Here is the winner of the Rockford Register Star's Athlete of the Week poll for April 8-12

It was another spring season battle, and it's time to find out who won the Rockford Register Star high school Athlete of the Week poll for April 8-12.

Orangeville's softball star Laney Holland earned almost 47 percent of the votes and pulled away down the stretch. Winnebago softball player Vern Gilley-Amdal took second with almost 33 percent of the vote, but this was Holland's week.

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So was the week before, at least it was when she pitched all 14 innings of a doubleheader sweep of Lena Winslow. She threw a two-hitter in Game 1 and followed that up with a complete-game 7-5 victory.

Other nominees were: Harlem's Jackson Heidemann; Guilford's Malia Welch; Auburn's Alyssa Lowry and Conner Hawkins; Rochelle's Lauren Dye; North Boone's Dani Goodman; Lena-Winslow's Luke Madigan; North Boone's Cami Carter; and Milledgeville's Olivia Wooden.

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 altogether.

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