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UPDATED: Lady Maroons Blank Springfield, Advance to Regional Final

Mac Armstrong went the distance for the Clinton Lady Maroons and shut out Springfield High School 4-0 in a Regional semifinal matchup at the Rochester High School in the Class 3A softball postseason. 

 

Armstrong set down the first 11 batters she faced before a two-out single gave the Lady Senators their first hit of the day. 

 

Springfield would muster just five more base runners the rest of the game and Armstrong did not allow a runner to reach third base. She struck out three, walked one and allowed three total hits.

 

The Lady Maroons were led offensively by Elly Maier who logged the game's only extra-base hit with an RBI double in the fifth inning. Winds were consistently blowing to right field and center field throughout the game but no one could muscle anything more than bloop base hits or ground balls through the infield. Polen finished 2-for-2 with a walk, run scored and RBI.

 

Camdyn Alsup finished 2-for-3 with a run scored. Savannah Clifton finished 2-for-4 with a run driven in. Amanda Tool also drove in a run for the Lady Maroons.

 

Clinton will take on Rochester at Rochester High School Friday afternoon for a Regional title. The Rockets shut out Clinton in a Regional semifinal game last year at Mahomet-Seymour and knocked the Lady Maroons out of the postseason in 2017 with an 11-3 in a Regional title game at Clinton High School. The Lady Maroons lost in a Regional final in 2016 to Effingham, 1-0. 

 

Friday's matchup is the third Regional championship game appearance in four seasons for Clinton. 

 

Game time is 4:30 pm from Rochester. Hear the action on The Big 1520 AM/92.3 FM/106.5 FM WHOW and online at dewittdailynews.com. 

 

Class 3A Regional semifinal softball scores from Wednesday....

 

At Bartonville

 

East Peoria 3

Limestone 7

 

At Chillicothe

 

Metamora 1

Geneseo 9

 

Illinois Valley Central 6

Streator 3

 

At Galesburg

 

Peoria Notre Dame 5

Macomb 0

 

At Taylorville

 

Chatham Glenwood 13

Decatur MacArthur 0

 

Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin 10

Taylorville 7

 

Class 4A Regoinal semifinal softball scores from Wednesday....

 

At Pekin

 

Moline 8

Normal Community 1

 

Class 1A Sectional semifinal softball scores from Wednesday....

 

At Champaign St. Thomas More

 

Fisher 2

Villa Grove 3

 

At Meridian

 

Casey-Westfield 1

Meridian 2

 

Class 2A Sectional semifinal softball scores from Wednesday....

 

At Brimfield

 

Quincy Notre Dame 2

Tremont 10

 

At Newton

 

Breese Mater Dei 5

Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond 2

 

At Olympia

 

Olympia 4

St. Joseph-Ogden 2

 

Class 3A Regional semifinal action today....

 

At Limestone

 

Washington 4:30pm

Canton

 

At Chillicothe

 

Geneseo 4:30pm

Illinois Valley Central

 

At Galesburg

 

Galesburg 6:30pm

Dunlap

 

>>Class 1A boys baseball sectional semifinal action

 

At Illinois Wesleyan

 

Delavan 0

Ottawa Marquette 2

 

LeRoy 3

Woodhull AlWood 0

 

Class 2A boys baseball Sectional semifinal action from Wednesday

 

At Bloomington Central Catholic

 

Bloomington Central Catholic 8

St. Joseph-Ogden 16

 

Tuscola 8

Clifton Central 3

 

Class 3A boys baseball Regional semifinal action from Wednesday....

 

At Bloomington 

 

Normal U-High 11

Pontiac 1

 

At Illinois Valley Central

 

Illinois Valley Central 0

Peoria Notre Dame 7

 

At Dunlap

 

Dunlap 11 F-5

Canton 0

 

Limestone 9

Macomb 1

 

At Mahomet-Seymour

 

Champaign Central 15

Mt. Zion 1

 

Charleston 7

Mahomet-Seymour 1

 

At Morton

 

Morton 10

East Peoria 2

 

Lincoln 3

Washington 0

 

At Paris

 

Mattoon 6

Champaign Centennial 2

 

At Quincy Notre Dame

 

Quincy Notre Dame 10

Springfield Lanphier 0

 

Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin 5 @ University of Illinois Springfield

Springfield 0

 

At Taylorville

 

Rochester 4

Springfield Southeast 2

 

Class 4A boys baseball regional semifinal action from Wednesday....

 

At Moline 

 

Normal Community 4

Rock Island 2

 

At Normal West

 

Normal West 8

Minooka 3

 

Class 3A boys baseball regional semifinal action today.....

 

At Bloomington 

 

Metamora 4:00pm

Bloomington 

 

At Taylorville

 

Chatham Glenwood 4:30pm

Taylorville  

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