Prep spotlight: Gillespie softball romps past Staunton, and other results from Friday

Here are the high school softball results around Springfield from Friday:

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SOFTBALL

CHATHAM GLENWOOD 3, EDWARDSVILLE 2: At Edwardsville, Elizabeth Blum singled in Mollie Cascio with the go-ahead run with two outs in the top of the seventh inning and Glenwood won the first game of a doubleheader.

Cascio doubled to set up Blum’s game-winning hit. Edwardsville led 2-0 until the Titans scored twice in the fourth to tie the score. Kate Feld (2-for-3) doubled, and Sophia Feld drove her in with a triple. Winning pitcher Irie Lohrenz followed with an RBI groundout to even the score.

Lohrenz went the distance, striking out five and walking two. She allowed eight hits and one of the two runs was earned.

EDWARDSVILLE 7, CHATHAM GLENWOOD 6: At Edwardsville, Glenwood’s rally came up short and the Titans lost their first contest of the season in the second game of a doubleheader.

Glenwood trailed 7-4 after four innings until it scored two in the top-half of the fifth to get within a run. Hope Gilmore, who finished 2-for-3 with three RBIs, hit a two-run double in the fifth. Losing pitcher Cassandra Feld went 2-for-4 with an RBI and Karmen Edwards had a hit and two RBIs.

Feld threw four innings, giving up seven hits and seven runs (six earned) with four strikeouts and one walk.

GILLESPIE 10, STAUNTON 0 (5 innings): At Gillespie, the Miners went deep three times and pitcher Emma Gipson threw a three-hit shutout in a South Central Conference victory.

Ava Parish started Gillespie’s hitting with a solo home run in the bottom of the first inning and Gipson singled in a run for a 2-0 lead. Gillespie added two more runs in the second and Delaney Taylor capped a four-run third with a two-run homer to make it 8-0.

Sadie Sholtis added a solo home run in the fourth and finished 3-for-3 with two RBIs. Taylor also doubled and went 2-for-3 with three RBIs.

Gipson struck out six and walked none.

LINCOLN 7, FAIRBURY PRAIRIE CENTRAL 6: At Lincoln, Kelsey Marten homered twice to finish with two RBIs and two runs and the Railsplitters held off the Hawks in the seventh inning.

Prairie Central scored three runs in the seventh before Madisen Wurth fielded a groundball for the final out at first base.

Regan Kutz also homered for Lincoln and finished with three RBIs. Faith Eckhardt added two hits. Kutz earned the win in 3 2/3 innings with four strikeouts. She gave up two runs with three hits and two walks allowed.

GLASFORD ILLINI BLUFFS 8, ATHENS 4: At Athens, Layken Buch doubled as part of the Warriors’ five-hit effort in a Tomahawk Conference loss.

Carly Szoke, Isabel Ingram, Aubrey Crispen and Kenzie Szoke recorded the other hits for Athens.

CARLINVILLE 2, HILLSBORO 1: At Hillsboro, Hallie Gibson stifled the Hiltoppers with 10 strikeouts and Addison Ruyle smashed the go-ahead solo home run in the sixth inning to vault Carlinville to a South Central Conference win.

Gibson yielded one run on four hits and five walks in a complete game. Isabella Tiburzi had two hits, including an RBI double in the first inning.

Anika Camp took the loss in seven innings despite eight strikeouts. She yielded eight hits and no walks with two runs. She also had an RBI single in the third.

PETERBSURG PORTA 17, JACKSONVILLE 7 (6 innings): At Petersburg, Aubrey Vogel nearly hit for the cycle in a nonconference win.

She wound up 4-for-4 at the plate with three RBIs and four runs, including a home run and triple. Greta Butler, Morgan Miller and Gabbie Branson each supplied three hits.

Branson struck out six in 4 1/3 innings for the win with one hit, two walks and one unearned run allowed.

PANA 8, GREENVILLE 3: At Greenville, Izzy Reed went 4-for-5 with a triple, two RBIs and three runs scored to power the Panthers to a South Central Conference win.

Greenville led 2-0 after the first inning before Pana started its rally with a three-run top of the third. Kennedy Bowker drew a one-out walk, Bailey Evrley singled before Reed slapped a single to center field to score Bowker. With two outs, Joey Laker singled home Reed — Evrley was out at third on Reed’s hit — to tie the game.

Brianna Mathis singled to put Panthers at the corners ahead of Lilly Jostes’ RBI single to give Pana the lead. Pana padded the lead with three more runs in the fifth and two in the sixth.

Jostes was 3-for-4 with an RBI, Shelby Ashcraft and Laker each doubled for the Panthers.

Laker struck out four to get the complete-game win. Pana improved to 10-5.

QUINCY NOTRE DAME 4, RUSHVILLE-INDUSTRY 0: At Rushville, Caitlin Bunte nearly tossed a perfect game with 13 strikeouts en route to a nonconference win.

Bunte gave up just one hit.

Italee Ford took the loss in seven innings for Rushville. She gave up three earned runs on five hits and four walks with seven strikeouts.

ADDISON TRAIL 22, LANPHIER 6 (4 innings): At Lawless Park, shortstop Tamaih Jefferson singled in a pair of runs and scored another to account for half of the Lions’ offense.

Catcher Maya Bennett, pitcher Maylee Payne and first baseman Brenda Cousins had the other three hits for the Lions. Payne and center fielder Parker Dodd also had RBIs.

CARTHAGE ILLINI WEST 13, HAVANA 11: At Havana, the Ducks plated eight runs in the bottom of the second inning, but it wouldn’t be enough to hold the Chargers at bay in a high-scoring contest.

Havana’s Hannah Hogsdon went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Abby Cowell finished 3-for-3 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored while teammate Jadyn Stone batted 2-for-4 with two RBIs.

Lily Snowden and Libbie Johnson each doubled for the Ducks. Snowden and Johnson had two hits and two RBIs apiece.

STANFORD OLYMPIA 17, NEW BERLIN 2 (4 innings): At Stanford, Ashlee Brown and Carlie Smith each had a double to account for half of the Pretzels’ hits in a Sangamo Conference loss.

Marissa Heironimus and Taylor Staub had New Berlin’s other two hits off Olympia pitcher Danika Frazier, who stuck out nine, walked two and allowed two runs in her win.

This article originally appeared on State Journal-Register: High school softball, soccer results around Springfield for April 12-13