Boys’ Basketball
Norwich 71, Owego 39
NORWICH - Norwich reacquainted itself with its home floor Wednesday night hosting its first game in 34 days. After a sluggish start, the Tornado warmed to the task rolling past visiting Owego.
Danny Carson led with 16 points, Cody Barnes had a season-high 15, Mike Oralls contributed 13, and reserve Michael D’Abbraccio had his best varsity game piling up nine points, 11 rebounds, and seven assists.
“He has always been capable of this,” said Norwich coach Tom Collier of D’Abbraccio. “He had a good week of practice, and we were hoping he would play well tonight.”
D’Abbraccio, Barnes, Oralls, and Grant Brightman were a big part of Norwich’s second-half blowout. After Owego scored the first nine points of the third quarter, the Tornado proceeded on a 30-7 spurt of its own. The four aforementioned players, all forwards in the Norwich offense, played “buddy ball” Collier said depending on which ones were on the floor. “They’re each other’s low post buddy, that’s why we call it ‘buddy ball,’” Collier said. “They did a great job looking for each other and sharing the ball.”
Dylan Angulas had two early second-half buckets for Owego, and Tyler Ford’s driving layup drew the Indians to within 35-27 prompting a Norwich timeout. From that point, it was all Norwich.
Danny Carson scored on a layup after aMatt Burke “drive-and-dish,” D’Abbraccio had a pair buckets as did Barnes. It was more of the same in the fourth as Norwich started the quarter on a 12-2 run. Of the six baskets to start the fourth, all came with assists.
Oralls had 11 of his points in the fourth and Barnes scored nine in a 24-7 final period. “We struggled a little bit against their zone early in the second half,” Collier said. “We made an adjustment during a timeout, and we started to convert our open looks.”
Carson’s frenzied, scrappy play led the Torando to a 35-18 halftime lead. D’Abbraccio and Carson each hit three-pointers in the final minute of the half to finish the quarter on a 16-2 run.
Norwich (6-3) finished with 27 total team assists on 32 points in producing its highest point total of the season. The Tornado host Seton Catholic Central Tuesday.
JV: Norwich’s junior varsity club improved its record to 5-3 defeating the Indians, 65-46. Brendon Budd came off the bench to hit four three pointers finishing with a team-high 16 points.
Owego: Zach Thomas, 1 0-0-2; Brandon Hathaway, 1 1-2-3; Tyler Ford, 4 3-3-11; L. Gibson, 0 ; Dylan Angulas, 4 0-2-8; S. Smith, 2 0-1-4; Zach Paradies, 1 1-2-4; B. Morris, 2 0-0-5; Eric Dimock, 1 0-0-2. Totals: 17 5-10-39 .
Norwich: Danny Carson, 7 1-4-16; Mike Oralls, 6 1-1-13; Michael Sutton, 2 0-0-4; Zan Stewart, 3 0-0-7; Matt Burke, 0; Storm Cook, 0; Michael D’Abbraccio, 4 0-0-9; Grant Brightman, 3 1-1-7; Cody Barnes, 7 1-3-15. Totals: 32 4-9-71.
Owe. 12 6 14 7–39
NHS 15 20 12 24–71
Fouled out: none. Three-point goals: (N) Carson, Stewart, D’Abbraccio. JV: Norwich won 65-46. Officials: Szelkowski, Fletcher.
Girls’ Basketball
S-E 51, Canastota 46
CANASTOTA – Unable to hold on to its fourth-quarter lead Monday night, Sherburne-Earlville turned back Canastota’s late charge to prevail on the road Wednesday.
Canastota trailed by 10 entering the fourth quarter, and cut that deficit in half behind 17 fourth-quarter points from Shea Foster. S-E was up to the task, though, matching Foster nearly point for point.
“We didn’t shoot it particularly well tonight, but we made enough plays to get a win on the road,” said S-E coach Karen Mulligan.
Lilly Berg scored 17 points to lead the Marauders, and Mattie Dowdall came off the bench to add 10.
S-E: Mikayla Solloway, 2 0-0-4; Jordan Van Althuis, 2 4-5-8; Bridgette McDaniel, 1 0-0-2; Savannah Irwin, 3 0-2-8; Katherine Robertson, 0; Kelsie Christian, 1 0-0-2; Lilly Berg, 8 1-2-17; Mattie Dowdall, 4 0-0-10. Totals: 21 5-9-51.
Canastota: Julia Collins, 0; Briana Coleman, 0; Danielle Carlone, 0 1-2-1; Shea Foster, 13 4-10-30; Abby LaFlair, 0; Allison Malbous, 2 0-0-4; Chelsea Dolliss, 4 3-5-11. Totals: 19 8-17-46.
S-E 11 8 16 16–51
Can. 7 10 8 21–46
Fouled out: (SE) Berg. Three-point goals: (SE) Irwin, 2 Dowdall 2; JV: S-E won 32-30.
B-G 52, Deposit 26
BAINBRIDGE – Bainbridge-Guilford reached the .500 mark for the first time this season winning its fourth straight game Wednesday night against visiting Deposit.
Morgan Bullis had 18 points and 14 rebounds for B-G (5-5), 14 of those markers coming in the first half as the Bobcats established a 31-11 halftime advantage.
“We did a good job in our man defense, and we also got to work on other stuff that we haven’t been able to work on,” said B-G coach Bob Conway.
Abbey Smith totaled nine points and five assists, and Megan Ferrara scored eight. After struggling to put points on the board the first three weeks of the season, B-G has scored 100 total points over the last two contests. “We’ve started to get more consistency on the offensive end, and that’s a good thing,” Conway said.
B-G is at Walton Friday.
Deposit: Ca. Bush, 0 4-8-4; Kylie Papagelos, 1 0-0-2; Bridget Smith, 1 0-0-2; Kimberly Newman, 0; Likisha Allen, 0 2-7-2; Justina Ellis, 0 2-2-2; Haley Linkroum, 2 3-3-7; Kayla Miller, 2 0-2-5; Janai Cornwell, 1 0-3-2. Totals: 7 11-25-26.
B-G: Abbey Smith, 3 3-9-9; Morgan Bullis, 8 2-2-18; Alexis Page, 0; Caitlan Vandermark, 2 2-4-6; Megan Ferrara, 4 0-0-8; Taylor Palmatier, 3 1-2-7; Cadi Barber, 0 0-2-0; Tori Rifanburg, 0 ; Betsy Holden, 2 0-0-4. Totals: 22 8-19-52.
Dep. 2 9 3 12–26
B-G 13 18 11 10–52
Fouled out: none. Three-point goals: (D) Miller. JV: B-G won 35-19. Officials: Reynolds, Ciotoli.
