Poll results: Here’s the high school softball player of the week in southwest Illinois
Jordyn Heckert of Okawville High School is the winner of this week’s Belleville News-Democrat Softball Player of the Week high school poll, as selected by readers of bnd.com.
In a recent action, Heckert, a junior 1st baseman, went 3-for-4 against Sparta with 2 triples, 3 runs scored and 2 RBI. She then went 3-for-4 against Waltonville with 1 home run, 5 RBI and 2 runs scored. Heckert entered the weekend batting .391 on the season with 2 home runs, 15 RBI and 18 runs scored.
Heckert tallied 96% of the votes to finish ahead of other BND nominees Adi Foutch of Breese Central High School, Avery Hamilton of Edwardsville High School, Karsen Jany of Columbia High School, Emma Meyer of Carlyle High School, Malia Robertson of O’Fallon High School, Katie Schneider of Red Bud High School and Taylor Sparks of Belleville East High School. 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 high school softball or baseball player for an upcoming poll by emailing gvartanian@bnd.com. The next poll will appear on the BND’s website — www.bnd.com — at 5 a.m. Tuesday.
Previous softball poll winners: Emily Allen of Belleville West High School (Week 1) and Ryleigh Owens of Edwardsville High School (Week 2).
