Santa Clara baseball player Drew Diffenderfer is the Bay Area News Group’s boys athlete of the week for May 12-17.
In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Diffenderfer had 46.72% to finish ahead of Bellarmine baseball player Christian Duarte, who was second at 26.35%.
Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.
Diffenderfer, a senior, struck out six and gave up no runs in Santa Clara’s 7-0 win over Cupertino.
To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email [email protected] by Monday at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
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Votes by email do not count. Only votes submitted through the online poll on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites will count.
Winners are announced each Friday on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites and in the print edition of the Mercury News and EB Times sports sections.