SLATINGTON – Both teams came into the night with a 5-0 records and first place on the line in the Colonial League standings.
It was Pen Argyl (5-1) that took a lead into the locker room. But it was Jake Kern who caught the go ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter as Northern Lehigh (6-0) went on for the 35-20 win.
In the second quarter, Pen Argyl’s Dylan Evans got the Green Knights on the board with a two-yard run. Northern Lehigh’s Cody Remaley 76-yard run tied the game up at 7. Evans was not going to be stopped. He scored his second two-yard touchdown run on the last play of the first half. The Green Knights led 14-7.
Northern Lehigh held strong. Kern’s five-yard touchdown run and a Channing Shiffert extra point tied the game up at 14 with 9:54 remaining in the third quarter.
The Green Knights pulled ahead and led 20-14 after a Nathan Hood two-yard score.
Northern Lehigh tried their new formation, which got most of their offense in the first half including the touchdown run by Remaley. When Kern played at quarterback he rushed for 72 yards.
Kern said, “We knew we were going to put it in sometime during the game. We had actually put it in earlier because Pen Argyl has a great defense.”
In the fourth quarter Quarterback Dylan Hoffman got the offense going in the fourth quarter. In the quarter Hoffman would find Kern for the go ahead score. The Bulldogs led 21-20 with 7:14 renaming.
Hoffman said, “I knew I was going back in. I was still playing defense so it wasn’t like I was getting stiff or anything.”
The Bulldogs would add two more scores late in the quarter. Matt Gill scored on a one-yard run and Remaley scored late in the fourth quarter on a 64-yard jaunt as the Bulldogs led 35-20.
Remaley finished the game with 174 yards rushing sand went over 1,000 yards for the season. On defense Trevor Yahsur had two interceptions.
Evans led the Green Knights with 131 yards and two scores.
Northern Lehigh goes on the road to take on Northwestern Lehigh. Pen Argyl host Catasauqua who lost a tough game against Bangor in two overtimes, 28-25.
