AURORA — To win a tournament as difficult as state softball, a team needs to find perfection in all of the little moments that got it there.

There was no shortage of those in Holy Family’s ride to the 4A state championship at Aurora Sports Park on Saturday. In the end, the third-seeded Tigers came from behind to take down No. 1 Windsor, 7-4, to claim its third crown since 2020.

Senior ace Emmaline Humphreys was a major catalyst in their 25-4 journey back to the top. They haven’t been here in four years. In the three seasons since Holy Family last graced a championship game — where it lost to Lutheran in 2022 — the Tigers had been stymied in the semifinals twice.

“It feels amazing. It feels like a culmination of so much work and honestly, I definitely did not think we would get to this p

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