On paper, it doesn’t look good.

Catasauqua began its 2025 baseball season with losses to Southern Lehigh (16-0), Saucon Valley (17-3), and Northwestern (17-0), being outscored 50-6 in their first three games. They currently sit at 0-6 this season as of early this week.

Head coach Steve Bradley remains confident that his team can reverse its early fate, pointing to a loss to Northwestern. Bradley was pleased with starter Alex Bolmer’s outing, but he lacked the necessary support. Northwestern closed out the game when the Tigers erupted for 10 runs in the top of the seventh inning.

“Alex threw the ball well,” said Bradley about Bolmer, who allowed five runs and seven hits with two strikeouts in four innings. “We dropped two fly balls that we should have caught. We keep giving the other team too many outs.

“We also haven’t hit the ball as we need to do.”

Junior shortstop/pitcher Reece Lopez, one of several players who joined the team late because of basketball, also is confident the team can turn things around. He is aware that the team needs to execute.

“This season has been off to the rough start with us playing the top teams right away when half of our starters were in basketball and only got a week to prepare for these games,” said Lopez. “I didn’t get time to focus on something before the season because of basketball, and I was just worried about us winning in basketball. I am working on having a good attitude and being consistent in the field and in the batter’s box.

“I see us winning games once we put things together, stop making these little mistakes, and we just have to start hitting the ball. I’m trying to be a leader on this team. I’ve started varsity my whole career, and we have some freshman on varsity this year, I just want to show, not just them but everyone, how to be a leader and I’m trying to be a good role model for the team. It’s a little frustrating because we do have talent. We just can’t put things together right now, and also we don’t have a lot of pitchers, so that’s been a problem.”

Lopez credited his father, Dan, for working with the pitchers, as well as his head coach. The Rough Riders will face Notre Dame Wednesday and Wilson Friday.

Coach Bradley has been doing a good job of our practices being very productive,” said the younger Lopez. “We are getting stuff done and improving slowly.”