Photos: Juneau Vs. Homer in the Blue & Gold Battle Softball Tournament

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Pam Jantzi, of Homer High, slides safely into home plate as Rachelle Roldan, of Juneau-Douglas High, puts the tag on her at Albrecht Fields in Anchorage, AK on Friday, May 8, 2015. Juneau defeated Homer 16-4 in the Blue and Gold Battle high school softball tournament.

When the Alaska School Activities Association awarded a three-year bid to Lathrop High in Fairbanks to host the state high school softball tournaments, it left Anchorage with a big hole to fill in the fastpitch schedule. But instead of saying farewell to the statewide softball tourney altogether, Anchorage Sports Association softball director Brad Peterson decided to add a second big dance to the springtime softball scene.

"Fairbanks has state for the next three years, so I felt it would be a good idea to have a big tournament here to give Anchorage something," Peterson said on Friday in between games at the Blue and Gold Battle tournament.

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