By Fred Kroner
Maci Clodfelder swatted three hits on Tuesday (June 1) for Villa Grove, which battled back from a 9-3 deficit, but fell short to visiting Blue Ridge 11-9 in a Lincoln Prairie Conference softball game.
Allison Pangburn knocked two hits and drove in three runs. Clodfelder and Addison Fisher each scored three runs. Fisher reached base all four times she batted, with a single and three walks.
Alexandria Brown and Emma Bratten-Noice shared the pitching duties. Bratten-Noice allowed two hits and no runs in her four-inning relief stint. She walked two and struck out one.
Villa Grove (11-13) returns to action on Thursday (June 3) at home in a first-round Class 1A regional game against Okaw Valley.
