By Dan Weber

NKyTribune sports reporter

It’s not about just getting to the state tournament, that’s what you’ll hear coaches tell you when they reach this final step in the post-season. It’s about keeping the winning going.

Not.

Not if you’re that most unlikely of Ninth Region champions the way the Holy Cross Indians were in their Friday debut at the Clark’s Pump-and-Shop KHSAA State Softball Tournament at UK’s John Cropp Stadium.

Getting here was an accomplishment plenty enough on its own for the small parochial school from Latonia that often seems to punch above its own weight. Whatever, it was not going to surpass that here.

After all, the Tribe, as they like to call themselves, had managed to bounce back from a regular season that saw them lose their first two games by a combined

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