‘Green bandana’ salute for Horizon champion softball team

When the Phoenix women’s softball team returned to Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay on Saturday night after winning the Horizon League title in Ohio, Phoenix fans wearing green bandanas — the headwear of choice among the team’s most loyal supporters — offered posters, balloons and cheers as the team showed off its conference championship hardware. (The bandana gesture reflected the fact it was primarily a core group of softball players who started the Green Bandana Brigade cheering section a few years ago to root on their fellow student athletes at various Phoenix home games). We have photos of the homecoming.