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Hattie Locklin hit the floor hard, bumping her head on the court, and had to be helped to the locker room to be evaluated late in the third quarter of a Rural Region 1 championship game that still hung in the balance.
Three minutes later, she was kneeling near the score table, chants of ‘we want Hattie’ flowing from an energized Jay student section, and the hope of the program’s first trip to state since 1998 getting a new injection of life.
The Jay Royals celebrate their regional championship win over Chipley.
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