And the Winner is: Timberland's Erica Boyd Claims Athlete of the Week Crown

Patch commenter  was right, goaltenders do win the championships. 
In this  the goal was to find the fan's choice for the top girls soccer player from the first week of action. Matt commented on the post and said: "goal scoring wins games, goal keeping wins championships."

While the St. Charles Athlete of the Week may not be a big-time championship, Matt hit the nail on the head, because this week's winner was a goalie. 
After north of 5,000 votes, Timberland's Erica Boyd has been tabbed by you, the voting crowd, as the top girls soccer player in St. Charles County for the first week of the season. Boyd dominated the voting, picking up 72 percent of all votes cast. 
Here's how the voting went down. 

• Danielle Schmitz—: 1,382 votes (27 percent)
• Miranda Pierce—: 7 votes (0 percent)
• Emily Monroe—: 5 votes (0 percent)
• Erica Boyd—: 3,711 votes (72 percent)

Total votes: 5,105

Boyd earned the support based on her steller play in net for the Wolves. Starting the first two games of the season for Timberland, Boyd picked up two wins. One of those wins came via a shutout and in the other Boyd allowed just one goal for a two game goals against average of 0.50. That's pretty good. 

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Patch wants to thank everyone who voted. Remember, this whole contest is just for fun and bragging rights. 

Have your own nomination? Email your Athlete of the Week nomination to Joe Barker at stpeters@patch.com and we'll do our best to put them in the mix next week!