Each week during the high school sports season the High School Sports Examiner and Eastern Maine Sports will announce a female and male athlete of the week. You can send your nominations to Marc at easternmainesports@gmail.com. When you send your nominations include the athlete, name of the school, stats for the week of the nomination. Here is a full list of the 164 past athlete of the week winners.
This week there were six Rowell’s garage female athlete of the week nominations. A total of five nominations came from field hockey. Sophomore AddiWilliams powered the MCI Huskies to the class C north regional final. Williams scored five goals in leading the Huskies to wins over Boothbay and Mt. View. Williams is the seventh student/athlete from Maaine Central Institute to earn athlete of the week honors.
MCI will take on Dexter in the class C regional final on Tuesday. The Tigers had three players nominated for their play in two playoff games. Grace Belanger scored the only goal in a Tigers quarterfinal win over Orono. Katie Batron and Kolby Kain teamed up to help Dexter get off to a fast start in a 3-0 semifinal victory over PCHS.
Jordynne Littlefield scored the only goal in a PCHS Pirates 1-0 quarterfinal victory over Winthrop. The only soccer nomination came from Jordan Durant of Penquis high school. Durant stopped 24 shots from the PVHS Howlers in a 3-2 Patriots victory in the regular season finale. Penquis enters the tournament as the fourth seed in class C north after not winning any games during e 2013 or 2014 seasons.
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Addi Williams- MCI- field hockey- scored two goals in 4-0 class C north quarterfinal win over Boothbay. Recorded a hat trick in the first 10 minutes in 3-1 semifinal win over Mt. View. Williams joins Jonathan Santiago, Nick Hubel, Austin Tolman, Gavin Dugas, Cassie Miller, and Willie Moss as student/athletes from Maine Central Institute that have captured athlete of the week honors. Santiago was named athlete of the week three different times.
Runner up
Jordan Durant- Penquis- soccer- recorded 24 saves in 3-2 win over previously undefeated PVHS.
Other nominations
Jordynne Littlefield- PCHS- field hockey- scored with just over five minutes left in the second overtime to lift the Pirates to a 1-0 win over Winthrop in a class C quarterfinal game.
Grace Belanger- Dexter- field hockey- scored the only goal in 1-0 class C quarterfinal win over Orono.
Katie Batron- Dexter- field hockey- had one goal and one assist in 3-0 class C north semifinal win over PCHS.
Kolby Kain- Dexter – field hockey- had one goal and one assist in 3-0 class C north semifinal win over PCHS.
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