State-Bound Rebels!

This farm girl is headed to Ft. Dodge! It was all smiles over at the Goose Lake Softball Diamond on Monday, July 20th as the Northeast Rebel Softball team punched their very first ever ticket to state. The Rebels played Iowa City Regina in the Regional Finals and won 2-1 in a true pitcher's duel. This is the Rebels first time in school history to make it to state in softball to compete and we couldn’t be more excited and proud to be traveling to Ft. Dodge for the state tournament July 27th-31st to represent our great community!

If you were at one of our games this year, you would have noticed the energy levels for our games and our team was unmatchable. For each game we had a theme and would decorate the dugout accordingly and wear silly outfits during batting practice. You could catch us in the dugout wearing funny hats like cheese heads and cowboy hats with crazy light up glasses and even wigs with a scuba mask. For the regional final game to make it to state the theme was “Christmas in July” and we went all out. We all came wearing Christmas sweaters and T-shirts, Santa hats or silly tree hats to batting practice. Not only that but we decorated the dugout as well. We had a miniature Christmas tree all lit up and of course a magical Elf on the Shelf watching over us in the dugout with paper snowflakes hanging from the ceiling.


As you can surely tell, my Northeast High School softball team and I are super excited to be headed to the 2020 Girls State Softball Tournament being held for the 50th year at Harlan and Hazel Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge, IA. I am even more excited that I will get out of a couple days of cattle chores and baling. If you get the chance to road trip out and watch us or keep up with us on social media making history, be sure to also check out our fun dugout entertainment along with the great softball being played. Go Rebs!

 ~ Kesley Holdgrafer