While football soon will highlight Friday nights, the local girls’ softball teams will also be busy once school starts again.

Bradwell Institute has a partial schedule posted on maxpreps.com, but Liberty County High School has most of its schedule posted for the upcoming season.

The Lady Panthers have two back-to-back home games pitting them against their area rivals. Liberty will starts at 4 p.m. Aug.
10 against Long County and hosts Bradwell at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 13. The Lady Panthers are scheduled for a tournament Aug. 14-15, but were still finalizing their opponent and location at press time.

Liberty will be on the road for its next five games. The Lady Panthers will play at 6 p.m. Aug. 18 in Guyton against South Effingham and at 6 p.m. Aug. 24 at Long County, travel to Burke County for a doubleheader starting at 4 p.m. Aug. 27, play at 6 p.m. Sept. 1 in Richmond Hill and face Bradwell at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 8.

On Sept. 12, Liberty will host a doubleheader against Thomson starting at 2 p.m. At 6 p.m. Sept. 15, LCHS will host South Effingham before traveling to Portal on Sept. 17 for a 5 p.m. game.

The Lady Panthers will host Richmond Hill at 6 p.m. Sept. 21 and Windsor Forest at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 22. They travel to Windsor Forest two days later for a rematch at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 24 and play at New Hampstead at 5 p.m. Sept. 29. The Lady Panthers return the favor and host the Lady Phoenix at 5 p.m. Oct. 1.

The final two games of the season will be against Wayne County, with the Lady Panthers visiting the Jesup team at 6 p.m. Oct. 5 and hosting the Yellow Jackets at 6 p.m. Oct. 7.

Last year, Liberty was 16-16 overall and 5-5 in Region 3-AAAA. The Lady Panthers went to the first round of the state playoffs, where Pike County beat them in a best-of-three series.