The Bell stays in Richmond
LEXINGTON – John Weber punctuated Richmond’s 58-22 Bell Game win over Lexington in varsity 11-man football by doing something he had never done.
With Richmond leading 56-22 following Cyrus Jackson’s 13-yard TD run with 45.1 seconds left in the final quarter of the Week 9 road clash, the Spartans attempted a two-point conversion run. But Richmond fumbled during the attempt, prompting the senior lineman to nab the loose ball and run it into the end zone.
“I hear everyone screaming, ‘Ball!’ I look to my left and not even 6 inches from me is the ball,” Weber recalled. “I grab the ball and I do my thing.”
When asked if he had ever scored a twopoint conversion before, Weber replied: “I (have) never scored at all.”
“I just block the guy in front me,” he said.
A few hours before Weber’s scoopand- score play, the Spartans scored the first points of the Oct. 25 Missouri River Valley Conference-East Division meeting, as sophomore Dryden Hendrix ripped off a 46-yard TD run with 2:32 left in…