The 14th annual Nebraska-Wyoming Six-Man All-Star Football Game was played at Chadron State College’s Elliott Field on Friday, May 30. This is at least the sixth consecutive year that Chadron State has hosted the game.
There are 18 players on each roster. The Nebraska roster includes three seniors from last year’s Hay Springs team that was 9-0 before losing to Stuart in the semifinals of the six-man playoffs. The three Hawks on the roster are Talan Smith, Dylan Raymer and Dylan Young. Each of them will also play for the West in the 11-man West Nebraska All-Star Game in Scottsbluff the following Saturday, June 7.
Others on the Nebraska roster for the six-man clash include Jack Hunter of Sioux County High at Harrison and two first-team all-staters, Hunter Tubbs and Ben Paxton, from Stuart’s state championship team.
Here are the names of the other players on the Nebraska squad:
Ansley-Litchfield—Isaac O’Brien; Cody-Kilgore—Jasper Roseberry; Diller-Odell–Cooper Morgan; Hampton—Jackson Bullis; Pawnee City—Jeff Farwell, Jesse McLaughlin, Anthony Kling; Santee—Isaiah Yellow Cloud; Silver Lake—Cody Plambeck; Southwest—Trenton Williams; Sumner-Eddyville-Miller—Maddox Jones and Cohen Rohde.
The Nebraska coaches are Colin Schuman of Stuart, Shane Hrasky of SEM, Trevor Ginkens of Hay Springs last fall and Sioux County this coming season, and Chad Dormann of Oshkosh. Dormann also is also the head coach of the West team in the West Nebraska All-Star Game the next week.
Wyoming doesn’t have as many six-man teams as Nebraska, so their 18 players are recent graduates of seven schools. Those schools are Little Snake River at Baggs, Burlington, Dubois, Encampment, Midwest, Riverside at Basin and Casper Christian.
One of the Wyoming players, Siler Hess of Dubois, is a Chadron State recruit.
Nebraska’s players are from 12 schools.
Nebraska won last year’s all-star game 42-14 to take a 7-6 lead in the series.