Georgetown at Lehigh, Mr. C's Official Game Thread

[Mr. C]

We have returned to the 21st Century after an Internet meltdown on the Lehigh campus.

It took Lehigh just 3 plays to score on a short Sean Farrell run after the opening kickoff, set up by a good return and Keith Sherman's 48-yard run.

Lehigh 7, Georgetown 0 with less than 6 minutes left in the first period.

[Mr. C]

Lehigh just converted a fourth and one on a Sherman smash to move to the GU 39 with 4:43 left in the first period.

[Mr. C]

Sherman is running all over Georgetown's defense. First down to the GU 11 after a big run. Sherman would have scored on the play, but for a bad cut to the inside, instead of bouncing it outside earlier.

[Mr. C]

6-yard TD scamper for Keith Sherman and its Lehigh 14, Georgetown 0, 3:21 left in the first period

[Mr. C]

12 plays, 83 yards, 3:58 on the Lehigh scoring drive. 8 carries, 109 yards already for Keith Sherman.

[Mr. C]

A fumble on the kickoff and Georgetown's returnman is clobbered at the GU 10.

[Mr. C]

False start where almost ALL 11 players were not set before the snap and then a near safety as QB Kyle Nolan used all of his strength to extract himself from the end zone. Lehigh's ball again after a punt and return to the GU 32.

[Mr. C]

Steven Atwater with a nice hit for Georgetown. The son of former NFL star DB Steve Atwater.

[Mr. C]

Keith Sherman splits the defense on a circle route and runs to the GU 1.

[Mr. C]

Sherman is stacked up at the one, second and goal.

[Mr. C]

End of the first quarter

Lehigh 14
Georgetown 0

[Mr. C]

One-yard plunge by Sean Farrell and it is Lehigh 21, Georgetown 0 on the first play of the second quarter.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

Lehigh needs to step on their throats....

[Mr. C]

4 plays, 32 yards and 1:55 on the Lehigh scoring drive.

[Mr. C]

Lehigh needs to step on their throats....
Georgetown is doing a pretty good job of stepping on its own throat in this one.

[Mr. C]

Pass Interference penalty on the Mountain Hawks gives Georgetown a first down at the LU 49. 1st time in Lehigh territory for the Hoyas. 1st down run to the 45 for 4 yards.

[Mr. C]

Pass breakup for OLB Isaiah Campbell. 3rd and 6.

[Mr. C]

TE Daniel Sprotte struggles for a 1st down and a personal foul after the play pushes the ball to the LU 23.

[Mr. C]

Georgetown takes a sweep to the 5 and smashes to the one on the next play.

[Mr. C]

A read option run goes awry, 3rd and goal for GU at the 2.

[Mr. C]

False start for the beleaguered Hoyas. 3rd and goal from the 7.

[Mr. C]

Misread for the GU QB. He went incomplete on the fade when he had a receiver open on a slat for a TD on the other side.

Field goal from 23 yards by the Hoyas makes it Lehigh 21, Georgetown 3 with 10:35 left in the second quarter.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

Why would you kick a FG there? I mean seriously?

[Mr. C]

13 plays, 82 yards, 4:14 on the Georgetown scoring drive.

[Mr. C]

Why would you kick a FG there? I mean seriously?
Because that was about the only chance the Hoyas had at scoring. This team has really struggled offensively.

[Mr. C]

Jet tempo for Lehigh on the spread and a long pass gives the Hawks a first down at the GU 40, followed by a run to the 31 and a pass to the 23 for another first down.

[Mr. C]

Nice throw back pass to Farrell, running a wheel route to the 1. First and goal.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

Lehigh could hit a 100 if they wanted to today...

[Mr. C]

Sean Farrell smashes in for his third TD of the day from a yard out. Lehigh 28, Georgetown 3, 8:53 left in the second period.

[Mr. C]

5 plays, 71 yards, 1:38 on the Lehigh scoring drive. Sean Farrell's three TDs are a career, single-game high for the RB.

[Mr. C]

Lehigh could hit a 100 if they wanted to today...
Those Engineering Mountain Hawks can certainly score some points in a hurry.

[Mr. C]

Fake punt with a snap to the short blocking back and Lehigh gets a first down at the LU 31.

