State AA Softball
At the Belgrade Softball Complex
Who’s back: Belgrade (16-6), Billings Senior (11-6-1), Billings West (15-3), Great Falls CMR (9-11), Helena (9-11), Helena Capital (16-4), Kalispell Flathead (7-14), Kalispell Glacier (17-3), Missoula Big Sky (18-2-1), Missoula Sentinel (8-12)
Who’s new: Billings Skyview (7-11), Bozeman Gallatin (11-7)
2023 champion: Kalispell Glacier
Leading off: Kalispell Glacier looks to be in great shape to repeat. Led by six future college athletes, including reigning Montana Gatorade softball player of the year Ella Farrell, the Wolfpack have defeated all of their 2024 opponents except for Class A Polson, the only team that’s beaten them since April 13. The Wolfpack, who earned the top seed out of the Western AA, hope to wear their “home run hat” often this weekend en route to the program’s third state championship.
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Farrell plans to play softball at the College of Southern Idaho and five of her teammates will also continue their softball careers at the next level: Zoey Allen at the College of Idaho, Emma Cooke and Bella Hodous at Spokane Falls Community College, Kenadie Goudette at Columbia Basin College, and Cazz Rankosky at Montana State Billings.