Addi Williams is named Roadrunner Taxi female athlete of the week

Addi Williams has scored five goals in two playoff wins this week for MCI. Photo courtesy of Sarah Williams

Addie Williams has scored five goals in two playoff wins this week for MCI. Photo courtesy of Sarah Williams

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.

Roadrunner Taxi female athlete of the week.

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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Marc Calnan

About Marc Calnan

I live in Dexter with my wife and two daughters. I am the founder and owner of the Eastern Maine Sports Blog since 2009. I have been writing for examiner.com since 2011.