




Mills softball player Lucy Esquivel is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week and Los Altos baseball player Darrion Wesley is the boys athlete of the week for April 21-27.
In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Esquivel finished with 46.36% of the vote. Hillsdale softball player Lola Jones took second with 17.28%, and Design Tech softball player Ella Lewis was third with 12.01%.
In the boys poll, Wesley had 30.10% of the vote to edge runner-up Roman Bartosh, a De La Salle baseball player who finished with 28.50%. Pioneer baseball player Andre Valdespino took third with 20.93%.
Esquivel had a homer, double, five RBIs and three runs scored as Mills beat Terra Nova 18-3. The sophomore had two hits and four RBIs in a 16-1 win over Menlo-Atherton and added a pair of hits and an RBI in an 8-1 win over St. Ignatius.
Wesley’s two-run single in the top of the fifth inning helped lift Los Altos to a 4-3 victory on the road over Bellarmine in nonleague play.
To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com by Monday at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
Votes by email do not count. Only votes submitted through the online poll on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites will count.
Winners are announced each Friday on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites and in the print edition of the Mercury News and EB Times sports sections.