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It doesn’t look like there will be an easy game for anyone in the Jefferson Bank Holiday Hoops Classic. “You know your first-round game will be a barnburner and there’s a really good chance all three of them will be as well,” Helias coach Garrett Wiggans said Wednesday during a press conference for the Classic, to be played Dec. 28-30 at Capital City High School.

The Helias Lady Crusaders never quit. Top-seeded Helias rebounded from a seven-minute stretch without a field goal with an 11-3 run late in the fourth quarter to come back for a 57-53 win against the third-seeded Fatima Lady Comets in the championship of the Comet Classic.

A big night from Braylon Frazier helped lock up a title game berth for North Little Rock on Friday night.

Life is full of second chances. So was Saturday’s Class 3 softball state championship game between the Fatima Lady Comets and the Chillicothe Lady Hornets. Fatima pitcher Taylor Baumhoer received a second chance in that game, and she made the most of it.

The Fatima Lady Comets would like to remind everyone no lead is safe until the final out is made. That lesson earned themselves a softball state championship Saturday afternoon. Trailing by nine runs at the end of two innings against the Chillicothe Lady Hornets, the Lady Comets scored 10 unanswered runs, and after losing a one-run lead in the bottom of the seventh inning, they had two more runs cross the plate in the eighth inning. Those final two runs were the deciding factor, among many other...

I’m still trying to process what I witnessed in almost three hours of softball Saturday afternoon at Killian Softball Complex in Springfield. I figure I should start with trying to give a title to the Fatima Lady Comets’ improbable, phenomenal, come-from-behind 16-14 victory in eight innings against the Chillicothe Lady Hornets.

There wasn’t much offense in the first three innings for the Fatima Lady Comets. By the end of the game, there was plenty of offense to make up for those early innings. The Lady Comets punctuated their first Final Four appearance in seven years with a seven-run seventh inning Friday afternoon, as they cruised to a 13-0 victory against Westminster Christian in the Class 3 state semifinals at Killian Softball Complex.

It’s going to be a busy day on the softball field for the Show-Me Conference. Three teams - the Fatima Lady Comets, the Russellville Lady Indians and the Eugene Lady Eagles - will each play for a spot tonight in the state softball Final Four after winning district titles last week.

The calendar may have said it was Sept. 29, but Thursday night’s game at the Falcon Athletic Complex resembled late October softball. One swing of the bat determined the game’s fate in the pitchers’ duel. Baley Rackers slapped an RBI double to center field in the bottom of the third inning, then scored on an overthrow as the Blair Oaks Lady Falcons won 2-0 against the Fatima Lady Comets.

The Fatima Lady Comets took the final step. For the second straight season, the Lady Comets advanced to the title game in the Lady Jays Softball Classic at Binder Park. After coming short last year, Fatima stood tall Saturday in posting a 13-5 victory against the Capital City Lady Cavaliers to win the championship.