Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Moment #59: Garrett Gets Going



With the Lions now trailing the Quakers 3-0 early in the 2nd quarter, the Columbia offense needed a spark.

They got one from Marcorus Garrett.

On the ensuing possession after the Penn field goal, the Lions started at their own 27. A nice nine yard pass from Sean Brackett to Connor Nelligan got things going, but the emotional jolt came on the next play when Garrett burst through the line for a 28 yard run that would have gone for a score had he not been caught from behind by the Quakers’ 2012 2nd Team All Ivy DB Dan Wilk.

That put Columbia on the Penn 36 and woke up the Lion sidelines after what had been a long offensive lull since early in the game.


Garrett’s great runs in 2012 always seemed to end with a tackler catching up with him from behind… until he finally broke that trend in week nine n what turned out to be the most thrilling moment of the season.

3 comments:

oldlion said...

Garrett showed breakaway speed in the Cornell game. If we can have a credible passing game instead of facing nine guys in the box on first and second downs Garrett can run for 1,200 yards this year.

jock/doc said...

I agree with oldlion.

Anonymous said...

Maybe even more if he stays healthy