Windsor stuns Mattoon with 11-4 rout to take Firecracker opener

By JG/T-C Staff sports@jg-tc.com MATTOON -- Windsor-Neoga jumped on Mattoon Post 88’s Junior American Legion team with six hits in the first inning and needed just six innings to claim an 11-4 win in the opening game for both at the Firecracker Classic Monday. Torey Leasher’s two-out double in the top of the sixth scored two runs and Ryne Floyd went the distance for Windsor, which faces Danville Blue at Eastern Illinois today at 1:30 p.m. It met Paris in the late game Monday. Mattoon also faces Danville Blue at 4 p.m. today then meets Paris at 6:15. Both games are at Grimes Field. Mattoon trailed just 5-4 before Windsor scored two runs in the fifth then took advantage of five straight walks or hit batsmen while scoring four more in the sixth. Leasher, Cole Ohnesorge and Dalton McFarland each had two hits. Derrick Zavarella... [read full story]