Find out who won Daily Leader Athlete of the Week poll for Oct. 7-12

Dylan Crouch scored more than 50 percent of the total vote tally for this week’s Athlete of the Week honor.

Crouch of Dwight was the top vote-getter in being named the Pontiac Daily Leader Athlete of the Week, which covered Oct. 7-12. He topped Hudson Ault of Prairie Central as the football players collected more than 85 percent of the vote.

Crouch rushed for 79 yards and added a 13-yard touchdown reception in helping Dwight-GSW defeat Peru (St. Bede) to snap a three-game slide. The win moves the Trojans closer to securing a playoff berth.

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Crouch brought in 11,028 votes, which was 56.65 percent of the overall total on the Athlete of the Week poll this week. Ault garnered 5,880 votes, which was 30.21 percent. Owen Adams of El Paso-Gridley and Pontiac’s tennis double team of Brooke Burger and Olivia Masching placed third and fourth, respectively. Adams had 1,474 (7.57 percent) votes and Burger-Masching scored 799 (4.1 percent) votes. There were 19,466 votes cast.

Also nominated were Kyah Creek and Easton Friedman of Prairie Central, Dwight’s Isabella Dinelli, Sadie Moreno of Pontiac and Lexington’s Avery Poppe.

Each week we nominate a group of stars and you get to go and vote in our poll. The voting at pontiacdailyleader.com ends at noon each Friday. You can email Erich Murphy at emurphy@gannett.com by 9 a.m. each Monday to submit a potential nominee who may be placed on the ballot. Please include statistics for that athlete for the week.

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