Three Powell High School seniors — Mason Olsen, TJ Abraham and Zach Easum — will represent the Panthers in Saturday’s 44th annual Wyoming Shrine Bowl. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. at Casper’s Natrona County High School.

Coaching staff for the North and South picked players to represent the teams from nominations from the head coaches from each high school.

This game is for seniors only and all classes, including 6-man, must have representation.

Olsen, Abraham and Easum will play for the North team, which has won the last four games and is 7-1-1 in the last nine years.

The head coach for the North team is John Scott from Tongue River with assistant coaches Vic Wilkerson and Jason Gill from Campbell County, Pat Patterson of Riverton, Marty Wrage of Greybull and Matt Jensen of Meeteetse.

The North team is comprised of players from Big Horn, Buffalo, Burlington, Campbell County, Cody, Dubois, Greybull, Hot Springs County, Hulett, Jackson Hole, Kelly Walsh, Lander, Lovell, Meeteetse, Midwest, Moorcroft, Natrona County, Newcastle, Powell, Riverside, Riverton, Rocky Mountain, Sheridan, Shoshoni, Sundance, Ten Sleep, Tongue River, Upton, Wind River, Worland, Wright, Wyoming Indian, Normative Services and Kaycee.

The Wyoming Shrine Bowl started in 1973 by two Wyoming coaches, Jerry Overton of Kelly Walsh High School and Denny Brown of Byron High School.

Since the first game in 1974, the Wyoming Shrine Bowl has raised over $450,000 for Shriners Hospital for Children in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Shriners Hospital for Children is a specialized orthopedic children’s hospital that performs 1,200 surgeries and treats 5,000 active patients a year, regardless of a family’s ability to pay.

In 2016, the Wyoming Shrine Bowl made a donation of $33,000, which helped fund the Shriners Hospital for Children’s new EOS Orthopedic Imaging euqipment.

EOS Imaging allows for patients to receive 3-D X-rays while being exposed to up to 90 percent less radiation than traditional radiology equipment. The estimated cost for the new technology is $250,000. The hospital has currently raised $102,000.

Long-term radiation exposure can be significantly reduced with the new imaging system. The hospital’s radiology department takes 30,000 X-rays yearly. There are currently only 111 EOS machines in the United States and are the only 3-D system capable of scanning patients in a weight-bearing position to reveal natural posture and joint orientation.

The participants of the Wyoming Shrine Bowl will make a trip to the Shriners Hospital for Children to visit patients and physically see what the Shrine Organization does.

To learn more about the Wyoming Shrine Bowl, visit www.wyoshrinebowl.com. For those unable to attend, the game can be watched online at www.mylocalradio.com.