BLACKFOOT — If you’re looking for a dynamite radiologist, the Bingham News Chronicle recommends Dr. Brianna Reynolds.

All due respect to the other radiologists out there, but Dr. Reynolds is on another level — or will be. Someday.

Today, Reynolds is a Blackfoot High School student. Thursday she will slide a tassle, throw a hat and become a graduate.

And yesterday Brianna Reynolds was a member of the best softball team in Blackfoot Broncos history.

Reynolds and the Broncos made a remarkable run through the postseason, ripping unbeaten through the district tournament and raging deep into the 5A state championship bracket.

The Broncos won 10 of their final 12 games in 2026, and when it was all over the girls in green and black were awarded individual medals of awesomeness and the 5A state runner-up trophy.

“From the last district game where we found out we made state to the game against Vallivue where we took a spot in the championship, such an amazing experience,” Reynolds said.

Blackfoot’s runner-up finish was the best in school history, earning the team the silver-on-red state trophy. As it turns out, that is not just the best state softball trophy in the massive trophy case at BHS. It is the ONLY state softball trophy.

State opened in Post Falls on May 14, but three days earlier Reynolds got some troubling news. Turns out she had torn the ACL in her left knee. Reynolds is a lefty pitcher, making it her push leg rather than her plant leg.

And that is a good thing. Had it been her plant leg, that may have been the whole ballgame.

When Reynolds wasn’t pitching she was playing first. When she wasn’t playing first she was hitting.

And when Reynolds was hitting, she was raking — highlighted by a 6 RBI day in the third-place game against Vallivue.

Reynolds was simply unconscious in the pitching circle facing the best teams the state had to offer. She pitched in all six games on that gimpy knee, finishing with 27 strikeouts and a sparkling 1.40 earned run average over 25 innings.

The Broncos entered the 5A District 6 tournament with a modest 13-9 record, finishing 5-5 in conference play. Blackfoot started playing its best once districts began, sweeping to a district title with four straight wins.

Blackfoot won its state opener against Lakeland and then dropped into the loser-out side of the bracket with a 13-12 loss to Vallivue. The Broncos then rattled off three straight (Twin Falls, Bonneville, Vallivue) to earn a spot in the title game against Middleton, a competitive 4-2 loss worthy of a state championship final.

“Early we always seemed to have one bad inning and we worked to fix that, making sure if we made a mistake we didn’t have two or three — that we could shake it off,” Blackfoot coach Tammy Sorensen said.

Sorensen also took time to remind the Broncos that they were indeed one of the best teams in the state. Like Gene Hackman measuring the basket height in Hoosiers, Sorensen reminded her Broncos they were here for a reason.

“Before our first game I asked them a simple question, ‘Why not us?’” Sorensen said. “We are playing great defense, hitting the ball hard, staying positive, so let’s go get a trophy.”

And they did. First one ever.

First one for Blackfoot, first one for that trophy case, and first one for a senior playing on 1 ½ knees.

Reynolds plans to serve an LDS mission in Japan before heading to Provo, Utah, where she intends to study medicine at BYU. Of course, all roads lead to Blackfoot, and all hallways at Blackfoot High School lead to the trophy case.

So if you see a solitary figure standing in front of the softball section looking at that silver-on-red trophy, maybe say “hi.” Maybe say “wow, what a run.”

And maybe say, “Yeah, ol’ Doc Reynolds sure could pitch, huh?”