HEAD COACH SPARKY WOODS- "I want to start out by commending Chowan and coach (Tim) Place.  Their team showed a lot of spirit and fought the entire game, and scored there at the end when a lot of people might have surrendered.  I credit them for playing hard.  I was really proud of our football team, it was a great win for VMI.  We played a lot of people, and a lot of different people made plays, which is good for your confidence when young guys get in there and make plays that hadn't made plays before.  That's gotta build, for us, a better team.  I thought we had the best week of practice that we've had.  They worked hard, they really devoted themselves to fixing the things that we saw we needed to improve on from the week before.  I thought that we made a lot of progress there.  This early in the season, with a brand new coaching staff, we just tried to run our base offense and our base defense.  You can't have a better opportunity to improve than playing against good competition like we had a chance to play against today.  I thought that our coaches did a great job in preparing our team, and I thought that our seniors did a great of getting us back off of the loss from last week.  We saw some good team effort, and this was a great team victory.  Some individuals made some huge plays to start getting into bigger roles on our team."

On 74-yard touchdown pass from Tim Maypray to Daud Semalulu on the game's first offensive play:

"We thought that the play had a chance to make it.  Daud is one of those guys that can find a spot here and make us better.  He's a very explosive player that is learning how to play, he hasn't played football very long.  I was happy for him.  It was a really fine throw from Tim, we did a good job of getting it set up and protected, and Tim got it down the field, and then Daud did a great job of getting by him, making the catch, then finished the thing.  That was a great start.  As we continue to run this offense, (the defense) gets closer and closer to the line of scrimmage, so we've got to be able to do that some to make them be a little more responsible so they don't load up against the run so much.

On big plays all season:

"It's a big thing for us.  We have seven points that we try to do as a team to win.  One of those is to make explosive plays, which are something like 20 yards or more.  Then defensively, we want to eliminate them.  So we want to win the explosive-play battle.  I thought that there were several of those today.  We established the fullback, Howard (Abegesah) had a chance to make some big plays today.  That's the thing that I do appreciate about our offense.  If everybody executes, the fullback can get the ball, the slotbacks can get the ball and certainly the quarterback can get the ball, and as we have a chance to work it more and more, I think that we'll get better at it.

Howard Abegesah on three-touchdown game:

"How the game went was just according to plan.  Tim (Maypray) made some great reads, I got the ball and just read the blocks in front of me, so I just kept going.  Tim and I are getting to the point where we can know when I'm going to get the ball and when he's going to pull it.  We don't have to think twice about the handoff, it's just like second nature.  Our offensive line and blockers did a great job today.  They were moving guys around and changing the line of scrimmage.  That's where it starts, with the guys in the trenches."