Foley and Pinette and pray for it to get wet wasn’t the way that the Norwood American Legion Post 70 baseball team wanted to advance out of the District 6 playoffs, but Mother Nature seemed to be the only one to have any choice in the matter yesterday. With Norwood’s series against Quincy Post 95 knotted at 1-1, rain wiped out a deciding Game 3 both Wednesday and yesterday to put the teams up against today’s South sectional deadline. That meant the series outcome was sent to a tiebreaker, which Norwood won as the higher seed, earning the No. 2 spot in District 6 West to Quincy’s No. 4 in the East. “If you are a competitor and have confidence in your team, you always feel like you are going to go out there and get a win,” said Norwood manager Paul Samargedlis. “What happened in the series was unavoidable. We would have much rather beat them on the field, and I think that we would have, but that’s why they have the tiebreaker and why you have to play hard the entire regular season.” Norwood won its final two games of the regular season to claim second place, avoiding the predicament of No. 3 Foxboro, which lost its District 6 series to fellow No. 3 Milton by a 4-2 aggregate score, the second tiebreaker. The District 6 playoffs, which had traditionally started on Friday, were pushed back three days to a Monday start this year. Natick-North Chelmsford in District 5, Northampton-Greenfield in District 2/3 and Milford-West Boylston in D ...
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Foley and Pinette and pray for it to get wet wasn’t the way that the Norwood American Legion Post 70 baseball team wanted to advance out of the District 6 playoffs, but Mother Nature seemed to be the only one to have any choice in the matter yesterday. With Norwood’s series against Quincy Post 95 knotted at 1-1, rain wiped out a deciding Game 3 both Wednesday and yesterday to put the teams up against today’s South sectional deadline. That meant the series outcome was sent to a tiebreaker, which Norwood won as the higher seed, earning the No. 2 spot in District 6 West to Quincy’s No. 4 in the East. “If you are a competitor and have confidence in your team, you always feel like you are going to go out there and get a win,” said Norwood manager Paul Samargedlis. “What happened in the series was unavoidable. We would have much rather beat them on the field, and I think that we would have, but that’s why they have the tiebreaker and why you have to play hard the entire regular season.” Norwood won its final two games of the regular season to claim second place, avoiding the predicament of No. 3 Foxboro, which lost its District 6 series to fellow No. 3 Milton by a 4-2 aggregate score, the second tiebreaker. The District 6 playoffs, which had traditionally started on Friday, were pushed back three days to a Monday start this year. Natick-North Chelmsford in District 5, Northampton-Greenfield in District 2/3 and Milford-West Boylston in D ...