A differentially pumped windowless Ne gas target and a Ne beam produced with the ATLAS accelerator at Argonne National Laboratory were used to measure angle-averaged excitation functions for binary decay of Ne + Ne into low-lying states of Ne + Ne and Mg + 0, in the region of excitation energy in Ca from 51.4 to 58.2 MeV ( Ne beam energies from 61.8 to 75.4 MeV). The Ne + Ne mass partition displays little correlated structure and there exists no evidence of intermediate width resonances in these channels with branching ratios comparable to those seen in the Mg + Mg system. Angular distributions for the elastic channel are consistent with those obtained using optical-model calculations. The excitation functions for the low-lying channels in Mg + 0 do contain some structures, with widths varying from 400 to 800 keV in the c.m. system. PACS number(s): 25.70.Ef, 25.70.Hi