The Teutopolis Lady Shoes dropped a pair of close games Friday at the Newton Round Robin.

The Lady Shoes lost 5-4 to Champaign Central in the first game and then gave up three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to suffer a 3-2 setback to Freeburg in the second contest.

Against Champaign Central, the Lady Shoes trailed 4-2 and 5-3, but kept coming back.

In the bottom of the fourth inning, Mallory Bloemer doubled and later scored on a groundout by Alyssa Tipton to get T-Town within 4-3.

Then in the seventh, trailing 5-3, THS got a lead-off single by Olivia Copple. She later scored on an RBI single by Malea Helmink, but the Lady Shoes couldn’t get the tying run across.

Bloemer had two hits in the game and Helmink drove in a pair. Tipton pitched all seven innings and took the loss.

Olivia Hemmen had a two-hit shutout going into the bottom of the seventh inning in the second game. But Freeburg combined a single, an error and a walk to load the bases. A wild pitch let in the first run, a single tied it and the winning run scampered home after another wild pitch.

The Lady Shoes scored single tallies in the second and third innings. CJ Apke drove in the second-inning run with a base hit and Helmink had a two-out RBI single in the third.

T-Town out-hit Freeburg 9-4, but left six runners stranded on base.

The Lady Shoes, now 11-12, will play Monday at Effingham.