By Cort Reynolds

Bluffton High School sophomores Nathan Speicher and Blayne Hill earned second team All-Northwest Conference honors in voting recently conducted by the league coaches.

Speicher batted .339 with 12 runs batted in and eight doubles. He scored a team-high 23 runs. He also drew a team-best 22 walks to post a .528 on-base pct.

Hill hit .344 with nine RBI, five doubles and one triple.

Pirate senior Landen Worcester was named honorable mention All-NWC. He batted .309 with 20 RBI, six doubles and two triples.

Chayse Overholt of conference champion Lincolnview (6-1) was named NWC Player of the Year.

Lancer mentor Eric Fishpaw was tabbed NWC Coach of the Year by his peers. Lincolnview captured its fifth consecutive NWC crown in 2025, and has won 38 of its 39 league games during that title-run span since 2021. 

Over the last seven seasons, the Lancers are 52-3 in league play.  

Crestview finished second in the 2025 NWC standings at 5-2, followed by Columbus Grove and Allen East in a tie for third at 4-3. LCC and Spencerville tied for fifth at 3-4, while Bluffton finished seventh at 2-5. 

Delphos Jefferson finished eighth and last in the NWC at 1-6.