Shelbyville's Eads, Stieneker earn third All-HHC softball honor

Shelbyville’s two leading hitters earned Hoosier Heritage Conference All-Conference honors for the third time in their respective careers.

Senior Cheyenne Eads and junior Addison Stieneker were selected All-HHC along with 18 other athletes.

Eads, 14-9 this past season in the pitcher’s circle, led the Golden Bears with a .457 batting average, 37 hits, 10 doubles  and 27 runs scored.

Stieneker (main photo) earned her third All-HHC honor after hitting .388 for the Golden Bears with 33 hits, six doubles, six home runs (matching Eads for the team high) and a team-leading 30 runs batted in.

Conference-champion New Palestine had the most selections to the All-HHC squad. Representing the Dragons are Allie Blum, Paige Ernstes, Sydney Oliver, Courtney Study and Maddie Engle.

Pendleton Heights had four selections – Katelin Goodwin, Ari Rector, Kelsey Day and Shelby Messer.

Also named All-HHC were Greenfield-Central’s Kristen Wineinger, Savanna Riall and Leilani Forshey, Mt. Vernon’s Shelby Rakosky and Easton Wampler, New Castle’s Katie Matthews, and Yorktown’s Caitlin LaFerney, Abbey Booher and Claire Hazen.

New Palestine (24-4) finished with a perfect 7-0 record against conference opponents. Shelbyville (15-11, 5-2 HHC), Pendleton Heights (17-12, 5-2) and Yorktown (21-3, 5-2) finished tied for second in the conference standings ahead of Mt. Vernon (9-14, 3-4), Greenfield-Central (12-12, 2-5), Delta (3-21, 1-6) and New Castle (7-18, 0-7).

Misty Weaver photos

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