After winning 15 of its first 16 games last spring, everything was going great for the Southern Regional softball team, and then head coach Jamie Bernaldo’s son decided it was time to be born. Days later, the Rams hit a wall, lost three straight games between Wednesday and Friday, and by the second weekend of June the season was over.
“Finley didn’t want to wait for softball to end and he came early,” she joked. “But I believe it was a change for the girls and did impact how they finished.”
And that likely will remain the open question for this spring when the Rams take the field, starting later this week:…
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