Redskins’ Lohmiller Does an Inside Job on Vikings : NFC: Kicker goes five for five in Metrodome, provides all of his team’s points in a 15-13 victory.

Familiar surroundings worked wonders for Washington’s Chip Lohmiller.

The former University of Minnesota kicker, a native of Woodbury, Minn., made all five of his field-goal attempts in the Metrodome Sunday and the Redskins won on the road for the first time this season, beating the Minnesota Vikings, 15-13.

Lohmiller’s last field goal, a 49-yarder, came with 1:09 to play and gave his personal rooting section something to cheer about.

“I had to buy 55 tickets,” said Lohmiller. “My whole family is here.”

An All-Pro who scored an NFL-high 149 points in 1991, he had missed at least one field goal in each of the previous five games--including a 32-yarder, a 34-yarder and two 39-yarders.

“This is a great place to kick,” said Lohmiller, who connected from 22, 52, 25 and 45 yards as Washington took a 12-0 halftime lead.

“It definitely helped me out of my slump. I’d say the confidence I built here will carry into the next games. Going inside is always a real lift.

“It’s fun to kick indoors on turf anywhere. Any dome . . . is no problem. You don’t think about anything. You just go and kick.”

Washington (5-2) won its third consecutive game and avenged a 30-0 exhibition season loss to Minnesota (5-2), which had its four-game winning streak ended. The Vikings came in 3-0 at home, the Redskins were 0-2 on the road.

Fuad Reveiz, whose 41-yard field goal gave Minnesota a 13-12 lead with 2:28 to play, booted the ensuing kickoff out of bounds, giving the Redskins possession at their own 35.

“On the kickoff before that, I pinned the ball in the left corner and I tried to do it again,” Reveiz said. “It was my fault trying to be too precise. I learned something. Next time I’ll just kick it eight yards deep into the end zone.”

Said Lohmiller: “That was a momentum change for us. That opens our offense up to a lot of different things.”

On second and 10, Mark Rypien backpedaled away from Chris Doleman’s rush and completed a pass to Art Monk for 20 yards, Washington’s longest pass of the day against the NFL’s top-ranked pass defense.

Rypien culminated an 11-yard scramble on another second-and-10 play with a head-over-heels leap, putting the ball on Minnesota’s 34 with two minutes remaining.

Rypien, who rarely scrambles, was knocked “a little goofy,” Washington Coach Joe Gibbs said. “I said, ‘Check belly,’ and he said, ‘We don’t have that play.’ But we’d run it four or five times in the game,” Gibbs said.

So after a Rypien pass was nearly intercepted by Jack Del Rio on the next play, Gibbs went conservative to set up Lohmiller’s winner--sending Ricky Ervins into the line for two yards.

Lohmiller then accomplished what Reveiz could not, putting the kickoff so high that Darrin Nelson could only return it to the 15.

Rich Gannon was sacked by Tim Johnson on first down and had a fourth-down pass dropped by Cris Carter.