Winning never gets old and Bethlehem Catholic’s football program certainly doesn’t mind celebrating on November weekends when other teams are at home watching.

The Golden Hawks won their third-straight District 11 title Saturday night in dominating fashion, posting a 73-14 win over Saucon Valley in the 4A championship game.

A game that started out with the Hawks trailing 14-7 saw them score 66-straight points in a rout that materialized quickly, giving the program their fifth title in six years and their 13th overall.

The Hawks (10-3) accumulated 529 yards on offense with 348 coming from their bread and butter running game. Zaheer Seabrooks led the charge with 157 yards rushing and three touchdowns, while Tavion Banks added 119 yards in the win to push them into Friday’s first round of the PIAA tournament against Pottsgrove at Palisades.

But for a brief moment last weekend, Becahi found itself in a dogfight, as Saucon (10-3) evened the game in the first quarter at 7-7 with their rushing attack, going 64 yards on the ground capped by Ian Csicsek’s three-yard TD to answer Becahi’s opening score.

The Panthers then rode the momentum and recovered the ensuing onside kick and ran the ball through the Becahi defense again, going 44 yards on seven plays. Dante Mahaffey two-yard TD put Saucon ahead 14-7 with 2:28 left in the first quarter.

It was gut check time for the Hawks and they answered the bell.

“The only thing I told the kids was to calm down and relax because I could sense frustration starting to settle in,” said head coach Joe Henrich. “We’ve been there and had that happen before and we were able to turn it around real quick and I’m proud of the kids for that.”

Seabrooks ended the first quarter with a two-yard TD to even the game and then the Hawks defense made a play that turned the game in their favor.

Matt Stianche picked off Mahaffey deep in Saucon territory and the turnover led to a three-yard TD run by Seabrooks to put the Hawks ahead 21-14 with 7:56 in the first half.

Anthony DaSilva would add a 23-yard field goal and Becahi took a 24-14 lead into halftime and then the game exploded, as the Hawks scored four-straight TDs with their first unit, while their second team came out and dropped 21 points in the fourth quarter.

“Toward the end of the first half we created some energy and momentum and that really carried over into the second half,” Henrich said. “We just kind of opened it up. I think the interception in the first half was big for us and I thought we would settle in defensively and we did, which helped settle things down for us.”

District One champion Pottsgrove (12-1) now is on the radar for the Hawks this weekend. The two teams played each other last year in the PIAA tournament and the Hawks handled them to the tune of 49-14.

Becahi will be heavy favorites again this time around, as it looks to make another deep run in the state tournament.

“We’ll see how different this year will be for us,” said Henrich of the state tourney. “We’re going to take it one game at a time, keep grinding and see what we can do.”