Here's who won the Register Star's Athlete of the Week honor for March 11-16

Forreston softball player Ella Ingram held on for the win in the latest Rockford Register Star high school sports Athlete of the Week poll for the week of March 11-16.

Ingram smacked two of her team's five hits and earned both of the runs batted in during Forreston's 2-0 win over Lena-Winslow in a key early-season NUIC matchup last Tuesday. Then she hauled in 3,125 votes for over 40% of the total in this week's poll to claim the AOW honor.

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Other nominees were: Dakota's Braxton Niedermeier; Belvidere North's Paige Johnson and Cortlyn Hefty; Oregon's Emma Schlichtman and Teagan Champley; Forreston's Brendan Greenfield; Guilford's Zariah Burnett; and Forreston's Alex Schoohoven.

Jay Taft is a Rockford Register Star sports reporter. Email him at jtaft@rrstar.com and follow him on Twitter at @JayTaft. Sign up for the Rockford High School newsletter at rrstar.com. Jay has covered a wide variety of sports, from the Chicago Bears to youth sports, since the turn of the century at the Register Star, and for over 30 years all together.

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