{"id":113717,"date":"2019-02-20T23:59:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=113717"},"modified":"2019-02-21T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:00:24","slug":"priest-leads-van-wert-over-elida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/02\/20\/priest-leads-van-wert-over-elida\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan Priest leads Van Wert over Elida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MILLER CITY &#8212; Reagan Priest scored 19 points helped Van Wert defeat Elida 51-46 in the Division II sectional semifinals at Miller City High School on Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur girls played with purpose tonight,\u201d Van Wert head coach Rob Adams said. \u201cIt was a total team effort and Reagan Priest was dynamite for us and looked like vintage Reagan Priest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Reagan-Priest-2-22-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113716\"\/><figcaption><strong>Reagan Priest scored 19 points during Wednesday&#8217;s sectional win over Elida<\/strong>. <em>Jerry Mason\/file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The 5-7 guard scored nine of Van Wert\u2019s 11 points in the first quarter with four baskets and a free throw, but the Lady Cougars trailed 14-11 at the end of the period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abby Jackson scored eight of her 10 points in the second quarter and Van Wert led 22-20 at halftime. Priest scored six more in the third period, Jerica Huebner added three and Allison Schaufelberger and Jackson each chipped in with two, and Van Wert maintained a two point lead, 35-33 at the end of the quarter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexis Metz drained a pair of much needed treys in the fourth quarter and Priest hit two more buckets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the dust settled, Van Wert hit 21 of 60 shots, finished 5 of 12 from the foul line and pulled down 25 rebounds. Elida (8-15) was 14 of 44 from the floor, 13 of 17 from the free throw line and had 23 rebounds. Hayleigh Bacome led the Lady Bulldogs with 11 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe pride ourselves on defensive effort and tonight we had it,\u201d Adams said. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of these girls \u2013 survive and advance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (6-16) will play No. 1 seed Napoleon (15-5) for the upper bracket sectional championship at 6:15 p.m. on Saturday at Miller City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Scoring summary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert  11   11   13   16 \u2013 51<br>Elida         14     6   13   13 \u2013 46<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert: Sierra Shaffer 1-0-2; Alexis Metz 2-0-6; Reagan Priest 9-1-19; Carly Smith 1-0-2; Jerica Huebner 2-4-8; Allison Schaufelberger 2-0-8; Abby Jackson 5-0-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elida: Amira Freeman 3-2-9; Hayleigh Bacome 3-4-11; Erika Suever 1-0-2; Hailey Little 1-3-5; Cienna Kuhn 2-2-7; Constanela Slaise 2-0-4; Amiah Jones 3-0-6; Alissa Cuffy 0-2-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor MILLER CITY &#8212; Reagan Priest scored 19 points helped Van Wert defeat Elida 51-46 in the Division II sectional semifinals at Miller City High School on Wednesday. \u201cOur girls played with purpose tonight,\u201d Van Wert head coach Rob Adams said. \u201cIt was a total team effort and Reagan Priest was dynamite [&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-113717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 09:39:23","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\/113717","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=113717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}