Max Bottonfield earns male athlete of the week

October 13, 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 347 past athlete of the week winners.

This week, we had six Rowell’s Garage male athlete of the week nominations. Max Bottonfield did it on both sides of the ball to lead MCI football to their first win of the season. Bottonfield edged out Jordan Knighton (Freeport). Bottonfield joins Jonathan Santiago (3) (9-6-14), Nick Hubel (11-3-13), Austin Tolman (9-13-14), Gavin Dugas (10-25-14), Cassie Miller (2-1-15), Willie Moss (9-27-15), Addi Wiliams (10-25-15), Josh Buker (2) 11-13-16), Jillian Frost (9-11-16), Eli Bussell (11-20-16), Adam Bertrand (11-19-17), Joe Curtis (4-22-19) Allanha
McCarron (9-16-19), Cole Steeves (11-4-19), and Gracie Moore (9-8-21) as student/athletes from MCI that have earned athlete of the week honors.


Male athlete of the week October 4th-October 9th

  • Max Bottonfield- MCI- football- ran for two touchdowns, threw for one touchdown, and had two interceptions in 26-20 win over Hermon.

Runner up

  • Jordan Knighton- Freeport- football- had 220 yards (152 second half) and three touchdown on 20 rushes in 26-7 win over Bucksport

Other nominations

  • Matt Quirion- Winslow- football- had 200 yards and three touchdowns in 56-14 win over Oceanside.
  • Ryan Shorey- Hermon- soccer- had a hat trick in 4-1 win over Caribou. Had one goal in 2-1 loss to Presque Isle.
  • Drew Duttweiler- Hodgdon – soccer- goalie, the goalie had two shutouts against MSSM (10 saves on 17 shots total) while scoring a goal and assisting on another against Katahdin in the previous game
  • Oisin Gardiner- Hodgdon – soccer- had two goals and an assist against Katahdin. Had three goals in two games against MSSM.