Submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n
The 15th annual Van Wert County Hospital All-Star Football Game will be held this evening at Eggerss Stadium in Van Wert. The gates open at 6:30, with player introductions at 7:20 this evening and the kickoff at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
A total of 33 players from the Western Buckeye League will competed against an equal number of players from the Lima area and Northwest Conference. All tickets are $5 at the gate. There is no presale.<\/p>\n
Van Wert players participating on the WBL team include wide receiver\/safety Michael Smelser, wide receiver Terrance Branson, left tackle\/defensive end Jacob Braun and center\/tackle Daniel Patterson.<\/p>\n
Head coach of the WBL team is Elida\u2019s Jason Carpenter.<\/p>\n
Local players on the Lima area\/NWC team include the following: Spencerville running back\/defensive back Colton Miller, Wayne Trace receive\/safety Jared Sherry, Delphos Jefferson receiver Tyler Mox, Delphos St. John\u2019s running back\/outside linebacker Luke MacLennan, Wayne Trace quarterback Colby Speice, Crestview tight end\/defensive back Dylan Henry, Spencerville tight end\/defensive end Tyler Core, Wayne Trace wide receiver\/cornerback Korbin Showalter, Spencerville running back Anthony Schuh, Antwerp fullback\/linebacker Tyler Messman, Spencerville guard\/defensive end Lucas Perkins, Crestview guard\/defensive end Scott Miller, Delphos Jefferson guard\/defensive end Isaac Illig, Crestview linebacker Zen Burdette, Delphos St. John\u2019s left tackle\/defensive tackle Spencer Ginter, Delphos St. John\u2019s center\/defensive tackle Ryan Shumaker, Paulding guard\/defensive end Ryan Schindler and Delphos Jefferson running back\/safety Zavier Buzard.<\/p>\n
The NWC\/Lima area team is coached by Crestview\u2019s Jared Owens and his staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Submitted information The 15th annual Van Wert County Hospital All-Star Football Game will be held this evening at Eggerss Stadium in Van Wert. The gates open at 6:30, with player introductions at 7:20 this evening and the kickoff at 7:30 p.m. A total of 33 players from the Western Buckeye League will competed against an […]<\/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-52674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 05:42:37","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\/52674","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=52674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}