Baseball

Susquehanna Valley 10, Norwich 1 (6 innings)

NORWICH – Norwich fell behind at the start, and dropped a home contest to Sus Valley that was shortened to six innings due to rain.

SV starting hurler, Ronnie Graham, had 12 strikeouts, only two walks, and gave up four Norwich hits. Four different Sabers had two basehits, and Chad Starzer’s two-run single in the fourth inning upped his team’s lead to 9-0.

“Their bats were hot and their pitcher was even hotter,” said Norwich coach John Martinson of Sus Valley.

Norwich’s Timmy Clark tripled and scored on a passed ball in the fifth for Norwich’s only run.

SV 403 200 1 10 10 1

NHS 000 010 0 1 4 5

Ronnie Graham (W) and James McKeage. Mike Moon (L), Josh Borfitz (4) and Thomas Kalicicki. tripples: (N) Timmy Clark.

Oxford 5, Afton 3

OXFORD – Oxford avenged an early-season loss to Afton, and won its fifth straight game over a seven-day period.

Oxford (7-4), now a game ahead in MAC’s Division II, scored three runs in the fifth to surge in front. At the bottom of the batting order, Derrick Head, Jamie Smolcnop, and John Corbett had singles, Corbett’s driving in a run. P.J. Hubman had an RBI single to tie the game, and Tom Gould plated the go-ahead run with a single.

Afton loaded the bases in the sixth and seventh innings, but managed just run, that coming after an error.