Louisville vs. East Carolina Post Game Notes

Oct. 26, 2002

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Louisville had racked up a season-high 477 yards of total offense by the end of the third quarter. The previous high of 452 came in the second game of the season at Duke. The Cards finished the game with 556 yards of total offense.
Senior WR Damien Dorsey established career highs for catches (nine), receiving yards (158) and touchdowns (3).
Senior RB Henry Miller rushed for a career-best 127 yards on 18 carries. His previous career high was 121 yards against Tulane on Nov. 2, 2001.
With 158 yards receiving by Damien Dorsey and 127 yards rushing by Henry Miller, Louisville had a player top the century mark in rushing and receiving for the first time since Miller and T.J. Patterson rushed for 121 and 101 yards, respectively, and Deion Branch had 116 yards receiving against Tulane in 2001.
J.R. Russell's 30-yard, first-quarter touchdown reception was his first of the season and the third of his career.
Ragone moved past Tulane's Patrick Ramsey for third place on the Conference USA career touchdown responsibility list. He now has accounted for 74 scores for his career.
With a pair of first-quarter extra points, Nate Smith moved past Pete Compise and into fourth-place on the U of L charts with his 77 and 78th career extra points. He now has 81 for his career.
With 352 passing yards, Dave Ragone moved past Tulane's Shaun King and into fourth-place on the C-USA charts with 7,689 career passing yards.
Curry Burns' second-quarter punt block was his second and U of L's seventh of the season. The Cards lead the nation with seven punt blocks and have tallied at least one blocked punt in five consecutive games.
The 97 rushing yards in the first half surpassed the Cards' game totals against Kentucky, Colorado State and TCU.
Dave Ragone passed for a career-high five scores and now has 17 for the season and 67 for his career. He had previously passed for four touchdowns against Grambling and UAB as a sophomore in 2000.
Damien Dorsey's three first-half touchdown receptions ties five players for the third most receiving touchdowns by a U of L player and marks the most TD catches in a game by a Cardinal since Lavell Boyd hauled in four against Houston in 1999.
Henry Miller's 37-yard rush on the Cards' opening possession of the first half was the second-longest run from scrimmage on the season for U of L. That run set up Miller's 11th touchdown run of the season, moving him into a tie for ninth-place with Lenny Lyles (1955) on the U of L single season list. He has now rushed for a touchdown in seven straight games.
With 127 yards rushing, Henry Miller became the first Cardinal to top the century mark since he and T.J. Patterson each ran for over 100 yards against Tulane in 2001, a stretch of 11 games.
Dave Ragone has now passed for 661 yards and eight touchdowns in his last two games.
After misfiring on his first attempt, Dave Ragone completed a school-record 18 consecutive passes. Chris Redman previously held the record with 17 straight completions at Tulane in 1998. Ragone moved past Jay Gruden and into second place on the U of L career completions list with 584 for his career.
K Nate Smith made his first 29 extra point kicks of the season before his sixth attempt of the day bounced off the left upright and missed.

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