Athletes of the week

(Published during the high school sports season)

(For the week of May 4 through May 10)

Boys

JD Smart (So.) Kelseyville High School baseball

It was a big week or the Kelseyville Knights, who beat St. Helena twice — 4-1 on Tuesday in Kelseyville and 7-4 on Friday in St. Helena — to clinch a one-third share of the North Central League I varsity baseball championship, the school’s fourth straight title overall. While many of the Knights contributed in both wins, JD Smart pitched a four-hitter at Kelseyville while also homering in the game, his second home run of the season. He struck out 10 and walked one. In the victory Friday at St. Helena, he went 2-for-4, part of a 10-hit attack by the Knights, and scored a run.

Girls

Saphira Hughes (Sr.) Upper Lake High School track and field

Saphira Hughes had a good day for the Upper Lake Cougars on Wednesday afternoon at the Coastal Mountain Conference Track & Field Championships in St. Helena, winning the high jump, placing fifth in the long jump, and taking seventh in the 100-meter hurdles. She will compete in all three events Saturday when the North Coast Section Class A Championships take place at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa. Hughes cleared 4 feet, 10 inches in the high jump. In the long jump, her best effort was 14-10. The senior ran 19.89 seconds in the 100 hurdles.