The Freedom boys and Emmaus girls basketball teams picked up their first wins of the season Saturday, while the Catasauqua and Salisbury girls teams fell to a pair of Schuylkill League opponents.

For more about your local varsity teams, see this week’s editions of the Lehigh Valley Press.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Freedom-Palisades

Nicholas King scored 25 points to lead the Patriots past the Pirates 85-48 in the consolation game of the Jeff Dailey Memorial Tournament. Teammates Lewis Hargett and Tyler Muniz scored 13 and 10 points, respectively, for Freedom (1-1).

Jack Salva paced the Pirates (0-2) with 19.

FREEDOM

Polk 1-0-0-2, Muniz 4-1-1-10, Cappell 1-0-0-2, Hall 1-0-0-2, King 10-4-6-25, Benton 0-0-0-0, Bell 2-0-1-5, Duh 3-3-3-9, Mins 2-0-0-5, Hargett 5-2-4-13, Scrafano 1-4-4-6, Mims 2-0-0-4, Harrington 1-0-0-2. TOTALS: 33-14-19-85.

PALISADES

G. Deiley. 2-0-0-6, Salva 8-2-5-19, Armitage 0-0-0-0, Marshall 0-1-2-1, Snyder 3-0-0-9, K. Deiley. 0-0-0-0, Musantry 0-0-0-0, McClintock 0-1-4-1, Lodwig 2-0-0-4, Jones 1-0-0-3, Eichlin 2-1-1-5, Brown 0-0-0-0. TOTALS: 18-5-12-48.

Freedom 22 17 25 21 - 85

Palisades 12 13 12 11 - 48

Three-pointers: F – Muniz 1, King 1, Bell 1, Mims 1, Hargett 1; P – Snyder 3, G. Deiley 2, Salva 1, Jones 1.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Emmaus-Wilson West Lawn

The Hornets won their season-opener, beating host Wilson West Lawn 57-51.

Brianna Hart scored 15 points for Emmaus, while teammate Kiyae White had 12.

EMMAUS

Grabowski 1-3-5-5, Stein 2-4-4-9, White 4-3-12-11, Vasquez 0-0-0-0, O’Brien 0-0-0-0, Hart 6-3-4-15, Wippel 2-0-2-4, Tannous 3-0-0-8, DeJohn 2-1-2-5. TOTALS 20-14-29-57.

WILSON

Bonargo 0-0-0-0, Winfield 2-7-10-12, Burkhart 3-2-2-8, Holman 4-3-4-15, Myer 1-0-0-2, Doyle 4-1-2-9, Owens 1-0-2-2, Westman 0-0-0-0, Wallace 0-2-2-2, Moyer 0-1-2-1. TOTALS: 15-16-24-51.

Emmaus 11 14 14 18 - 57

Wilson 14 9 15 13 - 51

Three-pointers: E - Tannous 2, Stein 1; W - Holman 4, Winfield 1.

Blue Mountain-Salisbury

Blue Mountain’s Julia Kurtz scored 16 points to lead the Eagles to a 35-31 win over Salisbury.

The Falcons (0-2) were led by Caylin Meikrantz with nine points.

BLUE MOUNTAIN

Challenger 4-0-0-8, Albertini 0-0-0-0, Martin 3-0-0-7, Moyer 0-2-5-2, Dean 0-0-0-0, Kutz 6-6-10-18, Pishock 0-0-0-0. TOTALS: 13-8-15-35

SALISBURY

McGee 1-2-2-5, Burkhardt 1-0-0-2, Gardus 4-0-0-8, Meikrantz 3-2-2-9, Hoeing 1-0-0-3, Nicolas 1-2-4-4. TOTALS: 11-6-8-31

Blue Mt. 10 8 11 6 - 35

Salisbury 11 6 8 5 - 31

Three-pointers: BM - Martin 1; S - McGee 1, Meikrantz 1, Hoeing 1.

Catasauqua-Tamaqua

Host Tamaqua beat the Rough Riders 47-30 in the championship game of the Lady Raiders Tip Off Tournament.

Emma Agosti scored a game-high 19 points for Tamaqua (2-0).

Kenzie Bradley had 11 for Catasauqua (1-1).

TAMAQUA

R. Hromyak. 0-0-0-0, Hoffman 2-4-4-8, Zuber 1-0-0-3, A. Hromyak. 0-0-0-0, Sherry 0-0-2-0, Jones 0-3-6-3, Coccio 0-0-0-0, Titus, (Emily) 6-0-0-12, Ceci 0-0-1-2, Frederickson 0-0-0-0, Kuczynski, (Emma) 7-5-7-19, Agosti 1-0-0-2

TOTALS: 17-12-20-47

CATASAQUA

Johnson 1-3-7-5, Gillespie 1-0-0-2, Bradley, (Kenzie) 5-1-2-11, Garner 0-2-2-2, DeLucia 0-0-0-0, Safadi 0-0-0-0, Biviano 2-0-0-4, Brown 1-0-0-2, Emery 0-0-0-0, Harakel 0-0-0-0, Richards 0-1-2-1, Greenberg 0-0-0-0, George 0-0-0-0, Moore 0-3-5-3

TOTALS: 10-10-18-30

Tamaqua 14 10 16 7 - 47

Catasaqua 6 7 9 8 - 30

Three-pointers: T - Zuber 1.