{"id":93552,"date":"2017-09-28T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=93552"},"modified":"2017-09-28T06:40:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:40:51","slug":"pigskin-pickem-week-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/09\/28\/pigskin-pickem-week-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigskin Pick&#8217;Em: Week Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Week No. 5 of the high school football season was a challenging one, in terms of predicting games.<\/p>\n<p>After going 18-2 the previous week, I went just 13-7 picking games. However, it should be noted there were several mild upsets around the area, including Wapakoneta over Elida, Spencerville over Ada, and Hicksville over Edgerton. A few other games, including Van Wert at Shawnee and Bath at Defiance were toss-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into Friday\u2019s games, my overall record is 88-32 (73.3 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, I can bring that average up, but it won\u2019t be easy. There are a number of close games on this week\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my picks for Week No. 6 (predicted winner in <strong>bold<\/strong>):<\/p>\n<p>Kenton at <strong>Van Wert<\/strong>: It\u2019s homecoming for the Cougars, and it should be a full house at Eggerss Stadium. The Wildcats average nearly 300 yards passing per game, but give up almost 300 yards rushing per game. I\u2019ll pick the Cougars in what could be a wild one.<\/p>\n<p>Spencerville at <strong>Crestview<\/strong>: After an 0-2 start, the Bearcats have won three straight, including last week\u2019s 21-17 victory over Ada. While Spencerville may be a dangerous opponent, I like the Knights in this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delphos Jefferson<\/strong> at Paulding: The Wildcats have scored 74 points in their last two games, and they have the potential to enjoy more offensive success against the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>New Bremen at <strong>Delphos St. John\u2019s<\/strong>: The Blue Jays have dropped two of their last three games, but I like them to win Friday\u2019s \u201cBattle of the Birds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other games: <strong>Wapakoneta<\/strong> at Bath, Elida at <strong>St. Marys<\/strong>, Defiance at<strong> Celina<\/strong>, <strong>Shawnee<\/strong> at Ottawa-Glandorf, <strong>Bluffton<\/strong> at Allen East, Columbus Grove at <strong>Ada<\/strong>, <strong>Wayne Trace<\/strong> at Ayersville, <strong>Antwerp<\/strong> at Holgate, Tinora at<strong> Edgerton<\/strong>, <strong>Hicksville<\/strong> at Fairview, <strong>Minster<\/strong> at St. Henry, Anna at <strong>Marion Local<\/strong>, Versailles at <strong>Fort Recovery<\/strong>, <strong>Coldwater<\/strong> at Parkway, Fremont Ross at <strong>Lima Sr<\/strong>, <strong>Woodlan (IN)<\/strong> at Lima Central Catholic (Saturday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Week No. 5 of the high school football season was a challenging one, in terms of predicting games. After going 18-2 the previous week, I went just 13-7 picking games. However, it should be noted there were several mild upsets around the area, including Wapakoneta over Elida, Spencerville over Ada, and [&hellip;]<\/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-93552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 19:46:14","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\/93552","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=93552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}