{"id":364017,"date":"2025-09-13T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/364017\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:00:12","slug":"defense-carries-jesuit-past-e-d-white-in-24-21-thriller-crescent-city-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/364017\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense carries Jesuit past E.D. White in 24\u201321 thriller \u2013 Crescent City Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Postgame: Jesuit head coach Ryan Manale
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NEW ORLEANS \u2014 The Jesuit Blue Jays didn\u2019t bring their best offensive performance to Tad Gormley Stadium on Friday night, but their defense made sure they left with a win.<\/p>\n

Jesuit overcame five turnovers, including four interceptions from quarterback Taylor Norton, and leaned on a gritty defensive effort to hold off E.D. White in a 24\u201321 victory.<\/p>\n

E.D. White (0\u20132) had one final chance after stopping Jesuit on downs with just over two minutes to play. Quarterback Grant Barbera drove the Cardinals deep into Blue Jay territory with a mix of runs and passes, moving the ball to the Jesuit 29. But the Blue Jays\u2019 secondary stood tall, forcing four straight incompletions to seal the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur offense didn\u2019t do great \u2014 everyone saw that,\u201d Jesuit defensive back Cole Puneky said. \u201cBut it didn\u2019t matter because our defense was able to prevail. We gave up a couple of big plays, but it was nothing major. It was a collective effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barbera paced the Cardinals with 166 yards passing and a touchdown, along with 69 yards rushing. His highlight came late in the fourth quarter when he connected with Reece Lafont for a 64-yard catch-and-run score. A successful two-point conversion to Brock Wanko cut Jesuit\u2019s lead to 24\u201321 with 4:31 left, but that was as close as E.D. White would get.<\/p>\n

Despite Norton\u2019s struggles, Jesuit (3\u20130) made the plays it needed. After fumbling on the opening drive \u2014 a mistake returned 21 yards for a touchdown by Alexander Percle \u2014 Norton bounced back with a 14-yard scoring pass to Benjamin Neff to tie the game in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

E.D. White answered with two field goals from Jonathan Lee (31 and 23 yards), and Jesuit kicker Ethan Cabos drilled a 29-yarder just before halftime to cut the deficit to 13\u201310.<\/p>\n

Running back Gavin Palmisano carried the Blue Jays after the break. He scored on a 14-yard bruising run late in the third quarter to give Jesuit its first lead at 17\u201313. Then, after Norton hit Roman Larre on a 48-yard strike in the fourth, Palmisano broke free for a 31-yard touchdown to push the margin to 24\u201313. Palmisano finished with 77 rushing yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll three phases did enough for us to win,\u201d Jesuit coach Ryan Manale said. \u201cIt was probably one of the roughest nights Norton\u2019s had in a Jesuit uniform, but for him to battle back and make that big throw in the second half was very good to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Blue Jays gave the ball away five times, their defense surrendered just one offensive touchdown all night. They also forced a critical turnover late in the third quarter when linebacker Christian Herbert pounced on a fumble by E.D. White\u2019s Carter Douglass.<\/p>\n

That resilience proved decisive against a Cardinals team coming off a Division II select runner-up finish last season.<\/p>\n

Jesuit escaped with a narrow win, and though plenty of mistakes remain to be cleaned up, the Blue Jays will take 3\u20130 over perfection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postgame: Jesuit head coach Ryan Manale https:\/\/crescentcitysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jesuit-coach-Ryan-Manale-after-24-21-win-over-EDW.m4a NEW ORLEANS \u2014 The Jesuit Blue Jays didn\u2019t bring their best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,31877,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-364017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-louisiana-high-school-football","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115195466779849587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}