Poll results: Here’s the high school girls basketball player of the week in southwest Illinois

Kylie Kisgen of Freeburg High School is the winner of this week’s Belleville News-Democrat Player of the Week high school basketball poll, as selected by readers of bnd.com.

In recent high school basketball games, Kisgen, a junior point guard, scored 10 points against the Blue Knights, 12 points against Seckman and 12 points against Cape Girardeau Central in helping the Midgets to the Hillsboro Tournament championship in Missouri. She followed that up with 12 points in a victory against Columbia and entered the weekend averaging 11.5 points per game.

Peterson tallied 55% of the votes to finish ahead of other BND nominees Shannon Dowell of O’Fallon High School, Elle Evans of Edwardsville High School, Karsen Jany of Columbia High School, Shakara McCline of East St. Louis High School and Maliah Sparks of Belleville West. The poll ended at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.

To be clear, this poll is not scientific. In fact, we invite you to vote as many times as you want. It’s all for fun, BND readers.

Anyone can nominate a varsity boys or girls high school basketball player for an upcoming poll by emailing gvartanian@bnd.com. The Week 9 poll will appear on the BND’s website — www.bnd.com — at 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Past poll winners: Tyler Lunning of O’Fallon High School (Week 1), Dylan Murphy of Columbia High School (Week 2), Brady Moore of Breese Central High School (Week 3), Collinsville Prairie Farms Holiday Classic (Week 4), Kaden Augustine of Gibault Catholic High School (Week 5), Natalie Peterson of Freeburg High School (Week 6) and Sydney Harris of Edwardsville High School (Week 7) and Kaylyn Wylie of Granite City High School and Lunning (Week 8).