Joseph City’s Lady Wildcats defeated No. 12 Ft. Thomas last Saturday in the opening round of the 1A State Softball Tournament. The Cats entered the tournament as the No. 5 seed despite dropping their final regular season game at Williams 6-4 last Tuesday of last week.
With their 12-9 win over the Lady Apaches, the Wildcats now will face Williams once again, only this time the season will come to a close for one of the two teams.
Williams is the No. 4 seed and the Lady Vikings followed up their regular season finale win over Joseph City with a 19-3 win over 13th seeded Ash Fork in the opening round on Saturday.
Joseph City and Williams will square off at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 5, at the Rose Mofford Complex. With a win the Wildcats would advance to the state semifinals, where they would see either No. 1 Ray or No. 9 Hayden at 10:15 a.m. on Saturday, May 6. The 1A state championship game will be played on Monday afternoon at the Farrington Softball field on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe.
