One more game: It's all any player or coach could ask for.

On Friday night, Pine Grove and Northern Lehigh will get that chance when the two teams play for the Eastern Conference Division II championship.The Bulldogs arrive at this point after turning in their best offensive performance of the season in last week's 49-41 win against Western Wayne.The Cardinals had to wait until this past Sunday to finish off their 17-7 victory over Hanover after their semifinal contest was delayed two days because of a transformer issue at the stadium.Facing a Northern Lehigh team that amassed almost 400 yards rushing last week, Pine Grove head coach Jeff Sampson knows his squad will need to be ready from the opening kickoff."They're a good football team that's also well coached," Sampson said of the Bulldogs. "They have tremendous athletes and it's going to take everything we have to stop them."The focal point of the Northern Lehigh (6-5, 5-5 Colonial League) offense last Friday was tailback Nate Farber, who carried the ball 28 times for 338 yards and five touchdowns on a night the team attempted only two passes.Despite the impressive performance, don't expect the Bulldogs to take the same approach against the Cardinals."Our plan is to be a little more balanced than we were last week," said Northern Lehigh head coach Joe Tout. "With the windy conditions early, we didn't want to throw, and then we found that we had so much success with our Iso (Isolation) play that we didn't have to throw."This week we want to be able to run more of our play action game. We feel that (quarterback) Chad Cederberg has been throwing the ball really well."Cederberg showed what he was capable of just a week earlier against Palmerton, completing 11-of-24 passes for a season-high 224 yards.Although Pine Grove and Northern Lehigh haven't played since a District 11 AA silver medal game in 2005, Sampson noted he wouldn't have to look far to get his team ready."They remind me a lot of us," the coach said. "They like to line up in the Power I formation and they're more of a run-based team, like we are."Sampson is certainly no stranger to having talented playmakers on offense.Last year, the Cardinals rode the legs of all-state running back Ryan Heim (2,031 yards, 29 touchdowns) to a 10-0 regular season and an appearance in the District 11 Class AA semifinal, where they suffered a 10-6 loss to Palisades.This season, Pine Grove's (6-5, 5-3 Tri Valley League) primary weapon has been tailback Mark Weinus, who has rushed for 1,352 yards and nine scores."Defensively, we have to stop Mark Weinus," Tout said. "We were able to go see the second half of Pine Grove's game (on Sunday) and their offense runs through Weinus, who is a tough running back as well as a threat to catch the ball."When Weinus isn't the primary option, quarterback Logan Levan has shown he's more than capable with his arm and his legs.Levan has completed 50 percent of his passes (77-of-153) for 959 yards and five touchdowns to go along with 244 rushing yards and eight scores.After finishing 2-8 last year and missing the postseason, Tout is looking forward to the opportunity his team has against Pine Grove."It's November and we're playing a Week 12 championship game, so we are very excited," he said. "We thought our Week 10 game (against Palmerton) was potentially our last game. But now we've been given a great second opportunity to allow our seniors to win their last game at home, and hopefully we'll send them out on a high note."