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Staten Island, NY –  Wagner played a stellar defensive game before giving up a long touchdown pass with less than seven minutes to play as Georgetown went on to post a 24-10 victory in front of 2,267 sun-splashed fans at Wagner College Stadium.
 
Redshirt freshman quarterback Matt Misley (Park Ridge, NJ/ Park Ridge) made a number of big plays in his first career start for the Seahawks in place of the injured Nick Doscher (Staten Island, NY/ Moore Catholic) , completing 23-of-43 passes for 230 yards, all career highs. In showing excellent command of the offense, Misley spread the ball around to eight different receivers. His longest three aerials of the afternoon went for 37, 24 and 20 yards.
 
The Hoyas made Wagner's standout sophomore running back Dominique Williams (Bridgeton, NJ/ Milford Academy) work for all of his 67 yards which came on 25 carries. Williams entered the game ranked 12^th in the nation at 120.8 yards per game.
 
Today's game marked just the second this season that Williams has not rushed for 100 or more yards. Williams did finish with 127 all-purpose yards as he added 57 yards on two receptions, a pair of screen passes that went for 37 and 20 yards, respectively.
 
Defensively, senior linebacker Julian Stanford (Bloomfield, CT/ Bloomfield) and junior linebacker Carl-Olivier Prime (Laval, Quebec/ The Kent school) had 10 tackles apiece while sophomore cornerback Jarrett Dieudonne (Fort Lauderdale, FL/ Dillard) made his presence felt throughout the game with six tackles, an interception which he returned 18 yards, four pass breakups and two forced fumbles. The Seahawks' defensive effort was highlighted by season highs in tackles for loss (eight), caused turnovers (5), forced fumbles (five), fumble recoveries (four) and sacks (three).
 
Georgetown quarterback Isaiah Kempf completed 12-of-24 passes for 183 yards while Dalen Claytor paced the Hoyas on the ground with 49 yards on eight carries. Linebacker Robert McCabe led the Georgetown defensive effort with 14 tackles with fellow linebacker Dustin Wharton adding nine.
 
Midway through the first quarter, junior linebacker Mike Lombardo (Jupiter, Fl/ Jupiter Christian) delivered a big shot to Kempf from the blind side, causing a fumble that was recovered by junior defensive end Lawrence Williams (Philadelphia, PA/ Milford Academy). The turnover allowed Wagner got on the board first via a 24-yard field goal by freshman Jarrod Molzon (Lanoka Harbor, NJ/ Lacey Township), which marked the first field goal attempt of his career. Molzon's field goal capped an 11-play, 44-yard match. The drive was keyed by an 18-yard completion from Misley to sophomore tight end Joe Sidaras (Mastic Beach, NY/ William Floyd) on a third-and-12 play from the Seahawk 47. Misley also found senior wide receiver Justin Matthews (Hillside, NJ/ Hillside) for 12 yards during the drive.
 
With 10:37 left in the opening half, the Hoyas took over at the Wagner 48 following a punt and needed just 2:32 to find the end zone when Kempf ran it in from six yards out to give Georgetown a 7-3 lead with 8:05 to go in the half. It was a lead that the Hoyas would not relinquish. A holding penalty helped stall Wagner's next drive, forcing the Seahawks into a fourth-and-20 situation and another punt.
 
Taking over at their own 33, the Hoyas marched 67 yards in 10 plays, elapsing just 3:39 off the clock. Fullback Nick Campanella finished off the drive, taking it in from the two to give Georgetown a 14-3 cushion with 3:12 remaining in the half. The big play in the drive was a 22-yard run by Clayter.
 
With 3:03 to go in the half, Wagner began its next drive from its own 23 and went three and out. Following the punt, Georgetown took over at its 48. On a third-and-eight from the Wagner 34, Kempf was sacked by senior safety Jeremiah Brown (Brooklyn, NY/ Grand Street Campus) with senior defensive end Quintin Anderson (Rochester, NY/ Milford Academy) recovering at the 36. Misley moved Wagner swiftly down the field with consecutive completions to junior wide receiver Wandy Saintilien (Miami, FL/ ASA Institute) of 14 and 10 yards advancing the ball to the Hoya 15 with four seconds left in the half. Molzon's 32-yard field goal attempt, however, sailed wide left as Georgetown would take that 14-3 lead into halftime.
 
