Northampton's girls showed their resiliency in softball this past week.

After losing 12-2 to first-place Parkland last Thursday the Konkrete Kids rebounded by trouncing Dieruff 18-5, downing pesky Emmaus 8-4 and routing Stroudsburg 10-1.

The loss to Parkland was hard to take since Northampton trailed 2-1 going into the fifth inning when the Trojans exploded for nine runs to remain unbeaten in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

But, the Kids bounced back the next night to rout Dieruff behind the pitching of Samantha (Sam) Frey, then used 12 hits to upend Emmaus Monday.

Against Stroudsburg Tuesday, Kendal Reed and Amber Saylor set the pace in a nonleague win that pushed the Kids record to 10-5 and secured a spot in the District 11 postseason tournament.

Northampton, 9-4 in the EPC's Skyline Division, proved its mettle in the win over Emmaus. The Hornets, who beat Northampton 3-2 the first time around, are tied for second with the Kids in the Skyline Division.

Taylor Keeney, back on the mound after missing two weeks with a lower leg injury, gave Northampton a shot in the arm with a seven-inning performance and the Kids gave her a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a triple by Lindsay Stuhldreher and Reed's sacrifice fly.

Emmaus tied it on Cassie Burke's RBI double in the third, but Northampton went in front to stay in the fifth after Keeney's outstanding job in the top of the inning. After a triple and a walk, Keeney got one of her seven strikeouts, got a pop-up out to catcher Reed and forced a groundout to third to end the frame.

The Kids followed with a single by Auria Enright, and RBI double by Jill Muthard (she had four hits) and a run-scoring single by Saylor.

Northampton blew it open with five runs in the sixth with Enright driving in the first run on a fielder's choice and Muthard followed with a two-run double. Saylor tripled home Muthard and Saylor came home on Stuhldreher's fielder's choice.

Emmaus scored three runs in the seventh off a tiring Keeney with four hits before Keeney reached back to get the final out on a strikeout.

Against Stroudsburg, Muthard allowed four hits and struck out eight while Reed went 3-for-4 and Saylor went 3-for-4 with a triple and two RBI.

Coach Kevin Mann told the girls after Monday's win, "that when we stopped hitting sporadically, we'd start stringing our hits and the wins would come; and that's what happened."

Northampton visited Whitehall in another EPC game Wednesday, after Press deadlines, and play Central Catholic at 7 p.m. Thursday in the annual Senior/Parent Night game. After hosting Kutztown in a nonleague game Friday, the Kids finish the regular season next week with an EPC game against Nazareth on Tuesday (7 p.m. on Tuskes Field) before entertaining Bethlehem Catholic in a nonleague game Wednesday.