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Washington, DC - Wagner returns to action as the Seahawks play their second consecutive road game to open the 2012 season when they travel to Washington, DC to meet Georgetown of the Patriot League. The Seahawks acquitted themselves well in their August 31 season opener at Florida Atlantic. In a game streamed live on ESPN 3, Wagner held the FBS member Owls scoreless for more than three quarters before falling 7-3. Georgetown, meanwhile enters play with a 1-0 record following an impressive 35-14 victory over Davidson.
 
HOW TO FOLLOW THE GAME
The Wagner-Georgetown game will be broadcast live on Hoyavision through the Georgetown Athletics website - www.guhoyas.com - with Chuck Timanus providing the play-by-play. Seahawk fans can also receive game updates from the team's official twitter account: @WagnerAthletics
 
ALL-TIME SERIES WITH GEORETOWN
Georgetown holds a 2-1 edge in the all-time series between the Seahawks and the Hoyas in a series that began in 2000.
 
Wagner-Georgetown: The Last Time - Oct. 8, 2011
Last season, 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. Then 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 Hoya defense made Wagner's standout 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 12th in the nation at 120.8 yards per game. 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.
 
Wagner-Georgetown: The Last Time in Washington, DC - Oct. 9, 2010
In 2010, these teams engaged in an epic battle in our nation's capital as Seahawk senior linebacker Keith Davis intercepted a pass on the first play of the second overtime and took it 80 yards to the house in propelling Wagner to a rousing 22-16 come-from-behind victory over Georgetown. llowing the Green & White a chance to win it in overtime was sophomore David Lopez, who tied the game up at 13-13 with a booming 54-yard field goal just before the end of regulation. In the first overtime each team traded field goals, with Lopez hitting a 24-yard field goal before Brett Weiss matched him with a 25-yard three-pointer. Davis then intercepted a Scott Darby screen pass at the Georgetown 20-yard line before taking it 80 yards for the game-winning score Wagner entered the fourth quarter down 13-3 and looked to be in serious danger of letting the Hoyas deliver the dagger as sophomore Nick Doscher (Staten Island, NY / Moore Catholic) threw his fourth interception of the game with just over 13 minutes to go in the game. However, the Seahawks' defense dug deep and forced a three-and-out.  After Wagner stalled on fourth down, Georgetown again was forced to punt after the Green & White defense stood strong. The offense took advantage of the opportunity driving 88 yards on 15 plays while taking 5:08 off the clock as Doscher found senior Justin Matthews on a 15-yard scoring strike with 2:57 to go in the game. On the scoring drive, Doscher was 7-of-9 for 70 yards, including connecting with junior David Crawford four times for 42 yards.
 
Sept. 16, 2000
The Hoyas captured  a 28-21 victory at Wagner College Stadium. With the score tied at 21-21, Georgetown went ahead 28-21 on a Dave Paulus 5-yard TD pass to Aaron Brown with 9:18 to play. Wagner would threaten to tie the game, only to come up short as John Campbell was halted in his tracks on fourth and goal at the Hoya two-yard line with just 2:09 remaining. Paulus, the older brother of former Duke point guard and Syracuse quarterback Greg, finished 14-of-27 for 176 yards and two touchdowns through the air while grinding out 35 yards on the ground. Quarterback Aaron Smith led Wagner, going 19-for-36 in the air with a touchdown pass and run. Campbell paced the rushing attack with 92 yards and one score on 28 carries while Jason Bain had seven catches for 94 yards.
 
Wagner All-Time vs. the Patriot League
Wagner boasts an all-time record of 9-7 vs. teams that currently comprise the Patriot Football League. Of the seven current members of the Patriot League, the Seahawks have played just three - Fordham, Georgetown and Lafayette. Wagner will take on its fourth-ever Patriot League foe on November 10 when the Green & White play host to the Crusaders of Holy Cross.
 
Team                           Record             Series Time Span
Bucknell                      0-0                   
Colgate                        0-0
Fordham                      8-3                   1974-1987
Georgetown               1-2                    2000-2011
Holy Cross                  0-0                    1st Meeting on 11/10/12
Lafayette                     0-2                    1976-1979
Lehigh                          0-0
 
Last time Wagner faced a Patriot League Foe Other than Georgetown
While Wagner and Georgetown have met on three prior occassions, in 2000, 2010 and 2011, the last time the Seahawks played a current Patriot League school other than Fordham was on November 28, 2011 when Wagner blanked Fordham 21-0 on Grymes Hill.
 
Senior Free Safety Patrick O'Connor Named NEC Defensive Player of the Week
Somerset, NJ – Wagner College senior free safety Patrick O'Connor (Leominster, MA/ Leominster) spearheaded a defensive effort that held FBS member Florida Atlantic (FAU) scoreless for three quarters and nearly carried Wagner to a road upset of the Owls and, as result, was named the NEC)Defensive Player of the Week it was announced by the league office. In his first game since being named a team captain on August 25, the 6-1, 190-pound O'Connor registered a game-high 10 tackles (five solo, five assisted) in the Seahawks' 7-3 setback on Friday night in Boca Raton. In helping to lead a Seahawk defense that allowed just 327 yards of total offense, O'Connor, made four tackles that limited the opponent to a three-yard gain or less and also came up with a key fumble recovery. With Wagner holding a 3-0 lead and FAU facing a 3rd-and-2 from the Seahawks' 9-yard line on its first possession of the fourth quarter, the junior safety pounced on a ball that was jarred loose by senior linebacker C.O. Prime (Laval, Quebec/ Montreal, Canada). The 10 tackles matched a career high for O'Connor, who also had a 10-tackle effort at Bryant on September 29, 2011.