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Rhodes 2022 at Quincy
34
Winner Ashland ASH 3-0 , 1-0
14
Quincy QUI 2-2 , 0-0
Winner
Ashland ASH
3-0 , 1-0
34
Final
14
Quincy QUI
2-2 , 0-0
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
ASH Ashland 14 3 17 0 34
QUI Quincy 0 0 7 7 14

Game Recap: Football | | Dusty Sloan, Ashland University Director of Athletic Communications

No. 12 AU Football Takes Care Of Hawks On The Road

Continuing its impressive early part of the 2022 season, the No. 12-ranked Ashland University football team went to Quincy, Ill., on Saturday (Sept. 24) afternoon and came back with a 34-14 non-conference victory over the Hawks.
 
The Eagles are 3-0 for the first time since 2016, and the 3-0 start is the fifth for AU under head coach Lee Owens (2005, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2022).
 
Quincy is 2-2.
 
Ashland has won both games in the home-and-home series with the Hawks. Last fall, the Eagles topped Quincy at home, 63-23.
 
WHAT HAPPENED
  • After an early feeling-out process by both teams, the first collegiate interception for Eagle sophomore safety Anthony Harkness set up a four-yard touchdown run by junior tailback Gei'vonni Washington for a 7-0 lead at the 5:07 mark in the opening quarter.
  • Washington collected his second touchdown run of the first quarter, this one a 24-yarder with 59 seconds to go for a 14-0 advantage. That capped a five-play, 62-yard drive in just 2:20.
  • The Eagles finished off a 17-0 first half when freshman kicker A.J. Rhodes hit a 29-yard field goal with three seconds remaining.
  • Early in the third quarter, senior quarterback Austin Brenner found sophomore fullback Johron Johnson for a four-yard touchdown pass – the first TD of Johnson's Eagle career.
  • Following a Quincy TD in the third to make it a 24-7 game, Rhodes hit another field goal, this one from 21 yards, for a 27-7 lead. Washington's third rushing score of the contest late in the third put AU on top, 34-7, and the Hawks scored their second major late in the fourth for the final margin of victory.
 
THE WRAP-UP
  • Washington finished with 89 yards and three scores on the ground, and fellow junior tailback Larry Martin contributed 60 rushing yards, and 62 receiving yards on four catches.
  • Brenner was 14-for-25 for 199 yards, one TD and one interception.
  • Defensively, senior linebacker Michael Ayers had nine total tackles (eight solo) and a tackle for loss.
  • Ashland ran up 423 yards of offense, and averaged 6.0 yards per play.
 
UP NEXT
The Eagles (1-0 Great Midwest Athletic Conference) will play the first of three October home games on Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at Jack Miller Stadium/Martinelli Field against Northwood (2-2, 1-0). The game is Military Appreciation Night and the 1972 team recognition, as well as the second Fan Fest, where country artist Eric Chesser will perform a concert and have a $500 scholarship giveaway, which any AU student who attends the concert has the opportunity to enter into the raffle to win.
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