After losing four key seniors from a year ago, the 2022 Horseshoe Bend softball team features just four players that are in their 10th grade year or beyond.
Brooke Milner, Kennedy Templeton and Nadia Brooks all return as important upperclassman pieces — alongside sophomore and three-sport star Reagan Taylor — but the road map is still being drawn for the rest of the team as the Generals’ season has gotten underway.
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