South Central, C'land Claim Softball Regional Titles

DIETERICH -- Cumberland High School easily handled Effingham St. Anthony to win the Class 1A Dieterich Softball Regional Saturday.

The Pirates had 16 hits and blanked the Bulldogs, 15-0 in four innings.

Liberty Dunaway threw a three-hitter with no walks and four strikeouts.

Danae Sowers had two doubles, a home run and four RBI for the Pirates. Jazzmine Oakley had two singles and a double while Madison Hendrix had three singles and three RBI. Dunaway aided her own cause with a single, double and three RBI. Mya Green added three singles and two RBI and Micaela Bradley a double and an RBI.

The Bulldogs had three singles from Katie Kabbes, Allie Day and Liz Day.

Class 1A Dieterich Regional

Championship

St. Anthony               000    0    --      0-  3-5

Cumberland              042    9    --    15-16-0

WP -- Dunaway. LP -- A. Day.

St. Anthony -- Kabbes, single; A. Day, single; L. Day, single

Cumberland -- Oakley, 2 singles, double; Hendrix, 3 singles, 3 RBI; Dunaway, single, double, 3 RBI; Guyon, single, 1 RBI; Sowers, 2 doubles, home run, 4 RBI; Bradley, double, 1 RBI; Green, 3 singles, 2 RBI

Class 1A Hutsonville/Palestine Regional

South Central, for only the second time in the softball program, captured a regional championship Saturday. The last time the Cougars won a title was in 1994.

The Cougars defeated Woodlawn, 5-1 to win the Hutsonville/Palestine Regional. Woodlawn took a 1-0 lead in the third. South Central was quiet until the sixth when they tallied all five runs.

Zoe Johnston had a two-run homer while Lexie Reid, Sydnee Garrett and Kaylie Swift had a single each. Katie Shumate added an RBI.

"This game was a pitcher's duel between our Sydnee Garrett and Woodlawn's Kalyn Crider," said Coach Gary Kapper. "We scored our five runs on two errors along with a base hit by Lexie, an RBI by Katie and Zoe's homer. Woodlawn went down in order in the bottom of the seventh on a line out, a strikeout and a pop-up.

"Sydnee pitched a great game having control of her pitches all day and our defense played great also. This was a total team effort."

The Cougars advance with a 14-7 record to the Marissa Sectional Wednesday and will face either New Athens or Valmeyer at 4:30 p.m. Those two teams play today.

Class 1A Hutsonville/Palestine Regional

Championship

South Central               000    005    0    --    5-4-1

Woodlawn                    001    000    0    --    1-5-3

WP -- Garrett. LP -- none listed.

South Central -- Reid, single; Garrett, single; Shumate, 1 RBI; Johnston, home run (seventh, one on), 2 RBI; Swift, single

Woodlawn -- no hits listed

Class 2A Breese Mater Dei Regional

Breese Central captured the championship of the Breese Mater Dei Regional.

Breese Central downed Newton, 8-5. No other information was provided on the game.

Rainouts --

The Class 1A Nokomis Regional, featuring Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg against Nokomis, was postponed to Monday at 4:30 p.m. The game is for the championship.

The Class 1A Moweaqua Central A&M Regional was postponed to Monday at 4:30 p.m. Neoga was to take on host Moweaqua Central A&M for the championship.

The Class 2A Vandalia Regional was postponed to Monday at 4:30 p.m. Teutopolis will face Casey-Westfield for the championship.