Northwestern Lehigh’s boys and girls basketball teams came up victorious on the opening night of Colonial League play for the 2016-17 season. Notre Dame (Green Pond) beat Catasauqua in both boys and girls action, while Salisbury’s teams both saw Bangor come back from early deficits to defeat the Falcons.

For more about your local teams see this week’s Lehigh Valley Press newspapers.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Northwestern-Palisades

A big third period by Northwestern produced a 47-42 Colonial League win over Palisades.

Leading the Tigers in their season debut was Rob Seyfried with a game-high 22 points, while Samuel Yadush followed with 17.

For the Pirates (0-3, 0-2), Tom Eichlin totaled 10 points.

NORTHWESTERN

Kemmerer 0-0-0-0, Cunningham 1-1-10-3, Yadush 2-12-18-17, Freeman 0-0-0-0, Bollinger 0-1-2-1, Fatzinger 0-0-0-0, S. Seyfried 0-1-2-1, Thomas 0-1-2-1, Hallman 0-2-2-2, R. Seyfried 9-4-7-22, Ruch 0-0-0-0. TOTALS: 12-22-43-47.

PALISADES

Deiley 3-0-0-8, Salva 3-1-2-7, Armitage 0-0-2-0, Marshall 0-0-0-0, Newton 2-0-2-4, Snyder 2-2-2-7, McClintock 1-1-4-3, Lodwig 1-1-4-3, Jones 0-0-0-0, Eichlin 3-4-6-10. TOTALS: 15-9-22-42.

Northwestern 10 6 19 12 - 47

Palisades 11 6 8 17 - 42

Three pointers: Northwestern - Yadush 1; Palisades - Deiley 2, Snyder 1.

Catasauqua-Notre Dame (GP)

The Crusaders beat the Rough Riders 62-53.

No other information about the game was received by the Press.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Palisades-N’western

Northwestern used a quick start to take down Palisades in Colonial League action, 55-33.

For the Tigers, Gabrielle Sevrain led a balanced attack with 11 points, while Sydney Sevrain added eight.

For the Pirates, Alexa Parks and Katie King each had nine points.

PALISADES

Davenport 0-2-2-2, King 2-5-9-9, Glovino 0-0-4-0, Benner 0-1-2-1, Parks 4-0-0-9, Olmstead 1-3-4-6, B. Johnson 0-0-0-0, Cavallaro 2-1-2-6, Caraballo 0-0-0-0, H. Johnson 0-0-2-0, Carr 0-0-0-0. TOTALS: 9-12-25-33.

NORTHWESTERN

Stitzel 2-0-0-4, Hambrick 0-0-0-0, Lister 1-5-6-7, Chisdak 2-0-1-4, G. Sevrain 4-3-4-11, S. Sevrain 3-0-0-8, Hess 0-0-0-0, Williamson 2-3-3-7, Christopher 1-4-6-6, Sekerak 3-0-0-6, Sisco 0-0-0-0, Smith 1-0-0-2. TOTALS: 19-15-20-55.

Palisades 4 12 11 6 - 33

Northwestern 13 18 11 13 - 55

Three pointers: Palmerton - Parks 1, Olmstead 1, Cavallaro 1; Northwestern - S. Sevrain 2.

Bangor-Salisbury

The Slaters chipped away at an early deficit to beat Salisbury 42-34.

Bangor was led by Marissa Fernandez-Tierney’s 15 points. Salisbury’s Caylin Meikrantz scored a game-high 18 points.

BANGOR

Corby 0-0-0-0, Learn 1-0-0-3, Konicki 0-0-0-0, Ohland 2-1-3-5, Robinson 0-0-0-0, Groller 1-1-2-5, LaBar 3-0-4-6, Barone 2-0-0-6, A. Fernandez-Tierney 1-0-0-2, Hess 0-0-0-0, M. Fernandez-Tierney 4-6-10-15. TOTALS 15-8-19-42.

SALISBURY

McGee 2-1-1-7, Burkhardt 1-0-0-2, Gardus 0-0-0-0, Meikrantz 5-6-818, Hoeing 1-0-0-3, Nicholas 0-0-0-0, Bruns 1-2-3-4. TOTALS: 10-9-12-34.

Bangor 9 7 14 12 - 42

Salisbury 12 15 2 5 - 34

Three-pointers: B - Barone 2, Learn 1, M. Fernandez-Tierney 1; McGee 2, Meikrantz 2, Hoeing 1.

Notre Dame (GP)-Catasauqua

The Crusaders cruised to a win over the Rough Riders 64-19.

Notre Dame (Green Pond) had six players score seven points or more, with Cassie Murphy leading the way with 10 points. Eleven different Crusaders scored two points or more in the game.

Amalia Johnson scored a game-high 11 points for Catty.

NOTRE DAME German 0-0-0-0, Lynch 3-0-0-7, Galle 3-1-3-9, Maslonka 1-1-2-4, Carlin 2-3-5-7, Small 1-0-0-3, Wachter 0-0-1-0,. Kelly 0-0-2-0, Brandt 1-2-2-4, Blessing 1-0-0-2, Murphy 2-4-5-8, Esposito 1-0-0-2, Almore 4-0-0-8, Murphy 4-2-4-10. TOTALS: 23-13-24-64.

CATASAUQUA

Johnson 4-3-6-11, Gillespie 0-0-0-0, Bradley 0-3-4-3, Garner 0-2-2-2, Safadi 0-0-0-0, Biviano 0-0-0-0, Brown 0-0-0-0, Emery 0-0-0-0, Harakal 0-0-0-0, Richards 0-0-0-0, Greenberg 0-0-0-0, George 0-0-0-0, Moore 0-1-2-1. TOTALS: 5-9-14-19.