NTC Tourney Opens With Four Games

Four games were contested in opening round play of the National Trail Conference Softball Tournament Wednesday.

Effingham St. Anthony pounded Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick 17-6 in six innings. The two teams were tied at 3-3 after the first but St. Anthony edged ahead with two runs in the second and finished out with a nine-run sixth.

The Bulldogs banged out 17 hits. Jenna Woltman led the way with two singles, two triples and four RBI. Megan Nuxoll added a triple, home run and five RBI. Morgan Gardewine tallied a single, double and an RBI. Hunter Niebrugge had a single and triple while Maddie Schuette had a double and two RBI and Marci Mills a triple.

BCCH had three hits, all singles by Oldham, Doty and Easley. Easley added two RBI.

In game two, Neoga banged out 13 hits and claimed a 12-8 win over St. Elmo/Brownstown.

Casi Blazich had a single, two doubles and three RBI for the winners. Keieran Effner added a single, double and an RBI. Nikki Miah had three singles and an RBI and Josie Taylor had two singles.

SEB was led by Philpot with three singles, Brown with a single, double and two RBI, S. Moss a single, double and three RBI and Long with a single and double.

Stewardson-Strasburg/Windsor claimed a 5-2 victory over South Central in the third contest. SSW edged out to a 1-0 first inning lead and led 2-1 after four then had a three-run fifth.

SSW had four hits in the contest while South Central had three hits and an error. South Central drops to 7-12.

In the fourth game, Altamont stepped out to a 5-1 first inning lead then had an eight-run second and downed Dieterich 16-2 in five innings.

The Indians' Biggs pitched a one-htiter with six strikeouts. Stuckemeyer came on in the final inning to strike out three batters.

Winters had two doubles and four RBI while Stone had a single, double and an RBI and Stuckemyer a single, double and two RBI.

Heuerman had the lone hit for Dieterich with a single.

NTC Tournament

Game One

BCCH                      300    003    --      6-  3-4

St. Anthony           320    219    --    17-17-2

WP -- Schuette. LP -- Kirchhofer.

Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick -- Oldham, single; Adams, 1 RBI; Doty, single; Easley, single, 2 RBI

St. Anthony -- Gardewine, single, double, 1 RBI; Woltman, 2 singles, 2 triples, 4 RBI; Niebrugge, single, triple; Nuxoll, triple, home run, 5 RBI; Mills, double; Schuette, double, 2 RBI; Gurtner, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Schmidt, single; Having, 2 singles

Game Two

St. Elmo/Brownstown           213    020    0    --      8-13-3

Neoga                                      503    004    x    --    12-13-1

WP -- Neece. LP -- Scholes.

St. Elmo/Brownstown -- Moss, 2 singles; Fitch, single; Scholes, single; Philpot, 3 singles; Brown, single, double, 2 RBI; S. Moss, single, double, 3 RBI; Long, single, double

Neoga -- Blazich, single, 2 doubles, 3 RBI; Roderick, single; Effner, single, double, 1 RBI; Atwell, double; Miah, 3 singles, 1 RBI; J. Blazich, 1 RBI; Lee, single, 1 RBI; Taylor, 2 singles

Game Three

South Central                        000    101    0    --    2-3-1

Stew-Stras/Windsor            101    030    x    --    5-4-0

WP -- none listed. LP -- King.

South Central -- Lee, triple; Johnston, single; King, 1 RBI; Wilkins, single, 1 RBI

Stew-Stras/Windsor -- no hits listed.

Game Four

Dieterich            101    00    --      2-  1-5

Altamont            581    2x    --    16-10-1

WP -- Biggs. LP -- Vahling.

Dieterich -- Heuerman, single

Altamont -- Duckwitz, 1 RBI; Goeckner, single, 1 RBI; Kopplin, 1 RBI; Biggs, 2 RBI; Winters, 2 doubles, 2 RBI; Stone, double, 1 RBI; Stuckemeyer, double, 2 RBI; Hoene, 2 RBI