{"id":95626,"date":"2017-11-22T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T04:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=95626"},"modified":"2017-11-23T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T02:55:10","slug":"pigskin-pickem-week-no-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/11\/22\/pigskin-pickem-week-no-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigskin Pick&#8217;Em: Week No. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Week No. 14, which means just 28 Ohio high school football teams are left in the OHSAA playoffs \u2013 four in each of seven divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I picked just two games and predicted both of them correctly, which boosted my postseason record to 22-2. As expected, Marion Local topped Coldwater and Minster defeated Delphos St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my predictions for Friday\u2019s games (projected winner in <strong>bold<\/strong>):<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Division VI<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marion Local<\/strong> (13-0) vs. Liberty Benton (12-1) at Wapakoneta: Marion Local has shut out all three playoff opponents. I won\u2019t be shocked if Liberty Benton scores on the Flyers, but I\u2019m picking Marion Local to win and advance to next week\u2019s title game.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Division VII<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Minster (9-4) vs. <strong>Norwalk St. Paul<\/strong> (13-0) at Lima: I\u2019ve had the privilege to watch both of these teams during the postseason, and both have been impressive. I don\u2019t usually pick against MAC schools, but I believe the Flyers will get the win and move on to Canton.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, I\u2019ll make predictions for all seven state championship games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor It\u2019s Week No. 14, which means just 28 Ohio high school football teams are left in the OHSAA playoffs \u2013 four in each of seven divisions. Last week, I picked just two games and predicted both of them correctly, which boosted my postseason record to 22-2. As expected, Marion Local topped [&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-95626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 09:32:05","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\/95626","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=95626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}