Legion Baseball: Norwich drops to Hillcrest
Norwich Post #189’s Jackson Sastri moves to second after a base hit by Kaden Downey. Sastri scored Norwich’s lone run in the bottom of the fourth as he stole home on a dropped third strike. (Photo by Morgan Golliver)
NORWICH – After a hard loss to Hillcrest on Saturday, the two legion baseball teams squared off again in Norwich on Monday evening. Hillcrest got the best of two with a 20-1 victory in five innings.
Hillcrest scored seven runs in both the first and second innings, where they batted around the lineup twice. Norwich kept them quiet in the third inning, but couldn’t in the fourth and fifth, where they added six more runs. Norwich got on the board in the bottom of the fourth inning as Jackson Sastri stole home on a dropped third strike with the play to first. Norwich also had a chance to score in the second inning with runners on the corners with two outs, but couldn’t plate the runner at third.
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