The Adel-DeSoto-Minburn Softball team beat the host school of Fort Dodge on Monday in the state tournament, and now will battle against the top seed in Class 4A North Polk for a midday matchup.

The Tigers will have one final chance to defeat the Comets today in hopes of advancing to the championship game tomorrow. ADM and North Polk are both apart of the Raccoon River Conference, finishing one-two. The Comets won both games this season by a combined score of 9-0, as they went undefeated in the RRC (16-0).

In the first game in Adel, North Polk Junior Pitcher Ava Husak pitched seven innings and had 11 strikeouts, while Hagedorn gathered four strikeouts. The second game, Husak racked up 15 strikeouts. Despite the Tigers’ struggles against the Comets, ADM Senior Cameran Smith believes in her team.

“We said when we got the banner on whatever day it was, we were like, ‘it’s different this time,’ everyone felt like it was different. We thought it could go out and we can go and be in that championship, and we have the confidence to go out there and win games here at Fort Dodge, since were able to know what the atmosphere is like and it’s not anything new to us, so just knowing that we can go out here and we’re used to getting the banner and we’re used to being out here during the first games, and getting the bat on the ball during the first games.”

Senior Aleah Johnson knows that the Tigers have grown a lot from the times they’ve faced the Comets.

“At the beginning of the season we weren’t doing so hot, but know, our bats are hot, our infields’ hot, and we’re ready to go, we’re ready to beat them.”

The game is taking place this afternoon at the Harlan Sports Complex, on the Iowa Central Field, in Fort Dodge at 12:45pm. Raccoon Valley Radio will carry the broadcast on K107.9 KKRF, starting at 12:30pm.