{"id":7539,"date":"2025-10-19T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7539\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:03:08","slug":"qb-cole-norris-of-amherst-leads-5-2-walsh-over-lake-erie-morning-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7539\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Cole Norris of Amherst leads 5-2 Walsh over Lake Erie \u2013 Morning Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago at this time, Cole Norris was the quarterback at Amherst and was about to be a finalist for the Matt Whilhelm Award, which goes to The Morning Journal\u2019s football player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s the quarterback at Walsh University and making an impact.<\/p>\n<p>Norris ran for two touchdowns and threw for another as visiting Cavaliers held on a for 20-13 win over Lake Erie College.<\/p>\n<p>Norris ran 8 yards for a score in the first quarter but the Storm (1-6) answered with two Enrique Olmos field goals that cut the lead to 7-6 late the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers (5-2) took a 13-6 lead on a Norris-to-Jake Gill 10-yard score late in the third then Norris scored on a 3-yard run for a 20-6 advantage early in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Brady Clark\u2019s 10-yard scoring pass to Keyshawn Johnson made it a seven-point game at 20-13 but LEC could not get the equalizer.<\/p>\n<p>Norris finished the game 16 of 16 passing for 151 yards and no interceptions and had 35 rushing yards and two touchdowns. Clark was 23 of 35 for 262 yards.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 as an Amherst senior, Norris rushed for 1,259 yards, and passed for 1,535 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year ago at this time, Cole Norris was the quarterback at Amherst and was about to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6625,2300,136,138,137,6626,241,726],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-amherst-comets","tag-college-sports","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-hs-football","tag-latest-headlines","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}