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2005–06 SEASON · IHSAA Class 3A final — Boonville 5, New Prairie 0
Seventeen years before the title, the program reached the same game and lost it: the IHSAA's Softball State Championship Records Book carries the 2005–06 Class 3A final in its results table — Boonville, coached by Mike Wilson, 32–2, defeated New Prairie, coached by Tim Scott, 31–4, by 5–0 — and the association's 2023 account confirms the span: "seventeen years had passed since New Prairie softball made its only other finals appearance." The 2006 team stands in this section at records-book strength: a 31-win season, a finals appearance, a shutout loss, and a coach's name — the rest of its course (its sectional path, its roster) is the press record's to give, and it stands as part of this section's residue in the note, settler the Tribune's June 2006 coverage. The two appearances frame the program honestly: one loss, one title, seventeen years apart — no tradition invented, none needed.
Sources:
- IHSAA, Softball State Championship Records Book (results table, 2005–06 Class 3A) — Boonville (Mike Wilson) 32–2, New Prairie (Tim Scott) 31–4, score 5–0.
- IHSAA, 2023 finals account (the seventeen-year span between appearances).