Richmond Erases a 17-point Hole and Beats Lafayette 40-31
Richmond trailed 24-7 with 1:45 left in the second quarter. It won 40-31. Nobody scores that way on purpose, and yet the Spiders are 5-0.
Lafayette's start was built on two plays. Jakyre Henley broke a 72-yard touchdown run at the end of the first quarter and a 74-yarder right before the half's last minute, and those two runs plus a Daniel Lipovski touchdown and a Jack Simonetta field goal made it 24-7. Then the game flipped. Richmond kicked a 25-yard field goal, and Ashten Snelsire ran in from 3 yards with four seconds left in the half to make it 24-17. Aziz Foster-Powell tied it at 24-24 on a 4-yard run early in the third. Snelsire threw to Quanye Veney from 9 yards for the lead at 31-24, and to Sean Clarke from 3 yards early in the fourth for 38-24.
Lafayette got a Malachi Gamble 10-yard run to make it 38-31, then the last points were a safety with 1:30 left. Over the stretch after 24-7, Richmond outscored Lafayette 33-7.
The yardage was close to the opposite of the early scoreboard. Richmond ran 45 times for 253 yards and totaled 471, against 366 for Lafayette, which ran only 25 times. Richmond turned it over three times (two interceptions and a fumble) to Lafayette's two, and got by. Lafayette is 1-3. Richmond is 5-0 and has now won one the hard way.
For fantasy, Snelsire's 39.6 was the highest score in the game, and Henley's 27.2 on eight carries was not far behind, even for a loser.