“I don’t know if I have ever seen a ball get out of this ballpark so fast and so far.”
That quote from Holtville coach Daryl Otwell came after KK Dismukes hit her 13th home run of the season in a win over Elmore County back in April. However, those words can be used to describe quite a bit of the season for Dismukes and the Bulldogs.
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