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OWEGO – Owego’s Kobe Bogart and Christian Sage took over the contest late in the third quarter with a 10-0 run between the two of them, sealing the win for the No. 1 seed of the Section IV Class B bracket over the fourth-seeded Norwich Purple Tornado, 60-41.

Bogart finished with 19 points and Sage scored 11 but it was the marksmanship behind the 3-point arc of the Indians’ Evan Hamed that but the game away in the fourth. Hamed drained four of his seven made 3-pointers in the final eight minutes of play.

Norwich was led by their big man in the middle, Skylar Wenzel, who scored 13 to pace the Tornado in their final game of the season.

The game opened with a wide-open long ball for Hamed, who followed it up with another moments later.

Between Hamed’s two made buckets, Wenzel and teammate Marcus Cashman scored at the rim, giving Norwich their only lead of the contest in the early minutes of the first.

Then the Tornado tumbled downward.

Several offensive possessions for Norwich came up empty due to their turnovers because of bad passes or quick hands by Owego disrupting the dribble.

Hamed’s second 3-pointer of the first quarter started a 9-0 run for the Indians, in which Bogart and Sage once again had a hand in. Sage got an offense rebound and put it right back up and through the net for two points.