Northwestern Lehigh 42, Scranton Prep 14 \u2014 Rapid Recap<\/p>\n
The Northwestern Lehigh High School football team<\/a>\u2019s incredible run continued on Friday night with another dominant victory. <\/p>\n The Tigers clinched their 30th consecutive win and secured a spot in the PIAA Class 3A semifinals with a 42-14 victory over Scranton Prep on Friday night at Berwick\u2019s Crispin Field. <\/p>\n Senior quarterback Shane Leh<\/a> had an impressive performance, completing 17 of 19 passes for 223 yards and five touchdowns. <\/p>\n Turning points: After senior linebacker Braxton Lakatosh gave Northwestern its first lead on a 34-yard interception return for a touchdown with 9:15 left in the first quarter, Scranton Prep tied the game 7-7 on a 2-yard touchdown run by senior quarterback Will McPartland with 6:07 remaining in the first. <\/p>\n Then, Leh took over the game, completing all five of his passes for 65 yards on the team\u2019s opening, seven-play drive. The senior\u2019s 11-yard touchdown pass to junior Brady Zimmerman<\/a> gave Northwestern a 14-7 lead with 3:57 remaining in opening quarter. <\/p>\n Following a great 13-yard catch by junior Michael Lagowy<\/a> on a third-and-6 on the final play of the first quarter, Leh connected on an 11-yard touchdown pass to senior tight end Shane Hulmes<\/a> with 8:10 left in the second quarter to push the advantage to 14 points.<\/p>\n After the Tigers stopped Scranton Prep on a fourth-and-2 at the Northwestern 46-yard line with 1:26 before halftime, the Tigers added to their lead when Leh found Lagowy for a 19-yard touchdown pass with 18 seconds on the clock.<\/p>\n Top performers: Leh had touchdown passes of 40, 19, 11, 11 and 6 yards on the night. The senior quarterback went 12 of 13 passing for 124 yards and three touchdowns in the first half. <\/p>\n Zimmerman caught seven passes for 96 yards and two touchdowns for the defending state champions. <\/p>\n Lagowy recorded five catches for 86 yards and a touchdown. <\/p>\n Lakatosh had the pick-6 and senior defensive lineman Ethan Steigerwalt recorded back-to-back sacks for the Tigers in the second quarter. <\/p>\n What it means: The Tigers, who improved to 14-0 on the season, will play District 3 champion Trinity in the state semifinals at a time and site to be determined. Trinity beat District 12 champ Neumann-Goretti 26-22 in a nail-biter on Friday night in the quarterfinals. <\/p>\n Scranton Prep, the District 2 champion, ended its season with an 8-6 record. The Cavaliers have lost to the Tigers in the state quarterfinals the last three years. <\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northwestern Lehigh 42, Scranton Prep 14 \u2014 Rapid Recap The Northwestern Lehigh High School football team\u2019s incredible run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-41528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41528","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=41528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}