It’s playoff time for the Catasauqua’s adult men’s basketball league at the Catty and North Catty playgrounds. Beginning this week, playoffs began Monday night leading to the championship game Thursday night.

In Monday’s opening night’s play at the Catty playground, the seventh-seeded Lehigh Valley Jays met 10th-seeded Zone 6. Other games Monday night pitted eighth-seeded Detzi against ninth-seeded Lehigh Valley Medical, and fourth-seeded Reichenbach Oil against Catty Corner.

Top-seeded Ohlson’s Landscaping, the defending league champion, began play Tuesday, July 8 against the remaining lowest seeded team. Also on Tuesday, third-seeded Grove Street Pub faced sixth-seeded Daku, and second-seed Family Reb tangled with the highest remaining seed.

The semifinals were held Wednesday July 9 with games slated to begin at 6:15 and 7 p.m. On the following night (July 10), the annual championship game is scheduled to tip-off at 6:30 p.m.

For 30 years, Catty’s annual Tournament of Champions concluded the seasons for the Catty league. However, the classic tournament ended in 2020 and was replaced with the Battle of the Boroughs that involved both leagues.

However, Catty League Director Eric Snyder has some doubts that the tournament will be held this summer. He hinted about a possible restructuring of the tournament after initially modeling it after the former New York Mayor’s Trophy Game that featured the Mets playing the Yankees in the 1960s and early 70s.

Ohlson’s Landscaping and Catty Corner have dominated the new championship showdown.

“The Battle of the Boroughs may not happen this year,” said Snyder. “Part of it was all of the rainouts we have to reschedule this year, and it has been the same teams playing each other.

“We have to come up with a different idea because a lot of the teams are basically in both leagues, and it has made it very similar.”

Snyder also noted that Catty’s boys’ basketball team will be playing in the A-Town Throwdown and the Lehigh Valley Awesome Fest this summer. The Roughies are the defending Class 3A district champions, capturing their first title last year since 2006.

“We have had a good summer so far,” added Snyder. “The kids are very positive, and they wanted to play in the tournaments this summer.”