Playing four games in six days is never easy, but the Northwestern Lehigh girls basketball team has made it look easy.

On back-to-back days last week Northwestern downed Pen Argyl and Salisbury and then opened this week with back-to-back wins over Palisades and Jim Thorpe, improving its overall record to 16-1 and its league record to 13-0.

Against Pen Argyl, a team that has qualified for districts, Northwestern jumped on the Lady Knights quickly to lead by 29 at halftime and win the game 72-33.

Cara Thomas recently became the program’s all-time leading scorer and scored 26 against Pen Argyl with freshman standout Natalie Conner scoring 16.

In the four-game stretch, Thomas averaged 22.3 points per game, while Conner averaged 14 per game. The duo combined for 41 points in a 56-19 win over Salisbury.

Palisades had no answer for how to put up points against Northwestern as the Pirates were held to just four points in the first half and lost 66-14. They also had no way of stopping Olivia Reinhart down low as she scored 15 points in the win.

Tuesday night, Jim Thorpe ran into the same problem that Palisades did against Northwestern as it scored just nine first-half points and fell to the Tigers 56-14.

In addition to Thomas and Conner, senior Brook Baldwin hit for 15 points against the Olympians. The defense forced a number of turnovers in the game and the Tigers turned them into 20 points.

With just five games left on the regular season schedule, Northwestern will face just two more teams that have winning records to this point in the season.

The Tigers play rival Northern Lehigh (7-4 Colonial, 10-5 overall) on Wednesday and have the final game of the season circled on their calendar for a showdown against Palmerton (12-2, 14-3), which the Tigers defeated 43-41 four days before Christmas.

Northwestern and Palmerton are jockeying for position in both the District 11 4A classification and in the Colonial League playoffs. Other games on the schedule are against Lehighton (6-7, 7-8), Moravian Academy (2-9, 2-9), and a rematch with division foe Jim Thorpe (3-8, 3-10).