North Adams softball earns SHAC player, coach of the year honors
North Adams turned a first SHAC softball title into a double sweep at the banquet, with Carlee Garrison and Paula Armstrong taking the league’s top honors.
North Adams softball turned a breakthrough spring into a clean sweep at the Southern Hills Athletic Conference’s spring sports banquet, with Carlee Garrison named 2026 Player of the Year and Paula Armstrong selected Coach of the Year. The honors came after a school-record 22-6 season in which the Lady Green Devils finished 12-1 in league play and won the big-school division for the first time in school history.
The championship was clinched April 29 with a 12-0 win at West Union, when North Adams moved to 11-1 in SHAC play and reached 18 wins overall. That victory settled a race that had already made the Lady Devils the standard-setter in the conference and put the program in position for the banquet recognition that followed in southern Ohio.
North Adams did not stop with the two individual awards. The 2026 team also placed three players on the All-SHAC list: Chloe Armstrong, Carlee Garrison and Marnie Tolle. That mix of conference honors reflected how the season was built, with Armstrong guiding the program from the dugout and Garrison leading the on-field rise from the circle.
The turnaround has been steady and measurable. North Adams went 0-15 in 2022, 4-16 in 2023, 8-15 in 2024 and 10-13 in 2025 before breaking through with the championship run in 2026. The climb gave the program its first softball conference title and changed the expectations around North Adams High School softball in Adams County.
The numbers behind the season help explain why the SHAC voting landed the way it did. MaxPreps listed Garrison with a 1.48 earned-run average, while Chloe Armstrong finished with a .560 batting average, 13 home runs and 46 runs batted in. She also posted a .606 on-base percentage and a .989 fielding percentage, production that matched the team’s rise from improving contender to league champion.
For a program that had spent four seasons building toward this moment, the banquet honors did more than decorate a strong year. They confirmed that North Adams had moved from chasing the top spot in the Southern Hills Athletic Conference to owning it, with a player, a coach and a full roster now setting the pace for the next group coming through.
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