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The IHSAA softball season came to a close Saturday at Purdue’s Bittinger Stadium.

Here’s who is leaving West Lafayette with state championship trophies:

HIT REFRESH FOR UPDATES.

Saturday, June 14

Class 4A: Crown Point 2, Center Grove 0 (READ MORE)

Class 3A: Cathedral 5, Hanover Central 4

Class 2A: Tecumseh 2, Andrean 0 (READ MORE)

Friday, June 13

Class A: North Newton 2, Clay City 0

Read more: 33 years later, North Newton trailblazers finally see Spartans win softball state title

Follow Brian Haenchen on Twitter at @Brian_Haenchen. Get IndyStar’s high school coverage sent directly to your inbox with the High School Sports newsletter.

GAME COMING UP AT 11. THE HIGH SCHOOL SPRING SPORTS PLAYOFFS CONTINUING TODAY IN BASEBALL, SOFTBALL AND LACROSSE AS TEAMS TRY TO ADVANCE TO THE NEXT ROUND IN CLASS A GIRLS LACROSSE. TOP SEEDED KENNEBUNK HOSTED THORNTON ACADEMY. THE TROJANS STARTED OFF THINKING UPSET SOPHIA SIROIS, PUTTING THORNTON ACADEMY UP THREE NIL IN THE FIRST QUARTER, BUT KENNEBUNK WOULD RESPOND. CAMDEN KEEGAN SETTING UP THE GOAL BY MADELINE DOWLING, THEN KEENAN HELPS OR KEEPS IT FOR HERSELF. FOR THE GOAL. WE EVEN PASS THE DEFENDERS. KENNEBUNK CLIMBING BACK TO WIN IT 11 TO 7. THEY’LL TAKE ON CAPE ELIZABETH IN THE SEMIS IN CLASS A, BOYS TOP SEEDED FALMOUTH HOSTED DEERING. THE NAVIGATORS TOOK CONTROL, JOEY GARRETT GIVING FALMOUTH A 4 TO 1 LEAD. 41 SECONDS LATER, PETER KERN SETTING UP ZACH SMALL IN FRONT OF THE NET. THAT WILL MAKE IT 5 TO 1. EVAN YALE SCORED 18 SECONDS AFTER THAT, AND FALMOUTH CRUISES 18 TO 6. THE WIN. THEY FACE CAPE IN THE SEMIFINALS. IN CLASS B BOYS, FREEPORT HOSTED BRUNSWICK. THE DRAGONS WERE IN A QUICK FIVE NIL HOLE BEFORE ROBERT BOWEN PUTS BRUNSWICK ON THE BOARD. FREEPORT ANSWERING JUST OVER A MINUTE LATER WHEN HUNTER RICHARD FINDS THE BACK OF THE NET LATE IN THE FIRST HALF. HERE, RANDALL WALKER WORKING FROM BEHIND THE NET FOR THE GOAL, GETS IT OVER THE GOALIE’S HEAD. FREE

A sister and brother in rodeo earned the WyoPreps Athlete of the Week honors based on performances from June 2 through June 8, 2025. Hadley and Turek Thompson excelled at the Wyoming High School Rodeo Association’s State Finals in Buffalo on June 5-7. Hadley scored in five events, and Turek finished in the top three in the average of two events at the Johnson County Fairgrounds.

WYOPREPS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK WINNER 6-13-25

Girls Winner

Hadley Thompson won the goat tying average, placed in the top six in barrel racing, breakaway roping, and team roping, and scored in pole bending. She finished with 151.50 points across the five events. Hadley finished in the top five of all events in the season-long points standings. She qualified for the National High School Finals Rodeo (NHSFR) in Rock Springs next month in four events and is the alternate in the fifth.

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Boys Winner

Turek Thompson won the steer wrestling average at the State Finals. He and his partner, Trigg Thompson from Cheyenne, took third in the team roping average in Buffalo. Turek scored 90 points across his two events last weekend. Turek and his partner finished second in team roping in the season standings and qualified for the NHSFR. He placed sixth in steer wrestling during the season.

