Lawson Alwan of the Peoria Notre Dame baseball team was voted Journal Star athlete of the week. Alwan, who earned 157 of the 500 votes, hit .533 (8-for-15) as the Irish went 4-0 last week and ...

Duncheon earned 55 percent of the 68,025 votes cast, beating out Peoria Notre Dame's Lawson Alwan (28 percent), Josh Vaughn of Illini Bluffs (9.9 percent) and Jack Piper of Dunlap (6.3 percent).