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 283 past athlete of the week winners.
This week, we had eight Rowell’s Garage male athlete of the week nominations. Elijah Wood averaged 25 points in helping the Penobscot Valley high school (PVHS) boys basketball team pick up two weeks and improve their record to 12-2 on the season. Wood joins Kayla Dube (4)- (5-12-13), Arianna McKinnon (2) (5-31-14), Amy Hallett (2) (10-3-15), Ryley Buck (9-13-15), Jarrett Priest (4-30-16), Thomas Spencer (5-29-16), Leine McKechnie (9) (5-20-18), Jaeden Folster (5-28-17), Lexi Ireland (5) (1-13-19), Grant Kidon (1-28-18), and Jonny Littlefield (6-3-18) as student/athletes from PVHS that have earned athlete of the week honors.
Roadrunner Taxi male athlete of the week
Elijah Wood- PVHS- Basketball- scored 21 points in 73-35 win over Greenville. Scored 29 points in 94-51 win over Stearns.
Runner up
Keegan Gentle- Houlton- Basketball- recorded 22 points, five rebounds, and four assists in 75-59 win over Central Aroostook. Had 18 points and 7 rebounds in 59-48 win over Mattanawcook.
Other nominations
Nick Brewer- Houlton- Basketball- had 14 points and eight rebounds in 75-59 win over Central Aroostook. Had 14 points and 10 rebounds in 59-48 win over Mattanawcook.
Trevor Pearson – Brewer- Basketball- scored 20 points in 61-60 win over Cony.
Cam Monroe- Brewer- Basketball- scored 10 points, including game winning 3 pointer with one second left in 61-60 win over Cony.
Trevor Richards- Dexter – Basketball- scored 21 points (5 three pointers) in 57-42 win over Stearns. Scored 10 points in 44-24 win over Penquis.
Ben Thomas – Central Aroostook- Basketball- scored 25 points in 75-59 loss to Houlton.
Isaac Marker- Caribou- Basketball- scored 20 points in 67-55 win over MDI.
