The Robinson Lady Maroons scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to break a tie, en route to a 6-2 win at home Thursday afternoon over Teutopolis.

The game was scoreless through the first three innings. The Lady Shoes grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth. Malea Helmink drew a lead-off walk and eventually scored on a two-out RBI single by Olivia Wermert.

Robinson pushed across two runs in the bottom of the fourth, but T-Town tied it up in the fifth. Alyssa Tipton got a lead-off single. Olivia Copple and Helmink were both hit by a pitch and Chloe Hoene drew a bases-loaded walk to force in the tying run.

The Lady Maroons then responded by scoring four times in the bottom of the fifth.

Tipton took the loss for THS. She pitched six innings, allowing five hits and six runs. She walked three and struck out three.

The Lady Shoes are now 13-16. They will play again today (Friday), returning home to face Newton.

By Steve Raymond

ET Sports Report

The first batter for both teams kind of set the tone for the rest of the game.

T-Town’s Summer Wall sent the fifth pitch of the contest sailing over the right-centerfield fence for a lead-off home run.

Effingham’s Raegan Boone lined a double down the leftfield line, but was thrown out trying to stretch it into a triple.

The Lady Shoes blasted two more round-trippers and kept adding to their lead, while the Lady Hearts struggled to push runs across the plate.

When the final out was recorded, Teutopolis had posted a 7-1 victory Monday afternoon at Effingham.

“That first home run was super exciting,” THS coach Crystal Tipton admitted. “It helped establish momentum for us, that’s for sure.”

“After giving up that home run, it looked like we were going to come right back and score,” Effingham coach Jerry Trigg added. “But then we didn’t. We kept battling to get back to even, but they just kept getting further away from us.”

The long ball was certainly a factor, especially for the Lady Shoes in the decisive fifth inning.

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Olivia Wermert went 3-for-4 and drove in four runs, helping the Teutopolis Lady Shoes post an 11-5 victory Saturday over Windsor/Stew-Stras in their opening game of the Casey-Westfield Tournament.

T-Town then dropped a 5-4 decision to Westville in its second game.

In that first game, THS and WSS were tied 5-5 after five innings. But in the bottom of the sixth, the Lady Shoes broke it open.

With one out, Olivia Copple singled, stole second and scored what proved to be the winning run on a base hit by Summer Wall. But T-Town was far from done.

Chloe Hoene and Malea Helmink then delivered back-to-back RBI triples. Another run scored on an error, and after a double by Mallory Bloemer, Wermert capped the six-run explosion with a two-run single.

Olivia Hemmen went all seven innings to get the win. She allowed 11 hits and five runs, while walking two and striking out two.

The second game was close all the way, but Westville hung on to get the one-run win.

T-Town grabbed a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. After Wall singled and Hoene walked, Helmink came through with an RBI double. Later in the inning, Wermert drew a bases-loaded walk.

Westville tied it in the bottom of the first, but the Lady Shoes went back on top in the second on a run-scoring single by Hoene. Westville then tied in the bottom of the second and took the lead for good, 5-3, with a two-run third.

THS got its final run in the fourth. Copple got a lead-off single, went to second on a wild pitch and eventually scored on a ground out.

Alyssa Tipton took the loss. She pitched six innings, giving up seven hits and five runs. She walked six and struck out seven.

The Lady Shoes are now 13-15. They will play Tuesday at home against Effingham.

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.