Northwestern Lehigh head coach Josh Snyder wanted to see how his Tigers would respond after a tough loss to Southern Lehigh the week before that spoiled the chances of an unbeaten season and winning the Colonial League title outright.

The Tigers set the tone early last Friday against Palmerton. They marched right down the field on the opening drive and rolled to a 50-21 win over the Blue Bombers.

Quarterback Frank Dangello found Cam Richardson for his his 20th career touchdown reception on a 27-yard pass with 9:06 on the clock.

Poor field position hurt the Blue Bombers early and Northwestern Lehigh took advantage of a couple of short punts.

The first time, Brandon Miller missed a 30-yard field goal, but the second time, Harry Hall broke loose for a 23-yard run down to the 2-yard line. Dangello snuck in from there and Miller's extra point made it 13-0.

The Tigers added a safety before the second quarter ended when Hall blocked a Sean Doherty punt and it rolled out of the end zone making it 15-0.

Northwestern put together another nine-play drive, eating up some clock before Hall scored on a two-yard run with 6:22 left in the half.

"I'm proud of our team the way they bounced back and responded from a tough loss by three points to Southern Lehigh," Snyder said. "Sitting at 7-1 right now with two weeks left, we have our rivalry game this week so we're really looking forward to playing Northern Lehigh. They're getting better, have five wins and a tough runner in Nate Farber. It's going to be a great night."

And Hall didn't have his Superman cape on, but the junior specialist didn't need it.

He rushed for 228 yards on 18 carries, scored a pair of touchdowns, blocked a punt out of the end zone for a safety and just about singlehandedly did the job. Hall tied the school's single game all-purpose yardage record, which had been held exlusively by head coach Josh Snyder, with 313 total yards.

"I told the guys afterwards I've been waiting for a game like this that all three phases come together," Snyder said. "We had two pick sixes on defense. We had a blocked punt for a safety on defense.

"What can you say about Harry. He's a horse out there and has a lot of eight- and nine-yard runs during the year. I told him before the game I love those, but how about a couple of 50-yarders. And he did that."

"Kudos to our offensive line. We didn't have to pass the ball much. We took a couple of shots early, one was the play action to Cam (Richardson) for a touchdown. Our offensive line just blocked great. And our receivers did a nice job blocking on the exterior, turning a lot of minimal gains into long touchdown runs."

The Tigers' next score came when Taylor Breininger intercepted a pass and took it 20 yards into the end zone for his fifth career defensive touchdown that made it 29-0.

Tre Nelson finally put the Bombers on the scoreboard with a nine-yard run with just over two minutes left in the half and Garrett Perschy connected with Zach Buck for a 13-yard score with seven seconds remaining in the half to pull the Bombers within 36-14.

"Field position hurt us early big time," said Palmerton head coach Chris Walkowiak. "Northwestern Lehigh is a good team and as good as advertised. You can't have fundamental mistakes, turn the ball over, a punt blocked and field position. I think we were three-and-out on our first couple of drives and couldn't get anything rolling. And they took advantage and before you know it, they were up big and your game plan is out the window and you're fighting from behind and you wind up doing things you don't want to do."

Palmerton opened the second half with a drive that took about six and a half minutes off the clock. But the 15-play drive ended on downs at the Northwestern 35.

Two plays later, Hall busted right up the middle and the speedster raced 54 yards for a touchdown. With 4:54 left in the third quarter, Northwestern was nailing down the win, leading 43-14.

Two minutes later, Hall showed his quickness again as he intercepted a pass and took it 82 yards for another touchdown. This one put the game under the mercy rule.

With 6:26 left in the game, Buck broke loose on a 46-yard run for the final score of the night.