2020 NWC Fall Sports Protocols
NORTHWEST CONFERENCE
The Northwest Conference has implemented the following procedures for the 2020 fall sports season.
*Ticket pricing
Varsity Football $6 (Allen East $10)
Varsity Soccer and Volleyball $5
Jr Hi Volleyball and Football $3
*Football seating
It has been decided that ticket allotment will be determined by seating capacity at various stadiums with home school receiving 2/3 of the tickets and the visiting school receiving 1/3 of the tickets. Each school will determine the access to those tickets with priority being given to players, cheerleaders, and band members for home games. All football tickets will be presale only. Home and visiting spectators will need to purchase tickets at their respective schools prior to arriving at the game. There will be no tickets sold at the gate.
*All other sports will present a voucher at the gate and pay at the gate. If you do not have a voucher you will not be admitted.
* Soccer and volleyball seating will be determined based on seating capacity. This information will be shared with the visiting schools in advance of game day.
* Visiting schools will provide game day rosters for those to be admitted at the pass gate. This includes coaches, video personnel, stat personnel, and district administrators.
*Bands will only be permitted at home games
* No passes will be allowed. This includes NWC or league passes, local district passes, senior passes, or NWC lifetime passes.
NWC Quad-Match at Hickory Sticks GC
The 2020 NWC Football Schedule has been released. The NWC will play divisions and have a tournament to determine the true NWC champion. Our league size and geographic locations of the schools make this possible. We will play Division games in weeks 1-3, and start the NWC Football tournament week 4. The division games in weeks 1-3 are shorter bus rides for everyone, and will reduce the time our student athletes congregate in a bus. We will use records to determine seeds, and use head to head results or draw pills to break any ties in the seeding. The winner of game 7 will be the NWC champion, regardless of division record. We will do our best to make sure everyone plays 3 home games & 3 away games in weeks 1-6. If schools can’t reach an agreement, then we will use a coin flip to determine the host school (this will likely happen week 5, and game 7). The higher seeded school is not guaranteed an opportunity to host.
Division III
Columbus Grove junior Blake Reynolds was chosen as the 2019-20 NWC Player of the Year by Northwest Conference boys’ basketball coaches at their annual selection meeting. Reynolds received 119 total points in the voting in a near unanimous selection. Reynolds averaged 16.8 points per game along with 9 rebounds and 5 assists per game for the Bulldogs.
Paulding senior Chelsi Giesige was selected as the 2019-20 NWC Player of the Year in voting by Northwest Conference girls’ basketball coaches. Giesige averaged 16.8 points, 3 steals and 3 assists per game in leading the Panthers to an 18-4 regular season record.
Columbus Grove is ranked 1st in Division IV in the final 2019-20 Ohio High School Boys Basketball AP State Poll.
Allen East scored a total of 341.0 points to take the 2020 Northwest Conference Wrestling Championship held at Columbus Grove High School. Spencerville finished second in the tournament with 223 points while Bluffton took third at 218.5 points. Repeating as conference champs for the fourth year in a row, Allen East’s title was their ninth overall NWC wrestling championship.