{"id":42017,"date":"2025-11-23T00:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42017\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T00:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:40:05","slug":"high-school-football-season-ends-with-losses-by-three-district-2-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42017\/","title":{"rendered":"HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Season ends with losses by three District 2 teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The fall sports season in District 2 came to an end Friday night with three losses by District 2 teams in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association state football quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>North Pocono, coached by former Wyoming Area quarterback Greg Dolhon, set a school record for wins in a 13-1 season that came to a conclusion with a 28-6 loss to Cardinal O\u2019Hara of Philadelphia in Class 4A.<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans pulled to within a point midway through the second quarter on Chase Zimmerman\u2019s 1-yard touchdown run, but a 15-yard penalty moved back the extra-point attempt, which was blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal O\u2019Hara scored twice for a 21-6 halftime lead and its defense kept control of the game from there.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton Prep had its season ended by Northwestern Lehigh in Class 3A for the third straight year 42-14 in a game at Berwick\u2019s Crispin Field.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Leh hit 17 of 19 passes for 222 yards and five touchdowns for the two-time defending state champions.<\/p>\n<p>Will McPartland ran for a touchdown in the first quarter for a 7-7 tie, but Northwestern Lehigh ran off the next 28 points before McPartland hit Sean McCormack with a short touchdown pass on the first play of the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers, who finished 8-6, ended Wyoming Area\u2019s season in the District 2 Class 3A semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Lackawanna Trail lost a wild Class A game to Belmont Charter 52-40.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions, who finished 12-2, were within 22-20 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The fall sports season in District 2 came to an end Friday night with three losses by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-42017","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\/42017","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=42017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}