Brendan Nosovitch left no doubt during his stellar four-year career at Allentown Central Catholic that he would walk away as District 11’s all-time leader in passing touchdowns.

The eventual Gatorade Player of the Year in Pennsylvania was the first quarterback in the district to reach triple-digit touchdown passes as his 106 scores were nearly 20 ahead of the next closest player in Wilson’s Tyler Smith.

Southern Lehigh’s Colton Sams, with his first two touchdowns in Friday night’s regular-season finale against Salisbury, a 55-7 Spartans win, etched his name into the record books and broke Nosovitch’s record that stood for 15 years.

Here is the rest of the notable action from the last full night of the 2026 high school football regular season:

Easton 37, Nazareth 29

The story of the last two rivalry matchups between Nazareth and Easton has been Nazareth’s inability to slow down the Red Rovers, but with better results on the defensive end this season and a 4-5 Easton team still trying to get things rolling on offense, the Blue Eagles had optimism they could end a two-game skid and clinch the top seed in the district tournament.

It wasn’t the 57 points the Red Rovers have averaged the last two years in the matchup, but 37 points was enough for coach Matt Senneca’s team to defend home field and upset Nazareth on Friday night.

Akhir Brown punched in the first two scores of the game for Easton on a 28-yard touchdown to open the scoring and a two-yard score on the second play of the second quarter to give the hosts 7-0 and 14-7 leads. It didn’t take long for Nazareth to respond to the second touchdown as Mason Marinelli responded to a dropped touchdown on the previous drive with a 74-yard catch-and-run to tie the game at 14.

The teams exchanged fourth-and-1 stops near the Nazareth end zone later on in the half, which allowed Easton to take advantage of great field position and take a 17-14 lead into halftime.

After Easton forced a quick punt and Nazareth forced a fumble on the first two possessions of the second half, the Red Rovers blocked a field goal to keep their narrow lead intact. Robbie McCormick added a pick-six for the Easton defense to make it 23-14 late in the third quarter. There was hardly any defense from there.

Will Bacolo responded quickly for Nazareth on an 18-yard touchdown run, but Brown padded the Easton lead back to two possessions with a 55-yard touchdown with 9:39 left. Another interception and another long run by Brown, putting him over 200 yards, pushed the lead to 37-21 with 7:04 left.

Nazareth went down the field quickly and scored on Bacolo’s 19-yard touchdown and 2-point conversion to keep its comeback hopes alive. A failure to stop the Easton offense and get the ball back sealed its fate and handed a massive victory to the Red Rovers who could see a boost to their confidence and District 11 6A seeding with the victory.

Zahviay McGurn might not have been involved with any touchdowns, but his third down heroics allowed Easton to move the chains on several occasions and run out the clock in its 37-29 victory over its bitter rival.

Bethlehem Catholic 39, Northampton 17

After clinching its first Christmas City title in more than a decade last week, Bethlehem Catholic needed a win over Northampton to keep its pursuit of the No. 1 seed in the District 11 4A tournament bracket alive. The Golden Hawks snapped a three-game losing streak in the series and earned their first win over the Konkrete Kids since 2017 last year with a 24-21 victory, but there was far less drama this time around.

The visitors converted a 27-yard field goal on their opening drive to jump ahead and stretched the lead to 10-0 on a deep connection between arguably the best QB-WR duo in the Lehigh Valley as Axel Burkart hit Carter Vassa for a 43-yard touchdown. The pair connected again in the second quarter as Vassa dove for a 45-yard score in the back of the end zone to make it 17-3 Golden Hawks.

Antonio Salomoni rumbled in for just his second rushing touchdown of the season just over a minute later to pay off a bad punt and give coach Joe Bernard’s team a 25-3 lead after a 2-point conversion.

The defense got in on the scoring action, albeit from quite the offensive talent as well, when Armando Thom jumped in front of a pass and raced 90 yards for a touchdown to all but put away the game on a 14-point swing giving the Golden Hawks a 32-3 lead in the third quarter. Another long touchdown to Vassa, from 53 yards out, invoked the mercy rule at Northampton High School as Becahi finished the regular season with a blowout victory.

