CASTLETON — Nine local senior high school football players have been chosen to play in this Saturday’s North-South Senior Football Game, which returns to Castleton University at 12:30 p.m. after a one-year COVID-induced absence.

The game is sponsored by the Vermont Chapter of the National Football Foundation.

Six local players scheduled to suit up for the South team include four from Middlebury — Nick Austin-Neil, Nikolai Luksch, Matt Kiernan and Sam Warren — and two from Otter Valley, Brady Diaz and Dylan Stevens-Clark.

The North roster includes three players from the Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative team: Adam Mansfield, Carmelo Miceli and Ryan Stoddard.