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HUNTERSVILLE – With a player from each team clearing 300 yards of offense, Lake Norman Charter nipped visiting Community School of Davidson 48-46 in high school football on Monday night.
Jackson Newton completed eight passes for 381 yards to lead the Knights (2-1), who were able to withstand 22 rushes for 373 yards and four TDs by CSD quarterback Luke Watts to win.
Lake Norman Charter led 34-22 at the half, after Newton had hit sophomore Josh Aruta with a screen pass that Aruta scored on.
LAKE NORMAN CHARTER 48
COMMUNITY DAVIDSON 46
Aruta added a 6-yard TD run to open scoring in the second half, putting the Knights ahead 41-32, before CSD again close the gap, to 41-38, when Watts threw a TD pass to Ryan Renshaw.
Lake Norman Charter widened the lead to 48-38 with about 9 ½ minutes to play when Aruta scored on a 9-yard run.
About five minutes later, CSD got a TD run by Watts to close within 48-46.
The game was back-and-forth almost from the beginning.
Watts broke a run for 71 yards for the first score, leaving CSD up 6-0 before Lake Norman Charter tied it with a 91-yard scoring toss from Newton to Davis Wilder.
CSD regained the lead at 12-6 when Austin Fekete caught a 46-yard throw from Watts.
Wilder had a rushing TD and then caught an 87-yard TD pass from Newton as the Knights went up 20-12.
Nick Bernardi’s 17-yard TD run pulled CSD within 20-18, but Newton hit Brendon Marcus on a 31-yard pass to boost the lead to 27-18.
A TD run by Watts got CSD (1-1) within 34-32 at intermission, when Newton already had 337 passing yards and four scores and Watts had rushed for 301 yards and three TDs.
Lake Norman Charter plays again on Friday night, going to Highland Tech, and then has a bye week before playing its first South Fork 2A game on Sept. 22 at East Lincoln.