ROGERS — During the regular season, if the Bryant Lady Hornets got an opponent to a shootout, they were usually golden. They’d pump one penalty kick into the net after another after another, keeping the pressure on the opposition to match them.
They rarely did.
So when, in their first two games of the Class 7A State Tournament, their contests went to shootouts (after finishing in a tie through regulation and two 10-minute overtimes), it figured to play right into the Lady Hornets’ hands . . . er, feet.
Though it wasn’t as cut-and-dried as usual, they found a way to get past Springdale Har-Ber in the first round late Friday night then Fort Smith Southside on Saturday evening as they advanced to the semifinals of the tournament, a win away from playing for a State championship.