Boys’ Basketball

Greene Holiday Showcase Finals

Norwich 79, Greene 50

NORWICH – In the opening half, particularly the second quarter, Norwich coach Mark Abbott said his team could not have played much better.

Trailing Greene early on in the finals of the Trojans’ own tournament, the unbeaten Tornado scored the last nine points of the first quarter to create a 15-8 lead, then ripped through Greene in the second quarter putting 34 more points on the board to produce a sizable halftime advantage, 49-21.

“The 34 points we scored in the quarter is the second highest since I’ve been here,” said Norwich coach Mark Abbott. “We’re awful good in the open floor, and when we can press and run like we did tonight, we’re a tough matchup for people. We had it all going in the second quarter.”

Greene (4-4) did a fair job of breaking Norwich’s full-court press in the early stages of the game, but found itself completely rattled the entire second quarter committing 18 total turnovers in the first half. “We knew about their press and worked on it in practice,” said Greene coach Rick Smith. “It got to us and that was the difference. We panicked with the ball.”