{"id":313746,"date":"2026-05-29T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/313746\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:05:19","slug":"calallens-kylie-butcher-voted-apple-dental-center-high-school-athlete-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/313746\/","title":{"rendered":"Calallen&#8217;s Kylie Butcher voted Apple Dental Center High School Athlete of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calallen softball player Kylie Butcher has been named the Apple Dental Center Athlete of the Week after a putting together a memorable performance against Bullard in the Class 4A Division I state semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Butcher homered in both games against the Panthers and drove in five runs in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Butcher received 17,276 votes, accounting for 55.02% of the total votes cast. Falfurrias baseball player Andre Cisneros finished second with 8,470 votes, and Orange Grove baseball player Matthew Martinez placed third with 2,684 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Students can only be named Athlete of the Week once per season, per sport, and athletes from one school cannot win more than three consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations are due by 5 p.m. Monday and can be submitted through email at ctsports@caller.com, by messaging the Caller-Times through its Facebook page, or on X @CallerSports. Please include statistics or honors for your athlete<\/p>\n<p>Final results<\/p>\n<p>Top four finishers listed<\/p>\n<p>Kylie Butcher, Calallen softball \u2014 17,276 votes<\/p>\n<p>Andre Cisneros, Falfurrias baseball \u2014 8,470 votes<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Martinez, Orange Grove baseball \u2014 2,684 votes<\/p>\n<p>Hailey Ortega, Santa Gertrudis Academy softball \u2014 1,480 votes<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Calallen's Kylie Butcher connects for the game-clinching three-run home run during a tournament softball game against Amarillo High on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026 at Teresa Flores Lentz Field.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_usatoday_us_articles_590\/ffbd2d07ce2a93adac5efae8d53e24d4.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Calallen&#8217;s Kylie Butcher connects for the game-clinching three-run home run during a tournament softball game against Amarillo High on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026 at Teresa Flores Lentz Field.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Corpus Christi Caller Times: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Calallen&#039;s Kylie Butcher voted Apple Dental Center High School Athlete of the Week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caller.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/athlete-of-the-week\/2026\/05\/26\/vote-now-for-the-apple-dental-center-high-school-athlete-of-the-week\/90217408007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Calallen&#8217;s Kylie Butcher voted Apple Dental Center High School Athlete of the Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calallen softball player Kylie Butcher has been named the Apple Dental Center Athlete of the Week after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[112904,107473,112905,6440,155,157,156,112903],"class_list":["post-313746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-andre-cisneros","tag-baseball-player","tag-butcher","tag-calallen","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-matthew-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}