Danielle Cassidy's dominant stuff guided North Callaway to a third win in a row.
The senior starter struck out 14 - including 11 of the first 12 she faced - in a complete-game outing as the Ladybirds defeated the Helias Lady Crusaders 4-2 on Monday.
North Callaway (7-1) tallied a run in the bottom of the first, then finished its scoring with three in the third. The Lady Crusaders (4-7) scored two in the seventh.
Cassidy (4-1) scattered two hits and walked two as she had a perfect game through five innings and a no-hitter after six.
Junior Karlie Popp singled in senior shortstop Elaine Brinker from second with one in the first for the game's first run. Cassidy roped a two-run double with one out in the third to push the Ladybirds to a 3-0 lead. Freshman second baseman Meagan Talley singled in Cassidy to push North Callaway's edge to four runs.
Talley was 2-for-2, senior catcher Kaysey Huddleston was 2-for-2 with a run scored and Cassidy finished 1-for-3 as North Callaway collected nine hits.
This was the first meeting in school history between the two teams.
"It's good to play somebody you don't see very often," Ladybirds head coach Brandi Thomsen said.
North Callaway's JV team improved to 5-1 with a 13-4 victory.
The Ladybirds play will resume an Eastern Missouri Conference game against Clopton at approximately 6:30 p.m. tonight in Laddonia. The game - which stopped due to rain with North Callaway leading 2-0 in the top of the fourth on Sept. 9 - will play following a conference game between Clopton and Community R-VI.