Courtney Lonesky found the back of the net for the fifth time. This goal brought Parkland's lead to 12-11 with 5:11 to go and forced head coach John Seitzinger to call timeout.

Three unanswered goals followed and the No. 1 seeded Trojans held on to defeat No. 4 seed Easton 15-11, Tuesday night in the District 11 Class AAAA girls lacrosse semifinals at Emmaus High School. They advance to their second straight district final.

There was no sign of rust as a seven-day layoff from the Lehigh Valley Conference final of a week ago.

"We practiced game scenarios and did a lot of scrimmaging," said Sophia Castillo. "Our defense would be playing as Easton's defense so our offense could practice on them. Not playing for a couple of days kind of affected us, but we still came out and gave it our all."

Parkland will now face Southern Lehigh, a team the Trojans have lost to twice this year, 12-10 and 12-11. If Parkland is to break the losing streak to the Spartans on Thursday night, it won't be because of a lack of scorers on the stat sheet.

Five different players scored in the first half. Megan Hower had a free position shot go past Brie Wise, and Lauren Kelly drove in untouched from behind the net to give Parkland an early 2-0 lead.

Lonesky scored on the Red Rovers first shot, and then Claire Huang tied it at 2-2. But Jess Leiby and Sophia Castillo contributed a goal each, and Kelsey Carlon tallied two, sending the Trojans into halftime with a 6-4 lead.

"Almost all of our offensive people had goals tonight," said Castillo. "I think everybody saw each other, and everybody was scoring and trying to help out. Everyone played awesome down low."

Just after the second-half whistle blew, the Trojans were on the board again. Carlon scored 20 seconds into the half, and then added another four minutes later for a four-goal advantage.

But Easton clawed back. Lonesky twice found the mark, and Wang added another as the game turned into a one goal lead once again.

Winning the draw would be a key aspect of the Red Rovers scoring so often and so quickly in the second half.

"I definitely think that was a big part of their comeback," said Castillo. "You have to possess the ball out of the draw. And them winning it affected us with them scoring.

"We also made a couple of dumb mistakes with fouling them, and that led to a few goals too."

It would be back-and-forth for the better part of ten minutes. Lonesky scored with 5:11 to play and Easton down one. Seitzinger called timeout, and must have told his team to score more goals.

Castillo, Leiby, and Carlon each had a goal in the final three minutes to secure the victory. Parkland (17-4) can now focus on finding a way to beat the Spartans.

"I think we need to work on not forcing passes when people aren't open," Castillo said. "And smart defense without fouling. I think we just get too into the game and give fouls we don't need to."