A senior bowler threw her highest scores of the season and helped the Rome Free Academy Black Knight remain undefeated, and that earned reader support for the Athlete of the Week for January 12-18 in polling of online readers of the Observer-Dispatch and Times Telegram.
Mylie Weyant threw a 671 series with a high game of 257 in a Wednesday match against Camden at King Pin Lanes. The 5-0 victory ran the Black Knights’ record to 10-0, and Rome Free Academy added a win over Whitesboro later in the week. The 600 series was Weyant’s fifth of the season and third in a row.
Voters cast 52.9% of the ballots for Weyant with Holland Patent wrestler Andrew Juliano placing second in the vote, followed by basketball players Andy-Lynn Podlas of Little Falls, Ella Trinkaus of Notre Dame and Brooke Reddington of West Canada Valley.
The full results appear below.
The Observer-Dispatch and Times Telegram have a fresh slate of nominees for online readers to consider for Mohawk Valley Athlete of the Week voting for the week of January 12-18, the seventh week of winter competition.
Whitesboro wrestler John DiBrango is the most recent winner of the weekly poll. DiBrango follows three basketball players – seniors Lejla Kendic of Sauquoit Valley and Haylee Bostwick of Rome Free Academy, and Central Valley Academy freshman Kiley Beam – and wrestlers Victor Petronella of New Hartford and Vinny Henrickson of Central Valley Academy during the winter athletic season. The new ballot includes athletes from area basketball, hockey, volleyball, wrestling and bowling teams, and the polls will be open until Thursday, January 29, at noon.
Fifteen scholastic athletes from across the Mohawk Valley are nominated on a ballot for the seventh week of winter scholastic athletic competition.
A weekly list of nominees is compiled by the sports department with information provided to the Times Telegram and the Observer-Dispatch by coaches and athletic directors through emails and other contacts.
If a top performer’s name doesn’t appear on the list, encourage their coach or athletic director to email submissions to sports@timestelegram.com or sports@uticaod.com.
Voting closes Thursday and a winner is scheduled to be announced later that day on the TimesTelegram.com and UticaOD.com websites.
The nominees for the week ending January 18 are:
CAMERON CLEVELAND, Hamilton basketball: Junior contrinuted 46 points and a matching 46 rebounds to three Emerald Knights victories, including career-highs of 26 points and 27 rebounds against Cooperstown.
GEO FRATTASIO, New Hartford basketball: Senior led the Spartans with 18 points against Central Valley Academy and a career-high 22 against Holland Patent, then added 14 at Watertown as the team extended its latest win streak to four games.
ADRIANA IZZO, Little Falls basketball: Junior contributed 73 points, 23 rebounds and 18 steals to the Mounties’ first three-game win streak of the season. She extended a personal streak to nine consecutive 20-point games as the team topped the .500 mark for the first time this season.
OWEN JONES, Mt. Markham basketball: Senior topped 20 points in each of the team’s three games during the week – all wins – and earned most valuable player honors at Notre Dame’s Juggler Classic.
ANDREW JULIANO, Holland Patent wrestling: Senior pinned each of his opponents on the way to winning the 126-pound title at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill’s Red Devil Invitational.
TALON KIMBALL, Camden wrestling: Sophomore advanced to the finals with two pins and a technical fall and won the 144-pound title at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill’s Red Devil Invitational with a 6-3 decision in his title bout.
JUSTIN LaMUNION, Madison basketball: Senior set a new career-high with 32 points in a win over Hamilton; he also grabbed 20 rebounds in his second 20-20 game of the season.
KEEGAN MATHEWS, New Hartford volleyball: Junior set season-highs with 22 kills and six blocks, and served five aces as the Spartans won their unbeaten showdown with Rome Free Academy.
CHARLOTTE NARE, Canajoharie/Fort Plain basketball: Senior had 25 points and 10 rebounds against Mekeel Christian Academy when she scored the 1,000th point of her varsity career.
ANDY-LYNN PODLAS, Little Falls basketball: Junior scored a career-high 28 points against Dolgeville and added 11 rebounds and five steals. She had a double-double in each of the Mounties’ three wins during the week.
BROOKE REDDINGTON, West Canada Valley basketball: Sophomore scored a career-high 30 points against Cooperstown, including the 1,000th of her varsity career, then topped that total with 32 in her next game as the Nighthawks extended their win streak to eight games.
NICHOLAS SANS, New Hartford hockey: Sophomore netted his first varsity hat trick with three goals in a win over the Mohawk Valley Jugglers.
ELLA TRINKAUS, Notre Dame basketball: Senior had 63 points, 32 rebounds and 15 assists in wins over South Jefferson and previously unbeaten Marcellus, and earned most valuable player honors as the Jugglers won their own Juggler Classic tournament. Trinkaus recorded her third triple-double of the season – 18 points, 14 rebounds and 14 assists – against Rome Free Academy earlier in the week.
TRENT TRUE, Holland Patent wrestling: Senior pinned each of his opponents in the first period on the way to winning the 190-pound title at the Red Devil Invitational at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill.
MYLIE WEYANT, Rome Free Academy bowling: Senior rolled season-highs with a 671 series and 257 game for the undefeated Black Knights in a match against Camden.
This article originally appeared on Times Telegram: Rome bowler wins Athlete of the Week poll
Reporting by Jon Rathbun, Herkimer Times Telegram / Times Telegram
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