{"id":148434,"date":"2021-11-19T04:47:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T09:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=148434"},"modified":"2021-11-20T01:29:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T06:29:06","slug":"superintendents-make-friendly-wager-on-tonights-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/11\/19\/superintendents-make-friendly-wager-on-tonights-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Superintendents make wager on game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a high stakes football game between a pair of 12-1 teams, with the winner moving on to the Division IV state semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert and Port Clinton will meet for the Region 14 championship at Findlay\u2019s Donnell Stadium on Friday night and the game has prompted a friendly wager between two superintendents who are longtime friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Van Wert City Schools Superintendent Mark Bagley and Port Clinton City Schools Pat Adkins have agreed on a friendly wager for tonight’s Division IV Region 14 championship game. Photos provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The friendship between Van Wert City Schools Superintendent Mark Bagley and Port Clinton City Schools Superintendent Patrick Adkins dates back nearly 30 years, when the two were teaching and coaching at Ottoville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPat has always been a mentor to me,\u201d Bagley said. \u201cI was a first year teacher 29 years ago and Pat was a computer teacher. He\u2019s been one of those guys who was one step above me and when the superintendent job came open at Van Wert and I tossed around whether I should apply for it, one of the first persons I called was Pat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bagley got the job early last year then a few months later the two schools met in the playoffs at Eggerss Stadium, which prompted a reunion between the two colleagues. The Cougars enjoyed a 46-20 win, which sparked a run all the way to the 2020 Division IV state championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As this year\u2019s bracket took shape, the two realized a rematch could take place. No. 3 seed Van Wert advanced to Friday\u2019s game with wins over Rossford, Wauseon and Clyde, while No. 4 seed Port Clinton made it to this point with playoff victories over Toledo Scott, Keystone and Perkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast Sunday we started texting and said we need to do something fun as superintendents,\u201d Bagley said. \u201cWe tossed around some ideas and it came to be that we\u2019d go to our head coaches and get a jersey that wasn\u2019t being used. We\u2019ll bring the jerseys to the game and the wager is the loser has to wear the winner\u2019s jersey Monday at work and then we get to pick a dinner of our choice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt should be fun for everybody,\u201d Adkins said. \u201cMark and I go way back and we\u2019re good friends and it\u2019s fun to be playing against their school. I think it\u2019s going to be a friendly rivalry and we just wanted to have a little bit of fun with it.\u201d
That begs the question \u2013 regardless of who wins, will the dinner be at a casual place or one on the pricier side?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think if we\u2019re going to do it right we have to find a Ruth Chris, Eddie Marlowe\u2019s, somewhere really nice,\u201d Bagley said with a laugh. \u201cWe\u2019ll probably meet in Toledo or Columbus or maybe I can drag him to Fort Wayne. Let\u2019s go big \u2013 I think it\u2019s a great wager.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we win it\u2019s going to be a little bit of an upset so it should be twice as expensive for him,\u201d Adkins quipped. \u201cI\u2019m thinking here in town Gideon Owen (an upscale restaurant on the Catwaba Peninsula), a nice steak and I\u2019m going to bring all of my family and make him pay up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bagley and Adkins both said regardless of the outcome, they\u2019re looking forward to chatting at the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor It\u2019s a high stakes football game between a pair of 12-1 teams, with the winner moving on to the Division IV state semifinals. Van Wert and Port Clinton will meet for the Region 14 championship at Findlay\u2019s Donnell Stadium on Friday night and the game has prompted a friendly wager between two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 21:45:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}