Athletes of the week

(Published during the high school sports season)

(For the week of Feb. 2 through Feb. 8)

Boys

Nick Arredondo (Jr.) Kelseyville High School basketball team

Nick Arredondo, a junior guard for the Kelseyville Knights, warmed up from the 3-point line this past week, scoring 32 points and hitting nine 3-pointers in a 66-58 league loss at Upper Lake, then coming back three days later to lead the Knights with 18 points, including five more 3-pointers, in a 68-47 win over Clear Lake.

Girls

AJ Wurm (Sr.) Kelseyville High School basketball & Faith McIntire (Sr.) Clear Lake basketball

AJ Wurm scored career point No. 1,000 at the free-throw line, part of a 22-point effort, in a 59-39 league win against her old team, the Upper Lake Cougars, at Upper Lake. Wurm played her freshman and sophomore years at Upper Lake before transferring to Kelseyville. She came back later in the week to score 20 points in a 52-32 win over the Clear Lake Cardinals in Lakeport, a game during which Clear Lake’s Faith McIntire scored her 1,000th career point, that coming on a 3-pointer late in the second quarter. McIntire finished with 16 points. Earlier in the week, McIntire erupted for 32 points in a 65-44 league win at Cloverdale. Like Wurm, McIntire played her first two years at another school (Kelseyville) before transferring to Clear Lake. They are the 56th and 57th county players, respectively, to reach the 1,000-point milestone.