Eastern Kentucky Pulls Away from West Georgia, 30-20
Fifty-two carries. That is how Eastern Kentucky wanted to do it. The Colonels beat West Georgia 30-20 on 196 rushing yards, 29 of those carries going to Brady Hensley, and a kicker who made three field goals in the fourth quarter.
West Georgia scored first, a six-yard run by C. Monfort with 3:17 left in the first quarter, and then Eastern Kentucky took over the scoreboard. Hensley ran in from 13 yards to tie it at 7-7 early in the second quarter, Jordyn Potts ran in from a yard out, and Potts threw a seven-yard touchdown to J. West with 19 seconds left in the half. That was 21-7 at the break. West Georgia answered with Logan Lopez field goals of 38 and 49 yards in the third, and when C. Fitzgerald found DK Daniel from four yards out with 12:09 to play it was 24-20. Devin Orr then kicked field goals of 38 yards with 7:07 to go and 48 yards with 2:11 left, after a 30-yarder early in the quarter, and that was the end of the scoring.
West Georgia actually threw for more, 270 yards to Eastern Kentucky's 195, and had three sacks to two. It also threw an interception and lost a fumble. Eastern Kentucky had no turnovers. Eastern Kentucky moves to 2-3 and West Georgia sits at 0-3. West Georgia never led after the 7-7 tie early in the second quarter, and it had no answer to the 48-yarder with 2:11 left, which made it a ten-point game again.