Havre High softball comes up short at state

The Havre High softball team had to fight weather and tough competition as last weekend's Class A state tournament in Billings.

The Blue Ponies lost their opening game Friday 5-2 to Hamilton, then, they were eliminated by Frenchtown 10-0.

Havre had seven hits in game one, including the game's opening run by Rachel Jette after she knocked Jersi Morse on a single. Hamilton scored four times off Havre's Elle Verploegen in the fifth inning and tacked on one more insurance run in the sixth. Verploegen had another dominant performance in the loss, recording 13 strikeouts.

The Blue Ponies then took o...