The Highland Huskies saved their best softball of the season for last, winning their last eight games to reach the state tournament, and eight players who helped lead them to Fort Dodge have earned all-conference accolades in the North division of the Southeast Iowa Super Conference.

That includes freshman Kamryn Fink, who is a unanimous first-team selection as an outfielder. Fink has a team-high .438 batting average and leads Highland with 33 runs scored and 37 stolen bases.

Senior Lilly Barre makes the first team at infielder after hitting .306 with four doubles, five home runs, 24 runs scored and a team-best 25 runs batted in.

Pitcher Jillian Stransky earns second-team honors for the Huskies. The eighth-grader has a 2.60 earned-run average and 73 strikeouts against just 13 walks allowed in over 94 innings pitched, and she’s been at her best of late, going 7-0 with a 1.40 ERA in the eight-game win streak that propelled Highland to state.

Freshman Maiya Singbeil receives a second-team nod on the infield after batting .301 with 12 RBI and scoring 14 runs, while two eighth-graders also make the cut on the all-conference second team.

Adley Sweeting is selected as a utility player but has been the Huskies’ starting catcher for every game this season and is hitting .297 with 17 runs batted in. Sienna Bell also gets a second-team selection at outfielder after posting a .375 average and scoring 11 times heading into the state tournament.

Honorable mentions go to freshman Kayce Schnobelen and eighth-grader Kinzie Ruess, key pieces of a young Highland team that has won 12 of its last 15 to raise their record to 17-9.

The Huskies will take on top-ranked Wayne in the Class 1A state quarterfinals Tuesday afternoon. You can hear full coverage on KCII starting at 4 p.m. on all signals and streaming on KCIIradio.com and the KCII1 app.