BASEBALL
Saints beat Norwich in extra innings
NORWICH - Norwich rallied to tie the game in the sixth and seventh innings, but a Seton Catholic Central eight-spot in the eighth inning led it to a 12-7 win over the Purple Tornado Tuesday night.
Down 3-0 heading to the bottom of the sixth, Josh Willis’ RBI double scored Mike Hagen, and Willis drove in Hagen with a single cutting the deficit to 3-2.
Gehrig Sastri’s single plated Ford tying the game.
After giving up a tally to the Saints in the seventh, Norwich loaded the bases, and Trey Bates scored on Evan Sylstra’s single.
Score by Innings
SCC 000 102 18 12 12 1
NHS 000 003 13 7 7 2
Afton wins slugfest over rival B-G
AFTON - Afton scored 12 runs in its opening at-bat, and it needed every one of those tallies outslugging rival Bainbridge-Guilford, 19-12, on Wednesday.
Brady Buttice tripled twice for the Crimson Knights, and finished 4-for-5 at the plate with five RBI.
Cleanup hitter, Brody Oleksak, homered and finished with two hits and four runs batted in.
Damien Farberman had two hits and three RBI for B-G.
Score by innings
B-G 052 014 0 12 10 3
Aft. (12)20 005 x 19 14 3
WP-Haiden Burns. LP-Ethan Beames. Doubles: (A) Anthony Paoletti. Triples: (A) Buttice 2, HR: (A) Oleksak.
GOLF
Sherburne-Earlville bests Hamilton
HAMILTON - Playing at Seven Oaks Golf Club , Sherburne-Earlville’s Andrew Fern shot a team-best 43 over the par-36 front nine, and the Marauders upended host Hamilton by 10 shots, 201-211, on Wednesday.
Keegan Kane added a 49 for the Marauders, who evened their record at 1-1 on the spring season
Results
Par-36 front nine at Seven Oaks G.C.
S-E: Andrew Fern 43, Keegan Kane 49, Maleah Britton 52, Brogan Winton 57.
Hamilton: Will Chouinard 42, Ryan Peters 48, Peyton Werner 59, Landon Latella 62.
GIRLS’ TENNIS
Seton Catholic Central 7, Norwich 0
BINGHAMTON - While Norwich found itself in several competitive sets, it was unable to take a set - or a team point - in a shutout loss to Seton Catholic Central on Tuesday afternoon.
Norwich’s most competitive performance on the day was at third doubles.
The team of Jessie Sutton and Meadow Rosenthal pushed Seton’s Katie Matthews and Amanda Martinez to 6-4, 6-4 sets.
Results.
Singles: 1s: Peep Williams (Seton Catholic) d. Natalie Benenati (Norwich) 6-0, 6-4. 2S: Bridget Martin (Seton Catholic) d. Emma Brooks (Norwich) 6-0, 6-3. 3S: Natalie Crowley (Seton Catholic) d. Chloe Glanville (Norwich) 6-1, 6-0. 4S: Molly Speicher (Seton Catholic) d. Jolie Powell (Norwich) 6-0, 6-0.
Doubles: 1D: Valerie Crowley & Ann McNair (Seton Catholic) d. Cabrarrah Lawton & Autumn Clum (Norwich) 6-0, 6-1. 2D: Lela Graham & Haley Kenny (Seton Catholic) d. Willow Swingle & Tanner Olds (Norwich) 6-2, 6-1. 3D: Katie Matthews & Amanda Martinez (Seton Catholic) d. Jessie Sutton & Meadow Rosenthal (Norwich) 6-4, 6-4.
BOYS’ TENNIS
Oneonta 7, Norwich 0
ONEONTA - At Oneonta on Tuesday, Norwich dropped all seven team points to the Yellowjackets, but the final count easily could’ve been much tighter.
The Yellowjackets won all three matches that went to three sets, and also captured a tiebreaker in third singles.
Norwich’s Jonathan Ryan (second singles), along with Alex Newman-Phillip Kraft (second doubles) and Phillip Kraft-Alex Newton (third doubles) all pushed their Oneonta rivals to third sets.
Results.
Singles: Chris Catan (Oneonta) def. Nicholas Deady (N), 6-0, 6-0; Max Madej (Oneonta) def. Jonathan Ryan (N), 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; Jayden Zakala (Oneonta) def. Nathan Franklin (N), 6-1, 6-4; Tyler Zakala (Oneonta) def. Grayson Boyer (N), 7-6 (7-4), 6-4; Dylan Shaughnessy (Oneonta) def Donavan Gillen (N), 7-5, 6-1
Doubles: Peyton Mackey-Veronica Coe (Oneonta) def. Matthew Hall-William Lindner (N), 6-4, 6-3; Stephen Mendez-Makya Morrison (Oneonta) def. Alex Newman-Phillip Kraft (N), 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; Phillip Kraft-Alex Newton vs. Stephen Mendez-Makya Morrison 3-6, 6-2, 3-6