OTTUMWA — For the first time July of 2019, Frank Huston was back in the dugout guiding an Ottumwa High School softball team.
It didn’t take long for the Bulldogs to lift the patriarch of the program to a milestone win. Ottumwa opened the season with a pair of dominant Iowa Alliance Conference south division wins over Des Moines East, winning 12-3 in the opening game before completing the sweep with an 11-0 shutout in game two lifting Huston to his 1,700th win 47 seasons as Ottumwa’s head softball coach.
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