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A Look Back at ODU's 37-34 Victory over Charlotte

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ODUSports.com takes a look back at Old Dominion's victory against Charlotte.

  • For the second time this season Old Dominion used a late rally to lead the Monarchs to a win, this time an 11-yard pass from David Washington to Zach Pascal gave ODU the 37-34 win.
  • ODU has led a total of 4:05 in their two FBS wins over Charlotte and Eastern Michigan.
  • Junior wide receiver Zach Pascal caught a career-high 11 passes for 231 yards and three touchdowns. He is the fifth player in school history to catch three TD's in a game, joining Larry Pinkard, Nick Mayers, Blair Roberts and Antonio Vaughan, who did it twice.
  • The 11 catches and 231 yards is the second most in school history, just one shy of Antonio Vaughan and Nick Mayers' record of 12, and Mayers' 271 yards against New Hampshire.
  • Coming into the game Washington was 22-of-31 for his career passing for 259 yards and four touchdowns. He was 25-of-43 for 365 yards and four touchdowns on Saturday.
  • Junior linebacker TJ Ricks broke Craig Wilkins' single-game record for tackles with 18 while Fellonte Misher and Marvin Branch set career-bests with 14 and 11, respectively. Misher moved into second all-time in ODU career tackles with 239, passing John Darr.
  • Six of ODU's last seven wins have come by four points or less, the only one not is the 24-10 win over Norfolk State.
  • Sophomore Ray Lawry became ODU's all-time leading rusher with a 23-yard first quarter run. He passed Colby Goodwyn and has 1,616 career yards.

BIG MOMENTS
Following a Charlotte score to give the 49ers a 7-0 lead, David Washington entered at quarterback and on his first pass since the last game of the 2013 season, tossed a 53-yard touchdown pass to Zach Pascal to get ODU on the board.

Early in the second quarter ODU drove to the Charlotte 23, aided by long completions to Travis Fulgham and Zach Pascal. The drive stalled but true freshman Chris Kirtley drilled the first of three field goals to make the score 17-9.

Following a Monarch touchdown Charlotte put together a drive and attempted a 48-yard field goal, but Rashaad Coward broke through and blocked the kick that Marvin Branch returned to the ODU 45. The blocked kick led to another Kirtley field goal and cut the lead to 24-22.

The teams traded touchdowns to make the score 31-29, Charlotte had first and goal at the ODU and second and third down from the Monarch 3, but the defense stiffened to force a Charlotte field goal and increase their lead to 34-29.

On the final ODU touchdown drive, the Monarchs had two huge third down conversions. On 3rd and 10 Washington lobbed a 33-yard pass to Pascal, and later on 3rd and 7, Washington rushed for 10 yards leading up to the final touchdown pass.