It's that time of the season that a team will take everything the other team gives.

And Northampton's softball team did exactly that Tuesday as the Konkrete Kids topped Pocono Mountain East 3-1 in the opening round of the District 11 Class 4A tournament.

The Konkrete Kids, seeded seventh with a 14-8 record, put together six hits and two of PME's three errors for two runs in the fourth inning and another in the fifth to advance to the quarterfinal round.

Coach Kevin Mann's Kids will visit No. 2 seed Pottsville (18-5) at 4 p.m. today and, as Mann told his girls: "Things get tougher at this stage of the season and you must take advantage of every break you get."

PM East (now 10-10 and done) scored a first-inning run as losing pitcher Alyssa Beyers doubled home Maddie Buchy and Northampton's Jillian Muthard took over from there.

Muthard struck out nine and scattered five more hits after the first, but was never threatened to give up another run. She struck out the side in the fourth and had two strikeouts in the second.

After Lindsay Stuhldreher tripled in the second the Kids left her stranded, but Northampton finally broke through in the fourth.

Kendal Reed and Stuhldreher opened with back-to-back singles and Reed scored on a wild pitch and a throwing error before Stuhldreher scored on an error after Jolene Makovsky's single.

Auria Enright scored for Northampton in the fifth as she singled, stole second, took third on a passed ball and came home on Muthard's groundout to short.

"You can't take anyone lightly this late in the season," said Mann. "We're looking forward to play Pottsville (the Schuylkill League champs) and we're not ready to go home with a loss."

Meanwhile, Mann thinks Muthard "is okay with being the top Kid on the hill" now that she will be doing the pitching for the rest of the season because fellow sophomore Taylor Keeney is out with shin splint concerns.

In other quarterfinals today Freedom (No. 5) is at Liberty (No.4), Whitehall (No. 8) is at Parkland (No. 1) and Pleasant Valley (No. 6) is at Easton (No. 3).