Boys’ Basketball
Norwich 57, Windsor 34
WINDSOR – Norwich extended its unbeaten string to five wins this season, but the victory Tuesday night came at a cost.
The Norwich raced to a 34-16 halftime lead over the Black Knights highlighted by Kyle Edwards’ 15 points. During those first 16 minutes, though, starters Mike Sutton and Storm Cook went down with injuries along with backup guard Matt Burke. None of the three returned to play in the second half.
“We’re really lucky to have kids who can step into different roles, and we play everybody on our roster and everybody contributes,” said Norwich coach Tom Collier. “We’ve been giving minutes to a lot of our kids on the bench, and we really needed them tonight.”
Norwich was down to seven healthy players in the second half, and for the first time all season, the opponent outscored the Tornado in the third quarter. That anomaly was rectified during an 18-8 fourth quarter as Danny Carson scored seven of his 11 points, and Edwards added five more to finish with a game-high 20.
Edwards and Carson had five steals apiece, Norwich had 21 team assists, and finished with just 13 turnovers. “We’re hoping that our guys that got hurt can come back quickly,” Collier said. “We won the game, but we’re going to reassess our lineup and see if we need to bring any players up (from junior varsity).”
Zan Stewart added nine points off the bench, who had 24 total bench points in the contest.
Norwich: Kyle Edwards, 7 4-5-20; Danny Carson, 5 1-1-11; Mike Oralls, 1 2-4-4; Michael Sutton, 0; Zan Stewart, 3 2-3-9; Matt Burke, 1 0-0-2; Storm Cook, 0; Michael D’Abbraccio, 1 0-0-2; Grant Brightman, 2 3-6-7; Cody Barnes, 1 0-0-2. Totals: 21 12-19-57 .
Windsor: Logan Doolittle, 0; Mike Niggli, 1 0-0-3; Cody Pratt, 0; Josh Cady, 5 1-2-14; Andrew King, 0; Frank Martino, 0; Evan Bosket, 0; Steven Laryea, 0; Chris Swartwood, 0; Kyle Kost, 0; Cody Stone, 0; Jake Conroy, 3 2-2-9; Ben Rivera, 1 0-4-2; Nate Wrighter, 3 0-2-6. Totals: 13 3-11-34.
NHS 15 19 5 18–57
Wind 10 6 10 8–34
Fouled out: none. Team fouls: (N) 10, (W) 16. Three-point goals: (N) Edwards 2, Stewart, (W) Cady 3, Niggli, Conroy. JV:  Norwich won.
Holland Patent, 63, Sherburne-Earlville 62
SHERBURNE – Sherburne-Earlville failed to get off the winning shot attempt in the final seconds as Holland Patent snapped the Marauders’ five-game winning streak Tuesday night.
Down seven to S-E at the half, Holland Patent jumped back into the game hitting five three-pointers in the third quarter. Lefty Logan Reinhold hit three treys, and Mike Strumpfler netted a pair of trifectas as the game was tied at 49-49 entering the fourth. Reinhold had three baskets in the last quarter, and a pair of free throws from Matt Curtis gave Holland Patent a 63-60 lead with 17 seconds left.
S-E’s Sam Caton put back a missed shot closing the score to 63-62. After Holland Patent missed a pair of free throw attempts down the stretch, the Marauders’ last-ditch effort fell short.
“I felt the game was lost in the third quarter,” said S-E coach Kevin Vibbard. “We had a nice lead and let it evaporate. We’ve had three games in a row come down to the last second, and anything can happen in those situations. We just happened to lose this one.”
Caton and Austin Jasper scored 18 points apiece to lead S-E (5-2), and Jesse Yerton added 12 points.
HP: Steve MacGahey, 1 0-0-2 Garrett Conley, 0; Logan Reinhold, 8 0-0-21; Mike Strumpfler, 7 0-2-18; Nate Palmer, 8 4-5-20; Matt Hughes, 0; Matt Curtis, 0 2-2-2; Matt Harter, 0 0-2-0. Totals: 24 6-12-63
S-E: Elijah Morris, 0; Jesse Yerton, 4 0-0-12 ; Sam Caton, 9 0-1-18 ; Carter Cole, 1 2-4-4; John McDaniel, ; Julienne Alsheimer, 1 0-0-2; Mick Khoury, 2 1-2-5; Austin Jasper, 8 2-4-18; Matt Smith, 1 1-1-3 ; Kevin Vibbard, 0; J.P. Osborne, . Totals: 26 6-12-62.
HPa 16 12 21 14–63
S-E 20 15 14 13–62
Fouled out: none. Three-point goals: (HP) Reinhold 5, Strumpfler 4, ((SE) Yerton 4. JV: S-E won 58-35. Officials: Berg, Szelkowski.
Unadilla Valley 63, Walton 41
WALTON – Everything clicked in the second quarter for UV Tuesday night outscoring Walton 25-4 in the period to create a 28-point lead in the Storm’s most impressive performance to date.
David Dufresne scored 19 points in the win, and he had six points in the second as UV spread the wealth on offense. “We played much better defense in the second quarter, and we were able to get David the ball in the high post,” said UV coach Matt Osborne. “He was able to knock down some jump shots.”
Nate Shackleton netted a season-high 13 points to aid Dufresne as UV’s record improved to 2-3.
UV: Bryant Maynard, 2 0-0-4; Nate Mackey, 3 0-1-6; Kurt Haycook, 1 0-0-2; Dalton Miner, 0; Justin Hofer, 3 0-0-9; Nick White, 3 0 -1-6; Jared Hanslmaier, 1 0-0-2; David Dufresne, 9 0-1-19; Nate Shackleton, 4 3-4-13; Mason Alford, 0; Hank DeGlee, 1 0-0-2. Totals: 27 3-7-63.
Walton: Eric Zimmerman, 3 2-4-10, Cameron Murphy, 1 0-1-3, Dalton Kaminsky, 5 4-7-15; Wyatt Finn, 0 1-4-1, Abel Clark, 0, Chad Swartwout, o, Colin Adam, 1 4-5-6; Trevor Zandt, 2 2-4-6. Totals: 12 13-25-41.
UVa 17 25 19 2–63
Walt. 10 4 9 18–41
Fouled out: none. Three-point goals: (UV) Hofer 3, Dufresne, Shackleton 2, DuFresne. (W) Zimmerman 2, Kaminsky, Murphy. JV: UV won.
Girls’ Basketball
Cherry Valley-Springfield 38, G-MU 25
CHERRY VALLEY – The Patriots used a push late in the third quarter to open a 12-point lead and defeat undermanned G-MU Tuesday.
The Raiders were missing two starters due to injury or illness, but were within three points of CV-S until a 12-3 third-quarter spurt. “We just got outmuscled in the end,” said G-MU coach Jim Johnson, who was without Makenzie Talbot and Nichole Savarese. “They have a couple of big girls, and we had a hard time stopping them.”
CV-S Forward Kylie Graham scored nine of her 11 in the second half, and fellow forward Olivia Hull added nine points.
G-MU: Victoria Hutzley, 2 0-0-5; Jenn Mason, 1 0-0-2; Tayler Nichols, 2 0-0-4; Meghan Meers, 1 0-2-2; Jenna Bakhuizen, 1 0-0-2; Victoria Hawkins, 1 0-2-2; Whitney Gilbert, 2 0-0-4; Lauren Hill, 1 2-5-4. Totals: 11 2-9-25.
