Iowa high school softball team snaps an 80-game losing skid

There’s teams around the country that had long-standing winning streaks either continue into the off-season or end during the 2025 campaign. How about a enduring losing skid that finally concluded?

For an Iowa high school softball team, a long-lived losing streak came to an end earlier this week on Tuesday night. The South Tama Trojans ended a 80-game skid with an 11-1 win over Vinton-Shellsburg, according to a The Cedar Rapids Gazette report.

It was a streak that had dated back to after South Tama’s last win, coming on June 26, 2021 over Eagle Grove. That’s 1,817 days in between victories for the Iowa high school softball program.

What was arguably even more eye-popping was how long ago the Trojans’ last WaMaC Conference victory was: June 27th, 2016. South Tama had snapped a streak that was nearly double that of the regular season losing skid, which the Trojans had gone 3,643 days since its last WaMaC victory over Williamsburg nearly a decade ago.

The significance of South Tama's 11-1 Game 1 win over Vinton-Shellsburg in last night's Wamac softball doubleheader?

Snapped an 80-game losing streak (last win: 6/26/21 vs. Eagle Grove).

Ended a 151-game Wamac losing streak (6/27/16, vs. Williamsburg).#iahssb

— Jeff Linder (@jtlinder) June 17, 2025

South Tama had scored a mere 19 runs through the first twelve games of the regular season before they had run up against Vinton-Shellsburg, in which they piled up 11 runs, one more than its previous season-high. The Trojans ended up losing the second game of a double-header against Vinton-Shellsburg,

The Trojans are 1-12 on the season and in two previous seasons, South Tama had finished with a pair of 0-31 records per Jeff Linder of The Cedar Rapids Gazette. South Tama didn’t field a softball team in 2022.