Who will be this week's Providence Journal Softball Player of the Week? Vote now to decide

As the games start to become more important, the big performances start rolling in.

Last week was certainly no exception and with all the games that were played, it wasn’t difficult finding players to be nominated for Providence Journal Player of the Week wasn’t the tough part – narrowing the list to five was.

Our five nominees are listed below, along with the reason they earned a nomination this week. How to we determine a winner? We don’t – that’s up to you, the reader.

The award is meant to be an interactive way for the state’s softball community to get involved with coverage and the sport. There’s no prize for winning, other than clout. If you want to win, we encourage players, parents, coaches and schools to create social media campaigns to get friends, family, classmates and whoever else to vote, vote and vote some more.

Voting is free and you can vote as many times as you’d like between now and Thursday night. The winner will be posted to the Providence Journal website Friday morning.

Don’t see a player who had a big game or two nominated? There’s a pretty good chance we didn’t receive stats from their games this week.

Sending in results is the responsibility of the head coach of the home team, but we don’t care who sends it in as long as someone does.

Scores and stats can either be called in at 401-277-7340 – or emailed to PJSports@ProvidenceJournal.com by 10 p.m. on the day of the game. That doesn’t mean 10:15 or 6 a.m. the following morning.

We need the final score, three players to highlight from the winning team and one from the losing team. If there’s an important detail – a game-winning hit, game-changing play, etc. – please include that as well.

Everyone in the state uses GameChanger, so this should be incredibly easy. You can email us the box scores from the game and the AI report they use and we can work off of it.

Home-team coaches that do not send in results will not have their players considered for Player of the Week.

Emma Boisseau, East Providence

The junior came up in the biggest spot of the season for the Townies and came through, driving in two runs to give EP a walkoff win over Cranston West, the team’s first victory of the season. Boisseau finished the game with three RBI.

Adrianna Carsetti, West Warwick

Carsetti had a good month of production in one game. The third baseman drilled three home runs – including two in the fifth inning – and drove in seven as the Wizards’ smacked South Kingstown, 20-2.

Anna Costello, Moses Brown

Back in the circle healthy, Costello had it working against Bay View. The future MIT pitcher threw a complete game two-hitter while striking out 16, guiding the Quakers to an upset over the Bengals.

Izzy Sousa, Cranston East

Sousa had two statement performances against the best teams in Division III last week. She started her week with 3.2 innings of work with nine strikeouts in a win over Rogers, then followed with two huge games. Sousa threw a no-hitter and struck out 15 in a win over Pawtucket, then followed it with a two-hit shutout and 14 strikeouts in a win over Tiverton.

Hailey Vigneau, La Salle

The sophomore pitched in two big games for the Rams last week and was dominant in both. She pitched a complete-game shutout with nine strikeouts in a win over East Greenwich and closed the week out allowing just one run to Prout in a win in a battle of unbeatens.

This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Vote for Providence Journal High School Softball Player of the Week April 30