【N.J】 With AJ Surace again from harm, Notre Dame soccer rolls previous Ewing – US News Network – New Jersey News

EWING TWP. — It doesn’t require many phrases to narrate what transpired between the Notre Dame and Ewing highschool soccer groups Friday night time.

With standout junior quarterback AJ Surace again on the helm for the primary time since getting injured within the season opener and a swarming Notre Dame defensive entrance that allowed nothing, this sport was not aggressive in any means.

The end result was a 35-0 victory for Notre Dame over utterly overmatched Ewing that left the Irish at 2-2 on the season and the house crew at 0-3.

“Well, we didn’t score on our first drive,” replied Surace when requested if he needed to first shake off somewhat rust earlier than lighting up the Ewing scoreboard.

Because it turned out, Notre Dame’s first possession that stalled on the Blue Satan 21-yard line represented the one time the Irish first-string offense didn’t attain the tip zone previous to the subs getting into the sport early within the third quarter with a working clock.

Making it even simpler for Notre Dame to attain with ease had been Ewing errors that gave the Irish nice area place.

The primary was a Blue Satan fumble that set ND up on the Ewing 32 yard line. 4 performs later energy again Rasheen Younger plowed into the tip zone on a 2-yard run to open the scoring. Younger completed with a 94 yards on 13 carries earlier than sitting out the second half.

Following a 4-yard punt that allowed Notre Dame to take over at midfield, the Irish struck once more within the first quarter on a 20-yard landing strike from Surace to John Liedtka.

Ewing’s second huge mistake adopted shortly thereafter when a botched punt snap led to Notre Dame taking on on the Blue Satan 9-yard line. On the very subsequent play Surace linked with Wyatt Moore on a 9-yard slant move to make the rating 21-0.

Later within the second quarter Notre Dame put collectively its longest drive of the sport by going 85 yards on six performs. As soon as once more Liedtka had the landing honors when he hauled in a wonderfully led 49-yard bomb from Surace.

Whereas all of this was happening, Notre Dame’s protection was in full management as Ewing had simply two first downs and 37 yards within the first half.

Any ideas the second half may be considerably completely different than the primary rapidly ended when Notre Dame roared down the sphere and scored on a 2-yard move by Surace to Moore.

Along with his 4 landing passes, Surace accomplished 16 of 27 passes for 183 yards.

Moore was Surace’s favourite goal with eight receptions for 64 yards. Liedkta had the 2 TD receptions together with Moore and hauled in 4 passes for 79 yards.

“We have an outstanding group of receivers,” stated Surace. “When you have so many all I have to do is make the read and get the ball to whoever is open.”

And what does he make of throwing the ball to the sure-handed Moore, who is just a sophomore and adept at getting open on quick patterns?

“He’s very athletic, he’s very quick,” stated Surace.

It’s the kind of hearth energy that had Notre Dame so optimistic throughout the pre-season and makes the crew so harmful when it’s wholesome and working on all cylinders.

Notre Dame (2-2) 14 14 7 0 – 35

Ewing (0-3) 0 0 0 0 – 0

ND-Younger 2 run (Scarborough kick)

ND-Liedtka 20 move from Surace (Scarborough kick)

ND-Moore 9 move from Surace (Scarborough kick)

ND-Liedtka 49  move from Surace (Scarborough kick)

ND-Moore 2 move from Surace (Scarborough kick)