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Southwest Softball finishes Historic season with three playoff wins

| By: By Cody Junkin
Southwest Mississippi Softball produced a historic 2026 season with countless records broken.

The Lady Bears achieved the team's first every playoff win in Southwest history on Saturday, May 2nd in the first game of the Region 23 Tournament beating Hinds 8-4.

Following that win the ladies were knocked to the lower bracket where they had to battle LSU-Eunice to stay alive in the tournament. The Lady Bears would go on to beat the Bengals 9-4 for

Southwest Softball's second ever playoff win and 30th win of the season.

That 30th win marked the first time any Southwest Softball team has reached 30 wins in school history.

Staying alive in the postseason, the Lady Bears then had to face the Northwest Rangers that same night, a team who beat them twice in the regular season.

The Southwest bullpen stepped up in the game against Northwest to come away with their 3rd playoff win of the tournament and in Southwest history.

The win over Northwest would also put the team at 31 wins on the season, the most in school history.

The Lady Bear win punched their ticket to a rematch with Co-Lin in the bracket play Championship where Southwest would fall 2-10 to the Wolves ending their season.

The season was a massive success for Southwest and Southwest Softball with countless individual player records broken during the 31-18 season.

Bailey McLin was the leadoff hitter for the Lady Bears as a freshman during the 2026 season.

Bailey broke the hitting streak record with a hit in 21 games in a row this season. Bailey also set the single season record for hits in a season with 67 and at bats with 168.

Bailey set the new single season runs scored record with 50.

Corin Talbot set the new second place for hits with 66 and for runs scored with 49.

Talbot now also holds the new career records for hits with 110 in a career and runs scored with 79 in her career.

Corin set the new single season record for doubles with 17 and career record for doubles with 31.

Freshman third baseman Tristan Allen started her career with a bang by shattering the previous single season and career homerun records with 23 homeruns in her freshman season.

Allen also set the new single season RBI record with 64 this season. Fellow freshman Alexis Dejean was right behind her to set the new second place RBI record with 58 RBIs this season.

Starting pitcher Allie Ladnier set the new single season record for wins in a season with 17, with 3 of them coming in the 3 playoff wins to end the season.

The team as a whole set a handful of single season records as well including most At Bats (1,350), Hits (456), Doubles (85), Homeruns (66), RBIs (317), Runs (336), Base on Balls (168), Batting Average (.336), On-Base % (.410), and Slugging % (.553).

It is safe to say that Coaches Shea Johnson, Larry Lippert, and Callie Venable and the Lady Bears produced the most successful softball season in Southwest history!
 
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