Altamont Blanks Neoga in Softball

ALTAMONT -- Altamont improved its National Trail Conference softball record to 3-0 and it's overall mark to 15-3 by blanking Neoga 10-0 in five innings Monday.

Altamont held a 2-0 first inning lead then tallied six in the second and ended the game with two in the fourth. Deidre Ledbetter pitched a four-hitter with no walks and eight strikeouts.

Ledbetter also had a triple and drove in three runs while Josie Phillips had two doubles and two RBI, Madison Ohnesorge a single and double and Lauren White with a home run and three RBI.

Neoga was led by Casi Blazich with a single and double.

At Altamont

Neoga                000    00    --      0-   4

Altamont           260    2x    --    10-10

WP -- Ledbetter. LP -- Neece.

Neoga -- Blazich, single, double; Andrews, single; Potter, single

Altamont -- M. Ohnesorge, single, double; Phillips, 2 doubles, 2 RBI; Ledbetter, tirple, 3 RBI; L. Ohnesorge, single, 1 RBI; White, home run, 3 RBI; Tharp, single; Smith, single; Winters, single

OTHER SCORES:

Mattoon 5, St. Joseph-Ogden 2

Meridian 10, Taylorville 1