{"id":265033,"date":"2026-08-14T03:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265033\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:28:15","slug":"bethlehem-catholic-looking-to-continue-success-in-second-year-under-joe-bernard-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265033\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Catholic looking to continue success in second year under Joe Bernard | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Bethlehem Catholic football won eight games under first-year head coach; now they are looking to take the next step.<\/p>\n<p>Axel Burkart is the returning signal-caller. He threw for 12 touchdowns and 1475 yards last season. Towson University commit Carter Vassa will be Burkart&#8217;s top weapon. He is locked in for the fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finishing in big games. In the late quarters really well. Just taking the next step and finishing out games and winning,&#8221; Vassa said.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Catholic opens with Delaware Valley on Aug. 28th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Bethlehem Catholic football won eight games under first-year head coach; now they are looking to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4773,153,155,154,303,6704,726],"class_list":["post-265033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_sports_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-football","tag-high-school","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265033","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=265033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}