Your Alabama Pro Athlete of the Week is Ignacio Ortega. Ortega led the Spanish wheelchair basketball team in tthe first week of the Paris Paralympics with a 17.3 point, 7.0 rebound, 7.3 assist, 1.7 steal average over 3 games.
Others of note:
Arinn Young had a 26 point, 12 rebound, 8 assist game at the Paris Paralympics.
Lauren Stephenson had a T-2nd finish at the Four Winds Invitational.
Thomas Ponder finished a career-best T-4th at the CRMC Championship.
Sarah Edwards finished a career-best T-8th at the Four Winds Invitational.
Justin Thomas finished T-14th at the PGA Tour Championship, and was 7th overall in raw score for the week.
Erin Routliffe won 3 doubles matches to reach the US Open Women’s Doubles quarterfinals.
Patrick Kaukovalta reached the doubles semifinals at an ITF tour event in Budapest.
Kirani James and Jereem Richards finished 2nd and 3rd, respectively, at the Diamond League meet in Rome.
Andrew Pinckney had 3 multi-hit games and hit his first Triple-A home run.
Garrett McMillan gave up 1 run and struck out 8 in five innings of work.
Tommy Seidl homered twice, and had a .448 on-base percentage and .545 slugging percentage for teh week.
Connor Prielipp had a hitless, scoreless start with 5 strikeouts over 3 innings.
Gage Miller had a 3-hit game.
Kimberley Ficenec won the Women’s 800 Meter at the Velka Cena Tabora meet.
