Booker, Dwyer improvise on Tech touchdown

Georgia Tech’s biggest highlight was the product of improvisation. At 0-0 in the second quarter, coach Paul Johnson called for quarterback Calvin Booker to throw a third-down screen pass to the right. But Booker saw Gardner-Webb flooding the area. He caught Jonathan Dwyer’s attention and motioned him back to the left, where he threw back to him near the line of scrimmage.

Dwyer went 79 yards for a 6-0 lead and Tech’s only touchdown of the day. Dwyer’s five touchdowns this season have averaged 52 yards.

“We went to a little street football mode, out in the backyard,” Booker said. “You get him the ball in space, he can make things happen.”

Dwyer got some inadvertent help from umpire Tim Laverty. He got in G-W linebacker’s Dami Teniola’s way as Dwyer caught the ball.

Bulldogs coach Steve Patton said he wasn’t sure Teniola, from Stephenson High, would have caught him but thought that he could have at least chased Dwyer back toward other defenders and forced Tech to continue to drive.