Northampton softball answers Emmaus comeback attempt, secures D-11 gold with play at plate

The Northampton Area High School softball team took a 1-0 lead over Emmaus on Thursday night on a solo blast from senior first baseman Avery Deibert in the fourth inning of the District 11 Class 6A championship game and held that lead into the seventh as junior pitcher Rylee Gable kept delivering goose eggs on the scoreboard.

The Green Hornets battled back in the bottom of the seventh inning to force extra innings on Thursday night at Patriots Park in Allentown.

But the Konkrete Kids weren’t bothered as they manufactured a run in the top of the eighth inning when senior catcher Hannah Duerr produced a sacrifice fly to score junior second baseman Josephine Siegfried…

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