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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...

Camryn Sharp hit a pair of home runs Tuesday for the Capital City Lady Cavaliers, but that’s all they would get against Fatima pitcher Taylor Baumhoer. The Lady Comets scored the game’s first six runs and Baumhoer struck out seven, as they came away with an 8-2 win against Capital City.

It looked good off the bat. The only question was it going to be good enough? “I hoped it was gone off the bat,” Fatima coach Ashlee Schnieders said after a two-run home run by Allison Schwartze keyed a 3-0 victory Monday against the Helias Lady Crusaders at the American Legion Post 5 Sports Complex.