The Liberty Flames won their fourth straight home game on Saturday night 56-31 over the Brevard Tornados, the 11th win in the last 12 home openers. Liberty has not lost to a lower division opponent in 11 years, something we will touch on again later.
Josh Woodrum finished with 327 yards and 4 TDs, his 9th game with multiple TD passes.
DJ Abnar had a breakout game with 161 yards (career high) and 2 TDs.
Darrin Peterson finished with 182 yards, his 5th career 100 yard game, tying with Liberty Athletics Hall of Fame Members Fred Banks and and Kelvin Edwards along with standouts Dominic Bolden and Eric Green (who probably will be in the LU Hall of Fame soon himself, but that is for another post)
Inside the Numbers
Here are a few interesting numbers coming out of last night's win:
0- After finishing with 6 turnovers in their season opening loss to North Carolina, Liberty has not had a single turnover in back to back games
4- Josh Woodrum finished with his 4th career 300 yard passing game, tying for 5th all-time in program history with Antwan Chiles. Four is also the number of TD passes Woodrum had, a career high.
7- With his 327 yards, the junior became the 7th quarterback in program history to throw for 5,000 or more yards
28- The Flames won their 28th consecutive game against a lower division opponent. You have to go all the way back to 1993 to find Liberty's last loss, against Indiana, PA
Also, with his 161 yards against Brevard, DJ Abnar became the 28th player in program history to record multiple 100 yard rushing games in his career
31- The 31 points scored by Brevard is a record most points allowed by Liberty to a lower division opponent. The previous record was 27 by Edinboro all the way back in 1989
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