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Madison softball flips script on 2026 season with district title

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The Rams may be 14-14, but they are playing their best softball at the perfect time after nabbing their second straight district title on Saturday.

WILLARD — If you would have asked Madison softball coach Tim Niswander before the start of the 2026 season what the limit was on the potential of his Rams team, he would have said limitless. But after a regular season where the Rams stumbled out of the gate with a bunch of injuries and unhealthy players to finish two games under . 500 and earn the No.

4 seed in the district tournament, Niswander would still have been confident in his team, but still a little worried. DISTRICT CHAMPS: Clear Fork softball scores 16 in the first, wins first district title since 2017 On Saturday, May 23, he saw his Rams finally reach that limitless potential with a 10-2 Division III district championship win over Celina in Willard. They will now play Ontario (22-6) at 5 p.

m. on May 27 at Ashland University in the regional semifinals. “We always thought this was possible,” Niswander said.

“We knew that if we ever got healthy, this was a possibility. We kept telling the kids that once we got healthy, we would be OK. We just hoped it wouldn’t have taken as long as it did, but we will take it.

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