{"id":115395,"date":"2019-03-25T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=115395"},"modified":"2019-03-25T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:27:23","slug":"d-iv-state-champion-knights-speak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/03\/25\/d-iv-state-champion-knights-speak-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgame quotes from players, coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Crestview head coach Jeremy Best, Berlin Hiland head coach Mark Schlabach and players from both teams answered questions during Saturday night\u2019s postgame press conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the top comments are listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was a special vibe from this team since the beginning of the season.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Drew Kline on the Crestview Knights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cObviously it\u2019s a nice option. In the world of coaching, these guys make me look smart, but that wouldn\u2019t happen if we didn\u2019t have other selfless guys. We\u2019ve had that all year long. We\u2019ve had multiple different things thrown at us defensively and we answered the bell most of the time. We had total buy-in.\u201d <\/em>\u2013 Crestview head coach Jeremy Best talking about having different players step up in different games and situations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it works both ways. I thought they had some things they could do exploit us. I thought they had pretty good quickness and they\u2019re just so fundamentally sound.\u201d <\/em>\u2013 Best on potential matchup problems posed by the Hawks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had really good third quarters most of the year.\u201d <\/em>\u2013 Best on the Knights outscoring Berlin Hiland 18-10 in the third quarter to expand the lead to 18<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview head coach Jeremy Best and eight of his players address the media after Saturday’s state championship win. Front row (l to r): Wade Sheets, Best, Javin Etzler. Back row (l to r): Brock Stauffer, Kole Small, Drew Kline, Colton Lautzenheiser, Derick Dealey, Brant Richardson.<\/strong> Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt definitely wasn\u2019t our best game of the year in terms of executing, but Crestview shot an unbelievable percentage and made some huge plays, especially Sheets and Dealey. We expected the Etzlers to get theirs and we did a tremendous job on them, but the other guys really hurt us.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Berlin Hiland head coach Mark Schlabach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe feel like we could have played a little better, but Crestview is an unbelievable team.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Schlabach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m a pretty simplistic guy. We don\u2019t try to complicate things. We went into the summer and did what we traditionally do. We went to a camp, we did our workouts, nothing out of the box. We got prepared for the football season and we actually worked out with the football team.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Best on how the team prepared over the summer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had a target on our back. Every team just want to beat us, they just wanted to see Crestview fall, but we\u2019re a tough group of guys and we were able to overcome all of that.”<\/em> \u2013 Javin Etzler on the 2018-2019 season <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy mother.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Best answering a question about who he gave his state championship medal to during the postgame celebration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is 20 times better than that. Getting to the state final is awesome. This is the last time I\u2019ll play organized sports and I love these guys and I wouldn\u2019t want to do it with anyone else. This was a bang we went out on and it\u2019s awesome.” <\/em>\u2013 Kline on comparing winning a state championship to beating Spencerville in football last fall <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s special. They love these guys.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Best on strong fan support throughout the entire season <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Crestview head coach Jeremy Best, Berlin Hiland head coach Mark Schlabach and players from both teams answered questions during Saturday night\u2019s postgame press conference. Some of the top comments are listed below. \u201cThere was a special vibe from this team since the beginning of the season.\u201d \u2013 Drew Kline on the […]<\/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-115395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 16:42:45","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\/115395","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=115395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}