The Thanksgiving Eve snow that blanketed the field before the Northampton-Catasauqua Turkey Day tilt was frozen solid before thawing out by halftime.

Unfortunately for Catty, the Rough Riders followed suit.

The Roughies' (3-8 overall, 3-7 CL) slow start doomed Catty as Northampton (3-9, 0-8 EPC) defeated CHS 33-14 on Thanksgiving morning at a snowy and muddy Alumni Field in the 92nd Thanksgiving meeting between the schools.

"At the end of the day, we came out of the gates slow. We couldn't stop them," admitted first-year head coach Phil Dorn. "We couldn't sustain anything offensively and before you know it, we were down 19-0. We dug ourselves too deep of a hole."

The Rough Riders tried to climb back into the game midway through the second quarter as senior quarterback Brandon Keks (8-16, 157 yards, 1 TD, 11 car., 39 yards, 1 TD) connected with classmate Jacob Kober on a 36-yard catch and run over the middle to make it 19-7 Northampton with 5:32 remaining before half.

The squad inched even closer before heading to the locker room to escape the unseasonably cold temperatures when Keks kept the ball on a three-yard keeper up the middle for a touchdown that capped off a beautiful, hurried drive under two minutes where the Roughies went 77 yards on six plays. An extra point by senior Joseph Harakal brought Catty to within five, 19-14, at the break.

"I thought our kids did an outstanding job fighting back and getting it to 19-14," Dorn said. "Coming in to the locker room we were feeling pretty good, but we couldn't sustain drives."

Catasauqua punted four times and turned the ball over on downs three times on the squad's final seven drives of the game, including going 0-7 on third-down in the final two frames.

The Konkrete Kids were slowed a bit in the second half by the Catty defense, but still broke through for a few scores.

Northampton found the end zone late in the third quarter when Jovani Datis-Cordero (13 carries, 76 yards, 2 TDs), took a carry, shook off a would be Catty tackler and waltzed in for a touchdown. A successful two-point conversion gave the K-Kids some breathing room as they led 27-14 heading into the fourth.

The EPC school put an end to Catty's three-year win streak after Devon Turner ran in the final score of 2014 for Northampton to solidify the 33-14 victory.

Turner, who finished with 22 carries for 121 yards and one touchdown was named Northampton's MVP of the game, while Keks earned the honor for Catasauqua.

Although the score wasn't in Catty's favor, Dorn was delighted to be able to be a part of the Turkey Day tradition.

"Despite the outcome, it was awesome. The Catasauqua community is all in. They do a great job. The whole community, the whole town was about this game," he said. " It was everything that I heard it was going to be and more. I'm excited to be a part of it and I just wish we could have had a different outcome for the community."