By Robert Jeffrey

Sun Sports Contributor

Frank Speziale Photo

NORWICH- For many high school hoops fans across the Southern Tier, this game has been circled on their calendars multiple times- and finally after three different postponements due to inclement weather, Mother Nature decided that instead of playing in January, she’ll wait until February. Now fans understand why she waited as the Tornado prevailed in a barn-burner against fellow Section IV foe Seton Catholic Central. And for some fans who may have already had a predetermined outcome, they left before pre-game warm-ups began.

Appropriately enough on senior night, the game was unlike any other that the Tornado have played thus far. Instead of tip-off, it was a miniature free-throw contest as both the Saints Leo Gallagher and the Tornado’s Tre Bonham both went to the line to shoot two freebies-this uncharacteristic start was due to two indirect technical fouls called on the both the Tornado and Saints benches due to players dunking/pulling on the rim during pregame warm-ups. Both teams went unblemished from the line and the game began tied at 2-2.