NORWICH – Just three days after Norwich suffered a 25-point loss at the hands of Jamesville-Dewitt, they responded positively by holding off the Johnson City Wild Cats to pull away late in the fourth.

“It was very good, it was a great character building game. We just played J-D who is a great team and we played another great team tonight. I think playing J-D on a Friday well it helped us handle the adversity a little bit better tonight,” said Norwich Head Coach Brian Collier.

Collier noted that defense was the key to winning against Johnson City. Despite taking a late lead over the Wild Cats at 35-31 with two minutes left before the half, the Tornado would let Johnson City retake the lead over Norwich 40-36 at the half.

“I lost my voice somewhere in the second quarter, we just needed to play better defense, they shot 53% in the first half and had 40 points, that’s too much,” said Collier.

Despite allowing two Johnson City players, Kenneth Johns and Shafeeq Hosea, to score 21 and 20 points respectively, Norwich still managed to out shoot the Wild Cats.

Number 10, Carlos Ithier, who had an impressive showing last Friday against J-D posting 18 points responded once again as he put together another night to be remembered, scoring 21 on the night.