Evening Sun Report

Boys’ Basketball

Johnson City 64, Norwich 58

JOHNSON CITY – Johnson City guard Colin Arvanitakis led a fourth-quarter comeback against Norwich Friday night scoring 12 of his game-high 28 points to hand the Purple Tornado their first loss of the season.

Norwich (5-1), down three players due to injury, maintained a 46-37 lead after three periods. Kyle Edwards had 11 points in the first half for Norwich, while Mike Oralls and freshman Carlos Ithier had five apiece in the third.

Three minutes into the fourth, the Wildcats erased Norwich’s nine-point lead, and took a six-point lead itself heading into the latter portion of the game. The highlight was a five-point play in which Arvanitakis made a three, and teammate DeShaun Jones was fouled under the basket. Jones converted his two free throws for JC putting his team up by one. “The bottom line is that they played better than us,” said Norwich coach Tom Collier. “We had three or four times where there were loose-ball scrambles, and the ball didn’t bounce our way. They made three three-pointers coming out of those scrambles.”

Edwards kept the Tornado in the hunt scoring 10 of Norwich’s 12 points in the final period closing with a team-high 21. Oralls added 12 and Grant Brightman netted 10. “We had an opportunity to win in the end, we just ran out of gas,” Collier said.