Published on August 19, 2025 9:31 am
Last Updated on August 20, 2025 2:24 pm
Effingham Junior High School pushed its record to 4-0 on the softball season by pounding Charleston, 14-0 in four innings Monday.
The Mustangs ripped out to a 10-0 opening inning lead then added on four more runs in the second.
Effingham had 16 hits as Cloie Bailey held the Trojans to one hit. Bailey finished with seven strikeouts and did not allow a walk.
Meanwhile, the Mustangs’ Tinley Patton had a single, home run and drove in four, Liv Lauritzen had a single, double and three RBI and Mackynzie Hites a single, triple and an RBI. Bailey and Madalyn Hoffman had three singles and an RBI each, Miley Wilson two singles and Mia Hartke and Amy Gouchenouer a single and an RBI each.
At Effingham
Charleston 000 0 — 0- 1-1
Effingham (10)40 x — 14-16-0
WP — Bailey. LP — only first name listed.
Charleston — only first names listed
Effingham — Bailey, 3 singles, 1 RBI; Hartke, single, 1 RBI; Hoffman, 3 singles, 1 RBI Lauritzen, single, double, 3 RBI; Patton, single, home run, 4 RBI; Hites, single, triple, 1 RBI; Wilson, 2 singles; Gouchenouer, single, 1 RBI
At Strasburg
Windsor/StewardsonStrasburg held off South Central for a 7-6 victory Monday.
South Central moved into a 2-1 opening inning lead and led 4-3 after three. The Hatchets came back with a three-run fourth to move ahead 6-4.
South Central pulled within 6-5 in the top of the fifth but Windsor/Stew-Stras scored another run in the bottom of the frame. South Central then rallied again, but fell short in the top of the seventh with a run.
Windsor/Stew-Stras had seven hits led by KJ Althoff with two singles, Reese Stigers with a single and two RBI and Miranda Corrie and Maddy Manhart with a single and an RBI each. Hayden Reed added an RBI.
Corrie went five innings for the win on the mound. She allowed five runs on six hits, six walks while striking out 12.
South Central had eight hits but finished with six errors. Skylar Webster had two singles, a triple and two RBI while Rylan Williams added two singles and two RBI, Jayda Neilson two singles and Bella McDonald a single and an RBI.
At Strasburg
South Central 202 010 1 — 6-8-6
Windsor/Stew-Stras 102 310 x — 7-7-3
WP — Corrie. LP — Williams.
South Central — Webster, 2 singles, triple, 2 RBI; McDonald, single, 1 RBI; Williams, 2 singles, 2 RBI; Neilson, 2 singles
Windsor/Stew-Stras — Barnard, single; Corrie, single, 1 RBI; Stigers, single, 2 RBI; Althoff, 2 singles; Manhart, single, 1 RBI; Reed, 1 RBI; Montgomery, single
At Mulberry Grove
Effingham St. Anthony broke a 1-1 tie with a six-run second and went on for a 17-10 win over Mulberry Grove Monday.
The Bullpups banged out 12 hits. Elle Bierman had two doubles and drove in five runs while Mary Hoke added a double and two RBI. Reagan Niebrugge had a single and double. Morgan Lustig and Lily Bloemer had two singles and an RBI each and Isabella McDonald and Luci Monical finished with a single and an RBI each.
Taylor Huebner held Mulberry Grove to only three hits but gave up 14 walks. She struck out seven in the win on the mound.
At Mulberry Grove
St. Anthony 166 13 — 17-12-1
Mulberry Grove 140 41 — 10- 3-2
WP — Huebner. LP — first name only listed.
St. Anthony — Hoke, double, 2 RBI; Bierman, 2 doubles, 5 RBI; McDonald, single, 1 RBI; Lustig, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Monical, single, 1 RBI; Doty, single; Niebrugge, single double; Bloemer, 2 singles, 1 RBI
Mulberry Grove — only first names listed.
At Neoga
Neoga’s Lucy Haarman kept Cerro Gordo/Bement off the base paths as she threw a no-hitter in a 13-3 victory Monday.
Haarman went five innings, giving up three runs, one earned, four walks and striking out six.
Kinzie Bell had two singles and a solo home run for the winners. Ellie Plummer had two singles. Haarman helped her own cause with a single and two RBI and Mackie White had a single and an RBI.
At Neoga
Cerro Gordo/Bement 300 00 — 3-0-6
Neoga 014 53 — 13-7-1
WP — Haarman. LP — first name only listed
Cerro Gordo/Bement — first names only listed
Neoga — Bell, 2 singles, home run, 1 RBI; White, single, 1 RBI; Plummer, 2 singles; Haarman, single, 2 RBI
At Cowden
Cumberland trailed Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City 2-1 after the opening inning and 3-1 after four. But the Raiders came back with a five-run fifth and pulled out an 8-3 win Monday.
Cumberland finished with nine hits in the contest.
Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City had three hits and committed seven errors.
Elli Wheeler had a single, double and an RBI for CHBC while Halee Goeckner had a single and two RBI.
At Cowden
Cumberland 100 051 1 — 8-9-0
CHBC 201 000 0 — 3-3-7
WP — only first name listed. LP — Pope.
Cumberland — only first names listed.
Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City — Wheeler, single, double, 1 RBI; Goeckner, single, 2 RBI