The first time Southern Regional High School’s softball team faced South Jersey power Kingsway this spring, the Dragons took advantage of the Rams not having starting pitcher Elizabeth Gosse in the circle and won a 9-4 contest on the second day of the season.

On May 24, the sixth-seeded Rams gave second-seeded Kingsway a much better contest but couldn’t overcome the Dragons in the end, falling 3-1 in the semifinals of the NJSIAA South Jersey Group IV tournament.

Kingsway scored once in the bottom of the first and again in the bottom of the third to take a 2-0 lead, before the…