WATCH: Steve Angeli wins Notre Dame spring game on insane scramble
Notre Dame‘s Gold team defeated the Blue team 13-10 as time expired in regulation in their spring game Saturday afternoon. True freshman quarterback Steve Angeli‘s 10-yard scramble saw the football clear the pylon for the victory to complete the 10-point comeback.
Angeli struggled during his drive with the Blue team, missing the mark on all four of his passes. He would catch fire late in the game before his heroic game-winning efforts and finish his duties with the Gold team 11-of-13 passing for 180 yards and two touchdowns; one trough the air and the other on the ground.
Previously, the Blue team led for the entirety of the game and even held a 10-0 lead at halftime. Head coach Marcus Freeman wasn’t pleased with the performance, but it was Drew Pyne that took the majority of snaps in the first half.
Pyne threw two first half interceptions for the Gold team and finished the first half for the Gold team 9-17 for 84 yards. He jumped over to the Blue team, shook of the interceptions and scored the only touchdown of the first half off a red zone pass to tight end Andrew Yanoshak right before halftime. Pyne would eventually throw for a game-high 185 yards on the day.
Freeman said he using Saturday’s spring game to assess both sides of the ball from a bigger picture instead of being enthralled in the game and calling plays, and he has to be happy with how Angeli answered when his number was called.
“It’s complimentary football, and it’s been it’s being able to sit in with the offensive, sit in with the defense and be able to understand why the decisions that we’re making, and why we’re calling certain plays, why defensively we’re, we’re making difficult — it’s still complicated, but if you don’t have complimentary football, there’s no chance to have success.”
Freeman called for a player to step up, and Angeli was there to answer with the walk-off game-winner, potentially earning him a chance for some minutes come summer practices.