Southern Tier Sports ReportNEWFIELD — Notre Dame freshman quarterback Benjamin McWhorter had a huge game was the Notre Dame football team came up short in their rally against Newfield, 36-26.
Newfield jumped out to a 22-0 lead at the half, but Notre Dame scored 26 second-half points in the game, and got within 30-26 in the fourth quarter.
McWhorter was 20-for-39 for 251 yards and three touchdowns in the game.
Newfield led 22-0 at the half.
Fredricke Rivera had a 91-yard pick six to put Newfield up 7-0.
Newfield got a 20-yard touchdown pass and then Rivera had a 43-yard touchdown run with 1:05 left in the half to cap the first-half scoring.
All three Newfield touchdowns came in a span of 6:54.
Notre Dame got on the board with 9:42 left in the third as Luka Clark had a six-yard scoring run.
McWhorter hit Brenzel McLaurin on a 26-yard touchdown with 1:07 left in the third to make it 22-12 after three.
Newfield got a touchdown run to go up 30-12 with 11:35 left in the game, before McWhorter had back-to-back touchdown passes.
McWhorter hit Dominic Caporiccio on a 17-yard touchdown with 9:11 left and then he hit McLaurin on a 45-yard touchdown just 54 seconds later. McWhorter had the two-point run to cut the deficit to 30-26.
Newfield had a 58-yard touchdown run with 6:49 left to cap the scoring.
McLaurin had 10 catches for 146 yards and two scores for the Crusaders and Caporiccio had nine grabs for 89 yards and a touchdown. Legend Ruise had a 16-yard catch.
Raise had six tackles, with a sack and three tackles for a loss. He also intercepted a pass in the game. Caporiccio had six tackles for the Crusaders and Tanner Watson had three tackles and three tackles for a loss, while Logan Stroud had a tackle for a loss and a pair of tackles.
