{"id":114819,"date":"2022-11-20T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114819"},"modified":"2022-11-20T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T20:28:34","slug":"lafayette-leopards-take-the-win-11-14-against-lehigh-mountain-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114819","title":{"rendered":"LAFAYETTE LEOPARDS TAKE THE WIN 11-14 AGAINST LEHIGH MOUNTAIN HAWKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.df-foto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Story &amp; Photographs by Diane Fleischman<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>All the elements were in place, a great sunny day, tailgaters prepared their favorite game dishes, and the stadium was packed with howling fans as they rooted for their team. It was the game of the season, the Lehigh Mountain Hawks vs. the Lafayette Leopards on Lafayette&#8217;s home field.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><div class=\"su-image-carousel  su-image-carousel-columns-4 su-image-carousel-has-spacing su-image-carousel-has-lightbox su-image-carousel-has-outline su-image-carousel-adaptive su-image-carousel-slides-style-default su-image-carousel-controls-style-dark su-image-carousel-align-none\" style=\"max-width:500px\" data-flickity-options='{\"groupCells\":true,\"cellSelector\":\".su-image-carousel-item\",\"adaptiveHeight\":true,\"cellAlign\":\"left\",\"prevNextButtons\":true,\"pageDots\":true,\"autoPlay\":3000,\"imagesLoaded\":true,\"contain\":false,\"selectedAttraction\":0.007000000000000000145716771982051795930601656436920166015625,\"friction\":0.25}' id=\"su_image_carousel_69fb00271eec4\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item-content\"><a 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The Mountain Hawks didn&#8217;t lack the determination, but rather were held back by an iron clad\u00a0Leopards defense, which held strong throughout the game. Then the second touchdown\u00a0happened for the Leopards.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By the second quarter, the Mountain Hawks finally made it on the scoreboard with a field goal, trailing 3-14. The scoreboard remained unchanged until the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Mountain Hawks scored a touchdown, but their field goal was blocked, bringing them to 9-14.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Leopards were unable to score again by the fourth quarter.\u00a0 The Mountain Hawks were successful with a two point conversion, bringing the final score to 11-14.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<table class=\"sidearm-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"text-hide\" style=\"background-color: #990033;\" scope=\"col\"><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\" style=\"background-color: #990033;\" scope=\"col\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">1st<\/span><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\" style=\"background-color: #990033;\" scope=\"col\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">2nd<\/span><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\" style=\"background-color: #990033;\" scope=\"col\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">3rd<\/span><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\" style=\"background-color: #990033;\" scope=\"col\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">4th<\/span><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\" style=\"background-color: #990033;\" scope=\"col\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">F<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Lehigh<\/th>\n<td class=\"text-center\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">3<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">8<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center emphasize\">11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Lafayette<\/th>\n<td class=\"text-center\">14<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center emphasize\">14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>For more information and upcoming schedules for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks visit <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information and upcoming schedules for the Lafayette Leopards visit <a href=\"https:\/\/goleopards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/goleopards.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story &amp; Photographs by Diane Fleischman All the elements were in place, a great sunny day, tailgaters prepared their favorite game dishes, and the stadium was packed with howling fans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114819\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LAFAYETTE LEOPARDS TAKE THE WIN 11-14 AGAINST LEHIGH MOUNTAIN HAWKS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2290,69,5656],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diane-fleischman","category-in-the-valley","category-lehigh-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lehigh-Lafayette.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}