In the mid-to-late 1960s, the Liverpool Jets senior women’s softball team was the undisputed Nova Scotia and Maritime senior ladies softball champion. With youth (average age 15) and speed as their outstanding features, these young ladies became the youngest club to hold the provincial and Maritime titles, and the first ladies team from Liverpool to win them.

The Jets started playing together as a junior girls’ softball team in 1963 and continued to win championships together for seven years, bringing home the provincial title in 1965-69 and ’72, and the Maritime title from 1965 to ’68. 1965 was a banner year, in which the Jets had a perfect record with zero losses in both tournaments.

Members of the team were: Gail Anthony, Gail Conrad, Janet Fralic, Shirley Freeman, Gail Hirtle, Janet Jollimore, Rosaire MacLean, Karen MacLeod, Marilyn Malone, Paulette Page, Debbie Silmarie, Janie Smith, Anne Thorbourne, Audrey Thorbourne (assistant coach) Harry (Bud) Thorbourne (coach), Susan Thorbourne, Laverne Veinot, Linda West (captain), Joan White, Coreen Whynot.