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Scranton Prep ran into the same season-ending obstacle for the third straight year.<\/p>\n
Shane Leh threw five touchdown passes, three of them to Brady Zimmerman, Friday night at Berwick\u2019s Crispin Field as two-time, defending state champion Northwestern Lehigh ran its winning streak to 30 games with a 42-14 victory over the Cavaliers in a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class 3A state football quarterfinal.<\/p>\n
Northwestern Lehigh defeated Scranton Prep 27-6 in 2023 and 34-0 last year, also in state quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Leh led the latest victory by hitting 17 of 19 passes for 222 yards.<\/p>\n
The Tigers used defense to jump in front early.<\/p>\n
Braxton Laktosh intercepted a screen pass and returned it 35 yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep then drove 69 yards in six plays to tie the game 7-7 on a 2-yard run by Will McPartland.<\/p>\n
McPartland led the Cavaliers with 68 rushing yards on 16 carries and also passed for 95 yards while going 9-for-22 through the air.<\/p>\n
The first Zimmerman touchdown reception, an 11-yarder, gave the District 11 champions a 14-7 lead after one quarter.<\/p>\n
Leh hit Shane Hulmes for an 11-yard touchdown in the second quarter to make it 21-7.<\/p>\n
The Tigers then broke away going into and coming out of halftime.<\/p>\n
Leh found Michael Lagowy down the middle for a 19-yard touchdown pass with 18 seconds left in the half, then capped a drive following the second-half kickoff with a 6-yard touchdown to Zimmerman.<\/p>\n
McPartland threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Sean McCormack on the first play of the fourth quarter to cut the deficit to 35-14, but Leh hit Zimmerman one more time a 40-yard touchdown to close the scoring.<\/p>\n
Northwestern Lehigh will play in next week\u2019s state semifinals against District 3 champion Trinity, which used a late score to pull out a 26-22 victory over Neumann-Goretti.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep, which has won five straight District 2 titles, finished 8-6.<\/p>\n
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