The school year is winding down and this week is the final Athlete of the Week poll for the high school sports seasons. Each week during the school year, The News-Press selects athletes that stood out the week before based on a combination of coach reports and school nominations sent to sports@news-press.com and our coverage. Those athletes are put in a poll each Monday on news-press.com and you, our readers, vote on who you think did it best.
The winners of The News-Press Athlete of the Week poll receive a T-shirt provided by BSN Sports and a tote bag provided by USA Today High School Sports Awards. Voting ends at 10 a.m. Thursday each week. The winner will be announced on the @newspresssports Instagram page and on Twitter at @nphssports.
The winner of last week’s poll was ECS softball player Taylor Davison.
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Here are the nominees for May 5-10, the final poll of the school year:
Boys track and field
Mike Luma, Ida Baker
Luma won the state title in the triple jump, setting a PR of 14.56m at the Class 4A state meet on Saturday.
Ryan Peterson, Bishop Verot
Peterson won the state title in the discus, setting a PR of 52.48m at the Class 2A state meet on Thursday. He also won a seventh-place medal in the shot put.
Girls track and field
V’Davrielle Johnson, Gateway
Johnson came in first place in the high jump at the Class 4A state meet, setting a PR of 1.67m on Saturday.
Baseball
Joey Lawson, Bishop Verot
Lawson hit his 10th home run of the year in the Vikings’ 7-6 win against Calvary Christian in Game 3 of the regional final series on Thursday. He drove in five of the team’s runs.
Ashton Mora, Fort Myers
Mora hit his first career home run, helping to contribute to the Green Wave’s 4-3 comeback win in Game 3 of the regional final series against Braden River on Saturday. He recorded four hits in the series.
Noah Torres, Canterbury
Torres hit the game-winning RBI single in the Cougars’ 2-1 victory against St. John Neumann in Game 3 of the regional final series on Thursday.
Softball
Hayden Billie, ECS
Billie went three innings without giving up a hit in the Sentinels’ 19-0 regional quarterfinal win against Seacrest Country Day on Wednesday. She struck all eight batters on the opposing team.
Mia Lane, North Fort Myers
The senior catcher hit a game-winning three-run home run in the seventh and also doubled home three runs in the fifth to lift North to a come-from-behind 7-6 win against Gaither on Thursday.
Crimson Lawrence, Bishop Verot
Lawrence hit for the cycle in the Vikings’ 12-2 regional quarterfinal win against Avon Park on Wednesday.
Aubrey Reilly, SFCA
Reilly hit her first career home run in the King’s 11-3 regional quarterfinal win against Canterbury (St. Petersburg) on Wednesday.
Gianni Torres, Fort Myers
Torres went 3-for-4 with a double and a home run in the Green Wave’s 11-6 regional quarterfinal win against Riverdale on Thursday.
Ava Weinbaum, Estero
Weinbaum posted three hits, four steals, scored a run, and drove one in, helping the Wildcats to a 12-7 regional quarterfinal win against Hudson on Wednesday.
This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: VOTE: The News-Press Athlete of the Week for May 5-10
Reporting by Dustin B Levy, Fort Myers News-Press / Fort Myers News-Press
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