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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 key moments along the way, that gave Fatima a 16-14 victory against Chillicothe in the Class 3 stat...