Poll results: Here’s the high school baseball player of the week in southwest Illinois
Evan Davis of Waterloo High School is the winner of this week’s Belleville News-Democrat Baseball Player of the Week high school poll, as selected by readers of bnd.com.
In recent action, Wright, a junior shortstop, Davis went 4-for-7 with 4 RBI in a doubleheader sweep of Civic Memorial. He then went 3-for-7 with 1 RBI in two games against Mascoutah. Entering the weekend, Davis was batting .481 on the season with 12 doubles, 5 triples and 24 RBI.
Davis tallied 79% of the votes to finish ahead of other BND nominees Daniel Darin of Gibault Catholic High School, John Rea of Triad High School, Spencer Stearns of Edwardsville High School and Kannon Walker of Belleville East High School. The poll ended at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.
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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. Next week’s poll will be a vote for the boys prep team of the year.
Previous baseball poll winners: Alex Wright of Granite City High School (Week 1), Owen Kelly of Belleville East High School (Week 2), Dalton Boruff of Breese Central High School (Week 3) and Tyler Tieman of Althoff Catholic High School (Week 4).
