Pretty sure if you include Columbus and everything north of it that we're talking at least 2/3 of the population of the state ... just by sheer numbers, there should be like twice as many teams, right? And the Akron/Canton area is without question one of "hotbeds" of softball in the state. But one should not conclude that the teams in the southern part of the state are weaker ... there's just less of them because there are less people the way you've defined north and south ...