The Booneville Lady Bearcats and Atkins were scheduled to face one another on April 11, but the game was cancelled.
The two teams would meet up instead in the quarterfinal round of the Class 3A state tournament at Equity Bank Sports Complex in Harrison.
There Lady Red Devils used a five run second inning to snap the Lady Bearcats; 24-game winning streak and move on to the semifinal round of the tournament with a 7-2 win.
In the decisive inning an infield single was followed by a pair of throwing errors on would be sacrifice bunts and Atkins had taken a 1-0 lead with no outs.
A ground ball and a two out single got two more across and a two-run home run made it 5-0.
It stayed that way until the Lady Bearcat fourth when, with two down, Brooke Turner, Joleigh Tate and Hayley Lunsford – all seniors playing what would be their final game, as was Caroline Smithson – singled in succession with Lunsford driving in Turner and it was 5-1.
A walk, stolen base, ground ball and a sacrifice fly got the run back for Atkins in the sixth and it was 6-1.
Franklin walked in the bottom of the sixth and swiped second, then scored on a single by Turner to make it 6-2.
Two hits, a walk, and an error got another run for Atkins in the seventh to make it 7-2.
The Lady Bearcats end the season at 26-2 having won both the 3A-4 District Tournament and the Class 3A Region 1 title.
QUARTERFINAL LOSS ENDS LADY BEARCAT SEASON
