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8-Man All-Star games delivers 2 routs
Oilers compete in 8-Man All-Star Game
Eli Hurley
Oiler Eli Hurley

BELOIT – The 2025 8-Man All-Star Football Games delivered historic routs by a combined 130-0. The West Division 1 stars won 72-0. The East Division 2 stars won 58-0.

WEST 72, EAST 0, DIV. 1 – Wichita County's Khris Hermosillo rushed for four touchdowns on runs of 1, 7, 7 and a 51-yard scoring strike from Hoxie's Duncan Bell. Hoxie's Sam Watkins scored on a fumble recovery and 49-yard pass from Bell. Hoxie's Easton Nickelson scored on a 15-yard interception return.

East 0 0 0 0 – 0

West 22 24 12 12 – 72

W–Wichita County's Khris Hermosillo 7 run (Atwood's Smarek run)

W–South Gray's Damien Loewen 7 pass from Hoxie's Duncan Bell

W–Smarek 4 run (Smarek run)

W–Hoxie's Sam Watkins 49 pass from Bell (2 pointer)

W–Watkins fumble recovery (Smarek pass from Bell)

W–Hermosillo 1 run (Watkins pass from Bell)

W–Hermosillo 51 pass from Bell (Smarek run)

W–Hermosillo 7 run

W–Hoxie's Easton Nickelson 15 interception return

EAST 58, WEST 0, DIV. 2 – Burlingame quarterback J.D. Tyson completed a record eight touchdown passes, three to Frankfort's Carter Olson on catches of 5, 23 and 46 yards. Marmaton Valley's Jaedon Granere caught 26- and 31-yard receptions.

East 6 22 14 14 – 58

West 0 0 0 0 – 0

E–Frankfort's Carter Olson 46 pass from Burlingame's J.D. Tyson

E–Frankfort's Lane Loiseau 17 pass from Tyson

E–Marmaton Valley's Jaedon Granere 26 pass from Tyson (Olson pass from Tyson)

E–Olson 5 pass from Tyson (Granere pass from Tyson)

E–Olson 23 pass from Tyson (2 pointer)

E–Granere 31 pass from Tyson

E–Burlingame's Dane Winters  5 pass from Tyson (2 pointer)

E–Blue Valley's Landon Sump 20 pass from Tyson (2 pointer)


Central Plains football coach J.D. Johnson will join Oilers Aiden Hekele and Eli Hurley in Saturday's 8-Man Division 1 All-Star Football Game. Hoxie defeated the Oilers for the Division 1 state championship.

The Division 2 game will kick off at 10 a.m. while the Division 1 game will begin at 1:30.

The head coaches for the games are Chase County’s Derick Budke (Division 1 East), Rawlins County’s Aaron Sramek (Division 1 West), Marmaton Valley’s Max Mickunas (Division 2 East) and Bucklin’s Trever Powell (Division 2 West).

EIGHT-MAN  DIV. 1

EAST--Kyler Bergkamp, Little River; Ruxton Birdsong, Little River; Cade Brokes, Sylvan-Lucas; Luke Budke, Chase County; Lucky Cherico, Sedan; Trent Haag, West Elk; Aiden Hekele, Central Plains; Dante Henley, Central Burden; Eli Hurley, Central Plains; Josh Hutchinson, Oswego; Colton Isch, Madison; Creyo Koop, West Elk; Brodin Koch, Clifton-Clyde; Trextin Koch, Clifton-Clyde; Cooper McDill, Rock Hills; Rayden Myers, Oswego; Oliver Nobert, Clifton-Clyde; Logan Renken, Little River; Victor Ruiz-Torres, Ell-Saline; Jacob Tillberg, Ell-Saline.

Head coach Chase County's Derick Budke; Lincoln's Colby Hamel; Central Plains' J.D. Johnson

WEST–Duncan Bell, Hoxie; Dorian Culwell, Rawlins County; Graeden Dienes, WaKeeney; Zac Hendrickson, South Gray; Khris Hermosillo, Wichita County; Alex Holguin, Meade; Cordell Jordan, Oxford; Zach Kraft, Kinsley; Damien Loewen, South Gray; Easton Nickelson, Hoxie; Caleb Noble, Ellis; Camden Polifka, Quinter; JT Prusa, South Central; Jase Rutherford, South Central; Jamie Sarmiento, South Central; Ryan Sramek, Rawlins County; Dayton Stephen, Hill City; Juan Tapia, Wichita County; Sam Watkins, Hoxie; Max Witham, Wichita County.

Head coach Rawlins County's Aaron Sramek; South Central's Brett Westrup; Hoxie's Lance Baar

DIVISION 2

EAST–Eli Broxterman, Axtell; Rilyn Buessing, Axtell; Andy Cooper, Pike Valley; Dalton Garman, Osborne; Jaedon Granere, Marmaton Valley; Parker Haid, Burlingame; Trent Hardin, Frankfort; Daltyn Heinen, Axtell; Camron Jueneman, Hanover; Andrew Konrade, Lebo; Brayden Lawson, Marmaton Valley; Lane Loiseau, Frankfort; Gentry McGhee, Colony-Crest; Carter Olson, Frankfort; Zach Oswald, Lebo; Miles Rickard, Pike Valley; Gage Seifried, Osborne; Landon Sump, Blue Valley-Randolph; JD Tyson, Burlingame; Dane Winters, Burlingame.

Head coach Marmaton Valley's Max Mickunas; Burlingame's Jeff Slater; Crest's Nick McAnulty

 WEST–Cale Braun, Victoria; Kolson Cook, Bucklin; Connor Fowler, Fairfield; Wyatt Griffin, Victoria; Rhett Kats, Logan-Palco; Lucas Kirk, Bucklin; Ry Kooiman, Hutchinson Central Christian; Travis Korbe, Wallace County; Garrett Lanning, Fairfield; Jeb Miller, Victoria; Keaton Miller, Hutchinson Central Christian; Kyler Murphy, Norwich; Ryland Price, Dighton; Kaden Redburn, Wheatland-Grinnell; Dawson Ruff, Hodgeman County; Hazen Rydquist, Hodgeman County; Jesse Smith, Minneola; Caleb Sparks, Logan-Palco; Carter Swingle, Attica; George von Leonrod, Dighton.

Head coach Bucklin's Trever Powell; Hutchinson Central Christian's Matt Barnett; Fairfield's Kyle Finder