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11/22 15:34 CST Luke Yoder's 4 TDs lead Lehigh past Lafayette 42-32 to become
back-to-back Patriot League champions
Luke Yoder's 4 TDs lead Lehigh past Lafayette 42-32 to become back-to-back
Patriot League champions
EASTON, Pa. (AP) --- Luke Yoder rushed for 234 yards and four touchdowns,
Hayden Johnson threw for a touchdown and Lehigh finished the regular season
unbeaten after a 42-32 victory over Lafayette on Saturday to become
back-to-back Patriot League champions.
Lehigh (12-0, 7-0), ranked No. 4 in the FCS coaches' poll, earned the league's
automatic bid to the FCS playoffs in the 161st meeting of college football's
most-played rivalry. Lehigh's 17-game regular-season winning streak is the
longest in the FCS.
Lehigh trailed 17-14 at halftime before two Yoder touchdowns in the third
quarter, the first from 80 yards, put the Mountain Hawks ahead 28-24 entering
the fourth. His 6-yard score made it 35-24.
After Lafayette got within 35-32 on a 4-yard touchdown and 2-point conversion,
Lehigh went on a 10-play, 75-yard drive that chewed up more than five minutes
and ended in a 1-yard run by Johnson with 1:53 left for a 10-point lead.
Johnson rushed for 64 yards on seven carries for Lehigh, which was coming off a
27-7 win at Colgate in a game that was called due to lightning with 3:54 to
play.
Kente Edwards rushed for 157 yards on 41 carries and he scored three times for
Lafayette (8-4, 6-1), which entered 6-0 in Patriot League play for the first
time in program history. The Leopards finished league action 5-0 in 1988, '92
and ?94.
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