By HockomockSports.com Staff
Taunton junior Brooke Aldrich has been selected as the HockomockSports.com Player of the Week, presented by Morse Insurance, for June 10 through June 16. Aldrich is the 38th and final athlete chosen as Player of the Week for the 2023-24 school year and 12th in the spring season.
Aldrich caught fire in the postseason, powering Taunton to a fourth straight Div. 1 state championship and a perfect 25-0 record. The junior shortstop hit five home runs, drove in 13, and scored eight runs during Taunton’s five playoff games, continuing a trend she started as a sophomore of picking up her game on the biggest stage.
“She just exudes this confidence in the postseason that I’ve never seen,” Taunton coach Michelle Raposo said of Aldrich, who also drove in six runs during last year’s title run. “She has it in the regular season, but once it comes time to play she says, ‘I’m here to play and I want to make a name for myself.’ It’s just awesome to see.”
Aldrich started the playoff with a bang, hitting a pair of two-run homers as Taunton rolled over Lexington in five innings. She added a two-run homer in the second game against Newton North, which turned out to be the winning runs, and added an RBI single, while making a couple of important relay throws to keep runners from getting into scoring position. In the quarterfinal win over Methuen, Aldrich had a hand in six of Taunton’s first seven runs, including a three-run homer in the first and a sac fly in the fourth inning.
Runs were a little harder to come by against Central Catholic in the Final Four, but Aldrich delivered again, singling to center in the first inning to bring in Aniyah Bailey with the only run of the game. In Saturday’s final at UMass, Aldrich smashed a solo homer off the scoreboard in leftfield to push the Taunton lead to 5-0, as the Tigers beat rival King Philip and clinched another state championship.
Read the recap and see photos from the state title game win against King Philip.
The Player of the Week, presented by Morse Insurance, is selected by the HockomockSports.com staff. Nominations can be submitted throughout the week up until Saturday night at 10:00PM. There may be a poll posted on every Sunday with the nominations. The results of the poll influence the selection but do not strictly dictate the decision.
Brooke Aldrich
Brooke Aldrich The Player of the Week, presented by Morse Insurance, is selected by the HockomockSports.com staff. Nominations can be submitted throughout the week up until Saturday night at midnight. There may be a poll posted on every Sunday with the nominations. The results of the poll influence the selection but do not strictly dictate the decision. Brooke Aldrich The Player of the Week, presented by Morse Insurance, is selected by the HockomockSports.com staff. Nominations can be submitted throughout the week up until Saturday night at midnight. There may be a poll posted on every Sunday with the nominations. The results of the poll influence the selection but do not strictly dictate the decision. Brooke Aldrich The Player of the Week, presented by Morse Insurance, is selected by the HockomockSports.com staff. Nominations can be submitted throughout the week up until Saturday night at midnight. There may be a poll posted on every Sunday with the nominations. The results of the poll influence the selection but do not strictly dictate the decision. Brooke Aldrich The Player of the Week, presented by Morse Insurance, is selected by the HockomockSports.com staff. Nominations can be submitted throughout the week up until Saturday night at midnight. There may be a poll posted on every Sunday with the nominations. The results of the poll influence the selection but do not strictly dictate the decision. Brooke Aldrich The Player of the Week, presented by Morse Insurance, is selected by the HockomockSports.com staff. Nominations can be submitted throughout the week up until Saturday night at midnight. There may be a poll posted on every Sunday with the nominations. The results of the poll influence the selection but do not strictly dictate the decision. Brooke Aldrich The Player of the Week, presented by Morse Insurance, is selected by the HockomockSports.com staff. Nominations can be submitted throughout the week up until Saturday night at midnight. There may be a poll posted on every Sunday with the nominations. The results of the poll influence the selection but do not strictly dictate the decision. Brooke Aldrich The Player of the Week, presented by Morse Insurance, is selected by the HockomockSports.com staff. Nominations can be submitted throughout the week up until Saturday night at midnight. There may be a poll posted on every Sunday with the nominations. The results of the poll influence the selection but do not strictly dictate the decision. Brooke Aldrich The Player of the Week, presented by Morse Insurance, is selected by the HockomockSports.com staff. Nominations can be submitted throughout the week up until Saturday night at
midnight. There may be a poll posted on every Sunday with the nominations. The results of the poll influence the selection but do not strictly dictate the
decision.
