MECHANICSBURG – 692 points. 6,568 yards. One record-breaking season.

Northwestern didn’t leave Cumberland Valley with a championship this time, but it left with something permanent — numbers that changed the program record book across the board.

The Tigers finished 2025 with new school records for points in a season (692), passing yards (2,897) and total offense (6,568), surpassing previous marks set in 2023, 2019 and 2024 respectively. They averaged 43.9 points per game, reached 40-plus 11 times, and ran a balanced attack that produced 3,671 rushing yards and 2,897 passing yards, with 61 rushing touchdowns and 32 through the air.

“Just thinking about the postseason — 18 games in three years — that’s incredible,” senior Braxton Lakatosh said. “The experience the younger guys got means so much.”

Offensive Leaders

QB Shane Leh delivered one of the greatest passing seasons in school history —

2,660 yards, 160/234 (68.4%), 31 TD, 3 INT

– Single-season program records: yards, completions, attempts, completion %

– 2nd all-time single-season passing TD

– Career standings: 2nd in yards (6,070), completions (403), attempts (624), TD (79)

– Northwestern’s most accurate passer ever — 64.6% career

RB Braxton Lakatosh emerged as the feature back with 1,404 yards and 17 TD, averaging over 10 yards per carry, after just 192 yards a season ago.

RB Chase Sukanick added 924 yards and 13 TD, helping maintain a three-year chain of elite backs (Dalton Clymer ’23, Eli Zimmerman ’24, Lakatosh ’25).

Kicking: Sukanick went 74-for-80 on PATs.

Receiving Game

Brady Zimmerman — 956 yards (2nd-most in a season)

Michel Lagowy — 48 receptions (3rd-most in a season)

Mason Bollinger — program career leader

117 catches • 1,771 yards

Career Record Holders

Shane Hulmes — defensive cornerstone

Most career tackles (449)

Most solo tackles (198)

Most tackles for loss (31)

Most sacks (20)

Most forced fumbles (12)

Defensive Totals

1,194 total tackles • 90 TFL • 38 sacks

• Hulmes — 165 tackles, 77 solo, 7 FF, 7.5 sacks

• Lakatosh — 130 tackles, 4.5 sacks, 2 INT

• Fritz Scheirer — 102 tackles, 7 sacks

• Evan Wagstaff — 91 tackles, 4 sacks

• Michael Boring — 84 tackles, 14.5 TFL, 5.5 sacks

• Ethan Steigerwalt — 53 tackles, 5 sacks

• Lagowy — 72 tackles, 6 INT

A unit that graduated six of its top eight tacklers last year still found answers everywhere.

“For these kids to stay locked in every week — that’s special,” head coach Josh Snyder said. “Our young guys watched how it’s done. Now they have to emulate it.”

And even without a repeat title, the imprint remains.

“I just hope I gave the entire community some good memories,” Leh said — a quarterback who grew with a program that kept growing with him.

A season that might not have ended with a state title will live on in numbers that may take years to chase — and possibly longer to break.