{"id":114535,"date":"2019-03-08T23:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T04:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=114535"},"modified":"2019-03-09T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T05:19:07","slug":"crestview-wins-2ot-thriller-district-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/03\/08\/crestview-wins-2ot-thriller-district-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview wins 2 OT thriller, district title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

ELIDA — It was an unbelievable sequence of events during Friday night\u2019s Division IV district championship game at the Elida Field House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trailing Crestview 42-29 midway through the fourth quarter, Kalida hit five consecutive three pointers and forced a 46-46 tie at the end of regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Javin Etzler puts up a trey that forced a second overtime against Kalida<\/strong>. Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A pair of free throws by Trevor Lambert gave the Wildcats a 54-51 lead with 7.6 seconds left in overtime, but Javin Etzler drilled a trey at the buzzer to force a second overtime. It was almost the same spot where Etzler hit a shot that beat Hicksville in last year\u2019s district title game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Etzler and Drew Kline combined for all seven of Crestview\u2019s points in the second overtime and the Knights wouldn\u2019t allow Kalida to get a shot off in the final 57 seconds of the second extra session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the dust settled, Crestview won the game and the district title 61-58 and advanced to next week\u2019s regional semifinals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were up 13 and it just snowballed on us,\u201d Crestview head coach Jeremy Best said of the fourth quarter. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t get a stop, we missed a couple of free throws, but they\u2019re a really good basketball team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got some grown men, athletes out there and a lot of credit goes to Kalida for being resilient, but since these are my guys, I\u2019m going to going to give my guys more credit for hanging in there, making plays when we needed to,\u201d an elated Best continued. \u201cI\u2019m just proud of our guys.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Etzler actually stumbled a bit before hitting the trey that sent the game to a second overtime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good thing he tripped otherwise he might have been long on it,\u201d Best said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI guess they should just write my name right there with a Sharpie,\u201d Etzler said with a grin, referring to the spot where he hit last year\u2019s game winner and Friday\u2019s shot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the second overtime, Kline hit a short a basket, then was fouled on a steal and hit one of two free throws. He followed up with a pair of foul shots to give the Knights a 59-54 lead with 2:38 left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe (Kline) said at the end of the first overtime \u2018we\u2019re not losing this game, we are not losing this game, we are not\u2019 and by gosh we didn\u2019t,\u201d Best said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again though, Kalida (19-6) fought back as Owen Recker hit two foul shots and Lambert connected on two more with 1:22 left to pull the Wildcats to within one, 59-58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Etzler hit a pair of his own free throws a short time later, and Crestview\u2019s defense took over from there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Jeremy Best is excited and relieved after Friday’s double overtime win vs. Kalida.<\/strong> Wyatt Richardson photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey clamped us down,\u201d Kalida head coach Ryan Stechschulte said of the final 57 seconds. \u201cWe were patient and got it inside, but they covered us up and we called a timeout and had a play at the end but they guarded well and we couldn\u2019t get one off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re 24-1 for a reason,\u201d Stechschulte added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Knights opened the game with six straight points, but Kalida cut it to three, 12-0 before Etzler drained a triple to give Crestview a 15-9 lead after the first quarter. The Wildcats made it a two point game, 19-17 late in the second quarter, but Derick Dealey hit a three pointer off an offensive rebound and Kalen Etzler grabbed an offensive rebound and dunked it for a 24-17 halftime lead. By the end of the third quarter, Crestview enjoyed a 36-25 lead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kalida\u2019s Luke Erhart led all scorers with 22 points, including eight in the fourth quarter. Javin Etzler scored 14 of his team high 17 points in the second half, Kalen Etzler had 14 points and 10 rebounds and Kline scored 13. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview will play Hicksville in the regional semifinals at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Bowling Green State University. The two teams met on February 2, with the Knights recording a 60-35 victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scoring summary <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview 15 9 12 10 8 7 \u2013 61
Kalida 9 8 8 21 8 4 \u2013 58<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Kalen Etzler 6-1-14; Wade Sheets 4-1-9; Javin Etzler 5-4-17; Drew Kline 5-3-13; Colton Lautzenheiser 0-1-1; Derick Dealey 2-2-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kalida: Zach VonderEmbee 1-0-2; Gabe Hovest 2-0-5; Trevor Lamber 3-6-13; Owen Recker 1-4-6; Evan Roebke 2-0-5; Luke Erhart 9-2-22; Grant Laudick 2-0-5 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor ELIDA — It was an unbelievable sequence of events during Friday night\u2019s Division IV district championship game at the Elida Field House. Trailing Crestview 42-29 midway through the fourth quarter, Kalida hit five consecutive three pointers and forced a 46-46 tie at the end of regulation. A pair of free throws […]<\/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-114535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 22:12:27","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\/114535","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=114535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}