{"id":5472,"date":"2023-08-20T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2023-08-20T19:52:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T23:52:50","slug":"wells-county-football-recap-for-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/20\/wells-county-football-recap-for-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Wells County football recap for Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Norwell would fall at home to Mississinewa in their home opener 23-21.  Knight QB Drew Graft would open up the scoring on a 5 yard keeper, with Austin Deleon converting the PAT.  The Indians would score in the 2nd on a Nolan Quaderer 9 yard run.  Norwell would answer right back just before the halftime break on a 27 yard pass from Graft to Trace Moser.  Mississinewa would then score 17 unanswered, starting with a pass from Graft intercepted by Deakon Dilts, who would return it 64 yards for a touchdown.  Mason Reel would hit a 23 yard field goal, and Quaderer would score on a 1 yard run.  Norwell would come back in the 4th with 5:02 remaining, as Graft connected with Trey Bodenheimer for 63 yards and the Deleon PAT, but the Indians would drain the clock on the final possession.  Graft would finish 7-16 passing for 157 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, and also ran 8 times for 24 yards and a score.  Timothy Bonjour led the Knight rushing attack with 80 yards on 23 carries. Trey Bodenheimer carried 4 times for 11 yards, and also caught 4 passes for 107 yards and a touchdown, while Trace Moser caught 3 for 50 yards and a TD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seamlessgutter.net\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sure-FloLogo-600w.jpg?resize=600%2C224\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sure-FloLogo-600w.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sure-FloLogo-600w.jpg?resize=300%2C112&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up for Norwell will be a trek down to Delaware County to take on the Delta Eagles, who opened with a 35-14 win over Muncie Central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southern Wells went on the road and defeated Elwood 29-26.  Bryar Gearheart rushed 19 times for 131 yards and 2 touchdowns.  Case Boxell ran 14 times for 68 yards and a touchdown.  This is the first victory for the Raiders since a win over Heritage back in October 2019, though they did not play in 2020.  Next up will be a road game at Madison Grant, who beat Tri-Central 58-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bluffton picked up a win at Northfield 47-6.  No stats have been provided as of Sunday morning.  The Tigers will host Manchester, who come off a win over North Miami 34-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwell would fall at home to Mississinewa in their home opener 23-21. Knight QB Drew Graft would open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[52,15,54,46,53,26],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bluffton","tag-featured","tag-football","tag-norwell","tag-southernwells","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/football-generic.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}