{"id":100085,"date":"2018-03-22T06:10:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T11:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=100085"},"modified":"2018-03-23T08:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T13:27:39","slug":"season-wrap-up-crestview-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/03\/22\/season-wrap-up-crestview-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"Season wrap-up: Crestview Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; It was a season full of good memories for the Crestview Knights and their fans. The 22 game regular season and ensuing tournament included a Northwest Conference boys\u2019 basketball championship, a sectional championship, two heart-pounding district wins that led to a district title, a regional semifinal win, 23 victories and a 19-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97340\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/JeremyBestII.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"219\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Jeremy Best<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also along the way \u2013 Northwest Conference Player of the Year and All-Ohio second team honors earned by 6-7 junior Javin Etzler, who averaged 15 points and seven rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview\u2019s fine season came to an end with a 70-58 loss to Pandora-Gilboa in last Friday\u2019s Division IV regional championship game at Bowling Green State University.<\/p>\n<p>While reflecting on the 2017-2018 season, head coach Jeremy Best said the team was a special one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat stands out the most to me with this group is the way this team started playing for each other and exhibiting the qualities of honesty, loyalty, trust and love with one another,\u201d Best explained. \u201cThis team\u2019s transformation during the course of the season was unlike any group I\u2019ve had. It was a joy to watch the maturation process take place and see the guys demonstrate these qualities in our practices and games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very humbling for me and our coaching staff to see these guys be rewarded,\u201d Best added. \u201cYes, we won games and championships, but the relationships that our players and coaching staff developed will trump any win or lose from this season. This group was awfully fun to be around and watch over the last 10-11 weeks of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While a number of key players will return next season (Javin Etzler, Kalen Etzler, Wade Sheets, Drew Kline, Jace Vining, Derick Dealey and Colton Lautzenheiser), the Knights will lose five seniors to graduation \u2013 Brett Schumm, Trevor Gibson, Grant Schlagbaum, Charles Stefanek and Derek Stout \u2013 and Best said the group will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese five seniors did a great job on the individual roles they played for our team,\u201d Best stated. \u201cThese fellas totally bought into \u2018The Process\u2019 and they were rewarded with a tremendous senior season. These fellas and their parents are to be commended for their dedication to our program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor CONVOY &#8212; It was a season full of good memories for the Crestview Knights and their fans. The 22 game regular season and ensuing tournament included a Northwest Conference boys\u2019 basketball championship, a sectional championship, two heart-pounding district wins that led to a district title, a regional semifinal win, 23 victories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 09:32:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}