Last Saturday’s girls soccer game between Northampton and Easton was a showcase for the two of the best athletes in the Lehigh Valley, the K-Kids’ Raine Korpics and the Rovers’ Aminah Baruwa. The two stars put on a show, combining for 7 goals, but Easton claimed the ultimate prize, the win, by a 6-4 score.

The contest was barely a minute old when Korpics powered down the right side of the field and fed a low cross to Brooke Petraglia who knocked the pass into right side of the goal to draw first blood.

Four minutes later, Easton got the equalizer on a long, floating shot that found the top of the goal.

At 30:12 Baruwa scored the first of her four goals when she got in alone against the Northampton keeper, who had no chance on the play, and gave the Rovers their first lead 2-1.

Korpics got Northampton back into game 56 seconds later with a powerfully-struck free kick that glanced of the goalie’s hand and into the upper left corner of the goal.

Easton kept going to its strategy of long passes to their forwards and it paid off at the 23:37 mark with another goal in a forward versus goalie situation.

The K-Kids claimed the momentum going into halftime with Korpics’ second goal of the game, this one during the run of play with an assist by Lauren Straub with 2:27 remaining before intermission.

The momentum lasted less than two minutes into the second half as Baruwa notched her second goal at 38:11.

Korpics responded once again when she converted her second free kick of the game, this one a shot from 30 yards out that caromed off the bottom of the crossbar and into the net. The teams were tied 4-4 with 32 minutes remaining.

Both teams had a couple of decent chances over the next 16 minutes, but Baruwa found the mark at 15:55 and 11:54 to score the final two goals of the contest.

Head coach Michael Missmer summed up the game.

“We knew what we were looking at coming in,” he said. “I just told the girls, ‘The only thing have to say is that you played your tails off.’ I thought we did really well. I don’t think that there’s anything I would have changed. We’re scoring now; we just let more in than we put in the back of the net.”

Northampton stands at 5-5 on the season (Wednesday’s result against Freedom occurred after deadline). They have a difficult schedule to close the season and it will be no small feat to get to 9 wins and automatic district qualification. On Friday on Joan Kremus Field, they face Whitehall for the first time this year. Monday is Senior Night against Emmaus. Wednesday they play at Central Catholic.