EASTON – Notre Dame’s quarterback Tre Jordan rushed for one touchdown and 
passed for another in the fourth quarter to cap off the comeback win for the Crusaders last night.
The Crusaders defeated the Colonial League defending Tri-Champion and District 11 AA champion Northwestern Lehigh, 30-19.
In the first quarter, Jordan got the first score on a run up the middle for 11-yards. But the Tigers answered right back as Harry Hall went in from three-yards out.
The game was tied at 7 after one.
The second quarter was a mirror of the first quarter. Jordan scored on a one-yard run and Northwestern answered the drive as quarterback Dylan Snyder dove in from the one. The extra point was blocked by Notre Dame’s Aaron Weller and the Crusaders went into halftime with the one-point lead, 14-13.
“It was back and fourth the first half,” said Northwestern Lehigh’s head football coach Josh Snyder.
In the third quarter, Northwestern put together a 13-play drive as Hall finished off the drive with an 9-yard touchdown run. The big play off the drive was a penalty on Notre Dame that whipped out a Mitch Daniel 55-yard interception return. The two-point conversion was no good and the Tigers went back up 19-14 with 1:11 remaining in the third quarter.
“We kept fighting from behind,” said Snyder. “Finally we got the lead.”
The Crusaders offensive line of Cody Georges, Ed Ferreira, Jack Nesbitt, Matt DeBerardinis and Robert Schippers took over in the fourth quarter.
This resulted in Jordan throwing a touchdown pass to Aaron Weller and running in his third touchdown of the night. Kicker Brett Nesfeder split the uprights with an 35-yard field goal to put the game away.
But the back-to-back play of the game came from Weller. After Hall broke what looked like a long touchdown run, Weller ran him down and caused a turnover.
“That was a big time play he did for us tonight,” said Notre Dame’s head football coach Chuck Muller. “We work on that strip play in practice and he executed it tonight.”
On the very next play Weller went 74-yards down to the Tigers 7 to setup the Jordan touchdown run .
The theme coming into week one was Notre Dame, one team! After Pius X closed their doors for good last year, most of their players transferred into Notre Dame.
“It was two groups of kids coming together tonight and I am very proud of these kids,” said Muller.
Tre Jordan led the way passing for 165 yards one touchdown and rushed for three.
Northwestern Lehigh was led by their star running back Harry Hall, who rushed for 192 yards and two touchdowns
. The Tigers turned the ball over four times to Notre Dame’s one. The Crusaders scored two touchdowns off turnovers.
