Kutztown snaps 70-game league losing streak

The Cougars defeat Northern Lebanon 34-28 for their first league win since 2009

Kutztown held on to defeat Northern Lebanon 34-28 Friday at Fredericksburg to snap a 70game league losing streak.

The Cougars hadn’t won a league game since closing the 2009 season with a 21-20 victory over Fleetwood in a Section 2 game in the Inter-County League on Nov. 6.

The Inter-County League became the Berks Football League in 2011. That league merged with the Lancaster-Lebanon League for this season, part of reason being the ability to pair more like-sized schools in divisions.

It’s worked for Kutztown in Section

5.

Dakota Thomas ran for 183 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries for the Cougars (1-3, 2-5), who carried a 27-7 lead into the fourth quarter.

Moises Gonzalez gave Northern Lebanon (2-2, 2-5) a 7-0 lead on an 87-yard punt return in the first quarter.

Kutztown tied on a 1-yard run by quarterback Jacob Lafferty, who set up the drive by making an interception.

The Cougars took the lead for good in the second quarter when Lafferty threw a 34-yard pass to Ethan Lafferty.

Jacob Lafferty made his second interception of the game to give

Kutztown the ball at its 13 with 2:02 left in the first half.

Thomas then ran 87 yards for a touchdown on the drive’s first play to give the Cougars a 19-7 lead.

The Vikings received the second-half kickoff, but Thomas forced a fumble that was recovered by the Cougars at the Northern Lebanon 25. That led to a 10yard touchdown run by Brenden Ackley. A two-point conversion run by Thomas made it 27-7.

The Vikings cut it to 27-14 on a 5-yard run by Myles Watson with 11:05 left.

Jacob Lafferty made it 34-14 on a 10-yard run with 6:56 left.

Northern Lebanon scored on a 22-yard pass from Grady Stichler to James Voight, then a 14-yard pass from Stichler to Luke Shaffer with 1:12 left.

Kutztown recovered the onside kick and was able to run out the clock.

The Cougars ran for 362 yards on 57 carries. LAMPETER-STRASBURG 30, BERKS CATHOLIC 7 >> Friday at Lancaster, Berks Catholic struggled to get anything going offensively in losing in a Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 4 game.

The Saints (2-2, 2-5) managed just 118 total yards.

Berks Catholic’s Devin Garcia returned an interception to the Pioneers’ 11 in the game’s opening minutes, but the Saints ended up turning it over on downs at the 2.

Lampeter-Strasburg (4-0, 6-1) then drove 98 yards, taking the lead on Carson Coleman’s 3-yard run.

Trent Wagner scored on a 1-yard run, a touchdown set up by a 66yard run by Hunter Hildenbrand, to put the Pioneers up 13-0. They took a 16-0 lead on a 37-yard field goal by Peter Fiorello.

In the third quarter, Hildenbrand caught a 45-yard pass from Wagner and Coleman scored on a 5-yard run to put L-S up 30-0.

Marvin Armistead scored on an 8-yard run for Berks Catholic in the third quarter.

DONEGAL 28, CONRAD WEISER 12 >> Friday at Robesonia, Donegal scored the game’s final 14 points to seal a victory over Conrad Weiser in a Lancaster-Lebanon Section 4 game.

Trey Dianna’s second touchdown of the game, a 29-yard run, pulled the Scouts (2-2, 3-4) within 14-12 in the third quarter.

But Zeke Amaro scored on a 29yard pass from Landon Baughman with 6.2 seconds left n the