It won’t be enough to pluck the top overall seed from Blue Mountain, who defeated Lansdale Catholic 42-14 on Friday night, but the Golden Hawks enter the tournament on a two-game winning streak as the No. 2 overall seed. Northampton could drop to the sixth seed in the 6A bracket and face Parkland or Nazareth as a result, but the field won’t be set until later this weekend.

Whitehall 35, Allentown Central Catholic 21

Following a euphoric 21-point comeback against Parkland last week, a potential trap game awaited Whitehall in the final regular-season game as pesky Central Catholic came to town. Instead, Tanner Dogmanits continued the momentum from his season-high 327 passing yards last week to lead the Zephyrs to their first division championship since the EPC started back up in 2014.

The Vikings took their opening drive into the end zone on Trey Torres-Johnson’s seven-yard touchdown run, but Dogmanits played a part in three consecutive touchdowns by the hosts to end the half as they took a 20-7 lead into the break.

The senior quarterback immediately tied the game with a 20-yard touchdown pass to Clifford Lowe with 5:43 left in the first quarter before finding Henry Shultz from 12 yards out to give Whitehall its first lead of the night. That score followed a Rocco Fonzone interception in the end zone on fourth down for Allentown Central Catholic and a three-yard rushing touchdown by Dogmanits made it 20-7 at halftime.

Central came out of the locker room strong and pulled within six on Tahir Edmondson’s 41-yard touchdown reception from Janiel Pena nearly midway through the third quarter. It was just the second receiving touchdown of the season for the junior wide receiver who leads the team in receiving yards.

Unfortunately for Jacob Reichard’s squad, it wasn’t enough as Dogmanits ran for a 37-yard touchdown and Jeziah Gregory scored from six yards away to reestablish two-possession leads for the Zephyrs with another Torres-Johnson touchdown sandwiched in between that brought the Vikings within seven with 8:32 to go.

It’s the eighth straight win for the Zephyrs heading into the postseason who could jump to the No. 1 seed in the District 11 6A bracket after Easton’s upset of Nazareth at Cottingham Stadium.

Lehighton 17, Northern Lehigh 7

One of the few teams Lehighton hasn’t been able to knock off in its Colonial League division since joining the league is Northern Lehigh, who prevailed 41-26 and 15-14 in their two meetings over the last two years. Despite trailing at halftime, the Indians bounced back and pitched a second-half shutout to win 17-7 and give themselves a chance at hosting a first-round game in next week’s District 11 4A tournament.

An early short-range field goal gave Lehighton the lead, but Garrett Smoyer snuck into the end zone midway through the second quarter to give the Bulldogs a 7-3 lead on the road. The lead held until halftime, but Jack Lucykanish and Lukas Croizier, two staples of a dominant rushing attack all season long, found the end zone to flip the night’s momentum.

Lucykanish slipped away from the Northern Lehigh defense and raced toward the left sideline to give his team a 10-7 lead before Croizier punctuated the win with a 31-yard score with just under seven minutes left to provide an insurmountable lead in a defensive slugfest.

Northern Lehigh will have to wait and see if its 5-5 record will be enough to hold onto the top seed in the 2A bracket with Schuylkill Haven looming after a 24-7 win over Marian Catholic on Friday night.

Other notable local scores

– Sams wasn’t the only one to break a record for the Spartans on Friday night as the team completed the first undefeated regular season in 52 years with the victory over Salisbury. The senior quarterback finished with four touchdowns on the night to get to 109 for his career.

– Catasauqua scored first against Northwestern Lehigh but quickly found itself on the wrong end of the mercy rule as the Tigers bounced back from their first regular season loss in more than four years with a 49-12 rout against the Rough Riders. Saucon Valley cruised past Palisades 47-7 to improve to 6-4 on the season.

– Pleasant Valley locked up the EPC Monroe Division title with a 40-36 win over Stroudsburg in dramatic fashion on a go-ahead touchdown with less than a minute remaining. East Stroudsburg South crushed East Stroudsburg North 45-7 to cap off its regular season. Pocono Mountain West stunned Pocono Mountain East 17-16 to give the Bears an outright division title.

– Executive Education dropped its fourth straight game heading into the postseason after losing a close game to Interboro 27-22.

Derek Bast is a freelance reporter who can be found on Twitter/X at @derek_bast or reached by email at derekbast11@gmail.com.