Section IV Softball
New York's Premier Area for High School Softball
Home of 51 State Champions!
Corning graduate and Arkansas commit Atalyia Rijo picked up two prestigious honors in 2022: MaxPreps best softball player in all of New York and Gatorade Softball Player of the Year!
Deposit graduate Makenzie Stiles was named the 2018-2019 Gatorade New York State High School Player of the Year!
List of local sites that cover Section IV softball:
Press & Sun-Bulletin
The Ithaca Journal
Star-Gazette (Elmira)
The Leader (Corning)
The Daily Star (Oneonta)
Valley Sports Report (Waverly, Tioga)
Tioga County Sports Report
Southern Tier Sports Report (Elmira)
The Evening Sun (Norwich)
The Reporter (Delaware County)
The Odessa File (Odessa-Montour)
Morning Times (Waverly, Tioga, S-VE)
Times Telegram (Richfield Springs)
The Cortland Voice (Marathon)
14850.com (Ithaca)
12 News (Binghamton)
Fox 40 (Binghamton)
Newschannel 34 (Binghamton)
WENY (Elmira)
WETM (Elmira)
College Softball Links:
Looking to improve your game? There's a ton of softball websites out there to help. Here's a sampling of some:
Softball Spot
Softball Skills & Drills
MegRam Softball
Other Section IV Websites:
Press & Sun-Bulletin
Athlete of the Year
Since the very first winner in 1949 (Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford, then of the Binghamton Triplets), the Press & Sun-Bulletin has honored the very best in the Southern Tier with an Athlete of the Year award. Here are the winners from the world of softball:
1987: Holly Aprile, Afton
1996: Tracy Larkin, Greene
1998: Barb Cook, Susquehanna Valley
2006: Beckah Wiggins, Susquehanna Valley
2017: Paige Rauch, Binghamton
2021: Paige Rauch, Binghamton