Northampton head baseball coach Mick Sugra realizes his team will be in the District 11 Class 6A playoffs in the next couple of weeks.

He just isn’t happy how they got there.

The Konkrete Kids ended their regular season with a 6-2 loss against Parkland Monday, leaving them with an overall 8-10 record.

They currently are the seventh seed from the projected eight-team field, and the Kids should maintain their status. Freedom (6-11), which is seeded eighth, has two games left, and Whitehall (8-11), the ninth seed, has one game left.

Freedom, which could finish ahead of the Kids with a pair of wins, has the toughest strength of schedule, and the Kids are second.

“We didn’t want to get in this way, but we should be in,” said Sugra. “It looks like we have it locked up.

“But we let this one get away in the early part of the game. We were getting behind in the counts, making errors, and walking people. We have to get this back together.”

Hunter Corrow started for the Kids, but he was chased in the second inning after Parkland posted all of its runs during the stanza.

Will Erie pitched the final five innings, and he allowed one hit with four strikeouts over his stint. Joe Kerbacher and Logan Higgins each had two hits.

“Will did a nice job,” said Sugra. “He came in and settled us down. We just couldn’t get our bats going.”

The Kids were a few days removed from a 14-10 slugfest victory at Parkland, but they rallied too late in a 9-6 loss to Allentown Central Catholic the next day. Their six-run rally ended with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh.

Northampton previously had a six-game winning streak in which they outscored their opponents, 55-21.

“We had the game against Parkland, and then we came out flat the next day,” said Sugra. “We laid an egg.”

Sugra believes his team is a victim of fate. Yet, he is grateful for the likely chance to play in districts in two weeks. Sugra hinted that he would like to have a scrimmage before districts.

“Joe Kerbacher slipped in the outfield chasing down a ball,” noted Sugra. “The grass hadn’t been cut in a week-and-a half. We have shot ourselves in the foot too many times. This just doesn’t seem to be our year.

“If we had played two more games, maybe we would get to .500. When you look around, teams are playing all different amounts of games.

“We didn’t have the typical transition with our seniors as we normally do losing last year. I know that hurt us. But this has been such a weird year.”