{"id":289249,"date":"2026-09-18T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289249\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:58:13","slug":"hawks-stay-unbeaten-top-berks-cath-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289249\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks stay unbeaten, top Berks Cath. \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published September 18. 2026 07:43AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Bethlehem Catholic jumped out to an early lead and never looked back in a 35-14 victory over Berks Catholic last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">After a scoreless first quarter, the Hawks (3-0) scored three touchdowns in the second period to take a 21-0 lead into intermission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Quarterback Axel Burkart stole the show, scoring four touchdowns in the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Burkart was 18-of-24 for 275 yards and two passing touchdowns and added 46 yards and two scores on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Carter Vassa continued to be a highlight reel in the passing game, hauling in 11 catches for 153 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Justin Martinez added 79 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries for the Hawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Becahi is back at home this Saturday when they host Easton (1-2), who are coming off a 44-14 defeat to Parkland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 18. 2026 07:43AM Bethlehem Catholic jumped out to an early lead and never looked back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-289249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289249","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=289249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}