The quest for a perfect season ended for the Mattoon Junior High softball team. The Lady Wildcats were eliminated in sectional play by Effingham, 13-5. Mattoon finishes at 18-1, and Effingham heads to the state quarterfinals this weekend. Also punching their ticket to state, Casey-Westfield, who beat up on Okaw Valley, 15-1, and Villa Grove, who edged Pontiac St. Mary’s, 2-1
In middle school baseball, Charleston captured a regional title with a 5-0 win over Effingham; Cumberland defeated Casey-Westfield, 5-1; Okaw Valley knocked off Sigel St. Michael’s, 6-1; T-town moved on to the championship game with a 13-3 rout of Altamont; Paris Crestwood bowed out in the title game with an 8-1 loss to St. Joseph
Area volleyball winners from last night: Cumberland, Windsor/Stew-Stras, Okaw Valley, Robinson, Altamont, and Olney
Boys’ golf: Tri-County defeated Casey-Westfield, and Arcola won a triangular with Altamont and Sullivan to improve to 17-1
Baseball: St. Anthony shut out Neoga, 13-0, Brownstown/St. Elmo roughed up CH/BC, 12-0, and South Central put a run on the board in the 8th to win a pitcher’s duel with Windsor/Stew-Stras, 2-1