Allison Stinson and Rylan Young, 2025 Hagerstown High School graduates, and Hagerstown head coach Bruce Charles were a part of the 2025 North-South All-Star softball games played on June 21 at Andy Mohr Field on the campus of Indiana University. Stinson and Young were selected to the South All-Star team as players, and Charles was selected as a member of the coaching staff for the South All-Stars.
The format for the games consisted of two six-inning games with all roster players batting, whether they were playing in the field or not.
The South team won the first game 4-3. Kendall Jordan (Fishers High School) delivered a walk-off RBI double to lift the South team to victory. Avery Layton (Rossville High School), Kate Murray (Fishers) and Young (Hagerstown) combined to limit the North team to four hits. Young threw 45 pitches in her two innings of work, 24 for strikes, and was the winning pitcher.
The south team also won game two by the final score of 6-0. Young, Murray and Layton combined to shut out the North team, limiting them to five hits. Young started the game. She threw 31 pitches in her two innings of work, 18 for strikes. Layton was the winning pitcher.
Brookelyn Grayson (Noblesville High School) delivered a three-run homer for the South.
In the top of the sixth inning, both Hagerstown players reached base. Young drew a walk, and Stinson singled to join her on base.
Hagerstown head coach Bruce Charles credited his players for his selection to the South coaching staff.
“I can’t tell you how proud I am of Allison and Rylan,” Charles said. “It was an honor to be a part of the South coaching staff, but I give my players all the credit. They are the ones who put Hagerstown softball on the map. They put me in this position.”
Stinson and Young are the first Indiana All-Stars from Hagerstown High School in softball. The selection of Stinson and Young also marks only the second time in Hagerstown female athletic history that two HHS athletes were selected as Indiana All-Stars in the same sport, in the same year. The first time was in 2019 when Jessica Swimm and Reagan Tinkle were both selected as Indiana All-Stars for the North-South All-Star Volleyball game.
Game 1
North — 0 0 1 0 2 0 3
South — 0 0 2 0 1 1 4
North hits: Addie Baker (South Adams), Olivia Fuentes (Lowell), Ava Geyer (New Prairie), Izabella Hanna (Penn) — South hits: Anna Caskey (Bishop Chatard), Katie Hirschy (New Palestine), Kendall Jordan (Fishers) (2), Katelyn Marx (Tecumseh), Kattie Mathews (New Castle), Mae Munson (Center Grove), Kaitlyn Randle (Forest Park), Carmen Ruble (Connersville).
Game 2
South — 0 0 0 0 3 3 6
North — 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South hits: Caskey (Bishop Chatard), Kendall Graves (Bedford North Lawrence), Brookelyn Grayson (Noblesville), Avery Layton (Rossville) (2), Marx (Tecumseh) Izzy Neal (Brownsburg), Peyton Pryor (Boonville), Stinson (Hagerstown), North hits: Isabella Dominguez (Tri-County), Fuentes (Lowell), Lexi Johnson (South Central – Union Mills), Kaylie Miller (Western), Bekah Patterson (South Adams)
A version of this article will appear in the July 9 2025 print edition of the Western Wayne News.