It hasn’t been an easy opening week of the regular season for the Lebanon softball team.

After falling to a talented Franklin Central team on Tuesday night, Lebanon welcomed in another HCC foe on Thursday in the form of Fishers, a team that expects to be better than last year’s 15-11 record.

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Will Willems is the Sports Editor of the Lebanon Reporter. Follow him on Twitter @Will_Willems.