The Virginia 5A State Runner-Up Halifax County High School baseball team received a warm return home Saturday night from its trip from Fairfax where it had played in the VHSL state tournament championship game earlier in the day.

A crowd estimated at between 300 and 400 family members, friends and well-wishers from the community gathered in the bus parking lot at Halifax County High School, erupting into applause as the Comets team bus arrived and continuing as players and coaches one-by-one stepped off the team bus.

Once off the bus, Comets players gathered and hoisted the state runner-up trophy to a round of applause from those in the gathering.

I very much appreciate the people coming out and welcoming our players back home, said Comets Head Coach Kenneth Day.

All of this is for these kids, and they deserve it. We very much appreciate the support the players families have given us this season, and we thank them for everything they have done to support the players and our baseball program.

I cant say thank you enough to the people and the businesses in the community that have supported us this year and in years past, Day added.

It takes the effort of everybody to make our program a success.

The Comets had a police escort from the Halifax County line on Route 360 all the way to Halifax County High School. Deputies with the Halifax County Sheriffs Office met the bus just after it crossed into Halifax County, and with one police cruiser in front and another behind, escorted the team to the South Boston Town limits.

There, South Boston Police joined in, and after traveling a short distance up Hamilton Boulevard, a fire truck from the South Boston Fire Department pulled up in front of the bus for the ride to Halifax County High School.

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