The Blair High School softball season ended Thursday with a 15-10 loss to Waverly at the NSAA Class B State Softball Championships in Hastings.
Coach Jennifer Fangmeier’s Bears finished their tourney run 1-2 and 27-10 overall.
BHS junior Laynie Brown hit two home runs against the Vikings during the elimination game, but Waverly hit seven total with a steady wind blowing softballs beyond the outfield fence. The Bears led 4-3 before their opposition notched three long balls during the top of the fourth frame.
Blair later pulled within 7-6 with Brown’s first homer during the bottom half, but the Vikings kept adding to their run total.
Down 12-6 in the sixth inning, the Bears’ Mia McClain cut the deficit to five runs with an RBI double.
Then, back down 15-7 in the seventh, Brown hit a second homer, scoring Hannah Heuton, Emmi Hall and herself to reach the final tally.
Blair’s state qualification was the school’s fourth-straight and 17th overall. The 2025 team won the Class B-4 District Tournament, the Blair Invite and a Lincoln Southeast Invite pool. It will graduate seniors Claire Anderson, Heuton, Jacy Scheuth, Abby Leggott and manager Ruby Petersen.
For the full story and additional photos from Hastings, return here to enterprisepub.com/sports on Monday and check out Tuesday’s edition of the Washington County Enterprise.
