The Teutopolis Lady Shoes traveled to Farina Saturday and split a doubleheader with South Central.

In the opener, T-Town jumped out a 6-0 lead, fell behind 7-6 and then rallied for a 9-8 victory.

The Lady Cougars came back to post an 11-1, five-inning win in the nightcap.

In the first game, the Lady Shoes scored in each of the first three innings to build the early lead.

In the opening frame, Lexie Niebrugge capped a three-run uprising with a two-run homer. Erin Althoff had a run-scoring single in the second and Courtney Gipson delivered a two-run RBI base hit in the third to give THS a 5-0 advantage.

The Lady Shoes made it 6-0 in the top of the fifth. Emily Konkel started the inning with a base hit and eventually scored on an error.

But South Central then exploded in the bottom of the fifth. The Lady Cougars combined four hits, one walk and three errors to push seven runs across the plate. The big blow was a grand slam by Lily Malone.

But T-Town responded in the top of the sixth. Gibson walked, Danielle Sarchet singled and Althoff was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Konkel then delivered a base hit to drive home two and Daischa Piedra capped the three-run frame with an RBI single.

South Central scored a single tally in the bottom of the sixth to close within a run, but couldn’t get any closer.

Hallie Smith pitched all seven innings to get the win for Teutopolis. She allowed nine hits and nine runs, while striking out two and walking three.

The Lady Shoes jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the second game when Konkel ripped a one-out triple and Piedra drove her in with a sacrifice fly. But T-Town managed only two more hits in the game – a fourth-inning double by Piedra and a base hit by Kaylee Niebrugge in the fifth – and didn’t score again.

South Central took a lead it never relinquished in the bottom of the first. They hit a pair of home runs, including a two-run blast by Laney Webster. The Lady Cougars, who finished with 10 hits, scored two more runs in the second, pushed across five tallies in the fourth and scored their final run in the fifth to end the game.

Lexie Niebrugge took the loss for T-Town.

The Lady Shoes are now 2-1 on the season. They will travel to Flora on Monday.