Northampton's hopes of a District 11 boys soccer title came to an end with a 5-0 loss to Emmaus. The loss gives Northampton an overall season record of 14-7.

"We're not that bad and it certainly wasn't as bad as the 5-0 score. We practiced well, we were organized going in and it's my job to have them ready and we obviously weren't ready," explained coach Craig Carvin.

Emmaus came out with two quick goals in the first seven minutes of the game to put Northampton in a come-from-behind jam. Carvin believes that his team just didn't come out strong enough and the two quick goals were damaging because they didn't allow Northampton to get into its game.

"It did, but the only reason they got those two quick goals is because we were on our heels to begin with," said Carvin.

When Emmaus' Charlie Jerry scored a goal off of a corner kick to put the Hornets up 5-0, things started to get a little testy on the field and on the sidelines. Northampton was hit with four yellow cards late in the game, one being called on an assistant coach for disputing a play.

"They're competitors, they want to win and they want to do well and they love to play the game. They don't like not doing well and I think anybody who is a competitor can understand that," said Carvin.

Northampton - the tournament's fifth seed - reached the quarter-finals with a 1-0 win over Bangor, which came in seeded 12th. Zack Penrose took a pass from John Yeaw to score the game's only goal with just under 12 minutes left in the first half and goalie Austin Cooper had four saves in the win over the Slaters.

At one point during the season, Northampton rattled off seven straight wins and had won nine-of-ten games. It was the Hornets that snapped the winning streak when they downed the Konkrete Kids 3-1 to open up the month of October. Since the start of October, Northampton went 3-5 and scored just six goals over their eight games.

"We didn't play well at all, but that's not the way we play. We're not that much different than them, we are a much better team and we can play much better and we're as talented," said Carvin. "The previous time that we played them, I don't know that they thought that it was that easy. We weren't ready to play and it's my job to have them ready."

Northampton has seven seniors - Yeaw, Luke Del Vecchio, David Hornyak, Chris Rehrig, Tim Kelly, Ian Miller and Julian Santos - who will be graduating, leaving some holes to fill for next year's roster.