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University of Massachusets Athletics
Postgame Notes: No. 10 UMass 48, William & Mary 7
October 07, 2006 | Football
Oct. 7, 2006
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• UMass piled up 596 yards of total offense. The school record is 651 set against New Hampshire in 1965. Recently, UMass has had these big offense days: 599 vs. UConn in 1999 and 591 vs. Buffalo in 1998.
• Steve Baylark scored his 32nd and 33rd career rushing touchdowns his 36th and 37th career overall touchdowns with 23-yard and 6-yard touchdown runs in the first quarter. He has scored at least one touchdown on 10 of the last 11 games. Over those 11 games, he has a total of 17 touchdowns (13 rushing and four receiving).
• Steve Baylark had his 18th career 100-yard game with 187 yards. UMass is 15-3 in those 18 games. He had 130 in the first-half alone. For Baylark, it was his third-most rushing yards in a game. His career-best is 198 at Maine in 2005 and 192 at UNH in 2004.
• He also moved to third in career rushing yards at UMass. He passed Garry Pearson (3,859) with his career-long 50-yard rush in the second quarter. Baylark ended the game with 3,927 yards. That 50-yard run was his longest in his career (of 865 career carries), surpassing his previous high of 49 at Northeastern 0n Nov. 6, 2004.
• Redshirt freshman Tony Nelson scored his first three career touchdowns on 4- and 5-yard rushes in the second quarter and a 2-yard score in the fourth quarter. He is the first UMass freshman to rush for three of more TDs in a game since R.J. Cobbs had a school-record tying five at Rhode Island in 2002. Nelson saw extended action with injuries to Tim Washington (back) and Matt Lawrence (hamstring). Nelson finished with 69 yards.
• J.J. Moore went over the 100-yard mark for the third time in his career with 118 yards on 5 catches. His last 100-yard game came at Colgate (9/10/05) when he had a career-high 128.
• Brandon London moved to fourth on UMass' career receptions list with 3 catches on Saturday, giving him 110 in his career. He passed Bob Simeone (1981-84), who had 108.
• London also moved to seventh on the career receiving yards list with 1,455 passing 2006 UMass Hall of Famer Steve Schubert (1970-72), who has 1,435 in his career. Next on the list is Tim Berra (1971-73), who had 1,486. Yes, his is Yogi Berra's son.
• Sophomore quarterback Liam Coen moved to sixth in career passing yards with 275 in the game on 12-of-17 passing and one TD. He now has 3,281. He passed former Detroit Lion and Baltimore Colt Greg Landry (1965-67), who had 3,131.
• The crowd of 15,822 was the 19th largest all-time at McGuirk Stadium, dating to the facility's opening in 1965.