Athletes of the Week: Pruemer, Walton put together impressive pitching performances
May 11—The votes are in. Powered by Copper Creek Contractors, Asher Pruemer of St. Joseph-Ogden baseball and Bionca Walton of Rantoul softball are this week's winners.
Here they are, in their own words, with their biggest supporters: Asher Pruemer — St. Joseph-Ogden baseball ➜ Pruemer pitched a five-hit shutout with eight strikeouts to lead the Spartans to a 7-0 win over previously unbeaten Monticello. ➜ "I didn't even know I was up for Athlete of the Week until I saw a post about it like Tuesday afternoon.
It's pretty cool to know that the community is paying attention to our baseball team. ... Everything was working out in that game.
I was able to locate everything I wanted to throw, and I knew the guys behind me were going to make plays, so I just trusted them. I threw what I wanted when I wanted and let the guys behind me work. " ➜ "Happy Gilmore.
" ➜ rap. ➜ Braden Smith. ➜ golf.