Northwestern forward Sarah Segan joined an illustrious group of Lehigh Valley soccer players last season.

Segan a three-time Colonial League All-Star eclipsed the coveted 100-career goals mark as a junior.And now with her final season in gold and black underway, the senior continues to open eyes across the area. She recently became the school's all-time leading goal scorer, surpassing the previous mark of 104 goals earlier this season."It definitely is an accomplishment," Segan said. "I didn't really set that as one of my main goals, but as it got nearer to that number [100], it was definitely something very cool to achieve."Not many people get to experience 100 goals throughout a career, let alone think of it as a possibility during four high school seasons. Segan did it in just three."A lot of work came into that with myself and my team," Segan said. "I couldn't have reached 100 at all without a great combination of work by the center-mids and the whole entire team."It's a bit ironic that Segan reached the 100-goal mark in the team's biggest game a year ago. In Northwestern's 4-1 District 11 Class AA championship victory over Blue Mountain, she scored numbers 100 and 101.Segan headed into her final season three goals short of tying the record. But it didn't take long for her to cement her name into the Lady Tigers' record books.During the team's 7-4 win over Moravian Academy on August 29, she posted a memorable outing even by her standards. Her five scores against Moravian gave her 106 for her career, shattering the old mark just a game into 2014."I wasn't even sure that I was at 100 to begin with, and then I didn't even know exactly what the school record was," said Segan. "I was like 'Oh, I'm three away from actually beating it.' So that was definitely something to reach for, and it was nice to get it so early in the season as well."Segan isn't one who likes putting too much emphasis on personal records. In fact, she wasn't even aware of the century mark until a few days after that district title win."I didn't even know it was my 100th goal to be honest," Segan said. "I had no idea until I heard stuff on the news."There was much of the same for her school record. No in-game celebration or anything. She was well aware of the fact, however, that she made history."I didn't know when it was going to happen, but it was definitely something that would be very cool to achieve," she said. "So I tried not to let it consume my thoughts when playing. I just kind of let it happen, and it happened to come in the first game."In my head, I knew I would have to get four. I didn't think I was going to get four that game at all…It wasn't something that we really put so much emphasis on until after it got a lot of press, which I was not really expecting at all."As a junior, she tallied 36 goals and 12 assists, after scoring a combined 65 goals in her first two seasons. She has also become a more gifted distributor with the ball. Her 12 assists last year were the most in any season for her thus far.Segan now has 109 career goals.*******CALLING ALL COACHES - Every Wednesday during the fall sports season, the TIMES NEWS will publish its annual fall sports notebook reflecting back on the week that was, and highlighting both individual and team accomplishments, as well as interesting information that may have occurred in games, matches or meets. The weekly notebook will cover cross country, field hockey, golf, soccer, tennis and volleyball, and will consist of storylines from the previous seven days (Tuesday-Monday). Today's notebook will reflect back on all the happenings from the beginning of the fall sports season up through this past Monday. Times News sports writer Jason Boris will once again be handling the compilation of notes and is encouraging all local coaches to email him with noteworthy information that can be used in this column. Emails can be sent to

jboris@tnonline.com.*******CROSS COUNTRYCAN YOU PLEASE REPEAT THAT? - On Saturday, Sept. 6, the Jim Thorpe boys cross country team put on an impressive showing at the 8th annual 'Canes Invitational at Schuylkill Haven High School. After winning last year's Invitational, Jim Thorpe's Johnathan Condly successfully defended his individual championship by besting 104 other runners in the 3.1-mile race in a time of 17:21, nearly a minute ahead of runner-up and teammate Jake Saxon (18:19). The 1-2 finish also enabled Jim Thorpe to repeat as team champion of the 'Canes Invitational with 36 points, which was 54 points better than runner-up Lehighton.*******YOUNG GUNS - Three cross country records fell on Wednesday, Sept. 3, and all three were broken by underclassmen (two freshmen and one sophomore). When Tamaqua traveled to Weatherly, Blue Raiders sophomore Andrew Tite set a new Weatherly course record in 19:29 to lead Tamaqua to a 19-36 victory over the Wreckers. On the girls side, Tamaqua freshman Kailee Carroll also established a new Weatherly course record with a time of 23:06 to lead the Lady Raiders to a 15-50 win over the Lady Wreckers. A few miles away, Marian freshman phenom Christina Capparell shattered the Marian school record with a time of 20:27 in a Schuylkill League tri-meet with Blue Mountain and Schuylkill Haven.