Taylor Pelkey captures female athlete of the week

Each week during the high school sports season the Eastern Maine High School Sports Examiner and the Eastern Maine Sports Blog will announce a female and male athlete of the week. You can send your nominations to Marc @ easternmainesportsblog@yahoo.com. When you send your nominations include the athlete, name of the school, stats for the week of the nomination.

Previous winners

2012/2013 Winter season- Week 7- January 14th-January 19th

Female

Taylor Pelkey- Stearns- Basketball- Scored 26 points and pulled down 15 rebounds in 57-46 victory over Lee. Pelkey leads the Minutemen in scoring and rebounding this season.

Runner up

Kate Whitney- Machias - Basketball- Scored 31 points in 64-53 victory over Shead. Whitney was coming off a two week concussion recovery.

Other nominations

Jillian Woodward - Orono - Basketball- Scored 21 points and pulled down nine rebounds including her 600th career rebound in 59-29 victory over Bucksport.

Bre Skolfield- Central- Basketball- Scored 19 points and pulled down 16 rebounds in 35-30 victory over Sumner.

Delani Bennett- PCHS- Basketball- Recorded 16 points and 11 rebounds in 40-23 loss to Dexter. Had six points, six rebounds, three assists and two blocks in 48-14 win over Bangor Christian.

Cordelia Stewart - Bangor- Recorded 18 points 14 rebounds in 65-36 victory over Oxford Hills. Scored 12 points in 53-25 victory over Hampden.

Tate Dolley- Machias- Basketball- Scored 21 points and pulled down 10 rebounds in 64-53 victory over Shead.

Tianna Harriman- Edward Little- Basketball- Scored 21 points in 56-37 victory over Messalonskee. Scored 19 points in 57-52 victory over Mt. Ararat.

Michaela White- Dexter- Basketball- Scored 12 points and had seven steals in 40-23 victory over PCHS.

Morgan Buker- Skowhegan- Basketball- Scored 24 points and pulled down 16 rebounds in 59-50 victory over Brunswick.

Taylor Shaw- Nokomis- Basketball- Scored 23 points in 71-50 victory over Leavitt.

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