For Emmaus, it was their 37th straight. For Northwestern Lehigh, it was their fourth straight. And for Salisbury, it was their first ever District XI championship. Over the course of the last week of October, District XI 1A, 2A, and 3A field hockey champions were crowned\u2013with Salisbury defeating Southern Lehigh on Wednesday, Northwestern beating Wilson on Friday night, and Emmaus taking down rival Parkland on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
For Salisbury, the Falcons had to regroup after falling in the Colonial League playoff to Northwestern 3-2 after entering the tournament as the #1 seed and finishing the regular season with an overall record of 16-1. Northwestern would later go on to defeat Southern Lehigh in overtime for the Colonial League championship by a score of 2-1.<\/p>\n
With Northwestern dropping to 1A in the District XI playoffs, Salisbury did not have to worry about meeting up with the Tigers again. Instead, it would be defending District XI 2A champion Southern Lehigh, a team that Salisbury split with during the regular season\u2013taking the first matchup in late September by a score of 3-0 before falling to the Spartans 2-1 in the last regular season game of the year. This would be the only regular season loss for the Falcons.<\/p>\n
In the rubbermatch, Salisbury was able to convert on two penalty corners and keep the Spartans off the scoreboard\u2013leading to a 2-0 victory and their first District XI championship of all time. For a team that struggled to even qualify for the playoffs just a few years ago, the Falcon\u2019s trajectory has been remarkable. As of late, there seems to be a budding rivalry emerging between Salisbury and Southern Lehigh.<\/p>\n
Speaking of rivals, it was a pair of familiar faces meeting at Salisbury High School on Saturday morning as Emmaus and Parkland vied for the District XI 3A title. The Trojans made sure the Hornets\u2019 37th straight District XI title did not come easy. It wasn\u2019t the first time this year Parkland gave Emmaus a scare\u2013having fallen to the Hornets by a score of just 2-1 in their last regular season conference game of the year. Perhaps then, it\u2019s no surprise that the second meeting would be just as tight.<\/p>\n
It took over 20 minutes of play for Emmaus to find the back of the net\u2013 finally doing so on a goal from Sharlise Solano off a penalty corner in the third quarter. Despite several additional scoring opportunities for both teams, that would be the one and only goal of the game. It was as tight of a contest as Emmaus had seen all year.<\/p>\n
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