EMPORIA — Before Crest High’s Jayden Bowen and the rest of the 2012 Kansas Shrine Bowl All-Star football players take the field, Marmaton Valley High’s Zach Louk will compete and four area high school musicians will play.
Saturday is the 39th annual Kansas Shrine Bowl All-Star Football game along with all the pomp and circumstance. The football game features graduated senior players from 2012 from across the state of Kansas.
The East takes on the West at 7 p.m. at Emporia State’s Welch Stadium. Bowen is on the East Squad.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for students.
The 2012 game can be seen live on television on Cox Cable’s Kansas 22.
Louk, who is a 2012 graduate of MVHS in Moran, is competing in the fifth annual All-State cross country meet. The cross country race finishes inside Welch Stadium prior to the game’s kickoff.
The end of the race will be part of the pregame broadcast on Cox 22.
The All-State Masonic Marching Band members are in Emporia now preparing for performances at Friday’s Shrine Bowl banquet, Saturday’s annual Shrine Bowl parade and at the game. The parade begins at 10 a.m. on Commercial Street.
Iola High’s Jordan Strickler, who will be a senior this fall, is in the band playing tenor saxophone. Others from the area in the band are Yates Center’s Ryan Mentzer, euphonium, and Rylee Waddell, clarinet, and Southern Coffey County’s Ashley Johnson, alto saxophone.
All Shrine Bowl events are produced and presented to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children (SHC). SHC is a health care system of 22 hospitals dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing pediatric specialty care, innovative research, and outstanding teaching programs for medical professionals.
Children up to the age of 18 are eligible for care and receive all services in a family-centered environment, regardless of the patients’ ability to pay.
