High School Sports

Sun-Star’s Best: El Capitan’s Bakken wins Prep of the Week voting

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El Capitan High School pitcher Andrew Bakken won this week’s Merced Sun-Star Prep of the Week fan vote.

Bakken won this week’s poll with over 47% of the total vote with 6,970 votes.

Bakken threw a two-hit shutout and struck out nine batters in a win over Atwater that helped the Gauchos clinch a share of the Central California Conference championship.

There were 14,686 total votes.

Merced softball player Hannah Isakow finished second with 3,302 votes.

Shawn Jansen
Merced Sun-Star
Sports writer Shawn Jansen has been covering Merced area sports for 20 years. He came to Merced from Suisun City and is a graduate of San Diego State University. Prior to the Sun-Star, Shawn worked at the Daily Republic in Fairfield.
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