Walker Oliver earns second male athlete of the week

January 21, 2022

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 361 past athlete of the week winners.

This week, we had four Rowell’s Garage male athlete of the week nomination. Walker Oliver exploded for 64 points to lead Hodgdon to a win. It is the fifth highest scoring game in Maine high school boys basketball history. It is the second athlete of the week honor for Oliver, he also won on December 20th.


Male athlete of the week January 9th- January 15th

  • Walker Oliver- Hodgdon- basketball -scored 64 points  (32 in the first quarter) in just over 20 minutes in a 95-46 win over Washburn.

Runner up

  • Austin Delisle – Fort Kent- basketball-The Warriors went 3-0 this past week and are 11-0 overall. Delisle averaged 24 points, 8 assists, 5 steals and 14 rebounds per contest and had a Triple Double against Van Buren 28 points 11 assists and 14 rebounds.  Game scores were FK 58 Hodgdon 52, FK 70-Fort Fairfield 29, FK 64 Van Buren 34.

Other nominations

  • Andy Williams- PVHS- basketball- scored a career high 20 points in 49-25 win over PCHS.
  • Luke Briggs- Cony- basketball- scored 27 points in 71-64 win over Messalonskee. Had 17 points in 74-62 loss against Skowhegan.

Photo courtesy of Big Time Hoops.