[Mr. C]

Play action and Bialkowski hits a receiver inside the GU 35.

[Mr. C]

Lehigh is killing Georgetown with its tempo. With 3:33 left in the half, GU has to call a time out at the Hoya 23 with Lehigh having a first down.

[Mr. C]

41 yard field goal for Lehigh's Ryan Pandy is surprisingly good.

[Mr. C]

Lehigh 31, Georgetown 3, 3:16 left in the first half.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

When Parris catches the ball he's pretty dangerous....

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

BB is throwing dimes out there.

[Mr. C]

Slant to Derek Gaul for a TD for Lehigh as the Hawks convert a Georgetown fumble.

5 plays, 33 yards, 26 seconds on the drive.

Lehigh 38, Georgetown 3, 25.5 seconds left in the first half.

[Mr. C]

Halftime

Lehigh 38
Georgetown 3

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

The crowd looks really good, 10k+ good. But, they'll announce it as 7,300.....

[Mr. C]

First Half stats

Lehigh 151 yards rushing, 235 yards passing
49 plays, 386 yards total offense

Georgetown 80 yards rushing, 43 yards passing
37 plays, 123 yards total offense

Keith Sherman 13 carries, 133 yards for Lehigh
Lee Kurfis 5 catches, 65 yards
Brian Bialkowski 19-of-29-235 yards, 1 TD passing

Kyle Nolan 7-of-16, 43 yards passing for Georgetown

[RichH2]

Hoyas are overmatched but nice to see LU not play to their level so far.

[Mr. C]

The crowd looks really good, 10k+ good. But, they'll announce it as 7,300.....
Most of the stands are full, a lot of traffic coming in and a lot of people on the grassy hillside of Goodman Stadium. Very few folks on the Georgetown side.

[Mr. C]

Hoyas are overmatched but nice to see LU not play to their level so far.
Lehigh has looked sharp and is hitting hard on defense. But Georgetown is terribly overmatched. Ugly to think about what will happen to Georgetown when the scholarships kick in fully at Lehigh and other Patriot League schools. Hate to think about how lopsided the Georgetown-Fordham game will be.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

Lehigh has looked sharp and is hitting hard on defense. But Georgetown is terribly overmatched. Ugly to think about what will happen to Georgetown when the scholarships kick in fully at Lehigh and other Patriot League schools. Hate to think about how lopsided the Georgetown-Fordham game will be.

Fordham beat the Hoyas 34-12 last week. The Rams basically went to sleep after half....

[RichH2]

Feel bad for DFW because it will only get worse.

[Mr. C]

Big kickoff return for GU to start the second half to the Hoya 47, but an illegal block.

[Mr. C]

Fordham beat the Hoyas 34-12 last week. The Rams basically went to sleep after half....
Didn't realize they had played already. I guess I was asleep for that as well as the Rams.

[Mr. C]

TD drive for Georgetown

Lehigh 38, Georgetown 10

9:25 left in the third period

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

Lehigh D looked asleep on that drive....

[Mr. C]

13 plays, 89 yards, 5:26 on the Georgetown scoring drive with Campanella scoring.

[Mr. C]

TD run for Keith Sherman, Lehigh 45, Georgetown 10, 3:14 left in the third period.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

TD Lehigh!!

[Mr. C]

13 plays, 88 yards, 6:05 on the Lehigh scoring drive, capped by Sherman's 7-yard TD run.

[Mr. C]

End of the third quarter

Lehigh 45
Georgetown 10

[Mr. C]

9,866 attendance announced for Goodman Stadium today.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

It appears Lehigh's defense is not interested in playing this half...

[Mr. C]

TD Georgetown makes it Lehigh 45, Georgetown 17 with 11:29 remaining in the fourth period.

[Mr. C]

It appears Lehigh's defense is not interested in playing this half...
The crowd isn't much interested in watching either.

[Mr. C]

9 plays, 61 yards on the drive for Georgetown to score on a Campanella run.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

This might end up up 45-31. Lehigh has pulled a no show in the second half....

[Mr. C]

Georgetown TD pass. Lehigh 45, Georgetown 23 after a blocked PAT, but Lehigh is called for offisides. Rekick.

[Mr. C]

PAT is good to make it 45-24.

