{"id":102591,"date":"2018-05-14T06:18:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=102591"},"modified":"2018-05-14T06:18:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:18:44","slug":"columbus-grove-sweeps-nwc-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/05\/14\/columbus-grove-sweeps-nwc-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Grove sweeps NWC meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SPENCERVILLE &#8212; Columbus Grove High School swept the 2018 Northwest Conference track championships in a meet hosted at Spencerville High School Thursday and Saturday. The championship was the 23rd overall title for the Grove boys&#8217; squad. The boys&#8217; team from Bluffton placed second having won the boys&#8217; championship last year, and Lincolnview placed third by a half point. The Crestview Knights finished sixth.<\/p>\n<p>The girls&#8217; championship was won by Columbus Grove for the fifth straight year and gives the Grove girls a total of 14 overall team championships. The girls&#8217; team from Spencerville finished second, followed by Lincolnview. The Lady Knights of Crestview placed sixth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-87782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/nwclogo125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>The Lancers were led by Brad Korte who won three of his four events. The sophomore was the NWC champion in the long jump (20-06.0), 100 meter dash (11.43) and 200 meter dash (23.27). He also placed sixth in the high jump (5-08).<\/p>\n<p>Karter Tow won the 3200 meter run (10:05.58) and placed third in the 1600 meter run (4:40.67), while Alek Bowersock was runner up in the 1600 meter run (4:40.30). The 4&#215;800 relay was runner up (Jacob Keysor, Karter Tow, Joe Sadowski, Alek Bowersock, 8:40.80). Jacob Keysor was third in the 3200 meter run (10:22.47) and Evan Cox was third in the high jump (5-08.00). Landon Moody placed fourth in the pole vault (9-06.00)<\/p>\n<p>Lincolnview\u2019s Olivia Gorman was the NWC champion in the long jump (15-08.75) and was runner up in the high jump (4-08.00). Brayden Langdon was the runner up in the 400 meter dash (1:03.61) and was fourth in the 100 meter dash (13.45) and fourth in the 200 meter dash (27.82). Sami Sellers was third in the discus (107-11.00). The 4&#215;100 relay placed third (Reagan Boley, Arin Williams, Olivia Gorman, Makenna Klausing, 53.32 ). The girls 4&#215;800 relay placed third (Madeline Snyder, Dylann Carey, Rylee Byrne, Madison Langdon, 10:42.51).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Crestview\u2019s Tyler White finished second in the 110 meter hurdles (15.44) and fifth in the 300 meter hurdles (43.93), while Wyatt Richardson placed sixth in the 1600 meter run (4:54.26). Caylib Pruett placed fifth in the 400 meter dash (56.22), and the 4&#215;200 relay team of Jordan Perrott, Darrin Nihiser, Nick Springer and Caylib Pruett finished third (1:37.98).<\/p>\n<p>Crestview\u2019s Makenzie Leeth placed fifth in the 100 meter dash (13.58), and Ragen Harting finished sixth in the 1600 meter run (5:47.66). Lyvia Black placed fourth in the 300 meter hurdles (51.00), while Allison McCoy took fifth in the 800 meter run (2:38.60).<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Taylor placed fourth in the high jump (4-06.00), and the 4&#215;100 relay team of Sophie Kline, Neveah Pruett, Tiffany Thompson and Lyvia Black placed fifth (56.21). The 4&#215;400 relay team of Ragen Harting, Sophie Kline, Allison McCoy and Lyvia Black also finished fifth (4:30.60).<\/p>\n<p>Final team standings:<\/p>\n<p>Boys: 1. Columbus Grove (111 points) 2. Bluffton (107) 3. Lincolnview (106.5) 4. Ada (96.5) 5. Spencerville (93) 6). Crestview (42) 7. Allen East (36) 8. Delphos Jefferson (32) 9. Paulding (32).<\/p>\n<p>Girls: 1. Columbus Grove (202.5 points) 2. Spencerville (112.5) 3. Lincolnview (90) 4. Bluffton (79.5) 5. Paulding (67) 6. Crestview (34.5) 7. Ada (30.5) 8. Allen East (24) 9. Delphos Jefferson (19.5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports\/submitted information SPENCERVILLE &#8212; Columbus Grove High School swept the 2018 Northwest Conference track championships in a meet hosted at Spencerville High School Thursday and Saturday. The championship was the 23rd overall title for the Grove boys&#8217; squad. The boys&#8217; team from Bluffton placed second having won the boys&#8217; championship last year, [&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-102591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 05:53:52","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\/102591","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=102591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}