The Brookeland Lady Cats softball team played for the Class 1A State Championship in a Saturday morning game against the defending State Champions, the Jonesboro Lady Eagles. The game was played at McCombs Stadium on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. It was a game of momentum shifts that fell just short for the Lady Cats.

Jonesboro scored a single run in the first inning, but Brookeland stranded two runners in the bottom of the inning. Jonesboro then scored three runs in the top of the second inning and once again the Lady Cats got two runners on base but could not bring them home. Jonesboro led 4 to 0. A couple of Lady Cats errors in the third inning allowed two more runs for the Lady Eagles heading to the bottom of the third inning.

Brookeland would finally shake off the

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