Poll results: Gibault junior BND Baseball Player of the Week in southwestern Illinois
Brady Biffar of Gibault Catholic 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, Biffar, a junior pitcher, posted 7 strikeouts in a 8-4 loss against Wesclin and then had 1 hit and 2 RBI in a 9-7 win over Trico.
Biffar, who secured 49% of the votes to edge out Belleville East’s Nolan Seneczyn (43%), entered the weekend with 1 win and a 3.71 earned run average to go along with 15 RBI and 16 runs scored.
Here were the other candidates for the week of April 17-22:
Joseph Chiarodo, Edwardsville High School, sophomore, OF. Chiarodo notched 6 strikeouts in a 12-0 win against Collinsville and also had 3 hits and 3 RBI in a 7-6 loss against McCracken County.
Hank Gomric, Althoff Catholic High School, junior, OF/P. During action last week, Gomric went 8-for-12 with 2 doubles and 2 runs scored.
Luke Issacs, Freeburg High School, senior, 2B. Issacs had 2 hits and 2 RBI in a 9-5 win over Roxana. Issacs also had 2 hits and 2 RBI in a 9-4 victory against Mater Dei.
Pat Mendiola, Belleville East High School, senior, INF. Mendiola had 1 HR and 6 RBI in a 15-0 victory over Alton. He also had 2 hits and 2 RBI in a 10-0 win against Carbondale.
Jake Ottensmeier, Highland High School, junior, OF. Ottensmeier had 2 hits and 1 RBI in a 4-3 loss to Waterloo. He then had 3 hits and 3 runs in an 11-1 victory against Alton.
Nolan Seneczyn, Belleville East High School, senior, INF. Seneczyn led the offense for the Lancers’ 5-0 week by going 9-for-17 with 2 doubles, 6 stolen bases and 7 RBI.
Bryce Reese, Waterloo High School, senior, C. Reese went 6-for-11 with 7 RBI and a home run last week. His 2-run homer against Highland tied the score at 2-2 in the 5th inning and helped spark Waterloo to a 4-3 come-from-behind victory.
Wil Harris, Mater Dei Catholic High School, sophomore, INF. Harris batted .438 last week while posting 8 RBI and scoring 5 runs. He also hit a walk-off double that lifted the Knights to an 11-10 win against Althoff.
The poll ended at 8 a.m. Friday.
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.
The next poll will appear on the BND’s website — www.bnd.com — at 5 a.m. Tuesday. Please email nominations to gvartanian@bnd.com.
Previous winners: Joe Mendiola of Belleville East High School; and Connor Blue of O’Fallon High School.
