Kira Koehler is one of the more selfless players at Emmaus. The junior forward scored six goals in Emmaus’ 9-1 win over Northampton in the District 11 quarterfinals and isn’t even sure if that’s a career-high. Instead, she quickly turned the discussion to how much her teammates helped her and how well they played in the win.

“I don’t really know if that’s a career-high,” said Koehler. “It wasn’t just me though, it was the rest of the team putting the ball in the right spot for me and I was just there to finish what they set up. We had some really nice passing combinations inside and outside on the field and we had some really nice transfers. Just finishing on post is really big right now.”

Koehler was just doing what her coach instructed her to do, which turned out to be the perfect game plan. Koehler’s success is helping to draw some of the coverage off of leading scorer Meredith Sholder and making teams have to start thinking about Koehler on the outside of the field.

“Yeah, she was on fire a little bit, right?,” said coach Sue Butz-Stavin with a laugh. “We’ve been trying to get our outside forwards to do the finishing touches up there and we’re trying to put the ball off of the post-lines and hopefully they would be able to finish. She got the job done tonight.”

Koehler now has 24 goals on the season, second to Sholder’s 56.

Emmaus came into the game with less focus than usual. The game was played on a day when the school was put into lockdown because bullets were found outside of the cafeteria, which likely played a role in the team’s approach.

“We weren’t focused when we came to the field tonight,” said Butz-Stavin. “I was a little taken aback. It was all because of the chaos in the building. The kids were in the shutdown mode and then got sent home, so that area, I was kind of surprised, but I told them ‘put the pedal to the metal and let’s go.’”

The win against Northampton was the third time this season that Emmaus had downed the Konkrete Kids, and it puts the Hornets in Wednesday’s semifinals against Easton, which they’ve also beaten twice already this season.

“Even when you play a team that we beat twice, significantly, anything can happen,” said Butz-Stavin. “The old cliché is that you have to play the game to win, because anything can happen. It can be their Super Bowl game of their life and they get a goal and just play defense or keep-away the rest of the night, so these games make me nervous.”

Emmaus downed Easton 6-0 in the season opener and 4-0 in the league playoffs. Even with those decisive wins, Butz-Stavin knows that teams don’t go this deep into the playoffs unless they’re solid teams with the ability to stop the Lady Hornets’ streak of district championships.

“They can be dangerous,” said Butz-Stavin of Easton. “They’ve got some athletes and things can happen and we’ve got to be able to bring our best stuff. We take one game at a time and we prep these kids for one game at a time.”

Emmaus will face Easton at 6 p.m. at the Zephyr Sports Complex at Whitehall. The winner advances to Saturday’s district championship against either Whitehall or Stroudsburg.