On Friday, April 10, the Monticello softball team shut out Benton/Shullsburg, 9-0.

Courtney Leuzinger got the win pitching for the Ponies. Jessie Garrison was called on to pitch in the seventh inning, as Leuzinger had developed a blister on her index finger of her pitching hand and had to leave the mound. Garrison gave up the only hit of the night with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning.

“We scored in the first with a Sam Devoe double, she then stole third, and then she scored on a wild pitch. The game stayed 1-0 until the bottom of the fourth with an RBI single by Brooke Bidlin...