WSS, St. A Advance To NTC Tourney Championship

The championship game will feature Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg and Effingham St. Anthony Friday for all the marbles in the National Trail Conference Girls Softball Tournament.

Windsor/Stew-Stras bounced South Central 14-2 while St. Anthony downed Altamont 9-1 in action Wednesday. WSS and St. Anthony square off at 6 p.m. Friday for the title while South Central and Altamont meet for third place at 4:15 p.m. In the consolation championship, St. Elmo/Brownstown will square off against Neoga at 4:15 p.m.

Windsor/Stew-Stras 14, South Central 2

Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg, the top seed, pounded South Central 14-2. The Hatchets improve to 22-4 on the season.

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St. Anthony 9, Altamont 1

St. Anthony edged out to a 1-0 first inning lead but Altamont knotted the score at 1-1. The Bulldogs moved ahead 2-1 in the third then had a six-run fifth and scored a final run in the sixth.

Maddie Schuette hit a home run and finished with two RBI for the Bulldogs. Hunter Niebrugge had a single, double and two RBI while Katie Kabbes had two singles and two RBI. Jenna Woltman chipped in with a double.

Winters had a double for the Indians while Burns and Mette had two singles each.

NTC Tournament

Game Seven

Altamont                  010    000    0    --    1-7-2

St. Anthony             101    061    x    --    9-9-2

WP -- Woltman. LP -- Winters.

Altamont -- Burns, 2 singles; Winters, double; Biggs, single; Mette, 2 singles; McHugh, single

St. Anthony -- Woltman, double; Kabbes, 2 singles, 2 RBI; Niebrugge, single, double, 2 RBI; Schuette, home run, 2 RBI; L. Day, single, 1 RBI; A. Day, single; Gibson, single

Neoga 9, Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick 8

Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick stepped out to the early lead, bringing home three runs in the first and two in the second for a 5-1 lead. Neoga came back with four in the third but still trailed 8-6 after five. Neoga then scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to pull out the win.

Kelli Bell hit a walk-off single that tallied the winning run.

Cheyenne Vondrake, Andrea Estay and Kolby Vaughn had two singles each while Jessica Atwell had a single, double and triple. Estay had two RBI. Roderick didn't get a hit but had three RBI.

BCCH was led by Isabella Doty with a single, double and an RBI.

Game 8

BCCH            320    030    0    --     8- 6-0

Neoga           104    010    3    --    9-10-3

Kirchhofer and Johnson; Neece and Atwell

Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick -- Doty, single, double, 1 RBI; Gates, 1 RBI; Oldham, 1 RBI; Wojcik, single; Kirchhofer, single, 1 RBI; Bailey, single; Easley, single

Neoga -- Vondrake, 2 singles; Atwell, single, double, triple; Roderick, 3 RBI; Estay, 2 singles, 2 RBI; Vaughn, 2 singles; Bell, single, 1 RBI

St. Elmo/Brownstown 9, Dieterich 4

SEB stepped out to a 5-0 first inning lead then had to hold off Dieterich for the win.

The Movin' Maroons mounted a rally in the bottom of the seventh but fell short.

Tessa Philpot picked up the six-hit pitching win, striking out four. Philpot had a single, triple and drove in two runs while Jenna Long had two singles and an RBI.

Dieterich was led by Maddie Bannick with two singles.

Game 10

St. Elmo/Brownstown             510    200    1    --    9-8-2

Dieterich                                   001    100    2    --    4-6-3

WP -- Philpot. LP -- Richards.

Brownstown/St. Elmo -- Philpot, single, triple, 2 RBI; Long, 2 singles, 1 RBI

Dieterich -- Bannick, 2 singles

At Teutopolis

Teutopolis blanked Newton 3-0 in action Wednesday.

The two teams went through three innings before the Wooden Shoes finally tallied a run in the fourth then scored again in the fifth and sixth.

T-town had nine hits led by Anni Borries with a single and double while Sidney Brumleve had two singles and an RBI.

Kadi Borries allowed four hits, no walks and struck out 14. The Shoes are now 23-1 on the season.

Baker led Newton with a double.

Teutopolis tallied a 3-2 win over Newton in junior varsity play in four innings.

At Teutopolis

Newton                  000    000    0    --    0-4-0

Teutopolis             000    111    x    --    3-9-0

WP -- K. Borries. LP -- Shipman.

Newton -- Frohning, single; Earnest, single; Ochs, single; Baker, double

Teutopolis -- A. Borries, single, double; Hemmen, single; K. Borries, 1 RBI; Apke, single; Repking, single; Drees, single; Brumleve, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Waldhoff, single

At Toledo

Cumberland trounced Martinsville to the tune of 18-0 in five innings.

The Pirates edged out to a 2-0 first inning lead then had an eight-run second, scored a single run in the third and tallied seven in the fourth.

Katie Poe picked up the pitching win on a two-hitter with seven strikeouts.

McMechan had a triple and an RBI while Thorton had a single, two doubles and two RBI, Poe a double and three RBI, Stewart a double and two RBI and Huddlestun a single, double and three RBI.

At Toledo

Martinsville            000    00    --       0-  2-5

Cubmerland            281    7x    --    18-11-0

WP -- Poe. LP -- Callahan.

Martinsville -- Maxey, single; Callahan, single

Cumberland -- Oakley, single, 1 RBI; McMechan, triple, 1 RBI; Myers, 1 RBI; Thornton, single, 2 doubles, 2 RBI; Poe, double, 3 RBI; Stewart, double, 2 RBI; Dunaway, 1 RBI; Guyon, single, 1 RBI; Huddleston, 2 doubles, 3 RBI; Sowers, single, 1 RBI

OTHER SCORES:

Mattoon 9, Olney 0

Pana 9, Greenville 5

Tolono Unity 18, Mount Zion 12

Marshall 12, Robinson 7