If the Southern Regional softball team had planned on contending for a state sectional championship, it most likely was going to have to be done by playing all road games, since the Rams were the 10th-seeded team in NJSIAA South Jersey Group IV. On May 16, the Rams (20-7) traveled west to meet up with seventh-seeded Lenape for a first-round contest and returned home as quarterfinalists after ousting the Indians, 4-2.

Lenape opened the scoring with a run in the bottom of the first, before Southern tallied its initial run in the top of…