Tigers Deliver a Royal Loss in Season Opener

Tigers Deliver a Royal Loss in

By LANDEN LEDUKE

Staff Writer

Georgetown College hosted an early season opener against Warner University on Saturday winning with a score of 49-0, and they made it look incredibly easy.

The Tigers’ offense racked up a total of 292 passing yards and 87 rushing yards. The defense also crushed the competition forcing four turnovers – three interceptions caused by John Beets, Germell Jenkins and Christion Horton, as well as one fumble forced by Dylan Brock.

The game started out slow as neither team scored in the first quarter, but the seventh ranked Tigers didn’t plan on keeping it that way.

After Kyree Hawkins’s one yard touchdown run not even two minutes into the second quarter, the Tigers were off to the races.

Hunter Krause’s 46 yard pass to JJ Ogbogu and Nick Conley’s 24 yard carry each scored a touchdown to put the Tigers at a comfortable 21 point lead against the Royals at halftime.

The scoring continued as the Tigers scored 14 points in both the third and fourth quarters to give them a 49-0 win

over Warner. Krause had two touchdown passes and threw for 149 yards.

Jack Nguyen started his season well by making 7/7 of his PAT’s. The Tiger defense held Warner to only 83 total offensive yards.

Senior linebacker Ryan Woolf heavily contributed to this stat with eight tackles.

Snapshot from the first football game of 2018

Source: Georgetown College Athletics

The Tigers also played this game without a single turnover on offense.

After this blowout win and sending Warner for a long ride home and Georgetown has a bye week in preparation for their away game against second ranked team Reinhardt University.