[Mr. C]

10 plays, 82 yards, 3:40 on the Georgetown scoring drive

7-yard pass from Nolan to Campanella for the TD

[Mr. C]

This might end up up 45-31. Lehigh has pulled a no show in the second half....
A lot of backups are playing in the second half.

[Mr. C]

Lehigh is driving with a first down at the GU 16.

[Mr. C]

It looks like the Mountain Hawks will run some plays and run out the clock.

[Mr. C]

Final

Lehigh 45
Georgetown 24

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

Good, solid win for Lehigh. It would have been nice if the defense played better in the second half....

[RichH2]

A bunch of injured players but depth on D non existent.

[DFW HOYA]

Don't let the score fool you. It wasn't that close.

http://www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/football.htm

[RichH2]

We know DFW. If Andy hadn't pulled the plug LU would have scored a bunch more.

[DFW HOYA]

We know DFW. If Andy hadn't pulled the plug LU would have scored a bunch more.

But there will be Georgetown fans who attended the basketball practice event today who will walk out of the gym, hear 45-24 and say, "Not bad."

Not so.

[Engineer86]

Good, solid win for Lehigh. It would have been nice if the defense played better in the second half....

The second team was in midway throughout the 3rd qtr. Lehigh packed it in on both offense and defense at that point. I agree with DFW. This game was the first LU game in a while where they dominated a team that they should dominate.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

It's telling that the most compelling storyline in the second half was whether freshman QB Nick Shafnisky would get some snaps. Instead, wildcat QB Matt McHale led the second-team O.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

9,866 attendance announced for Goodman Stadium today.

What a great attendance number in this day and age. Awesome.

[Doc QB]

What a great attendance number in this day and age. Awesome.

i was there, number had to be over 10K, looked like crowds of old for sure.

[CHIP72]

I'm pleasantly surprised the crowd was that large.

I'm visiting the parents this weekend and could have attended the Lehigh/Georgetown game, but because I've seen that matchup the last two times it's occurred in DC (2010, 2012) and figured it may not be that competitive of a game, I passed. I attended the Division II East Stroudsburg/Bloomsburg game at ESU instead. Bloomsburg, which is ranked in the D2 top 10, won an exciting game 52-38. (The game was tied 38-38 early in the 4th quarter, and although East Stroudsburg never led, they also never trailed by more than 14 points. Bloomsburg was finally able to deliver the knockout blow with a couple minutes left in the game.)

[ngineer]

I agree, the crowd seemed in the 10-11,000 range, but still a great game for Lehigh to do the job it was expected to do. Andy stepped off the gas after the last TD. A lot of sophs and even some frosh saw time today. Bialkowski could have had 400 yards passing and Sherman 200 running and Kurfis another 100+yard day. Hoya QB did an admirable job considering lack of experience. He has good size. Campanella is an excellent back but that's about where it stops. Nice to see Pandy get a shot at long FG and convert. He hit one from 55 yards at halftime warmups. Fernandez-Soto out for at least until Holy Cross with hamstring, and Knott is out for the season with a fx collarbone suffered last play at Columbia. Nice to see Cody Haupt get some carries. I would have him running ahead of Sodeke. He hits the hole quicker. The OL was all sophs and freshman in the fourth quarter. A nice 'feel good' game, but with Bucknell knocking off Dartmouth today, in Hanover, all of a sudden next week seems a little more serious than we thought.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

Lehigh should be able to gain some ground in the polls, and deservedly so imo. Hopefully UNH can keep it going. Princeton came back to hammer Brown 39-17. Even Monmouth has shown some fight...

[hawkineer]

. A nice 'feel good' game, but with Bucknell knocking off Dartmouth today, in Hanover, all of a sudden next week seems a little more serious than we thought.
As stated previously, AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! NO!xsmiley_wix Certainty proverb can be expanded to death, taxes, and Lehigh beating Bucknell in football.xnodx

[LehighU11]

Lehigh should be able to gain some ground in the polls, and deservedly so imo. Hopefully UNH can keep it going. Princeton came back to hammer Brown 39-17. Even Monmouth has shown some fight...

I was thinking the same exact thing. However, last week's pitiful performance at Columbia doesn't exactly help. Still hard to say how good this team is yet...

