It's extremely difficult for a high school baseball team to go undefeated. And in some cases, a loss along the way can actually be good for the team's outlook on the season.

A week ago, Parkland ran into a hungry Northampton team that not only handed the Trojans their first loss of the season, but threw a no-hitter at them, adding insult to injury.

The good news is that the next day, Parkland picked up their rain-suspended game with Emmaus and expanded the 6-0 first inning lead that they picked up when the game started back on April 7, turning it into a 13-0 rout.

Connor Higgins pitched the resumed game against Emmaus, striking out five and picking up the win.

"It was good to come back, especially after a late-night game and then come back today, guys hit the ball, which was good, because we got no-hit last night," said Higgins. "So to come out today and execute was good."

Coach Tony Galucy had seen some warning signs with the offense even before the loss to Northampton and he's still at least a little concerned about getting the offense back in shape.

"We haven't been hitting the ball well lately," explained Galucy. "Today, we came out a little more relaxed, but I still don't think we hit the ball the way that we're capable of doing.

"We've talked about it all year. You've got to come ready to play and when you're undefeated, everybody wants to be the first one to knock you off and Nazareth played us really tough the other night and Northampton came out with a lot of enthusiasm and took it to us, they beat us."

After beating Emmaus, Parkland (15-1, 12-1) went on to collect a 2-1 win over Governor Mifflin, a 13-0 win over Central Catholic and a 2-0 win over Easton. The players took the loss to Northampton seriously and have used it as somewhat of a teaching moment that they'll keep in their minds for the rest of the season.

"It humbles us a little bit," said Higgins. "We definitely thought we were on top of the world for a while and it showed us what can happen."

When Parkland plays at North Penn Thursday, it will wrap up a string of seven games in eight days. The Trojans will be back in action Saturday after just one day off. The pitchers have held up pretty well through the backlog of games, but the team is going to be tested further because of a key injury.

"Our pitching was holding up well, but now Michael Jenkins, who threw a shutout against Nazareth, is hurt and we don't know how long he's going to be gone for and it's going to be a challenge," said Galucy. "With all of these games, we'll find out about our pitching."