Here's who won the Register Star's Athlete of the Week honor for Feb. 5-10

In a tight race until the end, Auburn basketball star Rakim Chaney edged out Lena-Winslow/Stockton wrestler Jeremiah Luke to win the Rockford Register Star high school sports Athlete of the Week for his performance from Feb. 5-10.

Chaney, who scored 41 points in a win on Saturday to break Auburn’s school record, and to put him over 1,000 points for his career, edged out Luke, who outdueled Byron's Kyle Jones, a state-place winner last year, 4-2 in triple overtime to earn a state bid in wrestling. Chaney earned 2,308 votes, which was 45.88 percent, while Luke hauled in 2,202 votes for 43.78 percent.

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The rest of the nominees were: Pecatonica's Lauren Mellentine; Boylan's Netavia Wickson; Byron's Ryan Tucker; Hononegah's Bruno Cassioppi; and Rochelle's Kaiden Morris.

Each week we nominate a group of stars and you get to go and vote in our poll. The voting at rrstar.com ends at noon each Friday. You can email Jay Taft at jtaft@rrstar.com by 9 a.m. each Monday to submit a potential nominee who can be placed on the ballot.

Jay Taft is a Rockford Register Star sports reporter. Email him at jtaft@rrstar.com and follow him on Twitter at @JayTaft. Sign up for the Rockford High School newsletter at rrstar.com. Jay has covered a wide variety of sports, from the Chicago Bears to youth sports, since the turn of the century at the Register Star, and for over 30 years all together.

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