{"id":207141,"date":"2026-06-22T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207141"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:48:14","slug":"lincoln-highway-classic-set-to-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/06\/22\/lincoln-highway-classic-set-to-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Highway Classic postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editor\u2019s note: due to field conditions, the Lincoln Highway Classic has been postponed until 8 p.m. this Wednesday, June 24. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first annual Lincoln Highway Classic baseball game will be played under the lights at Smiley Park in Van Wert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game, sponsored by Lee Kinstle GM Sales and Service and Klosterman Pizza and organized by local businessment Eric McCracken and Kevin Price, will feature 19 recent graduates from Delphos Jefferson, Lincolnview, Van Wert and Crestview high schools.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teams will be formed via a blind draw on Wednesday. Managers for the game will be Van Wert alum Ryan McCracken and Lincolnview graduate Landon Price, who went on to play collegiate baseball at Ohio State, then Ohio University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no charge for admission to the game. Ray Geary (Delphos) and Tim Price (Lincolnview) and one person from Crestview will be honored before the game. Brent\u2019s Rolling Kitchen will be at the game serving food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game will air live on WERT 1220AM\/104.3FM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Players<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Crestview \u2013 Braxtyn Couts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Crestview \u2013 Huxley Grose<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Crestview \u2013 Owen Heckler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Crestview \u2013 Jace Wehner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Delphos Jefferson \u2013 Leyton Parent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Delphos Jefferson \u2013 Luke Rode<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Delphos Jefferson \u2013 Isaac Rostorfer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Lincolnview \u2013 Jackson Ingledue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Lincolnview \u2013 Owen Long<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Lincolnview \u2013 Chayse Overholt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Lincolnview \u2013 Holden Price (captain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Lincolnview \u2013 Case Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Lincolnview \u2013 Grant Zielke<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Van Wert \u2013 Finley Dickinson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Van Wert \u2013 Trevor Halker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Van Wert \u2013 Conner Harris<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Van Wert \u2013 Blade Lowe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Van Wert \u2013 Griffin McCracken (captain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"   Van Wert \u2013 Cam Werts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: due to field conditions, the Lincoln Highway Classic has been postponed until 8 p.m. this Wednesday, June 24. VW independent sports The first annual Lincoln Highway Classic baseball game will be played under the lights at Smiley Park in Van Wert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 24.\u00a0 The game, sponsored by Lee Kinstle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 00:32:34","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\/207141","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=207141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207169,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207141\/revisions\/207169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}