiders and Sacramento State (11-0) and comes as Richmond’s first-ever sport in California.
