 While the Sbika softball team will also be playing in the state tournament, a result that most wouldn't expect after the team started the year at three and seven. At the beginning of the season we were struggling, we were letting games slip away from us and I just told the girls we got to find ways to win and the will to win. And I think just through all the games that we've been playing that we found that will, we found that drive to succeed and finally everything's clicking together for us. It feels really good because I knew we could do it the whole time and I don't think anybody knew we could come this far. We've gone three years without kind of making it a state so we've come really close so it feels really good to finally make it. Their resiliency has been key in their playoff run coming from behind multiple times to make it to state. We don't give up. We just keep going. If we make errors we let it go and just keep going forward. That along with their experience could help them upset second seated Edgerton. We know we can do it and our coach believes in us and we never really get down when we're down. We have some experience that other teams don't have. We have a lot of players that have played at a young age. So we have lots of experience to come and do it and just that gut check time where we kind of just come and string some hits together. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.