No words can describe the heartbreak the Pace softball players were experiencing Friday after a gut-wrenching end to a special season here in a 6A state semifinal at the Legends Way Ball Fields in Clermont.
They gathered on an empty playing field to listen to their coach, Enrique Eligio, speak during a post game pep talk, and even senior Haylee High, fighting back emotion, spoke for a few minutes about the end of the road for the Patriots in 2022.
