{"id":108835,"date":"2018-10-27T06:18:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=108835"},"modified":"2018-10-27T06:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T11:18:06","slug":"conference-league-champs-playoff-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/10\/27\/conference-league-champs-playoff-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference\/league champs, playoff teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Area conference and league championships were decided on Friday night. Below is a brief synopsis of what happened in the Northwest Conference, the Western Buckeye League, the Green Meadows Conference and the Midwest Athletic Conference, along with area teams that qualified for the postseason.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NWC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crestview (9-1), Spencerville (8-2) and Columbus Grove (7-3) finished as tri-champions of the NWC. Each team went 6-1 in conference play. The Knights clinched their share with a 50-8 win over Paulding on Friday, while Spencerville defeated Delphos Jefferson 54-0, and Columbus Grove topped Bluffton 42-13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WBL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A late field goal gave Wapakoneta a 26-24 win over No. 1 St. Marys Memorial, and a share of the WBL championship.<\/p>\n<p>Wapakoneta and St. Marys each finished the regular season 9-1 (8-1 WBL). Van Wert finished third (8-2, 7-2 WBL).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>GMC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edgerton wrapped up an outright GMC title and a 10-0 season with Friday\u2019s 58-0 victory over Ayersville.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs will finish as the No. 2 team in Division VII in the final Associated Press poll of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coldwater ended the longest winning streak in the state (36) with a 26-20 double overtime win over Marion Local on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Flyers will win at least a share of the MAC championship. If Anna defeats Delphos St. John\u2019s tonight, the Rockets will finish as co-champions with Marion Local.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Playoffs teams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NWC: Crestview, Spencerville, Columbus Grove<\/p>\n<p>WBL: St. Marys, Wapakoneta, Van Wert<\/p>\n<p>GMC: Edgerton, Fairview<\/p>\n<p>MAC: Marion Local, Anna, St. Henry, Coldwater, Minster<\/p>\n<p>Independent: Lima Central Catholic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports Area conference and league championships were decided on Friday night. Below is a brief synopsis of what happened in the Northwest Conference, the Western Buckeye League, the Green Meadows Conference and the Midwest Athletic Conference, along with area teams that qualified for the postseason. NWC Crestview (9-1), Spencerville (8-2) and Columbus [&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-108835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 00:16:20","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\/108835","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=108835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}