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Owego Baseball defeats Norwich 9-3 on Wednesday

NORWICH – Short of toppling the 9-2 division leaders in Susquehanna Valley – Norwich’s 9-3 loss to Owego on Wednesday evening has eliminated them from a 2017 playoff berth.

“I wish we played with a little bit more energy. It was combination of a lot of different things – an error, some passed balls, some wild pitches, some walks,” said Norwich head coach Rich Turnbull. “We didn’t handle the adversity of that inning. They had two hits in that entire inning. We hurt ourselves in that inning, badly. They put pressure on us by stealing a few bases. It was a bad inning all the way around.”

Norwich and Owego stood locked at 0-0 after the first two innings of play, that is when both teams suffered minor lapses in their decent play. Norwich surrendered six runs to the Indians, as they swarmed the Tornado – taking full advantage of the Norwich mishaps.

“The third inning we made some errors. We kind of were cruising the first two innings. I did feel like my guys settled in a little to much, and I think that kind of did catch up to us,” said coach Turnbull.