In a vote that ended May 28, Cincinnati.com readers selected winners for the Cincinnati Enquirer Athlete of the Week, presented by Mercy Health, for the May 17-23 voting period.
Winners will receive a certificate sent through the school's athletic department. The certificates through May 21 have been mailed. We will send the others at the end of the spring season for Greater Cincinnati.
You do not have to be a subscriber to vote, a period that lasts Monday evenings to 5 p.m. each Friday during the season. Please submit any nominees by Sunday evening for the previous week's performances to mlaughman@enquirer.com.
This week's winners are:
Ohio boys team: Little Miami baseball – No. 20-seeded Little Miami upset No. 4 Lakota East 9-0 in the sectional tournament on May 20.
Ohio girls team: New Richmond softball – The girls won the first district championship in the program's history with a two-out seventh-inning rally to defeat Benjamin Logan behind Joli Boggs’ third-straight complete game postseason victory. The win also tied the school record of 18 in a season
