There were no tricks for Northwestern’s girls soccer team on this Halloween.
The Tigers were simply scary good in their District 11 Class 2A semifinal Tuesday.
Top-seeded Northwestern poured in six .
The last-second play set up by Northwestern coach Chris Deutsch was executed perfectly -and looked for a moment like it would cap an incredible final second rally by the Tigers and force overtime.
But.
Devastated, but not destroyed.
The effects of Northwestern’s gut-wrenching loss to North Schuylkill in the District 11 Class 4A semifinals could have easily carried over to Saturday’s consolation game.
On Feb. 11, 1996, Chris Heery proposed to his then girlfriend at center court of the Northwestern Lehigh gymnasium while he was an assistant coach for the Tigers.
Twenty-seven years later to the date.
“Anything you can do; I can do better.”
A familiar phrase from the musical “Annie Get Your Gun” spotlights the competition that was a part of the romance between sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank B.