Raiders unable to hold on in second half in loss to Jacksonville<\/p>\n
Published 2:08 am Saturday, September 12, 2026<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Ill. \u2014 It was a good first half for Quincy Notre Dame in its Central State 8 Conference game against Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
The Raiders entered halftime with a two-score lead, but slipped in the second half as Jacksonville surged to a 35-20 win over QND.<\/p>\n
The Crimsons returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown, but that would be their only score of the first half.<\/p>\n
QND answered with a one-yard touchdown run by Josh Brenner to tie the game up with just over seven minutes left.<\/p>\n
Abel Berhorst ran in a two-yard touchdown to give QND a 14-7 lead near the end of the first half.<\/p>\n
Raiders quarterback John Venvertloh threw a 55-yard pass to Tripp Flesch to increase QND\u2019s lead to 20-7 with 19 minutes remaining in the first half.<\/p>\n
QND was unable to score in the second half, while Jacksonville put up four touchdowns in the final two quarters.<\/p>\n
Venvertloh completed 8-of-17 passes for 196 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n
Brenner was QND\u2019s leading rusher with 13 carries for 58 yards and a touchdown, while Berhorst had 19 carries for 46 yards and a score.<\/p>\n
Flesch had three catches for 155 yards and a touchdown, while making six tackles and forcing two fumbles on defense.<\/p>\n
Raiders linebacker Noah Benz had five tackles and a sack, while defensive lineman Caleb Zook had five tackles and a sack.<\/p>\n
QND defensive back Mason Cragg had two interceptions.<\/p>\n
Up next for QND (2-2) is a home game against Springfield Southeast (0-3) at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders unable to hold on in second half in loss to Jacksonville Published 2:08 am Saturday, September 12,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-397797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}