On Georgetown's first play from scrimmage after receiving the opening kickoff of the second half, running back Wilburn Logan was stripped by Anderson and the Seahawks recovered at the Georgetown 42.
 
A Misley 24-yard hookup with Sidaras gave the Wagner a first down at the Georgetown 24. But the Hoya defense stiffened.  On fourth down, freshman kicker Bryan Maley (Eagle River, AK/ Chugiak) came on to attempt his first career field goal but his offering from 40 yards out was wide right.
 
On Georgetown's second play of the ensuing drive, the opportunistic Seahawk defense struck again with Dieudonne coming up with a big hit on running back Patrick Ryan which shook the ball loose with Brown falling on it at the Georgetown 48. A Misley seven-yard connection with junior wide receiver Kenny Munson (Staten Island, NY/ Tottenville) on the left sideline was followed by a pair of Williams rushes that netted 10 yards and set Wagner up with a first-and-10 at the Hoya 13. A perfectly-executed screen pass from Misley to freshman fullback Patrick Gibbons (Carthage, NY/ Milford) made it first-and-goal at the three. Williams scampered into the end zone on the next play, capping an 11-play, 48-yard drive that took 4:34 and drew the Seahawks to within 14-10 with 7:52 left in the third quarter.
 
The Hoyas would answer with a 49-yard field goal by Brett Weiss on their next drive with 4:34 left in the third quarter to extend the Georgetown lead to 17-10. The game then bogged down into a defensive slugfest as the teams took turns on six consecutive punts.
 
Facing a third-and-10 from his own 29, a scrambling Kempf found wide receiver Max Waizenegger all alone on the left sideline near midfield and Waizenegger did the rest. It all added up to a 71-yard touchdown, a back-breaker for a Wagner defense that had played superbly up to that point.
 
Now trailing 24-10, Wagner would threaten one last time as a Williams 21-yard jaunt and a 16-yard reception by junior wide receiver Cody Morgan (Boston, MA/ Boston College HS) moved the ball to the Hoya 25 before Georgetown defensive back David Quintero snuffed out the drive with an interception. With Wagner in possession of just one timeout, Georgetown was able to run out the final 4:25 in recording the 24-10 win.
 
Thanks mainly to a 153-77-yard advantage on the ground, Georgetown outgained the Seahawks 336-307 while Wagner held a 16-15 edge in first downs. Both defenses were on point for most of the afternoon as each team came up with three sacks.
 
Following a bye week, the Seahawks are next in action on Saturday, October 22 at 12:00 when they return to Northeast Conference action with a matchup against the Dukes of Duquesne.
 
NOTES –The 230 yards passing by Wagner were a season high as were the 43 passes and 23 completions. This marked the first time the Seahawks have hit the 200-yard mark through the air since last year's season finale when Wagner threw for exactly 200 yards in a 38-22 loss at Sacred Heart on November 20, 2010. The 77 yards rushing was Wagner's second-lowest output of the season (68 yards at Richmond, September 10). Senior Rory Creegan (Woodside, NY/ St. Francis Prep), Wagner's starting holder the past two seasons, made his first appearance of his career last week at Cornell. Against Georgetown, Creegan gained the first start at punter of his career and he was plenty busy, hitting 10 punts for a 36.4 yard average. His long effort was 45 yards and he had one punt downed inside the 20 and another that went for a touchback. While Stanford and Prime led with 10 tackles, three Seahawks were credited with eight tackles in Brown, Lombardo and junior safety Patrick O'Connor (Leominster, MA/ Leominster). Brown was particularly active, adding 1.5 tackles for loss including one sack, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and one quarterback hurry. Sophomore defensive back Blake Bascom (Monroe Township, NJ/ Monroe) posted a career-high six tackles. In his last two games, Sidaras has nine receptions for 133 yards. Saintilien, a first-year Seahawk, had one reception in each of Wagner's previous five games before coming with career high five catches vs. Georgetown, for 41 yards. Morgan, another first-year junior, also recorded a career-high five catches for a career-high 27 yards. Gibbons had career highs in receptions (2) and receiving yards (17). Prior to today, Doscher had played in all 27 of his previous games consecutive games and had started the last 25. In addition to Doscher, the 2009 NEC Rookie of the Year First-Team All-NEC choice, Wagner was without the services of two 2011 NEC Preseason All-NEC performers in senior wide receiver David Crawford (Carrollton, TX/ Hebron) and junior kicker David Lopez (Plantation, FL/ Heritage), due to injury.