For the Catasauqua baseball team, it has been a week of wasted opportunities.

Monday afternoon, the Rough Riders were in a 5-5 battle in the top of the third at Northwestern before the Tigers roared back for eight runs in the bottom half of the inning to take a 13-5 advantage.

Unfortunately for the Roughies, they couldn’t muster any more runs, and Northwestern sealed the game with a pair of runs late for a 15-5 victory.

Matt Fotta had two hits and an RBI, and David Carl added a pair of hits and RBIs. Reece Lopez started the game for the Roughies, and he exited after two innings allowing eight runs. Luis Collazo relieved, and he issued six runs (only one earned) for two innings before Manny Bolmer pitched the final inning.

The next day, the Roughies traveled to Northern Lehigh, and they encountered a similar situation.

Catty took a 1-0 lead in the top of first, but NL erupted for six runs in the home first. The Roughies then found themselves in a 7-1 hole after two innings.

But the Roughies battled back to tie the game at 7-7 in the top of the sixth with doubles by Asael Gonzalez and John Pushkar and a single by Hunter Reitz.

However, Northern Lehigh responded with a three runs in their half of the inning to take control at 10-7. The Roughies added a run in the seventh to close out the scoring.

Fotta had three hits and an RBI, Collazo and John Pushkar each had two hits and an RBI, Bryce Emery added two hits, and Hunter Reitz had two RBIs.

Ray Estecumber started for the Roughies, and he exited in the second inning. David Carl pitched the final four-plus innings.

The Roughies will look to get back on track when they host Dieruff. With the losses, Catty dropped to 2-11.

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The Catty softball team fell behind early and saw a late rally fall short in a 10-6 loss at Northern Lehigh.

Catty got a run back after trailing 4-0 in the top of the third, which cut it to 4-1. But the Bulldogs followed with a five-run fourth to give them a 9-1 advantage.

The Roughs cut it to 9-2 with a run in the fifth and then scored three times in the sixth to get the score to 9-5. NL added a solo run in the sixth and Catty added its own solo score in the top of the seventh.

The CHS girls had 11 hits on the day, all of which were singles, and the team couldn’t take full advantage of five Bulldog errors.

Delaney Troxell had three hits on the day and knocked in two runs. She also walked and scored a run. Briana Deschaine had two hits and also knocked in two runs. Sophia Becker had two hits, scored and run and drove in another run. Jane Armbruster and Makayla Bird had hits as did Maliah Price and Jordan Soltis.

Armbruster scored two runs and also walked twice from the leadoff spot.

The Bulldogs were led by Snyder who went 3-for-5 and drove in five runs while scoring two others. One of her hits was a triple and another was a double.