*******FIELD HOCKEYSTICKING WITH SUCCESS - Pleasant Valley's Annie Butchkoski has been scoring early and often this year, as the senior has led the Lady Bears to a 3-1 record with a barrage of goals over those first four games. Butchkowski has accounted for 10 of Pleasant Valley's 19 goals this season. She scored five goals in an 8-0 thrashing of Pocono Mountain West, three goals in a 6-1 victory over Lehighton, and added two more goals in a 5-2 win against East Stroudsburg South.*******GOLFTHAT 70'S SHOW - With the scholastic golf season now over three weeks old, several TIMES NEWS-area golfers have already recorded rounds in the 70's. The lowest score of any area golfer this year is by Northwestern senior Zack Caruso, who carded a 74 on Sept. 2 in a Colonial League match against Notre Dame of Green Pond. Caruso also fired a 76 in the Tigers first match of the season against Wilson at Olde Homestead Golf Course on August 18. Pleasant Valley senior Ryan Adamonis accomplished the feat twice, firing a 79 on August 19 in a Eastern Pennsylvania Conference tri-meet against Parkland and Bethlehem Catholic, and then carding his second 79 of the season in this past Monday's match against Northampton. On August 28 against North Schuylkill, Lehighton had two golfers break 80, as Jordan Knappenberger shot a 75, while teammate Cody Semmel recorded a 78. That match was played at Rolling Meadows Golf Course, which is Par 68.*******SOCCERHAT TRICKS - There has been six "hat tricks" (an individual scoring three of more goals in a game) recorded by Times News-area players through the first two weeks of the season. Northwestern senior and reigning TIMES NEWS Girls Soccer Player of the Year Sarah Segan accomplished the feat twice with five goals in a 7-4 victory over Moravian Academy and three goals in a 9-0 win against Pen Argyl. Northern Lehigh junior Lexie Merkle tallied three goals in a 6-0 victory over Catasauqua, while Palmerton junior Monica Wood accounted for three goals in a 6-2 win over Northern Lehigh. Tamaqua junior Morgan Boyle also factored in with three goals in a 8-0 victory over North Schuylkill. On the boys side, Northwestern senior Brandon Herb booted three goals in a 10-1 Colonial League victory over Pen Argyl.*******THE EYE OF THE TIGER(S) - The Northwestern boys and girls soccer programs are proving to be the cream of the crop in the Colonial League once again this season. Both teams are 4-0 to start the season and they're winning in dominant fashion. The boys are averaging 6.75 goals per game with an average margin of victory of 6.0. Meanwhile, the Lady Tigers are averaging 7.75 goals per game, with an average margin of victory of 6.5. In all eight of those matches, there was only one time that a team had scored more than one goal against Northwestern (Moravian Academy scored four goals against the Lady Tigers during the first game of the season on Aug. 29).*******TENNISSINGLED OUT - Madison Olexson is the reigning two-time Times News Girls Tennis Player of the Year, and so far this season, the Pleasant Valley senior has picked up right where she's left off in previous years. As the Bears top singles player in the highly-competitive Eastern Pennsylvania Conference (Pleasant Valley previously played in the now defunct Mountain Valley Conference), Olexson sports an individual record of 7-2 on the season. All seven wins have come in straight sets, and her only losses this year are to Liberty's Samantha Peterson and Blue Mountain's Aubrey Abel.*******VOLLEYBALLNEW DIVISION, SAME RESULTS - After moving from Division IV to Division II of the Schuylkill League this season, Marian made its Division II debut on Sept. 4 against Lourdes Regional. As expected, the results were one-sided, as the defending PIAA Class A State Champion Fillies disposed of the Red Raiders 25-8, 25-1, 25-11. In the second game of the match (a 25-1 Marian victory), junior Courtney McCall contributed 20 service points and six aces in leading the Fillies to the near-shutout victory.*******MATCH WITH A MEANING - The Lehighton volleyball program is once again hosting its annual "Match with a Meaning" on Thursday, Sept. 11 against Schuylkill League Division I foe Pottsville. The proceeds from the evening's festivities will benefit veterans' health care at local VA Medical Centers through the cooperation of the Veterans' Affairs office. The event will include a basket raffle, performances by the Lehighton band and cheerleaders, a serving competition ($1 per try to hit targets for various prizes donated by local businesses), a local Color Guard composed of Lehighton veterans during the National Anthem, a decorated gymnasium in the colors of the United States flag, and a moment of silence in honor of Patriot's Day, the families/victims of the 9-11 attacks and all United States Veterans. Doors open at 5 p.m. with the JV match beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the varsity match to follow.