In the end, the Lynn 15-year-old Babe Ruth team was beaten at its own game.The Lynners, who staged a huge comeback in their opening game of the Babe Ruth EMass Tournament at Ben Bowzer Complex in Lynn, got the tables turned on them Sunday night by Norwood, letting a 6-4 lead slip away in the sixth inning and losing, 8-6. As a result, Lynn is back in action tonight (5:30) against Everett.Norwood’s comeback capped a weekend full of them. Three of the four Lynn-area teams either came back from huge deficits or allowed big leads to slip away only to hang on for victories.Both the Saugus 15s and 14s did that. Sunday, the 15s got up 10-0 to Braintree at the Bowzer Complex and then saw their lead cut to 10-8 before a two-run homer by pitcher Ken Runge restored order and propelled them to a 14-9 victory. The Saugus 15s resume action in the tournament Friday night (7:45) against Norwood in the winners’ bracket final of the tournament.And Saturday, the Saugus 14s, playing in Norwood in the EMass tournament, also went up 10-0, this time on the host team, only to see that lead evaporate to 10-7. They, too, scored two late runs to win, 12-7. They’re back in action Tuesday (5:30) in Norwood.Norwood 8, Lynn 6Sunday, at the Bowzer Complex, Lynn chose not to play small ball with a 6-4 lead; and Norwood chose to play it, and that spelled the difference.Lynn fell behind 4-1 in the top of the fourth inning before putting five runs up in the bottom half to go up 6-4.The big hit was a bases-loaded triple by Nick Day, with pitcher Joe Kasper knocking Day in with a double.The lead stood until the sixth. However, Lynn missed a huge opportunity to score in the bottom of the fifth, when Bryan Wilkins walked and Joe Scuzzarella was hit by a pitch with nobody out, but the team couldn’t add to its lead. Lynn chose not to try to bunt the runners along, instead opting to hit away. Andrew White grounded into a force for the first out, and Josh Gonzalez singled to left, but Norwood gunned down Scuzzarella trying to score.After Wilfredo Feliz was hit by a pitch, Zach Conti made a bid with a grounder back to the box, but Norwood pitcher Brendan Cathcart made a nice play to throw him out.Norwood then scored three runs in the top of the sixth, one coming home on a force play and two on Austin Glaser’s single. The eighth and final run came in the top of the seventh on a squeeze bunt.”A tough loss,” said Lynn manager Charlie Liberge. “A good effort ? a tough loss.”Saugus 14, Braintree 9Sunday evening’s star was Saugus’ pitcher, Ken Runge, who went all the way, battling it out after Braintree crept back into the game to pitch all seven innings, finishing strong for the win.”I thought he pitched great,” said manager Ed Groark. “He had one bad inning, and after that he settled right down.”Not only did Runge gut out the win, he also made the difference at the plate. After Braintree had cut the lead to 10-8, Runge hit a monstrous two-run home run over the fence in left-centerfield to give Saugus a little breathing room.It looked as if Saugus would do the same thing it did in Thursday’s opening game – waltz to a five-inning victory. By the end of the second, it was 10-0. Seven of those runs came in the second, thanks to RBI by Al Nahagian, Runge, Dante Deltorto and Scott Enos. Two additional runs came home on wild pitches. An inning earlier, Runge, Ty Kennedy and Nick Feehling knocked in runs to give Saugus a 3-0 lead.But Braintree put up six in the top of the third ? three of them on a mammoth home run by mammoth second baseman Pat Delano.”That was a great comeback by them,” said Groark. “We didn’t beat ourselves. It was all earned.”But Runge gave Saugus a little breathing room in the sixth, “and after that, he settled right down and pitched really well,” said Groark.Saugus pushed across two more runs in the sixth to put more distance between itself and Braintree.SATURDAYLynn 14, Plymouth 11At Bowzer Complex in a 15-year-old game, Lynn began its comeback in the bottom of
