Allen Wheaton earns second male athlete of the week honor

June 10, 2021

Each week during the high school sports season, Eastern Maine Sports will announce a female and male athlete of the week. If you want to sponsor the female or male athlete of the week email Marc at easternmainesports@gmail.com. Use that same email to send your nominations in during the week. 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 339 past athlete of the week winners.

This week, we had three Rowell’s Garage male athlete of the week nominations.  Allen Wheaton allowed only three hits and struck out 26 in leading John Bapst to a pair victories. it is the second athlete of the week honor for Wheaton.  He also earned AOW on May 25th. 

Male athlete of the week May 31st-June 6th

  • Allen Wheaton – John Bapst – baseball- had a complete game (5 inning) one hitter with 11 strikeouts and went 2-3 hitting in 11-0 win over Hermon. Pitched a two hitter with 15 strikeouts and went 2-4 at the plate in 6-0 win over Foxcroft.

Runner up

  • Jack Robert Emery- Washington Academy- baseball-  went 3-7 this week and and hit .510 for the regular season. Emery finished in the top five in batting average, stolen bases, runs, slugging percentage, on base percentage, and fielding percentage.

Other nominations

  • Zach Nickerson- Lawrence – baseball- pitched a three hitter, striking out nine in 2-0 win over Erskine.