Cornell Never Trails, Beats Georgetown 35-14
Garrett Bass-Sulpizio scored four touchdowns, two throwing and two running, and the Cornell offense racked up 496 yards. Georgetown, 0-4 now, had 343.
Cornell scored first and never looked back. Brendan Lee threw a 33-yard touchdown to Ty Doughty with 7:52 left in the first quarter (yes, the receiver Brendan Lee, on his only pass of the day), and Bass-Sulpizio ran one in from a yard out to make it 14-0. Georgetown got one back before halftime on a 40-yard Jack Johnson pass to Jonathan Alexander, 14-7. Nobody led but Cornell the whole way, and the game was never tied.
The third quarter decided it. Bass-Sulpizio hit Samuel Musungu from 9 yards at 13:00 and from 30 yards at 6:24, and it was 28-7 going into the fourth. A four-yard Bass-Sulpizio run made it 35-7, and Clay Ash's one-yard run with 2:20 left only trimmed the final margin to 35-14.
The numbers outside the score are lopsided too. Cornell had 5 sacks to Georgetown's none, threw no interceptions, and ran 31 times for 184 yards, almost six a carry. Georgetown threw one pick and ran 36 times for just 91. Johnson threw 15-of-27 for 145 yards with a touchdown and that interception, and Hassan Mahasin caught seven passes for 69 yards, but Jordan Triplett's 75 yards on 13 carries added to a Cornell ground game that never needed to hurry. Cornell is 2-1. Georgetown is 0-4.
If you had Bass-Sulpizio, Musungu or Lee, you had a good Saturday. All three posted season highs.