WyoPreps spoke to the sister-brother duo about their efforts at the state finals. We asked Hadley about scoring in all five events and placing first in goat tying, and she discussed the conditions during the competition. Turek described his feelings on capturing the bulldogging and his team roping weekend as the header. We asked both Thompsons about reaching the NHSFR.

Congratulations to Hadley and Turek on being selected as the WyoPreps Athletes of the Week!

From Bidwell (the park’s 120th birthday celebration) to Biggs (the Wolverines’ incredible CIF NorCal softball championship) and from Plumas (firefighters make quick work of lightning strikes) to Pride (Chico’s annual celebration), there were no shortage of things to celebrate around Butte County and beyond this week.

But, just a week after going all-positive with a multi-hit column, we’re going to have to mix in the bad with the good this week. There are a lot of discouraging things going on right now — so bad that even our hits have a bit of a weary feel to them …

HIT — We’ll start with news that Chico is advertising for an in-house city attorney.

Two words, spoken with always-perfect 20/20 hindsight: about time.

The legal landmines that were Martin v. Boise and Warren v. Chico have left an impact that’ll be felt in our community for years to come. It’s impossible to look at the present-day situation objectively and not come to this conclusion: Chico should have done better, and the legal advice from out-of-town attorneys often wasn’t up to par.

How else to explain the fact the city is still playing Whac-A-Mole with expensive homeless camp evacuations — more than three years after the City Council entered an agreement it thought would make enforcement easier, not more difficult?

And, how else to explain that the city will be bound by terms of that agreement for another two years, while the rest of the western states are free of Martin v. Boise?

To be fair, some of the judges’ rulings haven’t helped much, either. But better legal counsel ahead of time could have and should have helped prevent that.

There’s no guarantee things would have gone better with a local attorney, but we’re having a hard time imagining a scenario where it could have gone much worse.

With less than two years left on that agreement, it’s a good time for the city to start coming up with a better plan. Hiring a new city attorney is a great start.

MISS — There are times that the headlines of the day leave us wondering what in the world has happened to our humanity.

“Man arrested for allegedly dropping infant on street while on cocaine” is among the worst we’ve seen in ages.

The story is just as horrifying as the headline implies. According to Oroville police, “Witnesses reported seeing the suspect place the child on the street, walk in and out of traffic and describe him as ‘flinging the child around like a rag doll’ … At one point, the suspect was reportedly armed with a knife and made motions as if he were attempting to harm the child.”

Again, this was the infant’s father.

There’s no kind or politically correct way to say it: Some people are simply a danger to society and should not be allowed to live freely on our streets. Law enforcement officials are frustrated that it’s so hard to keep criminals locked up these days; who can blame them?

HIT — We’ll go uplifting again for a moment and offer congratulations to the thousands of area high school and college graduates who received their diplomas in the past few weeks.

Even there, we can’t help but wonder if it might be time for some schools to have a change of heart.

From Paradise to Butte Valley and beyond, there was an unwelcome sight at some graduations this year: EMTs giving medical care to spectators who had spent too much time in the heat.

Some schools have moved graduation time back to 8 p.m. or even later, which beats the often-still-blazing-hot sun of 6:30 or 7 p.m. There just isn’t a lot of shade at most of our facilities, and spectators — often the elderly — are at real risk of serious health issues as a result.

Meanwhile, it’s been several years since Chico State rolled many of its ceremonies back to 9 a.m. With each passing year, it’s making more sense to us.

It’s time to consider replacing “it’s easier to be off on a Friday night” with “it’s safer to have these ceremonies in the coolest part of the day” as the mindset for this sort of thing.

MISS — Meanwhile, President Trump says he’s going to phase out FEMA — tough to not think of the valuable post-Camp Fire trailers whenever we see those four letters together — and the City of Oroville is making a push to ban fluoride from the city’s drinking water, following a trend that’s even seen the entire state of Utah adopt a similar stance.

We are glad Cal Water has agreed to the Oroville City Council’s request to hold some public hearings on the matter. Regardless of which path Oroville follows, this is a topic that cries out for the highest levels of public participation.

Hits and misses are compiled by the editorial board.