Evening Sun Report

Girls’ Basketball

Norwich 58, Dryden 29

NORWICH – Norwich moved a step closer to reaching its third Section IV final in four seasons.

Jennifer Borfitz scored 18 points for the Purple Tornado (12-6) Wednesday night, who host Waverly in the Class B semifinals Saturday.

Norwich led by just four at the first turn, but started the second stanza on a 12-3 run to move the lead into double digits. Borfitz had seven points during the spurt, and the Tornado defense swarmed in the halfcourt rarely allowing the Purple Lions good looks at the basket. "As soon as we did a little bit better job defending their high-low play, we did a great job of defending (as a team)," said Norwich coach Josh Bennett.

Norwich struggled to make open shots until the third quarter when it scored the first 16 points to open a 45-14 margin. Borfitz hit a spot-up three at the end of the run, and junior Carin Kuhn scored seven of her nine points in the quarter, the last three on a trey from the top of the key.

"I thought we played well on offense in the first half, we just didn't make many shots," Bennett said. "We finally made a couple of jumpshots in the third quarter, and got on a run."

Dryden: Ashley Palmer, 0; Kate Holland, 3 0-4-6; Vanessa Scott, 4 1-2-10; Kalee Waldon, 0; Erin Daley, 1 3-4-5; Maggie Cole, 0; Emily DeLucia, 1 0-0-2; Vicky Leyburn, 1 0-0-3; Amy Gardner, 0; Lily Lynch, 1 1-2-3; Keri Daley, 0. Totals: 11 5-12-29.

Norwich: Carin Kuhn, 4 0-0-9; Caitlyn Brown, 1 0-0-2; Breanna Cashman, 3 1-4-7; Alexis Race, 0; Jennifer Borfitz, 5 5-6-18; Kassidy Seary, 1 4-4-6; Makenzie Maynard, 0; Meghan Komendarek, 1 0-0-2; Ashley Murphy, 0; Savannah Williams, 2 2-2-6; Shelby Benjamin, 2 4-4-8; Courtney Scheer, 0. Totals: 19 16-20-58.

Dryd. 8 6 6 9–29

Norw. 12 17 19 10–58

Fouled out: None. Three-point goals: (N) Borfitz 3, Kuhn. (D) Scott, Leyburn. Officials: F. Blair, T. Linehan.

Bainbridge-Guilford 34, Greene 19

BAINBRIDGE – Bainbridge-Guilford won a battle of struggling offenses in a Class C playoff victory over Greene Wednesday night.

The Bobcats extended their lead to 18 points in the third quarter outscoring Greene 14-2. Freshman Becca Reyes hit two threes and scored all eight of her points, while Taylor Palmatier scored five.