Poll results: Belleville East senior BND Baseball Player of the Week in southwestern IL

Dylan Mannino of Belleville East 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, Mannino, a senior pitcher, allowed no runs, on 2 hits and struck out 8 hitters in 5 2/3 combined innings against O’Fallon.

Mannino, who secured 44% of the votes, entered the weekend with a 4-0 record, 1 save and a 1.69 earned run average while allowing just 15 hits and striking out 46 batters in 29 innings pitched.

Here were the other candidates for the week of April 24-29:

• Austin Brown, Triad High School, senior, P. Brown had 14 strikeouts, while allowing just 2 hits in a 3-0 complete-game victory over Mascoutah.
  
  

• Evan Davis, Waterloo High School, senior, 3B. Davis posted 7 hits in 11 at bats last week while scoring 6 runs, hitting 2 home runs and collecting 7 RBI.

• Connor Freeze, Breese Central High School, senior, SS/P. Freeze had 3 hits and 5 RBI, including a home run, in a 13-4 win against Litchfield.

• Lucas Krebbs, Edwardsville High School, sophomore, SS/P. Krebbs had 2 RBI, including a home run, in a 13-1 win over Alton.
  
  

• Gabe Smith, Father McGivney High School, senior, P/INF. Smith recorded 3 hits and 1 RBI in a 4-0 win against St. Pius. He also had a HR and 2 RBI in a 6-2 win over Alton Marquette.

• Dom Voegele, Columbia High School, senior, P. In action last week, Voegele batted .833 with an on base percentage of .882 and a slugging percentage of 2.333. In 12 at bats, he notched 10 hits, 3 doubles, 5 home runs, 13 RBI, 12 runs scored and 5 walks. On the mound, Voegele allowed just 3 hits in 6 1/3 innings with 14 strikeouts while blasting a 2-run home run against Salem for the win. He followed that with a grand slam against Breese Central that broke open the game and gave the Eagles a 7-0 lead in a game they went on to win. Against Clayton, Missouri, he had a double a 2 RBI in Game 1 and then then went 3-for-3 with a double, two home runs, 4 RBI, 4 runs scored and 2 walks in Game 2, helping lead Columbia to wins in both games. At the time the poll was posted Tuesday, Voegele was batting .537 with 11 doubles, 2 triples, 9 home runs, 30 RBI and 39 runs scored. On the mound, he is 5-0 with a 0.72 earned run average and .614 WHIP, allowing just 13 hits and 5 walks in 30 2/3 innings pitched while fanning 51.

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.