Here is a roundup of Friday night\u2019s top Lehigh Valley high school football games in Week 9.<\/p>\n
Northampton 41, Nazareth 28<\/p>\n
Nazareth opened the scoring when quarterback Cooper Madson connected with Luke Depietro in the corner of the end zone for a 25-yard touchdown to make it 7-0 after one quarter. Northampton answered as Zander Rickert powered in from a yard out to tie the game at 7-7. Gavin Taff later kept it for an 8-yard score, giving the Konkrete Kids a 14-7 halftime lead.<\/p>\n
Northampton recovered an onside kick to start the second half, and Chase Kessler took it 51 yards on the first play from scrimmage to extend the lead to 21-7. Rickert added his second touchdown of the night from short range to make it 28-7 midway through the third.<\/p>\n
Nazareth fought back as a trick play set up a 70-yard gain, and Lance Zuercher scored two plays later to cut the deficit to 28-21 with 3:51 left in the quarter. Marquez Wimberly had a huge defensive effort for Nazareth, forcing and recovering a fumble and adding a 60-yard run to set up another score. After three quarters, Northampton led Nazareth 28-21.<\/p>\n
Kessler capped an eight-play drive with an 11-yard touchdown to extend the lead to 34-21, then broke free for a 20-yard score later in the quarter, surpassing 300 rushing yards on the night and pushing the lead to 41-21.<\/p>\n
Nazareth cut into the deficit with a late touchdown by Wimberly to make it 41-28 with just over two minutes remaining. Northampton recovered the ensuing onside kick to seal the win.<\/p>\n
Emmaus 42, Allen 6<\/p>\n
Emmaus jumped ahead early as Jerek Cooper broke free for a 47-yard touchdown run to make it 7-0 in the first quarter. In the second, Cooper connected with Kai Jefferson for an 11-yard touchdown, extending the Hornets\u2019 lead to 21-0 at halftime.<\/p>\n
Allen found the end zone in the third quarter with a 24-yard touchdown pass to cut the deficit to 21-6, but Emmaus quickly responded. Jay Santos powered in his second rushing touchdown of the night, this one from 33 yards out, to make it 28-6.<\/p>\n
In the fourth quarter, Anthony Attar sealed the win for the Hornets with a 75-yard touchdown run as Emmaus took a 35-6 lead. Emmaus added one more scored and cruised to a 41-6 victory.<\/p>\n
Stroudsburg 42, East Stroudsburg South 19<\/p>\n
East Stroudsburg South struck first when Ivan Laubach kept it on the read option and sprinted 22 yards for a touchdown to give the Cavaliers a 7-0 lead late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Stroudsburg answered quickly in the second as Jackson Mitchell connected with Keegan Munch on a 33-yard trick-play touchdown to tie it 7-7. Mitchell then found Josh Ivers-Green for a 23-yard scoring strike to give the Mounties a 14-7 advantage. Keyen Johnson added to the lead minutes later, turning a short pass into a 50-yard touchdown to make it 21-7. He followed with a 17-yard rushing touchdown to cap a dominant second quarter as Stroudsburg went into halftime ahead 28-13, after Greyson Fuller found Lyric Parkins for a 59-yard South touchdown just before the break.<\/p>\n
In the third quarter, Gianni Gonnella pulled the Cavaliers within nine on a 21-yard touchdown run, trimming the deficit to 28-19. But Johnson delivered again for the Mounties, breaking loose for a 77-yard touchdown run, his third of the game, as Stroudsburg extended its lead to 35-19 late in the third. Jaylin Rieara punched it in from one yard out to extend the lead to 42-19 and the Mounties took home the Little Brown Jug.<\/p>\n
Blue Mountain 49, Pottsville 14<\/p>\n
Blue Mountain controlled the game from start to finish, opening with a 10-play, 62-yard drive capped by an 18-yard touchdown pass from Cohen Kirby to Frankie Russo for a 7-0 lead. The Eagles added to it late in the first half as Brody Foose ran in a 3-yard score, then followed with a 30-yard pick-six just before halftime to make it 21-0 at the break.<\/p>\n
Blue Mountain struck again early in the second half when Kirby connected with Kole Luckenbill for an 82-yard touchdown, pushing the lead to 28-0. Pottsville responded with a 32-yard scoring pass from Andrew Allen to Shay Strencosky, but the Eagles\u2019 offense continued to roll. Kirby hit Carter Smith for a 14-yard touchdown to make it 35-7, then Brody Foose added a 1-yard score to extend the margin to 42-7.<\/p>\n
Sonny Amato found the end zone from 11 yards out for Blue Mountain\u2019s final touchdown before Pottsville added a late score on a 33-yard connection from Allen to Brody Eroh.<\/p>\n
North Schuylkill 36, Lehighton 14<\/p>\n
The Spartans struck first with an early touchdown to take a 6-0 lead, then added another score and successful two-point conversion to make it 14-0 late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Lehighton cut into the deficit just before halftime when quarterback Jayse Lawrence connected with Kyden Hauser for a touchdown, bringing the score to 14-7.<\/p>\n
In the third quarter, Luke Miller took over for the Spartans, scoring twice, first on a quick burst to the end zone to make it 20-7, and again minutes later to extend the lead to 29-7 with under four minutes remaining in the quarter.<\/p>\n
Hauser added another late touchdown for the Indians in the closing minute, but it wasn\u2019t enough as North Schuylkill rolled to a 36-14 victory over Lehighton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is a roundup of Friday night\u2019s top Lehigh Valley high school football games in Week 9. Northampton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,304,305,726,432],"class_list":["post-6591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-high-school-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-sports","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591","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=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}