West Holmes players earn Ohio Cardinal Conference baseball honors
West Holmes senior Brock Gallion led four Knights on the Ohio Cardinal Conference baseball honor roll, with Cooper Booth on second team and two more seniors earning mention.
West Holmes put four baseball players on the Ohio Cardinal Conference’s 2026 postseason honor roll, with senior Brock Gallion earning first-team recognition and senior Cooper Booth landing on the second team.
The Knights also placed seniors Colston Tenney and Nate Sprang on the honorable mention list, giving West Holmes representation at three levels of the conference’s baseball awards. The Ohio Cardinal Conference released its 2026 baseball and softball honors on May 19, and the West Holmes group stood out as a clear sign that the program had players producing consistently against league competition.
Gallion was the only West Holmes player named to the baseball first team, while Booth was the Knights’ lone second-team selection. Tenney and Sprang rounded out the list with honorable mention, and no other West Holmes players cracked the first or second teams. For a program in Holmes County, that spread matters because it shows the Knights were not carried by one player alone. They had multiple seniors recognized for work that held up across a full conference schedule.
That recognition came in a league that also featured some of its biggest prizes going to other schools. Wooster’s Maddox Graser and New Philadelphia’s Owen Courtney were the conference’s baseball Players of the Year, Wooster’s Brian Lapp was the Pitcher of the Year, and New Philadelphia’s Tyler Weisel was named Coach of the Year. West Holmes’ honors, then, came in a field stacked with top-end performers and respected coaching staffs from across the Ohio Cardinal Conference.
The honors also fit into a broader spring snapshot for West Holmes athletics. In softball, the Knights finished 11-17 overall and 4-8 in league play, placing fifth in the conference standings. That record did not bring the same team success as the league’s leaders, but it underscores a point that postseason awards often make visible: even in a season without a dominant team finish, individual players can still rise to conference level and leave a mark.
The softball side of the league also featured strong award winners, with Wooster’s Kayla Reid named Player of the Year, Dover’s Kara Lint named Pitcher of the Year, and Dover’s Hannah Duff selected Coach of the Year. For West Holmes, the baseball honors for Gallion, Booth, Tenney and Sprang closed the season with a public sign of depth, senior leadership and a competitive standard that could shape next spring’s roster.
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