Georgetown Outruns Bucknell 21-14 Behind Two Clay Ash Touchdowns
Take away Clay Ash's second touchdown and this is a 14-14 game with a quarter to play. Georgetown did not have to find out, and beat Bucknell 21-14.
Bucknell started it. Emmett Dowling threw a 3-yard touchdown to Chad Martin with 7:17 left in the first quarter, and it was 7-0. Georgetown answered with a Jayden Sumpter 1-yard run at 2:46 to tie it, Michael Cadden ran 25 yards to put Bucknell back up 14-7 in the second, and Ash tied it with a 31-yard run with 4:53 left in the half. That was 14-14, and the score stayed there until the third quarter. With 1:27 left in the third Ash broke loose again, this time from 21 yards, and Georgetown had a 21-14 lead it would keep. Nobody scored in the fourth quarter. The game was tied twice and had exactly one lead change, the one that mattered. After it, Georgetown's defense kept Bucknell off the board for the rest of the afternoon, all of the fourth quarter included.
The yardage is lopsided where it counts. Georgetown ran 48 times for 254 yards and finished with 412 total to Bucknell's 257. Bucknell ran just 26 times for 84. Both teams threw interceptions, Bucknell two and Georgetown one, and Dowling's two were part of a day when he completed 17 of 22 passes (a good completion rate for a 14-point loss).
Georgetown improves to 1-4. Bucknell is also 1-4. Georgetown outgained it by 155 yards, which is a fairly clear way to explain a seven-point margin.