The West Laurens softball team picked up a confident win, and suffered a heartbreaking loss to a longtime state tournament rival, in its opening day action at the GHSA state championships in Columbus.
Though it was pushed back a day by weather delays that postponed the start of the event, the Raiders arrived with a bang in their Thursday morning debut, hitting three home runs to power past Monroe Area 6-2 and advance in the winner’s bracket.
But they’d be knocked out of it – and bumped to an elimination game set for Friday – in their latest collision with Heritage of Ringgold, a state powerhouse they’ve met at this stage of the playoffs six times in the last five years…