Pewaukee's Cayden Burtness wins Piggly Wiggly athlete of the week
With over 43% of last week's vote, Pewaukee baseball junior Cayden Burtness is the newest Piggly Wiggly high school athlete of the week poll winner.
Cayden Burtness of Pewaukee baseball was the winner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Piggly Wiggly high school athlete of the week poll from April 20 to April 25. Burtness had a colossal week for the Pirates, who went 4-0. The junior shortstop went 10-for-11 at the plate with three extra-base hits, four runs batted in, four walks, 14 runs scored and 11 stolen bases on 11 total attempts.
Pewaukee outscored its four opponents, 49-8. Burtness received 34,888 of 80,701 total votes cast. Leah Nagle of Saint Thomas More girls soccer was the runner-up in last week's poll.
After an 0-3-0 start to the season where they were outscored 7-0, the Cavaliers got back on track with a pair of wins against Greenfield (9-1) and Martin Luther (8-0). Nagle scored 11 total goals in those two games, including six in the shutout victory over Martin Luther on April 22. Other nominees in the poll included Emily Johnson of Cedarburg softball, Niyer Clayborn of Wisconsin Lutheran boys track and field, and Reece Erickson of Mukwonago boys golf.
You can make a nomination for a future player of the week by sending an email with statistics and context on an athlete’s performance to mwhitlow@gannett. com and zbellman@gannett. com.