Bruce Nicholson didn’t hesitate to say he was glad last season was over. The Central Montcalm varsity softball team dealt with plenty of adversity in 2022, including seeing injuries to Alyssa Johnson, Azlynn Scott and the team’s leader, Kam Nicholson. What was left after the wreckage was a young team that lacked the top-end talent of previous iterations of Nicholson’s tremendous squads.