Robert Jeffrey

Sun Sports Contributor

Frank Speziale

Tornado edged out by Blue Devils 8-3

NORWICH – A four run seventh inning by the Blue Devils provided more than enough breathing room as Chenango Forks escaped the clutches of the Norwich Purple Tornado baseball team on Tuesday May 9. The Blue Devils scored four runs over the course of the second, third, and fourth innings to advance their lead to 4-0 heading into the bottom of the fourth inning.

The Tornado cut the Blue Devil lead in half with a two run splurge in the bottom half of the fourth, as Cristobal Caballero and Marcus Cashman both scored on a Dylan Mack two RBI single.

As Norwich blanked the Chenango Forks offense in the fifth and sixth innings, the Purple Tornado hurried to get back to work.

In the bottom of the sixth, with Mike Trevisani on second base, Dylan Mack once again provided the offense, knocking a single up the middle scoring Trevisani, recording the RBI to put the deficit into the single digits at 4-3.

Unfortunately for the Tornado, Forks put together a string of five consecutive base runners, recording four runs on four hits in the top half of the seventh inning. The Blue Devils proceeded to then put down the NHS batters one-two-three to end the game in a victory of 8-3.

Dylan Mack recorded the big hits on the day, going 2-3 with three RBIs on the afternoon. Marcus Cashman took the loss for the Tornado as he threw six innings of work, gave up five runs – four earned while striking out eight in the process. NHS’ Nate Scheer threw the seventh inning, giving up three runs, two earned and struck out one in his relief outing.

“The errors didn’t kill us much, we just made some really bad running mistakes,” said Norwich head coach Rich Turnbull. “They don’t show up in the box score, but we need to make those plays.”

The Tornado then received one day of rest before hosting Johnson City in Norwich on May 11, for the Tornado Senior Night.

 

CF: 0 2 1 1 0 0 4– 8 10 2

NHS: 0 0 0 2 0 1 0– 3 5 3