Four Bison picked for 26th Western All-Star football games

SCOTTSBLUFF -- McCook will be well represented at the 26th annual Western Nebraska All-Star Football Game, with four players from the Class B championship team.

McCook players include Rocky Esteraich, Luke Olson, Nathan Reicks and Spencer Walter,

Republican Valley will have three representatives on the East squad with Buck Haag, Blake Shuler and Chad Stewart selected to the West team.

Also area players chosen for the East squad were Culbertson's Ben Eisenhart, Michael Jones of Medicine Valley, Kole Kugler of Eustis-Farnam, Phil Macke of Cambridge and Toby Webb of Twin Valley.

Area members of the West squad are Brian Strand and John Strand, both of Chase County; and Nate Stroup of Dundy County.

The East team will be led by Les Roggenkamp of Republican Valley High School. His assistant coaches will be Mark Norvell of Twin Valley High School, Jerrod Burke of Medicine Valley High School and Brent Aufdenkamp from North Platte St. Pat's.

The West will be led by Terry Gilliland of Mitchell High School. He will be assisted by Wes Gamble of Sidney High School, Mike Mitchell of Potter-Dix High School and Jason Spady of Garden County.

The 2003 West Nebraska All-Star football game will be Saturday, June 7 at Bearcat Stadium in Scottsbluff with kick-off at 7 p.m. MDT.

Other members of the 2003 East squad include Matt Alien, Stapleton; Brian Arnold, Valentine; David Arnold, Sutherland; Cody Collins, North Platte; Jordan Hanna, Lexington; Toby Hite, Gothenburg; John Hoehne, North Platte; Ben Holmstedt, Paxton; Tom Hoyt, Anselmo-Merna; Jed Johnson, Gothenburg.

Nathan Kramer, North Platte St. Pat's; Jeffrey Neujahr of Gothenburg; Justin Pieper, North Platte St. Pat's; Dustin Rowe, Lexington; Ben Schuckman, Broken Bow; Joseph Sculley, Lexington;Ira Spanel, Anselmo-Merna; Troy Stark, North Platte; Scott Wewel, Ainsworth; Luke Witte, Ainsworth.

Members of the 2003 West squad include Matt Andersen, Gering; Ryan Barbour, Scottsbluff; Shane Batt, Garden County; Andrew Benben, Gordon; Tyler Brown, Alliance; Brian Canning, Garden County; Kody Christensen, Gering; Ryne Clark, Sidney;Phil Dickerson, Chadron; Matt Erdman, Bayard; Jeff Herian, Alliance; Jared Hoff, Scottsbluff.

Ross Hughson, Mitchell; Ross Janssen, Gordon; LukeJohnson, Chappell; Tony Krause, Ogallala; Levi Leeling, Bridgeport; TJ Lovato, Minatare; Brad Marcy, Rushville; Nick Marsh, Mitchell; Shaun Nienhueser, Sidney; Pierce Petersen, Alliance; Mike Randall, Alliance.

Mitch Roth, Gordon; Greg Sarchet, Ogallala; Ben Schmitt, Sidney; Micah Smith, Chadron; David Zorn, Garden County; and Trey Yarnell, Scottsbluff.

A portion of the proceeds from the West Nebraska All-Star Games benefit the TeamMates Program of Nebraska and the Scotts Bluff County Volunteer Center.