Girls’ Basketball
Owego 45, Norwich 35
OWEGO – Lexi Hiliker and Ciarra Bodnar combined for 19 points to offset the scoreless night of three-point sharpshooter Jill Silvanic as Owego pulled away from Norwich in the second half Tuesday night.
It was the second win for Owego over Norwich (6-3) this season, and it also snapped the Purple Tornado’s four-game winning streak. Owego’s Six-foot-three center Rachel Merrill had seven of her 13 points in the third quarter to erase Norwich’s halftime lead and give the Indians a five-point margin. Hilliker added 11 in the win, and Bodnar canned a pair of threes on her way to an eight-point evening. “If you told me Silvanic would not score and we would still lose, I would bet my paycheck,” said Norwich coach Josh Bennett. “Hiliker and Bodnar stepped up and hit some shots.”
Norwich led by two points at the break, but struggled to score in the third period as Owego slowly gained momentum. “It wasn’t that our defense was bad in the third quarter, we just weren’t getting to the rim on offense, and we weren’t making outside shots,” Bennett said.
Jennifer Borfitz led Norwich with 12 points, who play at Chenango Forks on Monday.
NHS: Lexi Race, 0; Carin Kuhn, 1 2-2-4; Caitlyn Brown, 0; Breanna Cashman, 3 0-0-7; Jennifer Borfitz, 4 2-2-12; Cassie Sutton, 3 0-0-6; Shelby Benjamin, 2 0-0-4; Taylor Cook, 1 0-0-2. Totals: 14 4-4-35.
Owego: Caitlyn Watson, 1 1-1-3; Kaylee Miner, 0; Andrea Zlinsky, 0; Ciarra Bodnar, 2 2-2-8; Shannon Hiliker, 5 1-2-11; Olivia Bishop, 2 0-2-4 ; Kira Thalacker, 1 2-2-4; Chelsea Murphy, 0; Emily Merrill, 1 0-0-2; Rachel Merrill, 5 3-5-13; Jill Silvanic, 0. Totals: 17 9-14-4.
Nor. 11 9 7 8–35
Owe. 6 12 14 13-45
Fouled out: none. Three-point goals: (N) Cashman, Borfitz 2. (O) Bodnar. JV: Owego won 44-36.
Boys’ Basketball
Bainbridge-Guilford 56, Deposit 47
BAINBRIDGE – Austin Bauerle and Corbin Palmer carried the scoring load for B-G Tuesday night, who had two starters out of the lineup due to illness.
Bauerle hit five three-pointers and finished with a season-high 23 points to go with 15 rebounds. Palmer also scored 23 points and dished out six assists. “Corbin and Austin came through for us, and we also able to get some other guys minutes,” said B-G coach Greg Warren. “As team, I think we were able to gain some confidence and trust in each other.”
B-G (7-1) is at Walton Friday.
Deposit: Yelta Feringa, 2 1-2-6, Austin Becker, 7 1-2-16, Matt Mills, 3 0-0-8, Zack Decker, 1 0-0-2, Shawn Merrill 0, Jason Spry, 3 2-5-8, Devin Schmitz, 1 5-6-7; M. Benedict, 0. Totals: 17 9-15-47.
B-G: Dylan Moffitt, 1 0-0-2; Tim Walts, 0; Mike Carlin, 0; Nick Gronowski, 0; Corbin Palmer, 8 7-12-23; Jay Bame, 0; Zack Cuyle, 0; Tyler Johnson, 2 0-1-4; Austin Bauerle, 9 0-2-23; Ethan Colley, 0; Ryan Jones, 1 0-0-3. Totals: 21 8-17-56.
Dep. 15 12 5 15–47
B-G 15 19 11 11–56
Three-point goals: (D) Becker, Mills 2, Feringa. (BG) Bauerle 5, Jones. JV: B-G won 56-29.
Unadilla Valley 93, Hancock 37
NEW BERLIN – Unadilla Valley put up its highest point total in head coach Matt Osborne’s coaching tenure blowing away Hancock from the start Tuesday night.
The Storm (5-5) led 27-6 at the end of the first quarter on the strength of tough defense and Justin Hofer’s two three-pointers. Hofer led four UV players in double figures scoring with 20 points. “We played excellent man-to-man defense in the first quarter,” Osborne said. “We knew they liked to shoot the three, so we were right up on them and made them put it on the floor. We had a lot of easy buckets, but we also shot it well.”
Hank DeGlee and Kyle King registered season-highs with 14 and 13 points respectively, and freshman David Dufresne added a dozen points. Dalton Miner came off the bench to net a season-best eight points as well.
The Storm host Afton on Friday.
Hancock: Ryan Smith, 1 2-2-4; Eli Holton, 2 0-2-6; Tyler Phillips, 5 6-7-17; Sam Worobey, 1 0-0-2; Zach Worobey, 2 0-0-4; Josh McFarland, 0; Lewis, Hall, 1 0-0-2; Dan Norton, 1 0-0-2; Brandon Felter, 0; Travis Jennings, 0. Totals: 13 8-11-37.
UV: Bryant Maynard, 3 0-0-6; Nate Mackey, 2 1-1-5; Kurt Haycook, 2 0-0-4; Dalton Miner, 2 4-4-8; Justin Hofer, 8 2-2-20; Nick White, 1 3-6-5; Jared Hanslmaier, 0; David Dufresne, 5 2-2-12; Kyle King, 4 4-7-13; Nate Shackleton, 0 2-2-2; Mason Alford, 2 0-0-4; Hank DeGlee, 7 0-0-14. Totals: 36 18-24-93.
Han 6 9 16 6–37
UVa. 27 22 25 19–93
