WILSON BORO For Northern Lehigh's defense, it was gut-check time.

After being torched for 30 points and 288 yards (226 of them through the air) in the first half Saturday against perennial power Wilson, the Bulldogs' D decided enough was enough.With just one minor adjustment and a lot more effort, things were completely different in the second half.That turnaround, along with having Cody Remaley on offense, proved to be the difference as Nolehi rallied from a nine-point deficit to post a wild 52-36 Colonial League victory."I've never seen anything like that since I've been here a gut-check like that," said Bulldog head coach Joe Tout. "We decided to run our defense with one safety and we were just going to play football. The kids came out and we looked like a different team in that second half.""At the half, we didn't yell or scream at all," said Matt Gill, Northern Lehigh's leader on defense. "We just talked about what we had to do and our assignments. We decided to just stick to our basic defense and play it tough."Did they ever.The Warriors, who scored on five of their six first-half possessions, had just one touchdown in the second half. Of the six times they had the ball in the final two frames, four of them resulted in three-and-outs."We thought we could move the ball offensively, but defensively I'm just so proud of the effort," said Tout, whose only move was to switch Jake Kern from safety to corner to cover speedy receiver Kowan Scott. "To give up 30 points at half and then just one touchdown in the second against a team like that is a pretty big accomplishment."Despite giving up those 30 points, the Bulldogs (2-0) were still very much alive in the game.Thanks in part to a 51-yard TD run by Remaley and a 57-yard scoring toss by Kern to Caleb Johnson off a lateral, the visitors trailed by just a 30-21 margin.And unlike Wilson (1-1), Northern Lehigh continued to get the job done offensively in the second half.Remaley, who carried 28 times for a career-high 259 yards and became the Colonial League's all-time leading rusher with nearly 4,700 yards, capped his team's opening drive of the third quarter with a five-yard scoring run that trimmed the lead to 30-28.Just four minutes later, he bounced off a couple of tacklers at the line of scrimmage, and walted into the right-corner of the end zone for an 11-yard tally and a 36-30 advantage."Cody is a special kid," said Tout. "He's been shut down by Wilson his entire career so I think he had a little chip on his shoulder today about coming out and having a good game."He's hard to tackle," said Wilson mentor Bret Comp of Remaley. "I saw lots of our guys smack into him, but it's hard to wrap something up when it feels like you're hitting a brick wall. We had great contact on him and then you see him going down the sideline. He has great wheels too. He has a nice stride when he gets loose."Remaley, however, isn't the only player with great wheels.Kern showed off his legs early in the fourth quarter when it looked like a Bulldog drive had stalled. Back to punt near midfield, Kern picked up a low snap and darted to an open left side. The senior raced 39 yards to the Warrior nine, and two plays later Dylan Hofmann scampered 10 yards for another TD and a 44-30 bulge."We felt Jake is our best overall athlete and we felt he could get that," said Tout. "We saw it enough on film that we felt it would be there. You make a decision like that during the week and you live with it."Special team are important to us. We emphasize that. I thought our special teams were sound and that was a big factor in why we won today."Wilson quarterback Chris Cooper, who finished 16-of-26 for 323 yards, cut into the margin by driving his team 66 yards in just 35 seconds to make it 44-36. But Remaley, who topped 200 yards in a game for the eighth time in his career, sealed the game by spinning away from tacklers and breaking free for an 80-yard run with 5:18 left to play."The last touchdown he broke was just effort," said Tout. "I got on him because I felt he should have kicked out of one earlier, but he made up for it there. He broke a couple of tackles. That's what's making him better this year. He's now breaking tackles more than he has in the past.""This was a huge win," said Gill, whose team snapped the Warriors' 24-game league winning streak. "Wilson's a great team and they have been for the past few years. Our main goal now is to win the next game. We don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves."