Windsor rolls to win over Norwich
Robert Jeffrey
Sun Sports Contributor
NORWICH – The early spring scheduling has not been kind to the Norwich Purple Tornado baseball team as they dropped their second game in two days, falling 11-2 to the Black Knights of Windsor.
It was a rather chilly afternoon for baseball on April 13, something that impacted both teams offensively.
Tornado pitcher Marcus Cashman worked his way in and out of jams in the first and fourth innings despite giving up a single run in the second stanza of play to give the visiting Black Knights the lead.
The Tornado diamond men responded in the third inning to tie the game at one, when Eli Rodriguez led off the inning with a double to left field, then advancing to third base on Brandon Barnes’ single. Cristobal Caballero earned the rbi when his sacrifice fly allowed Rodriguez to tag up from third to home, just beating the throw from the cut-off man.
While the chilly weather cooled the bats of the Black Knights for the first four innings, the fifth inning provided the much needed warm-up for the Windsor offense. With the Knights driving in one run in the inning to put them ahead 2-1, the visitors poured on the runs-scoring five more after a Tornado defensive lapse to push the Purple’s deficit to 7-1.
With the final two and a half innings still hanging in the balance, Windsor tacked on four more insurance runs in the sixth inning.
The Tornado responded in the bottom half of the inning as Michael Trevisani advanced to second on a wild pitch. With the catcher’s throw getting away from the middle-infielders Trevisani moved to third, before the ball darted away from the Black Knight’s third baseman allowing Trevisani to score the Tornado’s second run of the ball game.
Marcus Cashman recorded the loss for the Tornado, striking out seven batters and giving up five run of which only two were earned over 4 2/3 innings.
“We were playing well, Marcus was pitching well and we just had that one bad inning again,” said Norwich head coach Rich Turnbull. “Today we didn’t recover from it, it’s disappointing, it was that one inning that killed us and we couldn’t recover from it.”
The Tornado (0-4) are back in action on Monday April 17, when they travel to Johnson City to play the Wildcats of JC.
Windsor: 0 1 0 0 6 4 0– 11 17 2
Norwich: 0 0 1 0 0 1 0– 2 4 6
WP- Jared Beckley LP- Marcus Cashman
Doubles: (N)- Rodriguez
Sun Sports Contributor
NORWICH – The early spring scheduling has not been kind to the Norwich Purple Tornado baseball team as they dropped their second game in two days, falling 11-2 to the Black Knights of Windsor.
It was a rather chilly afternoon for baseball on April 13, something that impacted both teams offensively.
Tornado pitcher Marcus Cashman worked his way in and out of jams in the first and fourth innings despite giving up a single run in the second stanza of play to give the visiting Black Knights the lead.
The Tornado diamond men responded in the third inning to tie the game at one, when Eli Rodriguez led off the inning with a double to left field, then advancing to third base on Brandon Barnes’ single. Cristobal Caballero earned the rbi when his sacrifice fly allowed Rodriguez to tag up from third to home, just beating the throw from the cut-off man.
While the chilly weather cooled the bats of the Black Knights for the first four innings, the fifth inning provided the much needed warm-up for the Windsor offense. With the Knights driving in one run in the inning to put them ahead 2-1, the visitors poured on the runs-scoring five more after a Tornado defensive lapse to push the Purple’s deficit to 7-1.
With the final two and a half innings still hanging in the balance, Windsor tacked on four more insurance runs in the sixth inning.
The Tornado responded in the bottom half of the inning as Michael Trevisani advanced to second on a wild pitch. With the catcher’s throw getting away from the middle-infielders Trevisani moved to third, before the ball darted away from the Black Knight’s third baseman allowing Trevisani to score the Tornado’s second run of the ball game.
Marcus Cashman recorded the loss for the Tornado, striking out seven batters and giving up five run of which only two were earned over 4 2/3 innings.
“We were playing well, Marcus was pitching well and we just had that one bad inning again,” said Norwich head coach Rich Turnbull. “Today we didn’t recover from it, it’s disappointing, it was that one inning that killed us and we couldn’t recover from it.”
The Tornado (0-4) are back in action on Monday April 17, when they travel to Johnson City to play the Wildcats of JC.
Windsor: 0 1 0 0 6 4 0– 11 17 2
Norwich: 0 0 1 0 0 1 0– 2 4 6
WP- Jared Beckley LP- Marcus Cashman
Doubles: (N)- Rodriguez
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