Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week 28: Alejandro Porta of Southwest

Alejandro Porta of the Southwest baseball team is the Miami Herald Athlete of the Week for Week 28.

The senior drove in the winner in walk-off fashion in extra innings against Miami Christian in the finals as the Eagles won the HSBN Spring Break Tournament in South Florida. He also was 1-3 with a double, a walk, a run and an RBI in a semifinal win over Killian.

Other nominees were: Juan Sebastian Ibarra, Gulliver Prep water polo; Ava Valdivieso, Archbishop McCarthy lacrosse; Beau Gibson, Palmetto tennis; Jack Michalak, Belen Jesuit track & field; Eliecer Rodriguez, McArthur baseball; Braylen Bennett, American Heritage-Plantation track & field; and Christopher Vasallo, Doral Academy baseball.

To be considered for a nomination as a Broward or Miami-Dade high school varsity athlete, email hssports@miamiherald.com.

Jim Varsallone

Miami Herald

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Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too -- mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) -- sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel). Support my work with a digital subscription