Sometimes waiting until late in the game to put the screws to the other team works. Other times, it doesn’t. For the Southern Regional softball team, it worked on June 4.

“When I hit the ball, I didn’t think I hit it hard enough, but I just needed to bust it down the first-base line,” said senior Ella DiPietro, who led off the bottom of the sixth inning and reached on an error by the third baseman to start a two-run rally, as the fourth-seeded Rams edged 12th-seeded Rancocas Valley, 5-4, in the…