{"id":114398,"date":"2019-03-07T00:29:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T05:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=114398"},"modified":"2019-03-07T00:29:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T05:29:28","slug":"season-in-review-lincolnview-lancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/03\/07\/season-in-review-lincolnview-lancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Season in review: Lincolnview Lancers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2018-2019 basketball season came to an end sooner than hoped for the Lincolnview Lancers, but looking back, it was an entertaining season for everyone involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With last week\u2019s loss to Parkway in the Division IV sectional semifinals at Paulding, Lincolnview finished 10-12 (5-3 NWC). However, a season opening win over Van Wert, exciting overtime victories over Kalida and Bluffton, a 9-5 start and some off-the-court moments were among the highlights enjoyed by the Lancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Logan Williams (3) and Zane Miller (40) were two of eight seniors on this year’s Lancer squad.<\/strong> Bob Barnes\/file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year was like a roller coaster,\u201d head coach Brett Hammons said. \u201cWe had some high moments and some low ones also.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think we had some big wins this year and winning puts a smile on the kids\u2019 faces. That is what they work so hard for and for them to achieve that is always positive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome of the fun times were off the floor at team meals. It is always great to interact with the team in those situations. For me a positive was getting to interact with the players on a daily bases on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lancers entered the season with question marks due to graduation losses from the 2017-2018 season, but Hammons said his team did a good job answering the bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had kids whose roles changed this year and it took a little while to adjust but I think as the season went along they got used to them and performed well,\u201d Hammons said. \u201cI know people will look at the record we had at 10-12 and wonder how they could have done that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe played a brutal schedule where 11 of the teams we played had 15 wins or more, 17 have double digit wins, and nine made it to districts. Things could have been different for sure, but I am proud of these guys for the effort they gave in these 22 games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three Lancers earned All-NWC honors: Zane Miller was named to the Second Team and Ethan Kemler and Alek Bowersock received Honorable Mention accolades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI got to coach Ethan and Zane for three years and Alek for two and I am happy that they got recognized for the season they had,\u201d Hammons said. \u201cI think they are three players who came in and worked hard to get better every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, Kemler and Bowersock were among the eight seniors (Jorge Salinas, Logan Williams, Kyle Wallis, Josh Oberlitner and Sam Myers) on this year\u2019s Lincolnview squad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really enjoyed this group,\u201d Hammons said of his seniors. \u201cI am lucky to get to say that I coached them and got to know them.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis group worked hard for me at all times and always tried to get better. It was great to watch them develop on the floor but more importantly off the court. They will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hammons also acknowleged that a lot of work has to be done before the start of the 2019-2020 season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur goal this off-season is to try and get the kids prepared for what they are going to see at the varsity level,\u201d Hammons explained. \u201cWe are losing our main core and will only have three returning letter winners (Collin Overholt, Jake Bowersock and Creed Jessee). We have to get them used to the speed of the game, and the biggest thing is we have to get stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor The 2018-2019 basketball season came to an end sooner than hoped for the Lincolnview Lancers, but looking back, it was an entertaining season for everyone involved. With last week\u2019s loss to Parkway in the Division IV sectional semifinals at Paulding, Lincolnview finished 10-12 (5-3 NWC). However, a season opening win over […]<\/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-114398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 01:28:20","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\/114398","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=114398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}