Each week during the high school sports season, Eastern Maine Sports will announce a female and male athlete of the week. You can send your nominations during the week 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 250 past athlete of the week winners.
This week, we had three Rowell’s Garage female athlete of the week nominations. Ashley Alward from Skowhegan high school edged out Leine McKechnie to earn Charles Inn female athlete of the week. Alward pitched a no hitter and smacked a homer to lead the Indians to a season opening victory. Alward joins Adam Dusty (10-20-11), and Marcus Christopher (10-8-17) as student/athletes from Skowhegan high school that have earned athlete of the week honors.
The Charles Inn female athlete of the week
Ashley Alward- Skowhegan – softball- fired a no hitter with 13 strikeouts and also homered in 10-0 win over Lewiston.
Runner up
Leine Mckechnie- PVHS – softball- pitched a two hitter with nine strikeouts and had two home runs, including a grand slam in 18-0 five inning win over Deer Isle-Stonington.
Other nominations
Lanie Perry- Narraguagus- softball- pitched a one hitter with 16 strikeouts in 12-1 win over Sumner.
