{"id":19705,"date":"2025-10-02T07:44:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=19705"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:44:48","slug":"national-trail-conference-baseball-tournament-pairings-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/19705-national-trail-conference-baseball-tournament-pairings-released\/","title":{"rendered":"National Trail Conference Baseball Tournament Pairings Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The National Trail Conference Baseball Tournament pairings have been released.<\/p>\n<p>Effingham St. Anthony drew the No. 1 seed followed by North Clay, Altamont, Dieterich, Windsor\/Stewardson-Strasburg, Neoga, Brownstown\/St. Elmo and South Central.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament begins Friday, October 3 with one play-in game as Cowden-Herrick\/Beecher City is at South Central at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>St. Anthony will host the winner of that contest at 4 p.m. Monday. Also Monday, Windsor\/Stewardson-Strasburg is at Dieterich, Brownstown\/St. Elmo is at North Clay and Altamont will travel to Neoga. All games begin at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament continues Wednesday, October 8 and will finish with the third place game at 10 a.m. Saturday, October 11 while the championship will be held at noon. Both games will be played at North Clay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NTC Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, October 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Game 1 &#8212; Cowden-Herrick\/Beecher City at South Central, 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, October 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Game 2 &#8212; Winner Game 1 at St. Anthony, 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 &#8212; Windsor\/Stewardson-Strasburg at Dieterich, 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Game 4 &#8212; Brownstown\/St. Elmo at North Clay, 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 &#8212; Neoga at Altamont, 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Game 6 &#8212; Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3, 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Game 7 &#8212; Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5, 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, October 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At North Clay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Game 8 &#8212; Loser Game 6 vs. Loser Game 7, 10 a.m. (third place)<\/p>\n<p>Game 9 &#8212; Winner Game 6 vs. Winner Game 7, noon (championship)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Trail Conference Baseball Tournament pairings have been released. Effingham St. Anthony drew the No. 1 seed followed by North Clay, Altamont, Dieterich, Windsor\/Stewardson-Strasburg, Neoga, Brownstown\/St. Elmo and South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-19705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-sports-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National Trail Conference Baseball Tournament Pairings Released - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/19705-national-trail-conference-baseball-tournament-pairings-released\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Trail Conference Baseball Tournament Pairings Released - 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