[RichH2]

The dmg from CU performance already in. UNH and Tigers wins will help. Also MU clobbering Cornell cant hurt..
We will.beat BU but it will be a game. Neither zGate nor Cross has great D but they can score.Shootouts.Expect to beat Gate in revenge,HC tougher. Pards have excellent D, so far no QB.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

I was thinking the same exact thing. However, last week's pitiful performance at Columbia doesn't exactly help. Still hard to say how good this team is yet...

Columbia gave Penn a headache for 45 minutes today.

The Princeton-UNH-Fordham run should pay dividends in November. That might prove be Lehigh's toughest three game stretch in the last 25+ years. 2-1 was a great accomplishment. 3-0 is needed against HC, Gate and LC....

I think Lafayette will be LU's toughest game. Defense and law of averages. LU will be looking to pillage Hamilton, NY...

[LehighU11]

Columbia gave Penn a headache for 45 minutes today.

The Princeton-UNH-Fordham run should pay dividends in November. That might prove be Lehigh's toughest three game stretch in the last 25+ years. 2-1 was a great accomplishment. 3-0 is needed against HC, Gate and LC....

I think Lafayette will be LU's toughest game. Defense and law of averages. LU will be looking to pillage Hamilton, NY...

After wondering at halftime of the CCSU game whether we'd have a win on the season after that stretch, I agree that 2-1 was a great accomplishment. Most of us would have expected 1 win and a couple close losses, following this year's start.

Performance at Columbia should prove to be an aberration. Slow starts and second half collapses have become commonplace the past two years, but complete game no-shows don't happen. Columbia managed just 118 yards and FOUR first downs today against the Quakers. Penn gave themselves the headaches, committing 105 yards in penalties. The Lions are young, undersized, banged up, and low on talent. They may not come with 2 touchdowns of anyone all season.

[Southsider]

The annual Georgetown game is one I just can't get excited about. They ( I'm generalizing here) just don't seem to care about FB. However, I thought their guys played hard, and never quit. Much more polished than Columbia. I just wish the school would make the commitment!!

[CFBfan]

Columbia gave Penn a headache for 45 minutes today.

The Princeton-UNH-Fordham run should pay dividends in November. That might prove be Lehigh's toughest three game stretch in the last 25+ years. 2-1 was a great accomplishment. 3-0 is needed against HC, Gate and LC....

I think Lafayette will be LU's toughest game. Defense and law of averages. LU will be looking to pillage Hamilton, NY...

1) more proof of LU's candyass schedule
2) won't happen

[RichH2]

1) more proof of LU's candyass schedule
2) won't happen
CFB STFU. Spend your time getting Hoyas to commit to football. No one to blame but your own housefor the sad state of GU football.You forget that you are our #1 candyass

[CFBfan]

CFB STFU. Spend your time getting Hoyas to commit to football. No one to blame but your own housefor the sad state of GU football.You forget that you are our #1 candyass

Just for the record Richard-bag I am NOT a Hoya fan just supported them while my son played and enjoyed a couple of nice seasons before graduating. And yes GU is one of MANY candyasses that you play

[RichH2]

Not so many this year tho( altho agree we have had too many the past few yrs),only CCSU and CU fit that bill OOC.

[LehighU11]

Just for the record Richard-bag I am NOT a Hoya fan just supported them while my son played and enjoyed a couple of nice seasons before graduating. And yes GU is one of MANY candyasses that you play

CCSU and Columbia fit the bill, but this year's OOC schedule was respectable going in. UNH is a perennial playoff team from the CAA and looks like they may actually be back in again this year after yesterday's gutsy win against top-10 Villanova. Princeton is rolling over everyone after losing to Lehigh, and looks to be the favorite to win the Ivy outright, potentially finishing 9-1. Monmouth would have been a contender for the NEC title this year, had they not switched conferences and become an FCS independent. That's 3 potential league champions that were scheduled, 2 of which were road games.

The point is, you can't determine what your opponents' records will be. You can only predict their success based upon past results. I feel we did a good job scheduling this year compared to some recent seasons. Big South and SoCon teams schedule an SEC/ACC beatdown and then return the favor by slaughtering weak D-2 programs that make Grambling look like Oregon. Some Big Sky teams schedule 2 D-2 games.