{"id":122065,"date":"2023-09-03T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=122065"},"modified":"2023-09-03T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:24:42","slug":"villanova-wildcats-win-season-opener-against-lehigh-mountain-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=122065","title":{"rendered":"VILLANOVA WILDCATS WIN SEASON OPENER 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<p>The 2023 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Football season kicked off Saturday, and even though the game was over Labor Day weekend, Lehigh had a decent turnout. It was a typical hot summer day, sunny with temperatures in the mid 80&#8217;s.\u00a0 The Villanova Wildcats won the coin toss, and elected to receive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-image-carousel  su-image-carousel-columns-3 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_69f522e28c890\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item-content\"><a 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LEHIGH-UNIV.-V-VILLANOVA-04.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LEHIGH-UNIV.-V-VILLANOVA-04-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LEHIGH-UNIV.-V-VILLANOVA-04-768x579.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LEHIGH-UNIV.-V-VILLANOVA-05.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-11\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LEHIGH-UNIV.-V-VILLANOVA-05.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LEHIGH-UNIV.-V-VILLANOVA-05.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LEHIGH-UNIV.-V-VILLANOVA-05-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LEHIGH-UNIV.-V-VILLANOVA-05-768x556.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><script id=\"su_image_carousel_69f522e28c890_script\">if(window.SUImageCarousel){setTimeout(function() {window.SUImageCarousel.initGallery(document.getElementById(\"su_image_carousel_69f522e28c890\"))}, 0);}var su_image_carousel_69f522e28c890_script=document.getElementById(\"su_image_carousel_69f522e28c890_script\");if(su_image_carousel_69f522e28c890_script){su_image_carousel_69f522e28c890_script.parentNode.removeChild(su_image_carousel_69f522e28c890_script);}<\/script>\n<p>As both teams exhibited strong defenses in the first quarter, The Wildcats were first to hit the scoreboard towards the end of the quarter. And with less than two minutes remaining, they hit it again. The first quarter ended with a prominent Wildcats lead of 14-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain Hawks went almost the full game without scoring a touchdown.\u00a0 Early in the second quarter, they landed on the scoreboard with a field goal. The Wildcats intercepted three times, which all resulted in touchdowns. With the close of the first half of the game, The Wildcats had established an enormous lead of 31-3 over The Mountain Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>Then it happened again. Late in the third quarter, The Wildcats scored another touchdown and field goal which brought the score to 38-3.\u00a0 The Mountain Hawks gave it everything they had, holding defense strong and scored a touchdown and field goal in the fourth quarter upping the score to 38-10, which became the final score, and a Villanova Wildcats victory over the Lehigh Mountain Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>The next home game for Lehigh will be on Saturday, September 16, against Cornell.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<table class=\"sidearm-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"text-hide\" style=\"background-color: #5c3e27;\" scope=\"col\"><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\" style=\"background-color: #5c3e27;\" scope=\"col\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">1st<\/span><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\" style=\"background-color: #5c3e27;\" scope=\"col\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">2nd<\/span><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\" style=\"background-color: #5c3e27;\" scope=\"col\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">3rd<\/span><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\" style=\"background-color: #5c3e27;\" scope=\"col\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">4th<\/span><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\" style=\"background-color: #5c3e27;\" scope=\"col\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">F<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Villanova<\/th>\n<td class=\"text-center\">14<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">17<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center emphasize\">38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"hide-on-medium-down\">lehigh<\/span><\/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\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center emphasize\">10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>For more information and upcoming schedules for the Mountain Hawks visit <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/\">https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story &amp; Photographs by Diane Fleischman The 2023 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Football season kicked off Saturday, and even though the game was over Labor Day weekend, Lehigh had a decent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=122065\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VILLANOVA WILDCATS WIN SEASON OPENER AGAINST LEHIGH MOUNTAIN HAWKS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122078,"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":[5717,2290,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bethlehem","category-diane-fleischman","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lehigh-VIllanova.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122065"}],"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=122065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}